Image of the DayNASA and Boeing engineers are inspecting and preparing one of the largest composite rocket propellant tanks ever manufactured for testing.The frozen fjord downstream of Violingletscher (Violin Glacier) in Østgrønland (East Greenland) was photographed during an Operation IceBridge survey flight...A 5-percent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage fires up for another round of acoustic testing...In November 2013, a seafloor volcano in the western Pacific Ocean spewed enough material to rise above the water line....NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has weighed the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe, catalogued as ACT-CL J0102-4915, and...Astronaut Karen Nyberg poses for a photograph with an enthusiastic NASA Social attendee following a presentation about her time living,...In March 2014, the James Webb Space Telescope's flight Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) was installed into the instrument module.There are three low pressure systems around the U.S. and they resemble dragons on satellite imagery. NOAA's GOES-13 and GOES-15...NASA recently tested a full-sized tail from a 757 commercial aircraft that was modified and equipped with tiny jets called...NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity caught its own silhouette in this late-afternoon image taken by the rover's rear hazard avoidance...NASA’s Super Guppy, a wide-bodied cargo aircraft, landed at the Redstone Army Airfield on March 26 carrying an innovative composite...On March 22, 2014, a rainfall-triggered landslide near Oso, Washington sent muddy debris spilling across the North Fork of the...The gantry arms begin to close around the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft to secure the rocket at the launch pad on...The Soyuz TMA-12M rocket launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 carrying Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander...The sun rises behind the Soyuz launch pad shortly before the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft is rolled out by train to...This new Hubble image is centered on NGC 5793, a spiral galaxy over 150 million light-years away in the constellation...By March 6, 2014, skies over New Zealand's South Island had cleared enough after a powerful storm for the Moderate...Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and perhaps the most majestic. Vibrant bands of clouds carried by...Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon’s north...This colorful Hubble mosaic of a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula unveils a collection of carved knots of...On Jan. 19, 2007, the Cassini spacecraft took this view of Saturn and its rings -- the visible documentation of...Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., pilot of the Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) spaceflight, poses for a photo with the Mercury...This 26 meter (85 foot) antenna operated in Woomera (Island Lagoon), Australia at Deep Space Station (DSS) 41, established in...A barge arrives at the U.S. Army Outpost wharf at Port Canaveral in Florida, carrying two of the three United...Engineers document cargo as it is unloaded from the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft after it landed with Expedition 38 Commander Oleg...A nearly full Rhea shines in the sunlight in this recent Cassini image. Rhea (949 miles, or 1,527 kilometers across)...Guenter Wendt, the original pad leader for NASA's manned space program, coaxes a smile out of astronaut John Glenn after...South America and portions of North America and Africa are shown in this false-color image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, taken...Mars’ northern-most sand dunes are beginning to emerge from their winter cover of seasonal carbon dioxide (dry) ice. Dark, bare...A NASA-funded sounding rocket launches into an aurora in the early morning of March 3, 2014, over Venetie, Alaska.Astronaut William R. Pogue, pilot of the Skylab 4 mission, relaxes during spacesuit pressure and fit checks at the Kennedy...This reprojection of the official USGS basemap of Jupiter's moon Europa is centered at the estimated source region for potential...An overhead view of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit as photographed from the Skylab 4 Command and...Expedition 38 crew members pose for an in-flight crew portrait in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.A set of NanoRacks CubeSats is photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member after the deployment by the NanoRacks Launcher...A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen...A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory rolls out to launch pad 1 at the...On Feb. 19, 2014 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this striking false-colored image of the...On Feb. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:49 p.m. EST. These Solar Dynamics Observatory...The launch pads at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Center are seen a week ahead of the...
