Image of the DayTwo NASA sounding rockets launched on July 4, 2013, in support of the Daytime Dynamo experiment, a joint project between...This is the spiral galaxy NGC 3185, located some 80 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Leo...Mars Pathfinder was launched on December 4, 1996 at 1:58:07 am EST on a Delta II rocket. After an uneventful...NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 40/41 flight engineer, participates in a spacewalk training session on May 14, 2013.This image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 6744, one of the galaxies most similar to our Milky Way...The Apollo 11 crew await pickup by a helicopter from the USS Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic lunar...NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) officials joined with flight controllers to celebrate the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11...An Orbital Sciences L-1011 carrier aircraft takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on a mission to launch NASA's...The Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:30 p.m. EDT on June...One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station, some 240 miles above Earth, used a 50mm...Technicians and engineers at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California mate the Pegasus XL rocket with the Interface Region Imaging...Within the Mobile Quarantine Facility, Apollo 11 astronauts (left to right) Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Neil A....NASA astronauts Cady Coleman and Ricky Arnold step into the Orion crew module hatch during a series of spacesuit check...Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968. That evening,...A supermoon rises behind the Washington Monument, Sunday, June 23, 2013, in Washington.Apollo 11 astronauts, from left, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stand in recognition of astronaut John Glenn during...This striking NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, which shows what looks like the profile of a celestial bird, belies the...On most days, relentless rivers of clouds wash over Alaska, obscuring most of the state's 6,640 miles (10,690 kilometers) of...President Barack Obama chats with Apollo 11 astronauts, from left, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, Monday, July 20,...On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger...A view of Earth as seen from the Cupola on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station. Visible in...This image of Mercury, acquired by the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) aboard NASA's MESSENGER mission on April 23, 2013,...Two or three times a year, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observes the moon traveling across the sun, blocking its view....Orbital Sciences team members move the second half of the payload fairing before it is placed over NASA's IRIS (Interface...John Wargo, lead technician at NASA Glenn's Propulsion System Laboratory (PSL) is performing an inspection on the inlet ducting, upstream...Inside the Cupola, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, an Expedition 36 flight engineer, uses a 400mm lens on a digital still...The bright clusters and nebulae of planet Earth's night sky are often named for flowers or insects. Though its wingspan...A NASA Black Brant XII suborbital rocket streaks into the night sky following its launch at 11:05 p.m. EDT on...On May 20, 2013, central Oklahoma was devastated by a EF-5 tornado, the most severe on the enhanced Fujita scale....This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies.The sun is captured in a "starburst" mode over Earth's horizon by one of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard...This image, taken on March 4, 1969, shows the stacking of the S-II stage for the Saturn 506 in the...The ISS SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System or ISERV - a camera aboard the International Space Station - captures...This artist's rendering shows what capturing an asteroid could look like. NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically...A Soyuz rocket with Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineers...An aircraft-shaped wind vane is seen in the foreground of this image of the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome...The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad, Sunday, May 26, 2013, in...This image shows a cutting-edge solar-electric propulsion thruster in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., that uses xenon...Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) photographed this striking view of Pavlof Volcano on May 18, 2013. The oblique...In Antarctica in January, 2013 – the summer at the South Pole – scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories...
