Image of the DayThe powerful primary mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to detect the light from distant galaxies....Space shuttle Endeavour is seen atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy...Attendees of the memorial service for Neil Armstrong sing a hymn, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, at the Washington National Cathedral....The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka of Russia, NASA Flight Engineer...U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Paul Nagy, USS Philippine Sea, and Carol Armstrong, wife of Neil Armstrong, commit the cremated remains...President John F. Kennedy, right, gets an explanation of the Saturn V launch system from Dr. Wernher von Braun, center,...Visible from space, a smoke plume rises from the Manhattan area after two planes crashed into the towers of the...This view of the three left wheels of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines two images that were taken by the...NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer, appears to touch the bright sun during the mission's third session of...This oblique, night time panorama of much of Europe was photographed by one of the Expedition 32 crew members aboard...Buoys used to support scientific instruments at sea are seen in the foreground prior to being loaded onboard the Woods...This composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way...A rare second full moon of the month, known as a "Blue Moon," is seen over Cincinnati on Friday, Aug....Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell, left, former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, Sen. John Glenn, third from left, and NASA Administrator...A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in this natural color view...Early on August 29, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi-NPP satellite captured this nighttime view of...This computer generated montage shows Neptune as it would appear from a spacecraft approaching Triton, Neptune's largest moon. The wind...This visible image of Tropical Storm Isaac taken from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite shows the huge extent of the storm, where...This 1961 photo shows Dr. William H. Pickering, (center) JPL Director, presenting a Mariner spacecraft model to President John F....Astronaut Neil Armstrong received the first Congressional Space Medal of Honor from President Jimmy Carter, assisted by Captain Robert Peterson....Water impact test of an 18,000-pound (8,165 kilogram) test version of the Orion spacecraft at NASA's Langley Research Center on...This image shows the tracks left by NASA's Curiosity rover on Aug. 22, 2012, as it completed its first test...Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka (top), Expedition 32 commander; and Yuri Malenchenko, flight engineer, participate in a five-hour, 51-minute spacewalk on...Artist rendition of the formation of rocky bodies in the solar system - how they form and differentiate and evolve...Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the...In terms of intergalactic real estate, our solar system has a plum location as part of a big, spiral galaxy,...NASA's space shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis switched locations today at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and in the process came...In the grasp of the International Space Station's robotic Canadarm2, the HTV-3 Exposed Pallet is moved for installation on the...This color-enhanced view of NASA's Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science...President Barack Obama talks on the phone with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team aboard Air Force One during a flight...This image is the first high-resolution color mosaic from NASA's Curiosity rover, showing the geological environment around the rover's landing...One of Orion's main parachutes from the Capsule Parachute Assembly System, or CPAS, is lowered into the water at the...This is the first 360-degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. The...This Picasso-like self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity rover was taken by its navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast. The camera...These are the first two full-resolution images of the Martian surface from the Navigation cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover, which...The remotely operated X-48C Blended Wing Body aircraft lifts off Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on...NASA/JPL ground controllers react to learning the Curiosity rover had landed safely on Mars and begun to send back images...This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on Aug....This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on the morning of...NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver talks to participants during a NASA Social to preview the landing of the Mars Science...
