Image of the DayIn this image from February 2012, technicians review their checklists after joining NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft with the Orbital Sciences Pegasus...NASA astronaut Rex Walheim participated in an evaluation of the Advanced Crew Escape Suit (ACES) in the Active Response Gravity...During a record-breaking test on June 8, 2012, engineers throttled the J-2X powerpack up and down several times to explore...Atop a barge on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, the space shuttle Enterprise was towed on the Hudson River past the...This image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows Venus as it nears the disk of the sun on June 5,...Earth's planetary neighbor Venus passes across the face of the sun on June 5, 2012, seen here from the International...Earth's planetary neighbor Venus passes across the face of the sun on June 5, 2012, seen here from the International...This image of the 2012 Venus Transit was taken by NASA Astronaut Don Pettit from aboard the International Space Station...On June 5-6 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, collected images of one of the rarest predictable solar events:...On June 5-6 2012, SDO is collecting images of one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus...It appeared that New Yorkers were not going to be able to see the transit of the planet Venus across...Enterprise, the prototype for the space shuttle fleet, arrived at the Intrepid Museum in New York City on Wednesday, June...This image of a coronal hole on the sun bears a remarkable resemblance to the 'Sesame Street' character Big Bird....This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows planetary nebula NGC 7026. Located just beyond the tip of the tail...SpaceX's Dragon capsule sits on a barge after being retrieved from the Pacific Ocean after splashdown. Dragon splashed down in...This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from...This view of European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, Expedition 31 flight engineer, is among the first set of imagery...The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the International Space Station on May 25, 2012 for grapple and berthing. Expedition...With clouds and land forming a backdrop, the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is grappled by the Canadarm2 robotic arm...With darkness, Earth's horizon and thin line of atmosphere forming a backdrop, the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is grappled...On May 25, 2012, with darkness, Earth's horizon and thin line of atmosphere forming a backdrop, the SpaceX Dragon commercial...This image of the inside of the Dragon module was taken by European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers. The SpaceX...Even in a peaceful looking scene such as this one of Saturn and its moon Tethys, the Cassini spacecraft reveals...50 years ago today, Scott Carpenter flew the second American manned orbital flight on May 24, 1962. He piloted his...NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity catches its own late-afternoon shadow in this dramatically lit view eastward across Endeavour Crater on Mars....The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared into space from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida,...Observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a...This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station,...This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station,...After spending 19 weeks working in one place while solar power was too low for driving during the Martian winter,...The Soyuz rocket is seen in the monitor of a video camera moments before Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and flight...Best known as a swan winging its way across the night, the constellation Cygnus is easily seen in the northern...New data from the Herschel Space Observatory shows that galaxies with the most powerful, active, supermassive black holes at their...A brightly reflective Enceladus appears before Saturn's rings, while the planet's larger moon Titan looms in the distance. Jets of...Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has finished an important evaluation of a prototype Dragon spacecraft designed to carry people into orbit....The main parachutes deploy for Boeing's crew capsule during a parachute drop test on May 2, 2012. This is the...The Dream Chaser model with its Atlas V launch vehicle is undergoing final preparations at the Aerospace Composite Model Development...The partially broken sea ice pack below NASA's ER-2 can be clearly seen through the pilot's cockpit viewing sight during...In a processing facility at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Space Exploration Technologies technicians...Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, fourth from left, accepts a montage from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, third from left, during...
