Image of the DayA 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...An extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole in a nearby galaxy has provided direct evidence for a population of...Several critical items related to NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope currently are being tested in the thermal vacuum test...Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank smiles as he rests outside the Soyuz TMA-02M Capsule just minutes after he and Expedition...The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been on the forefront of research into the lives of stars like our sun....The Orion Ground Test Vehicle arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Operations & Checkout (O&C) Facility on April 21. The...This artist's illustration gives an impression of how common planets are around the stars in the Milky Way. The planets,...Bright stars, shining through what looks like a haze in the night sky, are part of a young stellar grouping...A new image from all three of NASA's Great Observatories-Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer-showcases the Tarantula Nebula.On April 17, 2012, NASA conducted a test of the Orion crew vehicle's entry, descent and landing parachutes high above...Space shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F....NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with the space shuttle Discovery mated on top rolls into position for demating at Washington Dulles...The first stage of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket stands in launch position during pathfinder operations at NASA's Wallops Flight...MAVEN's hydrazine propellant tank is shown prior to it being installed in the core structure of the MAVEN spacecraft at...A test model of the Orion spacecraft with its parachutes was tested the skies high above the U.S. Army's Proving...Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, is seen as it flies near the U.S. Capitol,...Moscow appears at the center of this nighttime image photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station,...NASA's Apollo 13 was slated to be the United States' third lunar landing mission. It launched April 11, 1970, at...On April 12, 1981, astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen launched into space on space shuttle Columbia on the STS-1...The newly arrived Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is seen through the platforms of the mate-demate device at the Shuttle Landing Facility...Baby stars are creating chaos 1,500 light-years away in the cosmic cloud of the Orion Nebula. Four massive stars make...The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft glides down the runway of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida....A NASA T-38 training jet is seen as it flies over Washington, DC, Thursday, April 5, 2012. NASA, in cooperation...In this photo taken from the International Space Station, the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) is seen on...An IMAX camera that flew aboard a space shuttle is seen at the Moving Beyond Earth Gallery at the Smithsonian...A NASA T-38 training jet is seen as it flies over Washington, DC, Thursday, April 5, 2012. NASA, in cooperation...STS-116 astronaut Bob Curbeam met the NASA logo up close on his Dec. 14, 2006, spacewalk, during which he performed...City lights of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, are featured in this image taken by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the...The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the "UFO Galaxy." NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving...NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver addresses the audience with Buzz Lightyear, left, of the film "Toy Story" at the Smithsonian...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks at the NASA Tech Day on the Hill event in the Rayburn House Office Building...Flying at an altitude of about 240 miles over the eastern North Atlantic, the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International...NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of...ATREX, the Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets in the early morning hours of March 27,...
