A 1/3-scale unmanned sailplane shows off its graceful high-aspect-ratio wing as it descends for landing during preliminary flight tests of…
With a 1/3-scale sailplane behind it already in the air, the DROID-3 tow plane rotates for takeoff from the dry…
On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. had a view of Earth that no American had seen before,…
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On Jan. 30, 2014, beginning at 8:31 a.m EST, the moon moved between NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, and…
A rainbow of lunar transits as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on January 30, 2014.
As part of NASA’s ongoing effort to deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) using commercially-developed space systems, a…
NASA's X-34 program was initiated in 1996 to provide a low-cost advanced technology flight demonstration test bed vehicle for space…
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryazanskiy, Expedition 38 flight engineer; and Oleg Kotov (out of frame), commander, attired in Russian Orlan spacesuits,…
Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy, Expedition 38 flight engineer, attired in a Russian Orlan spacesuit, is pictured in this close-up view…
