Situated as it is near the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, the Kennedy Space Center hosts space shuttles and this…
NASA Dryden's four F/A-18 mission support aircraft flew in formation for a pilot proficiency flight on Nov. 24, 2008, in…
This image shows a part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86.
The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar…
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, the second human to step on the surface of the moon is about to climb into the…
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV with the NASA/NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O launched on June 27, 2009, from Space…
Apollo 16 mission commander John Young leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the U.S. flag at the Descartes…
Rising above the pad's fixed service tower, a Delta IV rocket soars into the sky with the GOES-O satellite aboard.…
A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev volcano (Russia's Kuril Islands,…
The Voyager 2 spacecraft took this color photo of Neptune's moon Triton on Aug. 24 1989, at a range of…
