NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, then known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station…
Roll-out of the Progress 24 vehicle occurred on schedule at 7:00 a.m., Jan. 16, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.…
A Boeing Delta II rocket, left, fires its engines on Saturday, Nov. 20, sending NASA's Swift satellite into orbit from…
Astronaut Piers J. Sellers works on the shuttle's Remote Manipulator System/Orbiter Boom Sensor System during the mission's first scheduled session…
Light-years in length, this cosmic tornado is actually a powerful jet cataloged as HH (Herbig-Haro) 49/50. Though such energetic outflows…
Aviator Charles Lindbergh took this picture of Robert H. Goddard's rocket, as he peered down the launching tower on Sept.…
As the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit began collecting images for a 360-degree panorama of new terrain, the rover captured this…
Birds don't fly this high. Airplanes don't go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than…
The tongue of the Malaspina Glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska, fills most of this image. The Malaspina lies west…
This 1992 image is one in a series of remarkable photos documenting the daily lives of two of Kennedy Space…
