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On the Crater’s Edge
On the Crater’s Edge

Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., Apollo 16 Lunar Module pilot, is photographed collecting lunar samples at Station No. 1 during…

Visiting Miranda
Visiting Miranda

Miranda is a bizarre world, which surely had a tempestuous past. The innermost of the larger Uranian moons, Miranda is…

Walter Schirra
Walter Schirra

Pictured is astronaut Walter M. Schirra, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April…

Homecoming Parade for John Glenn
Homecoming Parade for John Glenn

President John F. Kennedy, astronaut John Glenn and General Leighton I. Davis ride together during a parade in Cocoa Beach,…

Aviation Pioneer
Aviation Pioneer

In this 1948 photograph, test pilot Lawrence Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the…

Closed Loop Breathing System
Closed Loop Breathing System

This 1962 photo shows Robert St. John in a pilot restraint and closed loop breathing system at NASA's Ames Research…

Cassini Captures Stunning View Of Saturn
Cassini Captures Stunning View Of Saturn

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is still four months and millions of miles from Saturn, but it's already close enough to send…

Liftoff of Atlantis
Liftoff of Atlantis

Space Shuttle Atlantis takes flight on the STS-27 mission in December 2, 1988. The Shuttle takes about 8.5 minutes to…

Butterfly Nebula
Butterfly Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the "butterfly wing"- shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about 2,000…

Testing Mercury Full-Scale Capsule Model at NASA Langley
Testing Mercury Full-Scale Capsule Model at NASA Langley

In this 1959 image, a technician checks the Mercury full-scale capsule model prior to testing at NASA Langley Research Center,…