Technicians begin the task of mounting the Space Shuttle Atlantis atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
Space Transportation System 43 (STS-43) Space Shuttle mission carried Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 5 (TDRS-5) as its payload.
The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), the second and heaviest of NASA’s Great Observatories was launched. The four instruments onboard…
Hubble observes Eta Carina
Red and green colors predominate in this view of the Aurora Australis photographed from the space shuttle in May 1991…
The crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis gives the "all's well" thumb's-up sign after leaving the 100-ton orbiter following their…
At NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later redesignated Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, CA, technicians begin the task of mounting…
NASA’s F/A-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle, also known as the “Silk Purse,” performs a thrust vectoring test in afterburner in…
NASA's B-52 research aircraft deploys an experimental drag chute just after landing the runway at the Dryden Flight Research Center,…
An aerial view of NASA's B-52 research aircraft deploying an experimental drag chute just after landing on Rogers Dry Lake,…
