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Megan Cruz, NASA Communications, moderates a prelaunch news conference for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, participates in a prelaunch...
This artist's concept shows NASA's Kepler Space Telescope on its K2 mission. In July 2016, an international team of...
This artist concept depicts 55 Cancri e as it orbits its star. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time,...
What does Earth look like when viewed from Mars? At the time, Mars and the orbiting camera were 139 million...
STS084-707-013 (15-24 May 1997) --- As photographed from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis, this 70mm scene...
NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON launches in fall 2018. It orbits above the upper atmosphere, through...
STS057-93-052 (24 June 1993) --- The European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) is held in the grasp of the Space Shuttle...
STS061-48-001 (9 Dec 1993) --- Orbiting Earth at an altitude of 356 nautical miles perched atop a foot restraint on...
STS008-49-1722 (30 Aug-5 Sept 1983) --- The Indian National Satellite (INSAT) is about to clear the Earth-orbiting...
61B-41-019 (26 Nov. ? 3 Dec. 1985) --- Astronaut Jerry L. Ross, one of NASA flight 6l-B's mission specialists,...
Teams working at Building 836 on Vandenberg Space Force Base in California remove NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test...
Early in the morning of Sept. 1, 2016, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, caught both the Earth and moon...
STS059-S-085 (18 April 1994) --- This is a three-dimensional perspective view of part of Isla Isabela in the western...
These two maps of the giant asteroid Vesta show patterns of brightness from NASA Hubble Space Telescope top and NASA...
These two images compare topographic maps of the giant asteroid Vesta as discerned by NASA Hubble Space Telescope...
NASA held a prelaunch news conference for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar...
Animation of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft in orbit around the Earth. The satellite will...
animation of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft in orbit around the Earth. The satellite will...
The Pegasus air-launched space booster is carried aloft under the right wing of NASA's B-52 carrier aircraft on its...
Several times a day for a few days this week the Earth completely blocked the Sun for about an hour due to SDO's...
This composite image, from NASA Galileo and Mars Global Survey orbiters, of Earth and Mars was created to allow...
Artist rendering of NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory OCO-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to...
What does Earth look like when viewed from Mars? At 13:00 GMT on 8 May 2003, NASA Mars Global Surveyor MGS Mars...