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Test subject sitting at the controls: Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at...
Release Date: November 25, 2013 MESSENGER image of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) during its closest approach to Mercury. At...
Scientists using two giant, Earth-based radio telescopes bounced radar signals off passing asteroid 2011 UW158 to...
This movie from NASA’s STEREO spacecraft's Heliospheric Imager shows Comet ISON, Mercury, Comet Encke and Earth over...
This movie from NASA’s STEREO spacecraft's Heliospheric Imager shows Comet ISON, Mercury, Comet Encke and Earth over...
Sungrazing comets are a special class of comets that come very close to the sun at their nearest approach, a point...
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising...
Famed astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 space mission...
Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the...
The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) played a crucial role in the development of the huge Saturn rockets that...
At left is NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The annotation shows where spacesuit materials can be found attached to a...
Astronaut Charles Conrad at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From A.W. Vogeley, "Piloted Space-Flight...
This annotated map shows the locations where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collected its first witness tube and...
The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) played a crucial role in the development of the huge Saturn rockets that...
The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) played a crucial role in the development of the huge Saturn rockets that...
Walter (Wally) M. Schirra in Visual Docking Simulator From A.W. Vogeley, "Piloted Space-Flight Simulation at Langley...
Astronauts Charles Conrad (left) and John W. Young (right) at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From...
The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made one of its...
Test subject wearing jet-shoe apparatus and resting in sling support. The cables are not attached. From A.W....
Combining two images, this mosaic shows a close-up view of the rock target named "Yeehgo" from the SuperCam...
These sets of images were taken between March 13 and 15, 2021 (the 22nd and 24th Martian days, or sols, of NASA's...
The Cassini spacecraft is closing in fast on its first target of observation in the Saturn system: the small,...
Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the...
The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) played a crucial role in the development of the huge Saturn rockets that...