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S65-56185 (21 Oct. 1965) --- Gemini-6 astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr. (left), command pilot; and Thomas P....
Inside the B16-10 spacecraft processing hangar at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., workers oversee the uncrating...
AS14-69-9560 (February 1971) --- This 500mm vertical frame taken from the Apollo 14 spacecraft is of the Apollo 16...
The striking views provided by the Bahama Islands lend insights into the important problems of limestone (CaCO3)...
ISS015-E-09199 (23 May 2007) --- Von Karman cloud vortices near the Aleutian Islands are featured in this image...
The inaugural murals for the relaunched NASA Art Program appear side-by-side at 350 Hudson Street, Monday, Sept. 23,...
The Equiaxed Dendritic Solidification Experiment (EDSE) is a material sciences investigation under the Formation of...
The Equiaxed Dendritic Solidification Experiment (EDSE) is a material sciences investigation under the Formation of...
This cutaway illustration shows the Saturn V S-II (second) stage with callouts of major components. When the Saturn...
The Bridge of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's research vessel Knorr is seen on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, in...
Winter on Mars comes with a blanket of carbon dioxide snow. During the spring "thaw," this snow evaporates into the...
These open ocean Internal Waves were seen off the Namibia Coast, Africa (19.5S, 11.5E). The periodic and regularly...
The New York-based artist team Geraluz, left, and WERC, right, and their son Amaru Alvarez, 5, pose for picture with...
AS09-23-3561 (3-13 March 1969) --- Near vertical view of the Lubbock area in west Texas as photographed from the...
Every object, planet or person traveling through space has to contend with the Sun's damaging radiation — and the...
Amaru Alvarez, 5, the son of the artist team Geraluz and WERC and model for the mural, poses for picture with the...
Marshall's wirner of a Research Technology Award, worked with the Fourier telescope. This project has developed new...
As the air blows over the tops of the mountain peaks, seen here in the clear region, the direction of the air flow...
At the launch tower, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., the second stage of a Titan II rocket is lifted to vertical....
S85-42470 (16 Oct. 1985) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe, right, and Barbara R. Morgan, participating in the...
In this annotated infrared image, the five cyclones surrounding a sixth directly over Jupiter's south pole form a...
SL2-04-288 (22 June 1973) --- A truly remarkable view of White Sands and the nearby Carrizozo Lava Beds in southeast...
Today's image shows a portion of Phlegra Montes, a region of hills and ridges near Arcadia Planitia. Near the center...
On the border between Mongolia and China, southward draining ephemeral streams have carved a series of parallel...