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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Twin columns of fire help propel space shuttle Atlantis into space on mission STS-122...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- With NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft sealed inside its payload fairing, the...
This is a striking, oblique view to the south of the Indonesian islands of Java (right), Bali and Lombok (upper...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A plume of exhaust and smoke engulfing Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force...
NASA's Voyager 1 computer color mosaics, shown in approximately natural color and in Lambertian equal-area...
A large plume of mist or vapor is visible as a Praxair truck slowly transfers its load of liquid oxygen, or LO2,...
Ten years ago, Atlantis rose from the launch pad on a plume of fire and parted the high clouds on its way to the...
The April 18, 2015 eruption of Calbuco Volcano in Chile, as seen by NASA Terra spacecraft, led to the evacuation of...
STS054-80-024 (13-19 Jan 1993) --- As the Shuttle was passing southeast over the coast of India, approaching the Bay...
ISS031-E-146391 (27 June 2012) --- An Expedition 31 crew member aboard the International Space Station, flying...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- With NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft sealed inside its payload fairing, the...
Image of soot (smoke) plume made for the Laminar Soot Processes (LSP) experiment during the Microgravity Sciences...
ISS003-E-5434 (11 September 2001) --- One of a series of pictures taken of metropolitan New York City (and other...
Mt. Etna, Italy erupted February 17, 2021, sending rivers of lave down the southeast flank of the volcano, and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Plumes of exhaust and smoke build around the base of a lightning mast on Space Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Endeavour roars into the...
Recent Cassini images of Saturn's moon Enceladus backlit by the sun show the fountain-like sources of the fine spray...
ISS031-E-146397 (27 June 2012) --- An Expedition 31 crew member aboard the International Space Station, flying...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- With NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft sealed inside its payload fairing, the...
STS093-708-062 (23-27 July 1999) --- The STS-93 astronauts took this picture of the Island of Borneo, which is...
NACA High-Speed Flight Station test pilot Stan Butchart flying the Iron Cross, the mechanical reaction control...
ISS003-E-5438 (11 September 2001) --- One of a series of pictures taken of metropolitan New York City (and other...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s...