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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crawler-transporter that carried space...
Although Epimetheus appears to be lurking above the rings here, it's actually just an illusion resulting from the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery is visible on Launch Pad...
This series of photos, captured by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys from May to...
S97-00254 (17 Dec 1996) --- The STS-81 flight crew goes over pre-flight checklists on the flight deck of the Space...
S73-25654 (7 May 1973) --- A deliberate double exposure to help illustrate the comparative sizes and configurations...
In this Spacelab-1 mission onboard photograph, astronaut Byron Lichtenberg performs a drop experiment, one of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The camera captures an optical illusion of a dragonfly above the reedy water near...
STS081-717-096 (12-22 Jan. 1997) --- The crewmembers, like astronauts 30 years ago, found the Nile River and its...
This new Hubble image showcases a remarkable variety of objects at different distances from us, extending back over...
NASA image release January 10, 2011 In this image by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an unusual, ghostly green blob...
This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn's rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral...