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On May 3, 2010, workers at NASA Deep Space Network Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex removed one of the...
The change in Titan haze layer is illustrated in this figure, derived from data obtained by NASA Cassini spacecraft....
The Phoenix spacecraft is scheduled to begin raising its robotic arm up and out of its stowed configuration on the...
NASA Terra spacecraft captured this pair of images of Iceland Eyjafyallajökull volcano on May 3, 2010. On this day,...
This image shows the first, unprocessed image obtained by NASA Dawn spacecraft of the giant asteroid Vesta in front...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox poses for a photo with KSC employees after his...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox happily signs autographs for KSC employees after...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - KSC employees fill the Training Auditorium to hear comments from Expedition 6 Commander...
MSFC Director Todd May takes questions from audience at All Hands meeting…view 3 of 3
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson helped recognize the best of best at NASA during the Agency Honor Awards, May 3, at...
This image, combining orbital imagery with 3-D modeling, shows flows that appear in spring and summer on a slope...
This image, processed to show the true size of the giant asteroid Vesta, shows Vesta in front of a spectacular...
This frame from a movie, composed of images taken by NASA New Horizons, shows Pluto as it rotates about its axis....
The launch of the Mercury-Redstone (MR-3), Freedom 7. MR-3 placed the first American astronaut, Alan Shepard, in...
ISS039-E-018314 (3 May 2014) --- One of the Expedition 39 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
ISS039-E-018315 (3 May 2014) --- One of the Expedition 39 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
S62-01151 (5 May 1961) --- The liftoff of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan B....
S63-06268 (8 May 1963) --- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., receives his NASA's Distinguished Service Medal from...
Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA (European...
S61-02735 (5 May 1961) --- Astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn at breakfast before Shepard's Mercury-Redstone 3...
S61-01918 (5 May 1961) --- Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spaceflight Earth observations of a cloudy Earth surface. Photo...
iss065e011352 (May 3, 2021) --- An external high-definition camera on the International Space Station captured this...
MSFC Director Todd May takes questions from audience at All Hands meeting…view 2 of 3
Endeavour moved from the Orbiter Processing Facility, bay 3, for temporary storage in the Vehicle Assembly Building...