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This illustration shows NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), which will carry tubes containing Martian rock and soil...
STS088-301-017 (4-15 December 1998) --- This Earth view shows a sunrise photographed by the astronaut crew members...
ISS018-E-043618 (28 March 2009) --- Backdropped against Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, Soyuz TMA-14 is...
This image is an artist's conception of the Pegasus, meteoroid detection satellite, in orbit with meteoroid detector...
AS04-01-750 (9 Nov. 1967) --- Atlantic Ocean, Antarctica, looking west, as photographed from the Earth-orbital...
STS007-18-770 (18-24 June 1983) --- Telesat-F communications satellite is just about to clear the vertical...
iss068e038496 (Dec. 31, 2022) --- The first rays of an orbital sunrise begin to illuminate the Earth's atmosphere...
BioSentinel spacecraft leaves Earth and enters a lunar flyby trajectory into a heliocentric orbit. BioSentinel will...
This image shows locations in parts of North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia observed by NASA's...
iss069e030598 (July 9, 2023) --- The last rays of an orbital sunset dim in the Earth's atmosphere as the...
EO-1 EARTH ORBITER FLIGHT PPT PULSED PLASMA THRUSTER TESTING
EO-1 EARTH ORBITER FLIGHT PPT PULSED PLASMA THRUSTER TESTING
Artist Concept of Shuttle in-orbit flight with Earth limb in the background.
EO-1 EARTH ORBITER FLIGHT PPT PULSED PLASMA THRUSTER TESTING
STS079-348-004 (16 Sept. 1996) --- Soon after the space shuttle Atlantis completed its rocket mode ascent to...
On Feb. 11, 2013, Landsat 8 launched into Earth orbit, riding on an Atlas V rocket. Weighing 6,133 pounds, Landsat 8...
Most of the oldest terrains on Mars have eroded into branching valleys, as seen here in by NASA's Mars Reconnaisance...
This single orbit exposure, ultraviolet color image of Messier 101 was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer on...
It is spring in the Northern hemisphere when NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image. Over the winter,...
This artist's concept appeared on the Feb. 23, 2017 cover of the journal Nature announcing that the TRAPPIST-1 star,...
The primary payload of the STS-43 mission, Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-E (TDRS-E) attached to an Inertial...
The free-flying Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-E (TDRS-E), still attached to an Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), was...
JSC2000E01556 (January 2000) --- With its C-band and X-band outboard antennae at work, the Earth-orbiting Space...
ISS039-E-000027 (11 March 2014) --- In the Zvezda service module of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station,...