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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Ribbons of steam and smoke trail space shuttle Atlantis as it touches down for the final...
STS135-S-159 (21 July 2011) --- Ribbons of steam and smoke trail space shuttle Atlantis as it nears touchdown on the...
STS135-S-239 (21 July 2011) --- Ribbons of steam and smoke trail space shuttle Atlantis as it touches down on the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Trailing a fiery-looking column of smoke, Space Shuttle Discovery hurtles into a blue...
STS-56 Earth observation taken aboard Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, is probably the best view of Perth in...
NASA's Psyche spacecraft, set to launch in August 2022, will travel to its target in the main asteroid belt between...
STS135-S-157 (21 July 2011) --- Ribbons of steam and smoke trail space shuttle Atlantis as it nears touchdown on the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the drag chute...
STS135-S-232 (21 July 2011) --- Ribbons of steam and smoke trail space shuttle Atlantis as it touches down on the...
Like a roman candle, Space Shuttle Discovery roars into the clear night sky trailing brilliant exhaust from the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis, trailed by its drag chute, rolls to a stop on Runway 15 at the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the drag chute...
STS134-S-109 (1 June 2011) --- Streams of smoke trail from the main landing gear tires as space shuttle Endeavour...
Daphnis, one of Saturn's ring-embedded moons, is featured in this view, kicking up waves as it orbits within the...
Gazing off toward the horizon is thought-provoking no matter what body's horizon it is. Rhea's horizon is slightly...
On the night of June 4, 2001 ASTER captured this thermal image of the erupting Shiveluch volcano. Located on...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At liftoff, clouds of smoke spread beneath the Delta II rocket carrying the STEREO...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Banana River reflects the brilliant launch of the Delta II carrying the STEREO...
ER-2 tail number 806, is one of two Airborne Science ER-2s used as science platforms by Dryden. The aircraft are...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Streams of smoke trail from the main landing gear tires as space shuttle Discovery touches...
First evidence of a ring around the planet Jupiter is seen in this photograph taken by Voyager 1 on March 4, 1979....
ER-2s bearing tail numbers 806 and 809 are used as airborne science platforms by NASA's Dryden Flight Research...
Voyager 1 Image of Jupiter and two of its satellites (Io, left, and Europa). Io is about 350,000 kilometers (220,000...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Spewing fiery clouds of smoke over Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...