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The early morning sun silhouettes STS-95 Space Shuttle Discovery, on the Mobile Launch Platform, at Launch Complex...
ISS034-E-039039 (1 Feb. 2013) --- The International Space Station was flying over northern China about 500 miles...
The International Space Station, with a crew of seven onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the Sun at...
The International Space Station, with a crew of seven onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the Sun at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Dawn’s early light creates a powerful silhouette of the Space Shuttle Discovery on its...
The STS-110 mission began the third and final phase of construction for the International Space Station (ISS) by...
This composite image of seven pictures shows the progression of a partial solar eclipse near from Ross Lake,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A grey sky silhouettes Space Shuttle Columbia, atop its Mobile Launcher Platform, as...
The orbiter Atlantis makes the turn to the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 after being towed from the Shuttle...
jsc2026e006908 (Feb, 11, 2026) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 patch looks ardently toward the future of space exploration...
This artist's conception shows the silhouette of a rocky planet, dubbed HD 219134b, as it passes in front of its...
In this distant view, STS-31 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, is seen as it heads skyward after liftoff from...
STS047-54-018 (12-20 Sept. 1992) --- The colors in this photograph provide insight into the relative density of the...
This composite image made from six frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of seven aboard, in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- As the sun crawls from below the horizon at right, Space Shuttle Discovery crawls up...
STS081-S-007 (12 Jan. 1997) --- Framed by a silhouette of Florida foliage, the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off from...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Lights on Runway 15 silhouette Endeavour with its drag chute open as it lands at 6:04...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Orbiter Atlantis is towed to the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 along the tow-way....
ISS022-E-062674 (9 Feb. 2010) --- Though astronauts and cosmonauts often encounter striking scenes of Earth's limb,...
A heron is seen in silhouette in front of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft on top on...
STS089-S-006 (22 Jan. 1998) --- Silhouettes of Florida foliage frame the space shuttle Endeavour in this wide scene...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The faint sunrise sky over NASA's Kennedy Space Center casts the newly erected lightning...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers hang artwork in the second-floor lobby of the Propellants North Administrative and...
This composite image made from seven frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of seven onboard, in...