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STS055-203-034 (26 April-6 May 1993) --- Astronaut Steven R. Nagel, STS-55 mission commander, has found an isolated...
At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun’s surface. They erupt as...
A computer model simulation of spicules. Spicule-like features appear as dense, cool intrusions in the hot corona,...
At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun’s surface. They erupt as...
STS-35 Payload Specialist Ronald A. Parise enters data into the payload and general support computer (PGSC) in...
At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun’s surface. They erupt as...
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Scientist Dave Fratantoni works on the EcoMapper AUVs (autonomous underwater...
This seismogram shows the largest quake ever detected on another planet. Estimated at magnitude 5, this quake was...
Technicians inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida install and...
On April 6, 2016, engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, kicked off a series of nine drop...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, clouds of smoke form around the Delta II rocket...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Expedition 5 cosmonaut Sergei Treschev (RSA) waves as he dons his launch and entry...
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-90 Mission Specialist Kathryn (Kay) Hire waves to friends and family members near...
An antenna for the REASON, (Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface) instrument attaches to...
Smiling and waving to onlookers, the STS-101 crew eagerly walk to the waiting Astrovan that will take them to Launch...
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins waves as she and crew mates NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, and ESA...
Wes Mosedale, technical assistant to the Artemis I launch director, monitors his consoles inside Firing Room 1 of...
P-21742 BW Range: 6 million kilometers (3.72 million miles) This Voyager 2 image shows the region of Jupiter...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force...
In this animation, TEMPEST-D — a weather-observing satellite the size of a cereal box — captured imagery of...
STS125-S-011 (11 May 2009) --- After suiting up, the STS-125 crewmembers pause alongside the Astrovan to wave...
At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the gantry rolls back at Space Launch Complex 3 in preparation for the...
ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer waves as he and fellow crewmates NASA astronauts Kayla Barron,...