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ISS034-E-056144 (21 Feb. 2013) --- Inside the U.S. Laboratory (Destiny) aboard the Earth-orbiting International...
Crew onboard portrait taken on port side middeck shows Commander Brand holding Ace Moving Co sign (partially...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-123 mission lights up Launch Pad 39A and...
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE, is a space observatory built to discover the secrets of some of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft is placed on a work stand. Foreign...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Lighting up the night sky, as well as the water nearby, space shuttle Endeavour blazes...
P-21738 BW Raange: 4.76 million kilometers (2.9 million miles) This Voyager 2 picture of Io was taken in ultraviolet...
Exploration Ground Systems conducted a water flow test with the mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, reaching a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-123 mission lights up Launch Pad 39A and...
With the lights out, team members perform an optics test on the Advanced Baseline Imager, the primary optical...
S83-39513 (30 Aug. 1983) --- NASA's eighth space shuttle launch lights up the Florida sky at 2:32 a.m. (EDT), Aug....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the waning afternoon light, cranes secure the P3 truss on the transporter while a...
This Chandra image, the first x-ray image ever made of Venus, shows a half crescent due to the relative orientation...
Shania Etheridge from Benjamin E. Mays Preparatory School in New Orleans shows off the head of lettuce she harvested...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A view from inside bay three of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) shows the Space...
Janice Hueschen of Innovative Imaging & Research Corp. at Stennis Space Center helps students from Benjamin E. Mays...
New light has been shed on the invisible forces shaping our near-Earth environment, unveiling a fundamental physical...
This artist's concept shows three space telescopes that observe infrared light, wavelengths slightly longer than...
Range : 4.7 million km (2.9 million mi.) Nereid, the last satellite of Neptune to be discovered before Voyager's...
The Controlled Environment Agriculture unit at the INFINITY at NASA Stennis Space Center visitor center and museum...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-123 mission lights up Launch Pad 39A and...
Lauren Lombard from Benjamin E. Mays Preparatory School in New Orleans enjoys lettuce she helped to harvest at the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Clouds of smoke and steam capture light from the fiery columns beneath space shuttle...
NASA is preparing to send the first astronauts to the Moon’s South Pole. Learn about some of the current...