Preparing for Liftoff

The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur…

Kicking Off the Summer of Innovation

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden spoke with teachers and middle school students during the kick off of…

Blue Like Mars

This image shows the west-facing side of an impact crater in the mid-latitudes of Mars' northern…

Centaur’s Rocket Engine

In this image, engineers test the RL-10 engine in NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center's Propulsion…

Lagoons of New Caledonia

In 2008, UNESCO added the Lagoons of New Caledonia to the World Heritage Site list. The…

Rhapsody in Black

This silhouette of Saturn was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 13, 2010. Although the…

Preparing for the Shuttle Mission

The NASA Railroad transported the last space shuttle solid rocket booster segments over the Indian River…

X-51A Makes Longest Scramjet Flight

The X-51A successfully made the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight to date off the southern…

Expedition 23 Returns to Earth

The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and…

Stellar Shrapnel

This composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud.…