The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft streaked across the sky like a saber of light…
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Light for the Ages
Today, our sun reaches its northernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, the date…
Launching Into History
On June 18, 1983, a young physicist from California took her seat aboard the space shuttle…
From the Beginning
The bulkhead and nosecone of the Orion spacecraft are joined using friction stir welding at NASA's…
Expedition 24 Heads to the Station
The Soyuz TMA-19 rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 16, 2010,…
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…