NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman checks his spacesuit in preparation for the first Expedition 41 spacewalk in…
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Launch Abort System Installed for Orion Flight Test
The launch abort system for the Orion Flight Test is lowered by crane for installation on…
Rosetta Comet Fires Its Jets
The four images that make up this montage of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko were taken on Sept. 26,…
James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Test Unfolds Seamlessly
A major test of the sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was conducted recently by…
Milky Way Viewed From the International Space Station
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this image from the International Space Station and posted it to social…
Fall Colors Arriving
A few days after autumn showed up on the calendar in the Northern Hemisphere, it showed…
Rocket Boosters Prepared For Orion Spacecraft’s First Flight
Engineers took another step forward in preparations for the first test flight of NASA’s new Orion…
Expedition 41 Crew Launches to the International Space Station
The Soyuz TMA-14M rocket is launched with Expedition 41 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian…
King Fire in California, False-Color Infrared
On Sept. 19, 2014, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured these…
Looking for Comets in a Sea of Stars
On a July night this summer, a 5,200-pound balloon gondola hangs from a crane and moves…