This 26 meter (85 foot) antenna operated in Woomera (Island Lagoon), Australia at Deep Space Station…
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Boosters for Orion Spacecraft’s First Flight Test Arrive at Port Canaveral, Florida
A barge arrives at the U.S. Army Outpost wharf at Port Canaveral in Florida, carrying two…
Unpacking Cargo from Expedition 38 Soyuz Landing
Engineers document cargo as it is unloaded from the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft after it landed with…
Rhea’s Day in the Sun
A nearly full Rhea shines in the sunlight in this recent Cassini image. Rhea (949 miles,…
False-Color Image of Earth Highlights Plant Growth
On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA’s Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft began a…
Martian Sand Dunes in Spring
Mars’ northern-most sand dunes are beginning to emerge from their winter cover of seasonal carbon dioxide…
Sounding Rocket Launches Into Aurora Over Venetie, Alaska
On March 3, 2014, at 6:09 a.m. EST, a NASA-funded sounding rocket launched straight into an…
Source Region for Possible Europa Plumes
This reprojection of the official USGS basemap of Jupiter's moon Europa is centered at the estimated…
Expedition 38 Takes an In-Flight Crew Portrait
Expedition 38 crew members pose for an in-flight crew portrait in the Kibo laboratory of the…
Deploying a Set of CubeSats From the International Space Station
A set of NanoRacks CubeSats is photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member after deployment by…