Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell, left, former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, Sen. John Glenn, third from…
Category: NASA Image of the Day
Colorful Colossuses and Changing Hues
A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in…
Montage Neptune and Triton
This computer generated montage shows Neptune as it would appear from a spacecraft approaching Triton, Neptune's…
Hurricane Isaac at Night
Early on August 29, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi-NPP satellite captured…
Isaac Churns in the Gulf
This visible image of Tropical Storm Isaac taken from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite shows the huge extent…
Kennedy Receives Mariner 2 Model
This 1961 photo shows Dr. William H. Pickering, (center) JPL Director, presenting a Mariner spacecraft model…
Neil Armstrong on the Lunar Surface
As commander of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong took most of the photographs from the historic moonwalk,…
Space Medal of Honor
Astronaut Neil Armstrong received the first Congressional Space Medal of Honor from President Jimmy Carter, assisted…
Orion Spacecraft Water Impact Testing
Water impact test of an 18,000-pound (8,165 kilogram) test version of the Orion spacecraft at NASA's…
Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova
NASA's Hubble Telescope captured an image of Eta Carinae. This image consists of ultraviolet and visible…