President Barack Obama signs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 in the…
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Ascent
The Soyuz TMA-01M rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010…
Soyuz Liftoff in Kazakhstan
The Soyuz TMA-01M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:10 p.m. EDT on…
Soyuz Rolls to the Pad
The Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur…
Spiral Extraordinaire
Scientists have yet to discover what caused the strange spiral structure. Nor do they know why…
Birth of the Space Age
History changed on Oct. 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the world's…
In the Beginning
NASA's first administrator T. Keith Glennan shows then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Senate's Aeronautical…
A Galactic Spectacle
The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite…
Observe the Moon
This photograph shows the Laser Ranging Facility at the Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory at NASA's Goddard…