And Away

The nose of an inflatable half-scale model of a NASA F/A-18 in front of the NASA…

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…

Expedition 24 Soyuz Landing

The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 24 Commander Alexander Skvortsov and…

Lighting Up the Night

Lights and space shuttle Discovery are reflected in the water as it rolls to the pad…