In 2008, UNESCO added the Lagoons of New Caledonia to the World Heritage Site list. The…
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Rhapsody in Black
This silhouette of Saturn was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 13, 2010. Although the…
Preparing for the Shuttle Mission
The NASA Railroad transported the last space shuttle solid rocket booster segments over the Indian River…
X-51A Makes Longest Scramjet Flight
The X-51A successfully made the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight to date off the southern…
Expedition 23 Returns to Earth
The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and…
Stellar Shrapnel
This composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud.…
On Guard
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an adult osprey guards its young in a nest…
ISS Transits the Sun
Thilo Kranz, a staff member at DLR, the German Space Agency, took this image of the…
Homecoming for Atlantis
Space shuttle Atlantis' main gear touched down on Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at…
The Blackness of Space
Spacewalker Michael Good, barely visible in his white spacesuit against the station, participated in the STS-132…