Orbital ATK's Cygnus resupply ship with its cymbal-ike UltraFlex solar arrays approaches the International Space Station…
Category: NASA Image of the Day
Mariner 9 Sees Shield Volcano on Mars
On November 14, 1971, Mariner ( took this image of a shield volcano on Mars.
Liftoff! Orbital Antares Rocket Launches From Wallops Flight Facility
The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Sunday, Nov. 12,…
Astronaut Jack Fischer With Honor Flight Veterans
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer talks with veterans at the World War II Memorial who traveled to…
Earth as Viewed From 10,000 Miles
On November 9, 1969, the uncrewed Apollo 4 test flight made a great ellipse around Earth…
Rare Encircling Filament
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory came across an oddity that the spacecraft has rarely observed before: a…
Space Station Crew Sees Lots of Clouds
Expedition 53 Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (ESA) photographed cloudy skies over…
Pandora, the Would-Be Perturber
As Cassini hurtled toward its fatal encounter with Saturn, the spacecraft turned to catch this final…