NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Parachute Tested at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground

Engineers Successfully Test the Parachutes for NASA's Orion Spacecraft at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground

Women Scientists at NASA in January 1959

January 1959. Women Scientists Lucille Coltrane, Jean Clark Keating, Katherine Cullie Speegle, Doris 'Dot' Lee, Ruth…

A Mass of Viscous Flow Features

Viscous, lobate flow features are commonly found at the bases of slopes in the mid-latitudes of…

Technicians Secure the Protective Covering Around CYGNUS

In the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the…

Hubble Showcases a Remarkable Galactic Hybrid

UGC 12591's classification straddles somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral galaxy. It lies just under…

Pearl Young at Langley’s Flight Instrumentation Facility, March 1929

In this March 29, 1929 photograph, Pearl I. Young is working in the Langley Memorial Aeronautical…

Glaciers Ebb on South Georgia Island

Frequent cloud cover in the southern Atlantic Ocean often obscures satellite images of South Georgia and…

Full-Circle Vista With a Linear Shaped Martian Sand Dune

The left side of this 360-degree panorama from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the long rows…

Images of the Sun From the GOES-16 Satellite

These images of the sun were captured at the same time on January 29, 2017 by…

Orion Spacecraft Progress Continues With Installation of Module to Test Propulsion Systems

On Feb. 22, engineers successfully installed ESA’s European Service Module Propulsion Qualification Module (PQM) at NASA’s…