Rocket Boosters Prepared For Orion Spacecraft’s First Flight

Engineers took another step forward in preparations for the first test flight of NASA’s new Orion…

Expedition 41 Crew Launches to the International Space Station

The Soyuz TMA-14M rocket is launched with Expedition 41 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian…

King Fire in California, False-Color Infrared

On Sept. 19, 2014, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured these…

Looking for Comets in a Sea of Stars

On a July night this summer, a 5,200-pound balloon gondola hangs from a crane and moves…

Sunrise at the Soyuz Launch Pad

The sun rises as the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch…

The Odd Trio

The Cassini spacecraft captures a rare family photo of three of Saturn's moons that couldn't be…

SpaceX Dragon Rockets to the Space Station

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft lifts off on the Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station…

Celebration: MAVEN Arrives at Mars

Members of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) team celebrate at the Lockheed Martin operations…

Starry Sky from the Space Station

ISS041-E-009477 (13 Sept. 2014) --- One of the Expedition 41 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International…

NASA Airborne Campaigns Focus on Climate Impacts in the Arctic

This red plane is a DHC-3 Otter, the plane flown in NASA's Operation IceBridge-Alaska surveys of…