NASA Center Renamed in Honor of Neil A. Armstrong

This photograph shows Neil Armstrong next to the X-15 rocket-powered aircraft after a research flight. President…

At Work in the Destiny Laboratory of the International Space Station

NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 flight engineer, performs in-flight maintenance on combustion research hardware in…

Spitzer’s Orion

Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula, an immense stellar nursery some 1,500…

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Prepared For Launch

Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or…

TDRS-L Prepared for Trip to Launch Pad

Jan. 10, 2013 -- Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, NASA's Tracking and Data…

Frozen Lake Sharpe, South Dakota

The Missouri River rises in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, and flows generally to the…

Orbital-1 Space Station Resupply Mission Launches From NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility

Orbital Sciences Corp. launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard its Antares rocket at 1:07 p.m. EST…

Orbital-1 Antares Launch

An Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen as it launches from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops…

International Space Station Awaits Orbital-1 Resupply Mission

The sun shines through a truss-based radiator panel and a primary solar array panel on the…

Hubble Frontier Field Abell 2744

This long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (foreground) is the deepest…