‘Veggie’ Experiment Launching to Station Aboard SpaceX Cargo Craft

The International Space Station's Vegetable Production System ("Veggie") experiment is on display in the News Center…

Visiting the Renovated Flight Control Room for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft

Mission Operations Director Paul Hill talks to the media as NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Johnson…

NASA Engineers Prepare Game Changing Cryotank for Testing

NASA and Boeing engineers are inspecting and preparing one of the largest composite rocket propellant tanks…

Looking Back: The Mercury 7

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its first astronaut class, the Mercury 7. Front row, left…

Fjord in East Greenland Seen by NASA’s Operation IceBridge

This view of the frozen fjord downstream of Violingletscher (Violin Glacier) in Østgrønland (East Greenland) was…

Space Launch System Core Stage Model ‘Sounds’ Off for Testing

A 5-percent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage fires up for another…

NASA Hubble Team Finds Monster ‘El Gordo’ Galaxy

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has weighed the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe, catalogued…

Astronaut Karen Nyberg Inspires the Next Generation of Explorers

Astronaut Karen Nyberg poses for a photograph with an enthusiastic NASA Social attendee following a presentation…

James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Spectrograph Installed

In March 2014, the James Webb Space Telescope's flight Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) was installed into…

Three Atmospheric ‘Dragons’: Low Pressure Areas Around the U.S.

There are three low pressure systems around the U.S. and they resemble dragons on satellite imagery.…