As commander of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong took most of the photographs from the historic moonwalk,…
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Space Medal of Honor
Astronaut Neil Armstrong received the first Congressional Space Medal of Honor from President Jimmy Carter, assisted…
Orion Spacecraft Water Impact Testing
Water impact test of an 18,000-pound (8,165 kilogram) test version of the Orion spacecraft at NASA's…
Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova
NASA's Hubble Telescope captured an image of Eta Carinae. This image consists of ultraviolet and visible…
Students Shaping America’s Next Spacecraft
Students from Texas A&M University visited the Orion Medium Fidelity Mockup as part of the SSANS,…
Expedition 30 Cosmonauts Perform Spacewalk
This image of Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov, both Expedition 30 flight engineers, was…
Chandra Finds Fastest Wind From Stellar-Mass Black Hole
This artist's impression shows a binary system containing a stellar-mass black hole called IGR J17091-3624, or…
50th Anniversary First American to Orbit Earth
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, seated right, and Sen. John Glenn address questions from the press during…
Revisiting Discovery
Sen. John Glenn and Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana reminisce inside the flight deck of…
John Glenn Stands Next to Friendship 7
John Glenn, standing next to his Friendship 7 capsule in which he made his historic orbital…