USS Intrepid aircraft carrier which is home to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is…
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NASA Deputy Administrator Tours Blue Origin
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, fourth from left meets Blue Origin Founder Jeff Bezos, third from…
Fresh Impact Craters on Asteroid Vesta
This image, taken December 6, 2011, combines two separate views of the giant asteroid Vesta obtained…
Alan Bean Descends Intrepid
Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, starts down the ladder of…
Echo II, a Balloon Satellite
Echo II is shown here undergoing a tensile stress test in a dirigible hanger at Weekesville,…
Kepler Launch in 2009
On Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United Launch Alliance's Delta…
First Supernova Companion Star found
In 2004, an international team of astronomers had, for the first time, observed a stellar "survivor"…
Apollo 17 Splashdown
The Apollo 17 spacecraft, containing astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, and Harrison H. Schmitt,…
Astronaut Tests SAFER Backpack
Astronaut Mark Lee tests the new backpack called Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER), a system…
Young Stellar Grouping in Cygnus X
Cygnus X hosts many young stellar groupings. The combined outflows and ultraviolet radiation from the region's…