This image of the Cat's Eye Nebula was made by combining data from two of NASA's…
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Preparing for Flight
Technicians carefully position an Orion flight test crew module to be airlifted from NASA's Dryden Flight…
Spirit’s View From ‘Troy’
Today, Aug. 18, 2009, marks the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's 2,000th sol, or Martian day, on…
Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment Launches
A successful NASA flight test on Monday, Aug. 17, demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth…
Lunar Lander Model
This 1963 model depicts an early Apollo lunar lander concept, called a "bug." Engineers designed several…
Ares I-X Complete
Standing tall at its fully assembled height of 327 feet, the Ares I-X is one of…
The Formation of Stars
Cepheus B, a molecular cloud located in our Milky Galaxy about 2,400 light years from the…
Unraveling Saturn’s Rings
In this simulated image of Saturn's rings, color is used to present information about ring particle…
Coiled Creature
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy…
Research for the Future
The U.S. Air Force's F-16D Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology (ACAT) aircraft takes off from Edwards Air…