NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this…
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Celestial Fireworks
Like an Independence Day fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial…
Launched on the Fourth of July
Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched at 2:38 p.m. EDT on July 4, 2006…
All-American Salute
Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar…
Slingshot
There are two possible explanations for this 'slingshot' in space: kickback by a triple black hole…
A Rover Gets Its Wheels
Mars rover Curiosity, the centerpiece of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, is coming together for extensive…
On the ‘Couch’
The Mercury 7 astronauts examine their 'couches.' Each astronaut's couch was molded to fit his body…
Ghostly Encounter
The surface of Saturn's moon Dione is rendered in crisp detail against a hazy, ghostly Titan.…
Roy S. Estess
NASA remembers Roy Estess, former Stennis Space Center Director, who passed away on June 25, 2010.…
Supersonic Green Machine
This future aircraft design concept for supersonic flight over land comes from the team led by…