This natural-color satellite image of the drought-fueled Rim Fire was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging…
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Asteroid Zips By Orion Nebula
This image shows the potentially hazardous near-Earth object 1998 KN3 as it zips past a cloud…
NASA Astronaut and Research Pilot Gordon Fullerton Flies His Final Mission
In this Dec. 21, 2007 photograph, C. Gordon Fullerton capped an almost 50-year flying career, including…
Feeling the Heat
Super heated exhaust is a byproduct of engine testing in the Engine Research Building (ERB) at…
Introducing the 2013 Astronaut Class
Members of NASA's newest astronaut class pose with an Orion capsule at NASA's Johnson Space Center…
Orion Spacecraft Stationary Recovery Test at Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia
On August 15, 2013, at the Naval Station Norfolk near NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia,…
Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center
The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center celebrates its 50th anniversary this month.…
Dwarf Galaxy Caught Ramming Into a Large Spiral Galaxy
Observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed a massive cloud of multimillion-degree gas in a…
Suborbital Rocket Launches From NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility
A Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital rocket carrying experiments developed by university students nationwide in the RockSat-X program…
Dropping in on a James Webb Space Telescope Clean Room Test
A crane in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., lowers…