Carrying Expedition 21 flight engineers Jeffrey Williams and Maxim Suraev, as well as a spaceflight participant,…
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Expedition 21 Lifts Off
The Soyuz TMA-16 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, carrying…
Ready for Liftoff
The Soyuz rocket is seen shortly after arrival to the launch pad on Monday, Sept. 28,…
Rollout
Russian security officers walk along the railroad tracks as the Soyuz rocket is rolled out to…
Water Detected at High Latitudes on the Moon
NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an instrument on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 mission, took this…
Robotic Lunar lander
Marshall Space Flight Center is testing a new robotic lunar lander test bed that will aid…
Desert Layover
Space shuttle Discovery is parked within the Mate-Demate Device gantry at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Cener…
The Journey Home
NASA's modified Boeing 747 carrying the space shuttle Discovery taxis toward the runway at Edwards Air…
Homecoming
Space shuttle Discovery sits atop the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft as it touched down at…
Up and Away
Space shuttle Discovery, mounted on leveling jacks, is surrounded by work platforms while undergoing servicing and…