NASA Archives

This is an early version of the modern computer.

An astronaut evaluates the Portable Foot Restraint in space.

The close-up of the right side of the control panel in the Plum Brook Facility shows the controls for the manual operation of the shim rods.

Bell Aircraft Corporation's X-1E is loaded under the Boeing B-29 mothership.

Milt Thompson climbs into the cockpit of the M2-F2 lifting body research aircraft.

Women scientists train in the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator.

Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless II, is seen further away from the confines and safety of his ship than any previous astronaut has ever been.

The Lunar Landing Research Facility was transformed into a site to conduct crash testing of full-scale aircraft.

The M2-F1 lifting body, shown under tow, was designed as a means of landing an aircraft horizontally after atmospheric reentry.

Space Shuttle Atlantis begins STS-86 by blazing through the night sky.

NASA technicians at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory inspect and repair damage inside the Huygens probe before its successful launch.

Two astronauts emerge from the airlock in their space suits after an EVA.

The first aircraft purchased by the NACA.

This technical rendition of Atlantis docked to the Kristall module of the Russian Mir Space Station shows the largest space platform ever assembled.

The Communication Technology Satellite, a high-powered spacecraft resulting from five years of cooperation between NASA and Canada's Department of Communications, was launched in January of 1976.

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II exits the EMU after successful deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope.

This NASA SR-71 completes its first flight at Dryden Flight Research Center.

This color picture of the Martian horizon was taken by Viking 1 on July 24, 1976.

The ground communication terminal for the Brazil/United States communication link via the Relay satellite which was launched late in 1962.

Seymour Schwartz prepares substances to be analyzed for evaporation properties.

A Soviet test engineer drinks from a water dispenser in the Soyuz spacecraft mock-up.

Engineers check out the world's first communication satellite known as the Early Bird.

Two astronauts await recovery after completing the Gemini VIII mission.

An astronaut takes a hot bath on the Skylab space station.

Two astronauts repair the Solar Maximum Mission Satellite during an EVA on STS-41C.