NASA Archives

The Space Shuttle Atlantis lands with its drag chute deployed.

The orbiter Discovery shown as it rolls over to the Vehicle Assembly Building.

Before the Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977, a prototype was put through vibration tests.

Astronaut Edward White awaits Gemini IV's launch in the crew's ready room.

The two astronauts are conducting Detailed Test Objective procedures in the payload bay of Endeavour.

The Cassini Saturn probe goes though vibration and thermal testing in preparation for its four year mission.

The Star Trek actress, Nichelle Nichols, was employed by NASA to recruit new astronauts into the late 1980s.

Ken Strite inspects the connection between the Space Shuttle Discovery and the external tank to be used during STS-103 mission launch.

Marjorie Townsend, the first woman to receive an engineering degree from George Washington University, discusses the X-ray Explorer Satellite with a colleague.

This launch vehicle is designed to carry a payload equal to the size and weight of those on a space shuttles.

Crew members of the STS-49 mission captured the satellite on the third attempt.

Dr. Goddard observes a launch from his control shack.

An astronaut peeks inside the flight deck during his EVA on STS-49.

This aircraft is undergoing a test in a wind tunnel at Langley.

An astronaut and a cosmonaut shake hands during the STS-71 mission.

An astronaut prepares for STS-38 by training underwater for EVAs.

Astronaut Jerry Ross approaches the Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures device.

A NASA engineer measures velocity and gradient distortion with lasers during a cold-flow propulsion research test.

Astronaut Edward White II floats in the zero gravity of space.

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. stands next to a solar wind experiment during the Apollo 11 EVA.

This experiment is designed to develop and demonstrate the technology required to use the Sun's energy for inexpensive space propulsion research.

Astronaut John Swigert holds the rigged arrangement used to purge carbon dioxide from the Lunar Module during the Apollo 13 mission.

The Aerosol Particle Analyzer flew on an Apollo earth orbital flight to measure microscopic liquid matter in the spaceship.

The world's fastest submarine in 1950, the Albacore, is tested for drag characteristics in a NACA wind tunnel.

The NASA 952 undergoes testing following the crash of a sister Lunar Lander Training Vehicle.