NASA Archives

Technicians prepare Pioneer F spacecraft for testing in the Space Simulation Chamber.

Two astronauts test the SAFER system during a shared spacewalk.

The U.S.N.S. Kingsport was the first satellite communication ship.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis returns after mission STS-30, landing at Edwards Air Force Base.

The Lunar Module known as Spider shown still attached to the Saturn IVB stage in earth orbit prior to docking with Apollo 9's Command/Service module known as Gumdrop.

In space during the joint Russian/American docking mission known as the ASTP the Apollo Commander and the Soyuz Commander make their historic handshake.

The Skylab Shroud is installed at the NASA Lewis Research Center Plum Brook Station, Space Power Facility.

Mission Specialist Peter J.K. Wisoff stands on a Portable Foot Restraint, Manipulator Foot Restraint attached to the End Effector of the Remote Manipulator System.

The first Space Shuttle External Tank rolls off the assembly line.

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module "Eagle" is photographed in lunar orbit from Columbia.

The Ames 5 degrees-of-freedom motion simulator allowed testing for multiple angular motions.

The Talon flew as a mission support aircraft while at Langley from 1972 to 1980.

The Prime crew for the Gemini 5 space flight complete practice survival training.

Two female employees stand by the Intelsat IV in an anechoic chamber.

The Apollo 12 Commander examines the unmanned Surveyor III spacecraft during the second extravehicular activity.

The Wright Brothers launch their third test glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.

The hot laboratory viewed from inside as an engineer uses the manipulator arms.

The first object destined to leave our solar system, the Pioneer F spacecraft, carries this pictorial plaque to show other beings who, what, where and when the craft was designed.

The X-31 pilot practices a Herbst maneuver.

The two Apollo 13 crew members walk through the events of their upcoming EVA.

An inflight photograph of the Douglas D-558-1 #3 Skystreak, a research aircraft used by NACA.

Apollo 14 Commander Alan Shepard stands next to the "rickshaw."

The lunar roving vehicle (LRV) qualification unit is inspected after assembly at Boeing's Kent Space Center.

The Horn reflector antenna pioneered work in communication satellites.

An F-86 aircraft is lowered into a wind tunnel at the NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory.