Range : 8.6 million kilometers (5.3 million miles) The Voyager took t...
Range : 8.6 million kilometers (5.3 million miles) The Voyager took this 61 second exposure through the clear filter with the narrow angle camera of Neptune. The Voyager cameras were programmed to make a syst... More
Range : 5.4 million km (3.3 million miles) Features as small as 100 k...
Range : 5.4 million km (3.3 million miles) Features as small as 100 km (62 miles) across can be seen in this color image of Neptune's satellite Triton, photographed by Voyager 2. Triton's overall pinkish colo... More
Range : 6.1 million km ( 3.8 million miles) This image of clouds in N...
Range : 6.1 million km ( 3.8 million miles) This image of clouds in Neptune's atmosphere is the first that tests the accuracy of the weather forecast that was made eight days earlier to select targets for the ... More
Range : 16 million km (9.9 million miles) P-34616 This series of six...
Range : 16 million km (9.9 million miles) P-34616 This series of six Voyager 2 images of Neptune through different filters reveals altitude in Neptune's clouds. The top three images, taken though orange, viol... More
P-34675 Range : 5.9 million km. ( 3.6 million miles ) Orbital Speed :...
P-34675 Range : 5.9 million km. ( 3.6 million miles ) Orbital Speed : 40,000 km/hr. or 25,000 mi/hr. The most recently discovered satellites of Neptune, 1989N5 and 1989N6, are shown in this Voyager 2 image. T... More
Range : 4.8 million km. ( 3 million miles ) P-34648 This Voyager 2, ...
Range : 4.8 million km. ( 3 million miles ) P-34648 This Voyager 2, sixty-one second exposure, shot through clear filters, of Neptunes rings. The Voyager cameras were programmed to make a systematic search of... More
Photo by Voyager 2 (jpl) These images show changes in the clouds aroun...
Photo by Voyager 2 (jpl) These images show changes in the clouds around Neptune's Great Dark Spot (GDS) over a four and one-half-day period. From top to bottom the images show successive rotations of the planet... More
Range : 12 million km (7.5 million miles) Resolution 110 km (68 miles...
Range : 12 million km (7.5 million miles) Resolution 110 km (68 miles) per pixel. These 2 images of Neptune were taken by Voyager 2's narrow-angle camera. During the 17.6 hours between the left and right imag... More
Voyager II Imagery - Neptune: This image of clouds in Neptune's atmosp...
Voyager II Imagery - Neptune: This image of clouds in Neptune's atmosphere is the first that tests the accuracy of the weather forecast that was made eight days earlier to select targets for the Voyager narrow-... More
Range : 30 million km. ( 18.6 million miles ) P-34628 C The south pole...
Range : 30 million km. ( 18.6 million miles ) P-34628 C The south pole of Neptune is at the center of this polar projection made from five color images taken by Voyager 2 over the course of one Neptunian day-- ... More
Range : 4 million km (2.5 million miles) Already-intriquing patterns ...
Range : 4 million km (2.5 million miles) Already-intriquing patterns of unknown origin appear on the surgace of Neptune's largest satellite, Trition, in this image from Voyager 2. Voyager images show that Tri... More
P-34668 Range : 25 million km. ( 16 million miles ) Smallest Resolvab...
P-34668 Range : 25 million km. ( 16 million miles ) Smallest Resolvable Feature : 45 km or 28 miles This Voyager 2 image of Neptune, shot with a narrow angle camera, shows the discovery of shadows in Neptun... More
P-34679 Range : 2 million km. ( 1.2 million miles ) In this Voyager 2...
P-34679 Range : 2 million km. ( 1.2 million miles ) In this Voyager 2, wide-angle image, the two main rings of Neptune can be clearly seen. In the lower part of the frame, the originally-announced ring arc, co... More
P-34669 Range : 2.6 million km. ( 1.6 million m...
P-34669 Range : 2.6 million km. ( 1.6 million miles ) Smallest Resolvable Feature : 50 km or 31 miles These two Voyager 2 images, shot through clear filters, show the largest of the new ... More
P-34668 Range : 2.8 million km. ( 1.7 million miles ) Smallest Resolv...
P-34668 Range : 2.8 million km. ( 1.7 million miles ) Smallest Resolvable Feature : 50 km or 31 miles This Voyager 2 image shows the last face on view of the Great Dark Spot that Voyager 2 will take with the ... More
Range : 4.2 million km. ( 2.6 million miles ) P-34649 This photograph...
Range : 4.2 million km. ( 2.6 million miles ) P-34649 This photograph of Neptune's southern hemisphere taken by Voyager 2's narrow angle camera, through the green and clear filters. The smallest feature that ... More
Range : 4 million km. ( 2.5 million miles ) P-34654 This Voyager 2 im...
Range : 4 million km. ( 2.5 million miles ) P-34654 This Voyager 2 image of Neptune's satteltite Triton was made by combining images taken through the green, clear, and violet filters. The smallest feature see... More
P-34630 Range: 10.5 million kilometers (6.5 million miles) This cylind...
P-34630 Range: 10.5 million kilometers (6.5 million miles) This cylindrical projection view of Neptune uses five narrow-angle images equally spaced around the planet. They were taken by Voyager 2 over the cours... More
Sailors and Marines man the rail as the aircraft carrier USS CORAL SEA...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Hampton Roads, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Witham Release Status: Released t... More
Neptune Full Disk View, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo
(April 2, 1990) This picture of Neptune was produced from the last whole planet images taken through the green and orange filters on the Voyager 2 narrow angle camera. The images were taken at a range of 4.4 mi... More
Earth taken by Galileo after completing its first Earth Gravity Assist
Description: Near-infrared photograph of Earth was taken by Galileo spacecraft at 6:07 am Pacific Standard Time (PST), 12-11-90, at a range of about 1.32 million miles. Camera used light with a wavelength of 1 ... More
Global Images of Earth. NASA public domain image colelction.
Description Global images of Earth from Galileo. In each frame, the continent of Antarctica is visible at the bottom of the globe. South America may be seen in the first frame (top left), the great Pacific Ocea... More
Range : 1 million miles (1.63 million km) This image of the planet Ve...
Range : 1 million miles (1.63 million km) This image of the planet Venus was taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft shortly befor 10pm PST when the space craft was directly above Venus' equator. This is the 66th ... More
Range : 1.7 million miles This colorized picture of Venus was taken a...
Range : 1.7 million miles This colorized picture of Venus was taken about 6 days after Galileo's closest approach to the planet. It has been colorized to a bluish hue to emphasize subtle contrasts in the clou... More
Range : 1.7 million miles This photo of Venus was taken by the Galile...
Range : 1.7 million miles This photo of Venus was taken by the Galileo spacecraft's Solid State Imaging System. A high-pass spatial filter has been applied in order to emphasize the smaller-scale cloud featur... More
Range : 1.4 to 2 million miles These are enhanced versions of four vi...
Range : 1.4 to 2 million miles These are enhanced versions of four views of Venus taken by Galileo's Solid State Imaging System. The pictures in the top row were taken about 4 and 5 days after closest approac... More
History of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
This color image of Saturn was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) Wide Field Camera (WFC) at 3:25 am EDT, August 26, 1990, when the planet was at a distance of 2.39 million km (360 million miles) f... More
ref # P-37330 Range : 1.3 million miles This color image of the Earth...
ref # P-37330 Range : 1.3 million miles This color image of the Earth was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft at about 6:10 am PST. The color composite used images taken through the red, green and violet filte... More
Galileo view of Moon orbiting the Earth taken from 3.9 million miles
Eight days after its encounter with the Earth, the Galileo spacecraft was able to look back and capture this remarkable view of the Moon in orbit about the Earth, taken from a distance of about 6.2 million kilo... More
This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter a...
This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter and Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 as imaged by the Wide Field & Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2), aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Jupiter ... More
Range : 1.4 to 2 million miles This series of pictures shows four vie...
Range : 1.4 to 2 million miles This series of pictures shows four views of the planet Venus obtained by Galileo's Solid State Imaging System.The pictures in the top row were taken about 4 & 5 days after closes... More
Saturn With Tethys and Dione. NASA public domain image colelction.
Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys above and Dione, were photographed by Voyager 1 on November 3, 1980, from 13 million kilometers 8 million miles. NASA/JPL
Neptune Rings and 1989N2, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo
In this image from NASA's Voyager wide-angle taken on Aug. 23 1989, the two main rings of Neptune can be clearly seen. In the lower part of the frame the originally announced ring arc, consisting of three disti... More
Neptune Southern Hemisphere, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo
This photograph of Neptune southern hemisphere was taken by the narrow-angle camera on NASA Voyager 2 when the spacecraft was 4.2 million km 2.6 million miles from the planet. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/... More
Earth - Full Disk View of Africa
This color image of the Earth was obtained by NASA Galileo spacecraft in Dec. 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.5 million miles from the Earth. Africa stretches from the center to the top of the picture wit... More
Four Views of Venus High Pass Filter
These are enhanced versions of four views of the planet Venus taken by NASA's Galileo Solid State Imaging System at distances ranging from 1.4 to 2 million miles as the spacecraft receded from Venus. http://ph... More
Earth - South America First Frame of Earth Spin Movie
This color image of the Earth was obtained by NASA's Galileo at about 6:10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.3 million miles from the planet during the first of two Ea... More
Venus Colorized Clouds - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images
This colorized picture of Venus was taken Feb. 14, 1990, from a distance of almost 1.7 million miles, about 6 days after NASA's Galileo made it closest approach to the planet. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/... More
Venus in Violet and Near Infrared Light
These images of the Venus clouds were taken by NASA Galileo Solid State Imaging System February 13,1990, at a range of about 1 million miles. The smallest detail visible is about 20 miles. They show the state o... More
Venus Cloud Patterns colorized and filtered
This picture of Venus was taken by the NASA Galileo spacecraft Solid State Imaging System on February 14, 1990, at a range of almost 1.7 million miles from the planet. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/... More
Venus - First Radar Test, NASA Magellan spacecraft
After traveling more than 1.5 billion kilometers 948 million miles, NASA Magellan spacecraft was inserted into orbit around Venus on Aug. 10, 1990. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00205 NASA/JPL
Venus - Multiple Views of High-level Clouds
This series of pictures shows four views of the planet Venus obtained by NASA Galileo Solid State Imaging System at ranges of 1.4 to 2 million miles as the spacecraft receded from Venus. http://photojournal.jp... More
Global View of Earth in the Near-Infrared
This near-infrared photograph of the Earth was taken by the Galileo spacecraft at 6:07 a.m. PST on Dec. 11, 1990, at a range of about 1.32 million miles. South America is prominent near the center. http://phot... More
Ganymede at 3.4 million miles. NASA public domain image colelction.
Ganymede at 3.4 million miles http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00352 NASA/JPL
Ganymede at 2.6 million miles. NASA public domain image colelction.
Ganymede at 2.6 million miles http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00351 NASA/JPL
Europa - Full Disk, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo
This picture of Europa, the smallest Galilean satellite, was taken in the afternoon of March 4, 1979, from a distance of about 2 million kilometers 1.2 million miles by NASA Voyager 1. http://photojournal.jpl.... More
Crescent Earth and Moon, Voyager Program, NASA/JPL Photo
This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASA Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles 11.66 million kilometers from Ea... More
Early Voyager 1 Images of Jupiter
These Jupiter photographs are part of a set taken by NASA Voyager 1 on December 10 and 11, 1978 from a distance of 83 million km 52 million miles or more than half the distance from the Earth to the sun. At thi... More
Computer Generated View of Earth as seen from the Asteroid Toutatis
This computer generated image depicts a view of Earth as seen from the surface of the asteroid Toutatis on Nov 29th 1996. A 2.5 degree field-of-view synthetic computer camera was used for this simulation. Touta... More
Hubble's Sharpest View of Mars. NASA public domain image colelction.
Description: (March 10, 1997) The recently refurbished Hubble telescope obtained the sharpest view of Mars ever taken from Earth. This stunning portrait was taken with March 10, 1997, just before the Red Planet... More
Io At 5 Million Miles. NASA public domain image colelction.
Io At 5 Million Miles http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00378 NASA/JPL
STS-84 crew members, from left, Mission Specialist Carlos I. Noriega, ...
STS-84 crew members, from left, Mission Specialist Carlos I. Noriega, Commander Charles J. Precourt and Mission Specialist Jean-Francois Clervoy examine the tires of the Space Shuttle Atlantis after landing. At... More
Mars Global Surveyor Approach Image
This image is the first view of Mars taken by the Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter Camera (MOC). It was acquired the afternoon of July 2, 1997 when the MGS spacecraft was 17.2 million kilometers (10.7 million miles... More
Applied Physics Laboratory Engineer Cliff Willey (kneeling) and Engin...
Applied Physics Laboratory Engineer Cliff Willey (kneeling) and Engineering Assistant Jim Hutcheson from Johns Hopkins University install solar array panels on the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) in KSC’... More
Applied Physics Laboratory engineers and technicians from Johns Hopki...
Applied Physics Laboratory engineers and technicians from Johns Hopkins University install solar array panels on the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) in KSC’s Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility... More
An Applied Physics Laboratory engineer from Johns Hopkins University ...
An Applied Physics Laboratory engineer from Johns Hopkins University tests for true perpendicular solar array deployment of the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) in KSC’s Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulat... More
Applied Physics Laboratory engineers and technicians from Johns Hopki...
Applied Physics Laboratory engineers and technicians from Johns Hopkins University test for true perpendicular solar array deployment of the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) in KSC’s Spacecraft Assembly a... More
The first stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch...
The first stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft is erected at Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station. Scheduled for launch on ... More
The first stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch...
The first stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft is erected at Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station. Scheduled for launch on ... More
The first stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch...
The first stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft is erected at Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station. Scheduled for launch on ... More
The first stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch...
The first stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft is erected at Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station. Scheduled for launch on ... More
The solid rocket motors of the Delta II rocket which will to be used t...
The solid rocket motors of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft are erected at Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station. Scheduled for l... More
The second stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launc...
The second stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft is erected at Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station. Scheduled for launch on... More
False Color Aurora - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images
Data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft were used to produce this false-color composite of Jupiter's northern aurora on the night side of the planet. The height of the aurora, the thickness of the auroral arc, and ... More
Visible Jovian Aurora - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images
Jupiter's aurora on the night side of the planet is seen here at five different wavelengths. Jupiter's bright crescent, which is about half illuminated, is out of view to the right. North is at the top. The ima... More
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, ...
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia, with its drag chute deployed, touches down on Runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:20:04 a.m. EST Dec. 5 t... More
STS-87 crew members regard the tiles underneath the orbiter Columbia s...
STS-87 crew members regard the tiles underneath the orbiter Columbia shortly after its return to Runway 33 at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility. Pointing to the tiles is the president of the Natio... More
STS-87 Payload Specialist Leonid Kadenyuk of the National Space Agency...
STS-87 Payload Specialist Leonid Kadenyuk of the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU), at left, greets NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin, at right, as back-up Payload Specialist Yaroslav Pustovyi, also of NSA... More
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, ...
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia touches its main gear down on Runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:20:04 a.m. EST Dec. 5 to complete the 15... More
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, ...
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia touches its main gear down on Runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:20:04 a.m. EST Dec. 5 to complete the 15... More
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, ...
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia touches its main gear down on Runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:20:04 a.m. EST Dec. 5 to complete the 15... More
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, ...
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia glides moments before its touchdown on Runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility. Main gear touchdown occurred at 7:2... More
STS-87 Payload Specialist Leonid Kadenyuk of the National Space Agency...
STS-87 Payload Specialist Leonid Kadenyuk of the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU), at left, chats with NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin shortly after the landing of Columbia at Kennedy Space Center. Look... More
Space Shuttle Project, Marshall Space Flight Center
With Commander Kevin R. Kregel and Pilot Steven W. Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia (STS-87) touched down its main gear on Runway 33 at Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility to comp... More
STS-87 Mission Specialist Takao Doi, Ph.D., of the National Space Deve...
STS-87 Mission Specialist Takao Doi, Ph.D., of the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) of Japan greets a NASDA official shortly after the orbiter Columbia returned to KSC, touching down on Runway 33 at KS... More
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, ...
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia touches its main gear down on Runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:20:04 a.m. EST Dec. 5 to complete the 15... More
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, ...
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia makes a smooth touchdown on Runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:20:04 a.m. EST Dec. 5, completing the 15-d... More
STS-87 Commander Kevin Kregel, center, shakes hands with the deputy di...
STS-87 Commander Kevin Kregel, center, shakes hands with the deputy director general of the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU), Eduard Kuznetsov, at far right. Next to Kuznetsov is the Honorable Yuri Shche... More
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, ...
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia touches its main gear down on Runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:20:04 a.m. EST Dec. 5 to complete the 15... More
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, ...
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia makes a smooth touchdown on Runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:20:04 a.m. EST Dec. 5, completing the 15-d... More
The president of the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) of Japa...
The president of the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) of Japan, Isao Uchida, at left, chats with STS-87 Mission Specialist Takao Doi, Ph.D., of NASDA, shortly after the landing of Columbia at Kennedy S... More
The STS-87 crew pose in front of the orbiter Columbia shortly after la...
The STS-87 crew pose in front of the orbiter Columbia shortly after landing on Runway 33 at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility. STS-87 concluded its mission with a main gear touchdown at 7:20:04 a.m. EST Dec. 5, dr... More
The president of the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) of Japa...
The president of the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) of Japan, Isao Uchida, at left, shakes hands with STS-87 Mission Specialist Takao Doi, Ph.D., of NASDA, shortly after the landing of Columbia at Ke... More
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, ...
With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia, with its drag chute deployed, touches its main gear down on Runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:20:04 a.m... More
STS-95 Landing, NASA Mercury project
Orbiter Discovery is riding on its main landing gear as it lowers its nose wheel after touching down on Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Main gear touchdown was at 12:04 p.m. EST, landing on orbit 135... More
History of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
This is the first image of Saturn's ultraviolet aurora taken by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in October 1998, when Saturn was a distance of 810 milli... More
Jupiter Main Ring/Ring Halo. NASA public domain image colelction.
A mosaic of four images taken through the clear filter (610 nanometers) of the solid state imaging (CCD) system aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft on November 8, 1996, at a resolution of approximately 46 kilomete... More
PIA01492, NASA Neptune Images, JPL/NASA images
This picture of Neptune was produced from the last whole planet images taken through the green and orange filters on NASA's Voyager 2 narrow angle camera. The images were taken at a range of 4.4 million miles f... More
Orbiter Discovery prepares to land on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing...
Orbiter Discovery prepares to land on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Main gear touchdown was at 12:04 p.m. EST, landing on orbit 135. Discovery returns to Earth with its crew of seven after successf... More
Viewed across the creek bordering runway 33, orbiter Discovery prepare...
Viewed across the creek bordering runway 33, orbiter Discovery prepares to touch down at the Shuttle Landing Facility after a successful mission of nearly nine days and 3.6 million miles. Flying above it is the... More
Orbiter Discovery startles a great white egret (below) next to runway ...
Orbiter Discovery startles a great white egret (below) next to runway 33 as it touches down at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Main gear touchdown was at 12:04 p.m. EST, landing on orbit 135. Discovery returns to... More
Orbiter Discovery touches down on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Fac...
Orbiter Discovery touches down on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility after a successful mission of nearly nine days and 3.6 million miles. Main gear touchdown was at 12:04 p.m. EST, landing on orbit 135.... More
Viewed across the creek bordering runway 33, orbiter Discovery touches...
Viewed across the creek bordering runway 33, orbiter Discovery touches down at the Shuttle Landing Facility after a successful mission of nearly nine days and 3.6 million miles. Main gear touchdown was at 12:04... More
STS-95 Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, M.D. (center), with the Nation...
STS-95 Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, M.D. (center), with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), poses for a photograph with NASDA President Isao Uchida (left). Behind her at the right is a r... More
After a successful mission of nearly nine days and 3.6 million miles, ...
After a successful mission of nearly nine days and 3.6 million miles, the orbiter Discovery glides to Earth on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Main gear touchdown was at 12:04 p.m. EST, landing on or... More
After leaving the Crew Transport Vehicle, members of the mission STS-9...
After leaving the Crew Transport Vehicle, members of the mission STS-95 crew (foreground) take a close look at the orbiter Discovery that carried them for nine days and 3.6 million miles. From left, they are Mi... More
Orbiter Discovery prepares to land on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing...
Orbiter Discovery prepares to land on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Main gear touchdown was at 12:04 p.m. EST, landing on orbit 135. Discovery returns to Earth with its crew of seven after successf... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Seen from across the creek bordering run...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Seen from across the creek bordering runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility, orbiter Discovery touches down after a successful mission of nine days and 3.6 million miles. Flying... More
Orbiter Discovery touches down in a cloud of smoke on runway 33 at the...
Orbiter Discovery touches down in a cloud of smoke on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Main gear touchdown was at 12:04 p.m. EST, landing on orbit 135. Discovery returns to Earth with its crew of seve... More
After nine days and 3.6 million miles in space, orbiter Discovery prep...
After nine days and 3.6 million miles in space, orbiter Discovery prepares to land on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Discovery returns to Earth with its crew of seven after successfully completing m... More