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Apollo 16 Astronauts - Mattingly, Young, Duke

Apollo 16 Astronauts - Mattingly, Young, Duke

Rendering of a portion inside the new Exploring the Planets Gallery at the National Air and Space Museum. People are inside the exhibit.

"Griffin Exploring the Planets" Exhibition Rendering

Telescopic view of Pluto and one of its moons, Charon. This was taken at the first discovery of Charon, which is visible as a tiny dot with its name labeled under the view.

Charon Viewed from Telescope

Apollo Landing Spots on Moon

Apollo Landing Spots on Moon

Antarctica Ice Core Research 2009 - C-130s

Antarctica Ice Core Research 2009 - C-130s

A color photograph of an RCA camera which was used during the Apollo 7 mission in 1968.

Camera, Television, Apollo 7

Fixing Hubble

Fixing Hubble

Alex M Spencer

Alex M Spencer

A satellite view of the Caloris Basin on Mercury. The basin features many craters of various sizes.

Mercury - Caloris Basin

Model of the crustal thickness of the planet Mercury.

Thickness of Mercury

A full scale model of the Curiosity rover. Two of the wheel peak out from the right hand side. A camera on a neck-like rod pokes up front and center. The scale of the model appears to be that of a car.

Mars Exploration Rover, Curiosity, Full-Scale Model

Far side of the Moon

Far side of the Moon

STS-129 Crew Portrait

STS-129 Crew Portrait

Chuck Yeager, a pilot, prepares for a flight in the cockpit of the Bell X-1 monoplane. Multiple people assist him prior to takeoff.

Yeager in the Cockpit of the Bell X-1

Apollo 12

Apollo 12

Museum Scientist Dr. Thomas Watters

Museum Scientist Dr. Thomas Watters