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Nose of the North American X-15

Nose of North American X-15

Museum visitors gathered around a large TV with Space Shuttle launch visible on the screen.

Return to Flight 2005

Students stand and point at artifacts hanging above with the Space Shuttle Enterprise in the background.

Space Day 2005 at Udvar-Hazy Center

One side of large silver building with circular theater in foreground and Tower with glass-enclosed observation deck at top.

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

View from above of wide white, low-winged aircraft in flight over cloud-topped mountains.

Global Flyer in Flight

A shadow reflects from a Rover, a travelling robot, in afternoon sunlight on Mars.

A Study In Shadow

A round-shaped, gray and tan asteroid with multiple visible craters.

Ceres

Taxidermied Lion on wooden stand facing forward with a red cape draped over its back with the name "Gilmore" in white letters.

Gilmore the Lion

Portrait of General John R. Dailey while he was the John and Adrienne Mars Director

General John R. Dailey, former John and Adrienne Mars Director

View from behind the Space Shuttle Enterprise showing three engines, tail, and lower side of wings of the orbiter.

Aft View of Space Shuttle Enterprise Inside the Museum

Disk view of the Sun's surface with multiple sunspots and sunspot groups visible as darker spots.

The Sun - October 28, 2003

Top view of cockpit and nose of a commercial airplane.

Boeing 307 Stratoliner Nose

In Kennedy Space Center’s Reusable Launch Vehicle hangar, investigators placed recovered fragments of the underside of Columbia’s left wing onto a table that showed their relative position on the wing.

The Columbia Reconstruction Team, Kennedy Space Center

The largest pieces of Columbia’s wreckage were laid out on a grid on the floor of the reconstruction hangar.

Columbia debris in a Kennedy Space Center hangar

A green reflection of the Aurora Borealis seen from the International Space Station above Earth.

Aurora Borealis Image 1

A large, arm-like object on the International Space Station in front of the Aurora Borealis in the background.

International Space Station Imagery