Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. While following news about Mars and NASA's Curiosity rover, ...
This print is red-numbered. It is NASA Image #AS15-88-11866. Taken by Apollo 15 Commander David R. Scott, this photograph from August 1, 1971 shows Astronaut James B. Irwin giving a military salute ...
Image The central image area, composition, or focal point; the area inside the margins/plate marks. Margin Areas bordering the central image, outside the plate marks, or the perimeter area. Edge The ...
NASA. Apollo 14 mission. Nice view of an APOLLO capsule. Recovery area in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy frogmen prepare to place the Apollo 14 space capsule aboard the recovery ship USS New Orleans.
Mariner 9, the first spacecraft to orbit a planet other than Earth, travelled to Mars and returned images of the surface, including this one of a Martian shield volcano. The craft’s wide-angle and ...
Sending anything to Mars is a much more difficult process than it seems. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union tried (and failed) in its first nine consecutive attempts, and the US was only able to succeed ...