Photograph of Lt. Col. Scott, USMC, Elizabeth Bukowsky, and John F. (Mike) Simmons at the Official Preview of the Freedom Train Exhibit
Photograph of Lt. Col. Scott, USMC, and John F. (Mike) Simmons at the Official Preview of the Freedom Train Exhibit
Photograph of General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Jess Larson and U.S. Archivist, Wayne C. Grover, at the Official Opening of the Freedom Train Exhibit in the National Archives Building
On July 1, 2004, this image from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) recorded land surface temperatures of 138°F (59°C) in Spain. In this false-color image, red represents the warmest
On April 30, 2010, students and educators who participated in the Obama Administration’s National Financial Capability Challenge visited the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to tour the facility and ring The Closing Bell
On April 30, 2010, students and educators who participated in the Obama Administration’s National Financial Capability Challenge visited the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to tour the facility and ring The Closing Bell
Nov 1968 - The backup crew of Apollo 9 stand on the deck of the NASA Motor Vessel Retriever prior to water egress training . L to R, are Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., and Alan L. Bean
NASA's Aqua Satellite Captures Hurricane Danielle August 26, 2010 At 1100 a.m. Atlantic Standard Time (AST) the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported reported that Danielle was a Category 2 hurricane
NASA Satellite Captures Hurricane Earl on Spt 1, 2010 NASA GOES 13 satellite image showing the US east coast and Hurricane Earl on September 1, 2010
Mr. Arthur Kimberly, Chief of the Preservation Service at the National Archives, Explaining Preservation Work to be Done on Some of New York State's Most Treasured Documents Soon to be Exhibited on New York's Freedom Train
May 1962) --- The wife and children of astronaut M. Scott Carpenter welcome him after the successful Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) flight
Lake Chad was once one of Africa's largest bodies of fresh water, close in surface area to North America's Lake Erie. Now reduced to only about 1 20 th that size in 4 decades due to drought and water needs
Hurricane Earl from Space NASA image captured August 30, 2010 Photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station, this is oblique view of the eye (center) of Hurricane Earl
General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Jess Larson and U.S. Archivist, Wayne C. Grover, at the Official Opening of the Freedom Train Exhibit in the National Archives Building
Gemini-6 astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., (left) and Thomas P. Stafford (center) are welcomed upon their arrival at Cape Kennedy's skid strip by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., 12 17 65
Flashing Flares SDO observed as an active region emerged, expanded and blew out at least four flares over about a 40-hour period (June 11-12, 2010).
NASA image acquired August 1, 2010 - Intense fires continued to burn in the boreal forests of eastern Siberia on August 1, 2010. The fires are outlined in red in this image, acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. The fires span the borders of Russia’s Chukotskiy, Magadan, and Koryakskiy provinces. .
Equipment is the Maurer 70mm camera with UV lens (f3.3) and magazine, objective grating and objective prism, extended shuttle actuator, and mounting bracket. Gemini 11
A snapshot of Earth's plant productivity in 2003 shows regions of increased productivity (green) and decreased productivity (red). Tracking productivity between 2000 and 2009, researchers found a global net decrease due to regional drought. .
discussion in the Mission Control room during Gemini-11 activity. L to R, are Donald K. Slayton, MSC Dir of Flight Crew Operations; astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., Chief, MSC Astronaut Offc; and George M. Low, MSC Dep.
Back view of Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. (foreground) and Charles Conrad Jr. walking up gantry ramp after arriving at Pad 19 during Gemini 5 countdown at Cape Kennedy, Florida
Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) seen from Gemini-9 . The ATDA and Gemini-9 spacecraft are 35.5 feet apart in this view.
Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., pilot for the prime crew on the Gemini-5 spaceflight, takes pictures of predetermined land areas during visual acuity experiments over Laredo, Texas.
Aseptic cultures of liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) are shown in two rows of containers. Seven weeks prior to this photo 0.22 grams finely ground lunar material was added to each of the upper samples of cultures
A helicopter hovers over the Gemini-6 spacecraft after it splashed down 12 miles from the aircraft carrier USS Wasp in the western Atlantic recovery area at 1029 a.m. Dec. 16, 1965.
The Soyuz TMA-16 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 carrying Expedition 21 Flight Engineer Jeffrey N. Williams, Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev and Spaceflight Participant Guy Laliberté to the International Space Station.
Dr. Robert H. Goddard and a liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket in the frame from which it was fired on March 16, 1926, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
The four-stage Black Brandt shown here blasting off from a launch pad at the Wallops Island Flight Facility in rural Virginia is at 66 feet (20 meters), the tallest of NASA's 13 sounding rockets.