... distant stars, sinuous and spiky bands of Southern Lights (Aurora Australis) , and the faint glow of charged plasma (ionized atomic gas) surrounding the SpaceShuttleDiscovery's engines give this photo from the STS-39 mission an eerie, otherworldly look ...
... stars, sinuous and spiky bands of Southern Lights (Aurora Australis) , and the faint glow of charged plasma ( ionized atomic gas ) surrounding the SpaceShuttleDiscovery's engines give this photo from the STS-39 mission an eerie, otherworldly look ...
... Explanation: Sixteen minutes after the liftoff of STS-29, the SpaceShuttleDiscovery's jettisoned External Tank (ET) is seen here, in a photograph by shuttle astronaut James P. Bagian, falling back towards Earth. ...
... and Gemini Projects culminating in the Apollo Project moon landings in the 1960s and early 1970s, Apollo-Soyuz and Skylab in the 1970s, and the SpaceShuttle program of the 1980s and 1990s. ( Pictured is the June 1998 launch of the SpaceShuttleDiscovery ...
... Senator John Glenn flew again on the 25th voyage of the SpaceShuttleDiscovery. Tomorrow's picture: Interstellar Dust-Bunnies . < Archive | Index | ...
... Carefully constructed from two photographs ( ISS020-E-038481 , ISS02-0E-038482 ) taken during spaceshuttle orbiter Discovery's latest visit to the orbiting outpost, the 3D anaglyph creates the compelling illusion that you can actually reach out and take ...