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An adult bald eagle rests near a pond at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

This image was acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) in the late afternoon of the 30th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 30 (June 25, 2008), hours after the beginning of Martian northern summer

Visitors to the National Mall get an up close and personal view of the space shuttle's main engine thanks to the display provided by the Stennis Space Center

The 42nd Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C

Nils Larson from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center shows a high altitude pressure suit, complete with whiffle ball on the end of a draw string at the the 42nd Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival. This year, NASA is honored to be one of three featured programs

Reminiscent of a fireworks celebration, this Hubble Space Telescope image of a cosmic explosion that is quite similar to fireworks on Earth

Early spring typically brings dust storms to northern polar regions of Mars

At the center of spiral galaxy M81 is a supermassive black hole about 70 million times more massive than our sun. A new study using data from Chandra and ground-based telescopes, combined with detailed theoretical models, shows that the supermassive black hole in M81 feeds just like stellar mass black holes, with masses of only about ten times that of the sun

Astronaut Shannon W

Eighty years ago this week on June 18, 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger aboard a Fokker tri-motor aircraft that was piloted by Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon

On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride made history, becoming the first American woman to go space

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Backdropped by a sparkling blue and white Earth, Expedition 16 commander Peggy A

Space Shuttle Discovery touches down on runway 15 of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, concluding the 14-day STS-124 mission to the International Space Station

Astronaut Ron Garan participates in the mission's second spacewalk

The Crew Mobility Chassis Prototype is NASA's new concept for a lunar truck

Astronaut Ron Garan works on assigned tasks during the last scheduled spacewalk of the STS-124 mission specialist

One of a series of digital still images documenting the Japanese Experiment Module, or JEM, also called Kibo, in its new home on the International Space Station, this view depicts Kibo's exterior, backdropped by solar array panels for the orbital outpost and one of its trusses. The main Kibo lab was installed during the first spacewalk of this, the STS-124, mission

Astronaut Mike Fossum continues his duties during this the second of the STS-124mission's three scheduled spacewalk

Astronaut Ron Garan participated in the first of STS-124's three planned spacewalks as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station

Astronaut Mike Fossum used a digital camera to create this self-portrait during the STS-124 mission's first scheduled spacewalk

This view of space shuttle Discovery's tail section was taken on flight day 3 by the Expedition 17 crew aboard the International Space Station

During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk

Above Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Discovery emerges from behind a growing cloud of smoke as it races toward space on its STS-124 mission to the International Space Station

Space shuttle Discovery leaps from the billows of smoke below into a clear blue sky on its STS-124 mission to the International Space Station