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Mercury-Redstone 3 Launch
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Atlas at Dawn
This single, 251-second long exposure follows the early flight of an Atlas V rocket on August 8.
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Apollo 11 Launches Humans to the Moon
Everybody saw the Moon. Nobody had ever been there.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral
A new chapter in space flight began in 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida: the Bumper V-2.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Parker vs Perseid
The brief flash of a bright Perseid meteor streaks across the upper right in this composited series of exposures made early Sunday morning near the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Dawn's Early Light, Rocket's Red Glare
If you saw the dawn's early light from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station last Friday, June 29, then you could have seen this rocket's red glare.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: At Last GLAST
Rising through a billowing cloud of smoke, a long time ago from a planet very very close by, this Delta II rocket left Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's launch pad 17-B at 12:05 pm EDT on June 11, 2008.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: TESS Launch Close Up
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) began its search for planets orbiting other stars by leaving planet Earth on April 18.
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