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Space History Photos
The history of space exploration is rich with photos from NASA that detail the history of space travel, breakthrough propulsion systems, groundbreaking astronauts and missions, and robotic exploration. Each weekday, SPACE.com looks back at the history of spaceflight, from the early days of the space race through the space shuttle era, from the years of the first rockets and satellites to the test-flight era that preceded human spaceflight, and of course beyond.
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A Jet Assisted Take Off Unit, aka a rocket, under construction in the High Pressure Combustion Facility.
The facility was designed to simulate impacts.
Apollo 11, the first lunar landing mission, framed with the American flag.
The sixth spacecraft in the Nimbus series prepares for launch.
The second stage of the 374-foot tall Moon rocket is hoisted into the test stand.
This large machine was used to make computations for research.
Research on these mysterious "belts" of radiation, which begin just 4,000 miles from Earth's surface, was conducted at Lewis Research Center.
Harvey Allen's contribution to space travel revolutionized fundamentals of the science.
One of the first helicopter prototypes on a tarmac at Langley.
Chimpanzee Ham is welcomed home.
In flight over the Mojave desert during an engine control test, the F-15 ACTIVE aircraft experiments with a new thrust-vectoring conception.
Brig. Gen. Stafford trains in the Soviet Soyuz simulator with Maj. Gen. Andriyan Nikolayev for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
During the first test of the Titan-Centaur rocket, the Centaur stage failed to ignite.
Construction of the Vehicle Assembly Building across from the Turning Basin under way.
Research of molecular-sized devices, called nanotechnology, has great potential in space flight.
Six astronauts experience the vomit comet after nearly a year of training at the Johnson Space Center.
President Richard Nixon awaits the arrival of the Apollo 11 astronauts.
While on an extravehicular activity, the astronauts have some fun trying to sell off two satellites that failed to launch.
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