保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
This image, taken on July 24, 1969, shows the Apollo 11 command module and the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) photographed aboard the USS Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic first lunar landing mission. The Apollo 11 crew, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, are already in the MQF. The Apollo 11 crew splashed down at 12:49 p.m. EDT, J...
On July 21, 1969, command and service module pilot Michael Collins photographed this close-up view of the docking target on the Apollo 11 Lunar Module from the Command Module. The image was captured during docking in lunar orbit as Mission Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin returned from the lunar surface. Collins had remained in lun...
On July 20, 1969, two American astronauts made history by landing on the surface of another celestial body. This image is a close-up view of the plaque, which Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin left on the Moon in commemoration of the historic lunar landing mission. The plaque was attached to the ladder on the landing gear ...
On July 17, 1975, something momentous happened: two Cold War rivals met in space. When their respective spacecraft rendezvoused and docked, a new era of cooperative ventures in space began. For more than two decades, American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts have been regularly living and working together in Earth orbit, first in the Shuttle-Mir program, an...
At 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission launched via a Saturn V rocket with Commander Neil Armstrong, command module pilot Michael Collins and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex Pad 39A. In a little more than eight years after the flights of Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard, followed quickly by Presi...
When space shuttle Atlantis launched in July 2011 on the STS-135 mission carrying the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module and delivering supplies and spare parts to the International Space Station, it was the orbiter’s final flight and the end of an era. Chris Ferguson commanded the mission and Doug Hurley was its pilot. Also aboard were Rex Walhei...
Hitching a ride on the Mars Pathfinder mission, the Sojourner rover arrived at the Red Planet on July 4, 1997. The mission was designed to demonstrate a low-cost method for delivering a set of science instruments to Mars, and served as the foundation for the Mars rovers of today. Pathfinder landed the rover using an air bag landing system and innovative peta...
1945年6月27日，沃洛普斯岛上进行了首次火箭发射。 图片来源：NACA 自1945年6月27日发射第一枚火箭以来，沃洛普斯（Wallops）已经从一个用于导弹研究的小型试验场，发展成了美国航空航天局（NASA）在亚轨道和小轨道发射活动的首选地点，支持着全球的航空航天、科学探索和技术开发。 “在它75年的历史中，沃洛普斯的员工展现出了事在人为的精神，不仅在执行NASA任务方面如此，在进行外展活动和为当地社会提供灵感方面也是如此。”沃洛普斯的负责人大卫·皮尔斯（David L. Pierce）说道。 皮尔斯表示：“大部分的灵感与启发都来自沃洛普斯的长期领导人罗伯特·克里格（Robert L. Krieger），他从1948年到1981年指导沃洛普斯取得了巨大的发展。在克里格的奉献精神、才智和毅力以及沃洛普斯校友...
4月2日，美国航空航天局（NASA）发布了题为《“蠕虫”回来了！》（The Worm is Back!）的公告，借着SpaceX的猎鹰9号运载火箭，重新启用退休了28年的NASA“蠕虫”标志，并以此标志着美国本土火箭载人航天飞行的回归。 这张图显示了宇航员航天服和哈勃空间望远镜（Hubble Space Telescope）上印有的NASA标识“蠕虫”。从左至右依次是：准备发射的宇航员梅·杰米森（Mae Jemison）、太空人布鲁斯·麦坎德利斯（Bruce McCandless）、哈勃空间望远镜、宇航员小圭恩·布鲁福德（Guion Bluford, Jr.），和宇航员萨莉·莱德（Sally Ride）。 图片来源：NASA 在1959年，也就是NASA成立的第二年，NASA刘易斯研究中心[Lewis Rese...
In this iconic image, Station Commander Leroy Chiao of NASA watches a water bubble float between him and the camera, showing his image refracted while aboard the International Space Station. Chiao commanded Expedition 10. He holds a doctorate in chemical engineering. He is also a veteran of three space shuttle missions and spent 229 days in space. Image Cred...