NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photos from the 2000s

Advanced Space Transportation Program (ASTP)

Advanced Space Transportation Program (ASTP)

This image hosts a look at the eye of Hurricane Ivan, one of the strongest hurricanes on record, as the storm…

Except for a small portion of the International Space Station (ISS) in the foreground, Hurricane Ivan, one of…

This image hosts a look into the eye of Hurricane Ivan, one of the strongest hurricanes on record, as the…

Released to commemorate the 14th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the image of a galaxy…

Residing roughly 17 million light years from Earth, in the northern constellation Coma Berenices, is a merged…

This image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2125, provided by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO), reveals several…

This new image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is of the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) was launched July 22, 1999 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-93…

The Titan II liftoff. The Titan II launch vehicle was used for carrying astronauts on the Gemini mission

This photo, captured by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys, is Hubble's…

Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, best known as the…

Pictured is an artist's concept of the International Space Station (ISS) with solar panels fully deployed

Material Science

This panoramic view of Hurricane Charley was photographed by the Expedition 9 crew aboard the International…

Material Science

Engine for the Jupiter rocket. The Jupiter vehicle was a direct derivative of the Redstone

The original seven astronauts for the Mercury Project pose in front of an Air Force Jet. From left to right…

The business end of a Second Stage (S-II) slowly emerges from the shipping container as workers prepare to…

This undated chart provides a description of the Saturn IB and Saturn V's Instrument Unit (IU) and its major…

A pioneer of America's space program, Dr. von Braun stands by the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V launch…

This cutaway illustration shows the Saturn V S-IC (first) stage with detailed callouts of the components

Saturn 1 Launch summary of research and development flights and operational flights

Benefit from NASA

The Apollo program demonstrated that men could travel into space, perform useful tasks there, and return…

The Space Shuttle External Tank 120 is shown here in its vertical position in NASA’s Michoud Assembly…

The Space Shuttle External Tank 120 is shown here during transfer in NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New…

The Space Shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew launched at 11:15 a.m. (EDT) on September 9, 2006 to begin…

Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics…

Launched on July 26 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics Flight…

Wearing a training version of the shuttle launch and entry suit, STS-115 astronaut and mission specialist…

The STS-121 patch depicts the Space Shuttle docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in the…

Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics…

Launched on July 26, 2005, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics…

Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics…

Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics…

Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics…

The sun rises on the Space Shuttle Discovery as it rests on the runway at Edward’s Air Force Base in…

Launched on July 26 2005, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics…

Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics…

Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics…

Launched on July 26, 2005 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-114 was classified as Logistics…

In the 19th century, astronomer V. M. Slipher first discovered a hat-like object that appeared to be rushing…

This view of the International Space Station, back dropped against the blackness of space and Earth, was…

This view of the International Space Station, back dropped against the blackness of space, was taken shortly…

Astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., STS-116 mission specialist, smiles for the camera in the Quest Airlock of…

Though very close to the International Space Station, the majority of Discovery's underside is visible in…

STS-116 astronaut and mission specialist, Robert Curbeam, along with the European Space Agency’s (ESA)…

Astronauts Sunita L. Williams, Expedition 14 flight engineer, and Robert L. Curbeam (partially obscured)…

The nozzles for Discovery's three main engines are visible in this close-up image photographed by one of the…

The STS-117 crew patch symbolizes the continued construction of the International Space Station (ISS) and our…

Against a black night sky, the Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew head toward Earth-orbit and…

Astronaut Michael E. Fossum, STS-121 mission specialist, used a digital still camera to expose a photo of his…

Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched at 2:38 p.m. (EDT) to begin the two-day journey to…

These six STS 117 astronauts, assigned to launch aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, are (from the left)…

The shadows of astronauts Piers J. Sellers and Michael E. Fossum, STS-121 mission specialists, who are…

Tracy E. Caldwell, STS-118 astronaut and mission specialist, participates in a training session on the usage…

These seven astronauts take a break from training to pose for the STS-121 crew portrait

Photographed from the Space Shuttle Discovery upon its separation from the orbital outpost, the International…