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Mission posters

One of NASA’s traditions is for its crews to pose for brilliantly designed, sometimes humorous posters.

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STS-130: a conservatory for the ISS

With the flight of the space shuttle Endeavour, the International Space Station has gained a new module and a completely unobstructed view of the Earth.
Turbulent Sun

Although our star is relatively small in size, it nevertheless remains very active and the energy that it gives off makes life on Earth possible.
Nocturnal space shuttles

Endeavour’s recent STS-130 mission lift-off on 8 February 2010 marked the last night time blast-off scheduled for a space shuttle. Take a look with us back over an era that is coming to an end.
Mission posters

One of NASA’s traditions is for its crews to pose for brilliantly designed, sometimes humorous posters.
Huygens reveals Titan

On 14 January 2005, a European probe landed on the biggest moon of the planet Saturn: a memorable space first!

Avatar’s Venture Star

The spaceship from James Cameron’s film is far less fanciful than it appears and even plausibly deals with several problems posed by interstellar travel.
The Constellation story

Return to the Moon to take up where, way too soon, Apollo had stopped. Such was the ambition of the Constellation programme on the point of becoming a page in NASA’s history before it has even achieved its objective.
Merry Christmas... in orbit!

Whether you believe it or not, Father Christmas does not forget astronauts despite the obvious lack of a chimney...