SPACE: WHERE ARE WE GOING?

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech FROM:  NASA Data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer ha...

FROM:  NASA This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows Venus as it nears the disk of The sun on June 5, 2012.  Venus’s 20...

FROM:  NASA The Launch of SpaceX Dragon KSC-2012-2897 (22 May 2012) --- The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars into space from Space Launch C...

FROM:  NASA NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity catches its own late-afternoon shadow in this dramatically lit view eastward across Endea...

FROM:  NASA The Launch of SpaceX Dragon KSC-2012-2913 (22 May 2012) --- On Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Space Launch Co...

FROM:  NASA Sunrise in Station Cupola ISS031-E-062066 (6 May 2012) --- The International Space Station was over the central South Paci...

FROM:  NASA SpaceX and NASA Prepare for Launch In a processing facility at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...

FROM:  NASA Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, fourth from left, accepts a montage from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, third f...

FROM:  NASA On April 12, 1981, astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen launched into space on space shuttle Columbia on the STS-1 mission--...

FROM:  NASA John Glenn Jr. enters Friendship 7.  WASHINGTON -- NASA has released the following statement by Administrator Charles Bold...

FROM:  NASA A test model of the Orion spacecraft with its parachutes was tested the skies high above the U.S. Army’s Proving Grounds in ...

FROM:  NASA The first stage of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket stands in launch position during pathfinder operations at NA...

FROM:  U.S. NAVY The space shuttle Discovery attached to its 747 transport passes over the nation's capital. It will land in Washing...

FROM:  NASA Using a combination of powerful observatories in space and on the ground, astronomers have observed a violent collision betw...

FROM:  NASA The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft glides down the runway of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florid...

FROM:  NASA In this photo taken from the International Space Station, the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) i...

Flying at an altitude of about 240 miles over the eastern North Atlantic, the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station p...

In Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour’s left orbital maneuvering syste...

This self portrait from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows dust accumulation on the rover's solar panels as the miss...

The photo and excerpt below are from the NASA website: This new view of the Orion Nebula highlights fledgling stars hidden in the gas an...