In this false-color infrared image, the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft is seen launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in October 2018 with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin onboard.
The space shuttle Atlantis awaits liftoff ahead of its 12-day mission to the International Space Station—the final flight of the space shuttle program—on July 7, 2011.
An Orthodox priest blesses members of the media next to the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad on October 22, 2012.
The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 13, 2012.
A long exposure reveals the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket as it carries NASA's Parker Solar Probe on its mission to study the sun on August 12, 2018.
Workers leave the Launch Control Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, after the launch of the space shuttle Discovery on April 5, 2010.
A supermoon rises near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2011.
The space shuttle Enterprise is seen on top of the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport on April 20, 2012.
The landscape surrounding a NASA office building at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California, appears blue in this false-color infrared image.