Multimedia Gallery
- Topic: Navigating In Space
This sketch shows how the images of a star field and a globe were superimposed over what the astronaut observed through the window.
Increasingly accurate clocks and improved navigation methods have allowed navigators to calculate spacecraft positions with greater accuracy.
James Lovell looks through the telescope in the Apollo 8 command module.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory control room in Pasadena, California, as it appeared in 1964 during the Ranger missions.
This illustration depicts the Juno spacecraft arriving at Jupiter in July 2016.
This image shows the landing area chosen for the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity.
Navigators used radio signals to guide rovers to Mars. This is the target area for the rover Opportunity, which landed on Mars in 2004.
Launch of Pioneer 4 on a Juno II rocket on March 3, 1959.
Engineers testing systems before the launch of Mariner 1 in 1962.
Launch of Mariner 1 on July 22, 1962.