Multimedia Gallery
- Topic: Navigating In Space
Illustration of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in 2015.
Opportunity Rover on Mars
Two people work on a Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California.
Unflown duplicate of Pioneer 4, an early satellite designed for lunar exploration.
Wernher von Braun, John Casani, and James Van Allen inspect the Pioneer 4 satellite.
Trajectory of Pioneer 4 from the Earth and past the Moon into orbit around the Sun.
Pioneer 4 achieved enough velocity to escape Earth’s gravity, but its trajectory past the Moon was off by a wide margin.
James Lovell was an Apollo astronaut who navigated to the Moon and back twice.
A Mercury astronaut used this mechanical device to determine his position relative to the Earth below.
Beginning in 1961, NASA used this quartz oscillator as the main timing and radio frequency standard at the Goldstone tracking station.
