Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at Kennedy Space Center: A walkway around the exhibit enables unique and up-close views of the orbiter. So close, in fact, that you can see all of the heat shield tiles and thermal blanket.

STS-74 crew visible in the Shuttle windows – Photo taken from the Russian Space Station Mir.

Transit of Venus Animation begins at the surface of Venus where heat ripples distort the scene in a shimmering heat bath. As we leave Venus and move off into space, we arrive at Earth and watch as Venus falls behind us and finally passes across the face of the Sun. #nasa