It's not every day that an airborne amphibian accidentally "photobombs" a picture of a NASA space launch, but we can confirm that it has happened at least once in the history of U.S. space ...

A rocket wasn't the only thing blasted into the air during last week's NASA launch on Virginia's Eastern Shore. A frog went, too -- and the bizarre moment was captured in a photograph taken by a ...

Not since 1959 has such a tragedy occurred, when two frogs died -- along with 12 mice -- as the Jupiter AM-23 rocket was destroyed during launch. But other frogs -- or would-be frogs -- have given ...

One of three still-cameras setup around the launch site, triggered by sound, caught the small frog in the air. The frog is hard to miss in the photo with its arms and legs spread wide surrounded ...

The LADEE frog photobomb, however, has helped call attention to the MARS facility, according to a profile of the spaceport and its ambitious fall launch schedule posted Tuesday by space.com.

A Nasa spokesperson said: “The photo team confirms the frog is real and was captured in a single frame by one of the remote cameras used to photograph the launch. The condition of the frog ...