The core stage for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket is seen in the B-2 Test Stand during a scheduled 8-minute duration hot fire test, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202101160007_0.jpg
Located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), around 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 is truly a stunning sight to behold. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw2103a.jpg
A powerful new antenna has been added to the NASA Space Communications and Navigation’s Deep Space Network. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia24163.jpg
Kepler-22b is the first planet discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/607694main_Kepler22bArtwork_full.jpg
Welding Underway on Orion for First Artemis Mission Landing Astronauts on the Moon http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/artemis_iii_orion_weld_maf.jpg
Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk places a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial during a ceremony that was part of NASA's Day of Remembrance. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202101280006_0.jpg
Captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESO 455-10 is one such chaotic planetary nebula, located in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw2104a_1.jpg
The STS-107 crewmembers strike a ‘flying’ pose for their traditional in-flight crew portrait in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sts107-735-032.jpg
Victor Glover, who has accumulated 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft, over 400 carrier arrested landings and 24 combat missions, took his first spacewalk on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss064e027002.jpg
The waning gibbous moon is pictured the day after its full Moon phase as the International Space Station orbited 264 miles above China near the Mongolian border. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss064e027825.jpg
Apollo 14 arrived n lunar orbit on Feb. 4, 1971 to prepare for the landing in and exploration of the Fra Mauro highlands. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/as14-0859-71p-101-1.31.71.jpg
In this image from 2018, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps trains in a U.S. spacesuit at the Johnson Space Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jsc2017e126052.jpg
This view of a sunrise breaking through the Earth's horizon was taken as the International Space Station orbited 271 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss064e029005.jpg
This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/coalsack_acs1_hpfinal.jpg
There are more than 100,000 proteins in the human body. Every structure is different, and each one of them holds important information related to our health. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/6_fen2.jpg
A physician, flight surgeon, and NASA astronaut, Bernard Harris became the first African American to perform a spacewalk in February 1995, . http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sts063-21-013.jpg
If we find life on the Red Planet, we'll have astrobiologists like Dr. Kennda Lynch to thank. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/picture-01a.jpg
The Empire State Building is illuminated in red to celebrate this Thursday's scheduled landing on Mars of NASA's Perseverance rover, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/50951261693_1a133acf1a_o.jpg
During the Mars Perseverance engineering and technology overview on Feb. 16, 2021, chief engineer Adam Steltzner displays a rover wheel. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/50951055811_13ac85047b_o.jpg
NASAs Perseverance Rover lands on Mars. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/50956720568_2fe01ac19e_o.jpg