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
On Feb. 28, 2011, NASA astronaut Alvin Drew participates in the STS-133 mission's first spacewalk as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss026e030929_0_0.jpg
This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after its landing. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia24430-1041.jpg
This image depicts a possible area through which the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover could traverse across Jezero Crater. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/25538_pia24310_-_farley_traverse_-_unannotated-web_1.jpg
This 2003 composite X-ray and optical image of galaxy NGC 1068 shows gas blowing away in a high-speed wind from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/50966281426_8af6f70876_o.jpg
On Feb. 25, 2021, the NASA Headquarters Building in Washington D.C. was officially renamed after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first African American female engineer. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/lrc-1974-b701_p-00557_orig.jpg
On Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters sign is installed ahead of the building naming ceremony. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/50982820971_1dd2fa382c_o.jpg
Kelly J. Latimer was a research pilot in the Flight Crew Branch of NASA's Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/333151main_ED07-0045-3_full.jpg
Did you know that NASA's Kennedy Space Center shares its home with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge? http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/2014-2930_1.jpg
It's March 2021 and in about another month the Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate 31 years in space observing the universe. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-p2016a-m-2000x1374.png
This artist's impression of hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris shows the star's vast convection cells and violent ejections. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-p2109c-m-2000x1125.png
At NASA, women – be they scientists, pilots, astronauts and others – help the Agency fulfill its mission. Joan Higginbotham is one of those women. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/715067main_JSC2003-00678_full.jpg