Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata is pictured in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, during his second spacewalk on Feb. 2, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e045124_orig.jpg
An American bald eagle occupies a nest near Kennedy Parkway North at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 8, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230208-ph-jbs01_0049_orig.jpg
While the International Space Station orbited over the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 19, 2022, NASA astronaut Bob Hines captured this image of South Padre Island, a barrier island along the coast of Texas. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067e373246_lrg.jpg
Two Joint Extravehicular Activity Test Team Field Test #3 (JETT3) mission members work on sample collection on the remote, rocky, high-desert terrain of the S P Crater near Flagstaff, Arizona on Oct. 5, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/wjs_2270_orig.jpg
As NASA celebrates National Engineers Week, NASA Glenn gets perspectives from materials research engineer Jamesa Stokes. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jamesa_stokes.jpg
A blue halo glows around Pluto’s receding crescent in this parting image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21590_orig.jpg
Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg
The sun rises on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52706618165_0fff7e8f3b_k.jpeg
Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly snapped this photo of the Earth’s crescent, the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter (from top to bottom) on Aug. 6, 2015, while he was aboard the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/757_iss044e020824.jpg
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries the company's Dragon spacecraft with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission members aboard in this five-minute long exposure taken on Thursday, March 2, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52720913251_40e93d81b5_o.jpg
A NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft soars upward at the L.A. county airshow in this image from Mar. 25, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2017-0068-123_1.jpg
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Infrared light surges out from the Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27, in this Aug. 10, 2011, image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/579054main_pia14417_full.jpg
Former astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot’s station aboard space shuttle Discovery during a hotfiring procedure on Feb. 2, 1995. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sts063-312-020-orig.jpg
The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Aug. 21, 2017. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq201708210303_orig.jpg
The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_ngc5486_potw2310a.jpg
The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with Crew-5 mission members aboard on Saturday, March 11, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52742122704_4415082956_o.jpg
Elementary school students eagerly raise their hands as Diana Trujillo, technical group supervisor for sequence planning and execution and tactical mission lead for the Mars Perseverance rover, speaks to them on March 13, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52747713048_4c9c64debb_o.jpg
An orbital sunrise reveals cloud tops above the Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above on Feb. 10, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52688121607_bcce2a690e_o.jpg
Maat Mons, a volcano on Venus that has shown signs of a recent eruption, is in the black square near the planet’s equator in this annotated, computer-simulated global map of Venus’ surface. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/e-pia00104-venus-full-alt-1041.jpg
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks quite small in comparison to the giant planet behind it in this natural color view from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/682400main_pia14922_full_full.jpg