Future lunar landers might come equipped with 3D printed rocket engine parts that help bring down overall manufacturing costs and reduce production time. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/11042020_011-090.jpg

Vice President Mike Pence introduces NASA astronauts during a meeting of the National Space Council on Dec. 9, 2020. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20201209-ph-kls01_0404_orig.jpg

Dec. 11, 2020, marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Langley Research Center’s 14x22 Subsonic Wind Tunnel. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/hwb_oil_visualization_larc_2013.jpg

Ten NASA-sponsored CubeSats are preparing to fly on the agency’s next Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission, making this the first payload carried by Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/p1042493-scaled-4.jpg

Using the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered the most energetic outflows ever witnessed in the universe. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-2010a-d-1280x720.png

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a crowd of stars that looks rather like a stadium darkened before a show, lit only by the flashbulbs of the audience's cameras. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/672309main_M107_full.jpg

With its heat shield facing the planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover begins its descent through the Martian atmosphere in this illustration. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia24313_03_atmosphericentry_2000.jpg

Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603, one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 3603, a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way about 20,000 light-years away, reveals stages in the life cycle of stars. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/191853main_image_feature_929_full.jpg

The newly revealed infant stars appear as pink and red specks toward the center and appear to have formed in regularly spaced intervals along linear structures. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/139975main_image_feature_476_ys_full.jpg

This iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/apollo08_earthrise.jpg

The Moon, left, Saturn, upper right, and Jupiter, lower right, are seen after sunset with the Washington Monument, Thurs. Dec. 17, 2020, in Washington. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/50730722653_6916f473ff_o.jpg

Magnetic fields in NGC 1068, or M77, are shown as streamlines over a visible light and X-ray composite image of the galaxy. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ngc1068-lp-nustar-2_0.png

Dr. George Carruthers, right, and William Conway, a project manager at the Naval Research Institute, examine the gold-plated ultraviolet camera/spectrograph, the first Moon-based observatory that Carruthers developed for the Apollo 16 mission. Apollo 16 astronauts placed the observatory on the moon in April 1972. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hrs_720125-n-zz999-001.jpg

Retrofuturistic NASA Space Art http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/toroidal_colony.jpg

Chaos at the Heart of the Orion Nebula http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia01322.jpg

NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins tends to radish plants growing for the Plant Habitat-02 experiment. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/1_50750671133_187d4b303e_o.jpg

What is pareidolia? It is the psychological phenomenon where we see recognizable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/pia18848-wisefacepalm.jpg

Slated to launch in October 2021, NASA's Lucy mission will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/697015main_pia16211_full.jpg

The lights of the city of Boston seemingly spread from a central point in this image taken by the crew of the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss064e016786.jpg

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter departs the International Space Station moments after being released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss064e020569_0.jpg