A little blue heron is seen in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building as preparations for launch continue, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52328260762_710cae0518_k.jpg
Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría, mission specialist, is photographed in this close-up view during one of the STS-92 sessions of extravehicular activity on Oct. 18, 2000. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/29320032513_4882b65e29_o.jpg
This cloudy, turbulent scene shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/gsfc_20171208_archive_e000226_orig.jpg
In this March 7, 2022, image, astronaut Frank Rubio gets help putting on a spacesuit at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to train for spacewalks. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52233797698_f69643fde4_o.jpg
Our Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferries the Space Shuttle Endeavour over the Johnson Space Center in Houston in this Sept. 20, 2012, image. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/48764490972_6b62d06416_o.jpg
Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 spacewalk. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/as16-113-18339.jpg
Technicians prepare to move NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft from a shipping container onto a work stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in this image from Oct. 4, 2021. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20211004-ph-ant01_0044_orig.jpeg
In this image from Sept. 26, 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) team, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, and guests at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory cheer as they receive confirmation of DART’s collision with Dimorphos. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/lrc-2022-0926-h1_p_dart-000403.jpg
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 flight engineer, wears a launch and entry suit as part of water survival training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in 2001. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/29623715556_6e071fd90a_o.jpg
On Sept. 21, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope delivered the clearest view of Neptune’s rings in more than 30 years. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-01gcvndsa55pfhd0jp3jsekaz1.png
This is the last complete image of the asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by our Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) 2 seconds before impact. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/penultimate_dart_0401930049_43695_01_iof_imagedisplay-final.png
On September 28, the Landsat 8 satellite passed directly over Ian’s eye as the storm approached southwest Florida. The natural-color image above was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) at 11:57 a.m. local time (15:57 Universal Time), three hours before the storm made landfall in Caya Costa. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ian_oli_2022271_lrg.jpg
Astronaut Nicole Mann sits inside a T-38 trainer jet at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas in this image from Nov. 15, 2018. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51043313146_7526c969ea_o.jpg
Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor installs samples for the Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in this image from Nov. 27, 2018. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/serena_iss057e106264.jpg
In this 20-second exposure from Oct. 5, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52407278959_8de80e972e_o.jpg
The Sun released an X1 solar flare, captured by our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Oct. 2, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/oct-2-2022-x1-flare-131-171-1024x1024.jpeg
Expedition 67 flight engineers Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are all smiles in this Sept. 12, 2022, image from the International Space Station cupola. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067e359846_orig.jpg
After 170 days in orbit, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti safely splashed down Friday, October 14, 2022, off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52429227274_b42274e099_o.jpg
Our Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 acquired this vibrant image of deciduous trees and conifers in the Adirondack Mountains in northeast New York on Oct. 8, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nyvt_oli2_2022281_lrg.jpg
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 members Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti link arms for a portrait on Oct. 14, 2022, just before boarding the Dragon Freedom crew ship, undocking from the International Space Station, and returning to Earth, completing a 170-day space research mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e017175_orig.jpg