Hawaii's big island and its two major volcanoes Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa rest under a partly cloudy sky on Feb. 8, 2022, in this view from the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss066e137869_orig.jpg
On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness the magnificent sight called
The James Webb Space Telescope spies the spiral galaxy NGC 7469, located 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, in this image released on Dec. 21, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52577236876_109214e963_o.jpg
This image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft’s HIRISE instrument on Oct. 23, 2022, of the northern plains of Arabia Terra shows craters that contain curious deposits with mysterious shapes and distribution. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia25703_orig.jpg
An osprey is seen in front of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as launch preparations continued Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52329096977_2d3bfc71c5_o.jpg
Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft shortly after it landed on Friday, May 6, 2022 with Crew-3 NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Tom Marshburn, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer aboard. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52054927331_241db0ff59_o.jpg
On April 8, 2022, this 30-second exposure captured the International Space Station as it passed over the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51991984485_c7806146ae_o.jpg
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft is in this early morning photo from Dec. 14, 2022, as preparations for launch continued. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52563811575_3e75f081cc_o.jpg
The Artemis I Orion capsule is secured on a platform inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this image from Jan. 6, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230106-ph-jbs01_0028_orig.jpg
NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is all smiles as he observes the behavior of a free-flying water bubble inside the International Space Station's (ISS) Kibo laboratory module on Oct. 10, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e006386.jpeg
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthplace, Atlanta, Georgia, is seen on January 20, 2013, in this image from the International Space Station as it flew approximately 240 miles above the city. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/730353main_iss034e032466_full.jpg
Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, wears a smile after being unpacked from his transport case on Jan. 5, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230105-ph-ilw01_0023_orig.jpg
Snow and ice cover mountains of the Tien Shan range in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 9, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss066e149154_lrg.jpg
Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are pictured on Jan. 12, 2023, during a fit check of their spacesuits inside the Quest airlock ahead of a planned spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station's power generation system. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e040058_orig.jpg
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained an in-depth inventory of the deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-01gq5chesabwmhrf5na60a6mpf_0.png
Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station's starboard truss structure. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e041215.jpg
On January 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan used his State of the Union address to call for NASA to build a permanent manned space station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/naid75853211.jpeg
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lays a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52651369605_4555503bb1_k.jpeg
The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_v372ori_potw2304a.jpg
Chile’s Villarrica volcano emits steam and other volcanic gases in this photo taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 17, 2023. The gases come from a series of minor explosions—called Strombolian eruptions—that have been ongoing at Villarrica since October 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068-e-40596_lrg.jpg