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

This Feb 3, 2023, enhanced-color image from Landsat 9 highlights a green and blue patchwork pattern in flooded rice fields in southwestern Louisiana. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/louisianarice653_oli2_2023034_lrg.jpg

Stars leave streaks of light in concentric circles in this Mar 16, 2012, view from the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/650797main_jsc2012e051505_alt_full.jpg

Deputy director for technology and research investments at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Christyl Johnson, speaks during a panel discussion as part of a Women’s History Month program, “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories,” Wednesday, March 22, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52765012659_820f6ce6d4_o.jpg

A technician works on part of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s core stage for Artemis II in this March 11, 2023, image. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/maf_20230311_cs2_esjoinbolt16_orig.jpg

The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate the Earth's atmosphere in this Feb. 17, 2023, photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e054895_orig.jpg

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, left, Jessica Watkins, center, and Bob Hines, right, take in the view from the interactive recreation of the International Space Station’s cupola in the One World Connected gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on March 28, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52778381958_894029fae1_o.jpg

Guinness World Records officially designated NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 as the heaviest self-powered vehicle, weighing approximately 6.65 million pounds—equivalent to about 15 Statues of Liberty or 1,000 pickup trucks. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230329-ph-ilw01_0151_orig.jpg

Phytoplankton create rich blooms of color in the Atlantic Ocean near South America in this enhanced color image from Dec. 2, 2014. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/patagonianshelf_vir_2014336_lrg.jpg

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (from left) and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch greet the crowd at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Monday, April 3, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52794149980_ef2c9a6b15_o.jpg

Industrial-size robots built by high school teams compete against each other in a game at Rocket City Regional, Alabama’s annual FIRST Robotics Competition, in this March 16, 2018, image. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/msfc-1800281orig.jpg

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (left), Jeannie Schulz, widow of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, and Snoopy are all smiles during a Wednesday, April 5, 2023, visit to NASA Headquarters in Washington http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52798176588_1ab625c56b_o.jpg

NASA’s X-59 sits in support framing while undergoing the installation of its lower empennage, or tail section, at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, in this image from late March 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/p23-042-06-web.jpg

Former NASA astronaut Alvin Drew shakes hands with a guest during the White House Easter Egg Roll in this photo from Monday, April 10, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52807898874_8cf69de066_o.jpg

Floodwater (dark blue) stands out against the vegetation in agricultural fields around Tulare Lake near Corcoran, California, in this enhanced color image taken by Landsat 8 on March 29, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/tulareflooding653_oli_2023088_lrg.jpg

This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows JO204, a ‘jellyfish galaxy’ so named for the bright tendrils of gas that appear in this image as drifting lazily below JO204’s bright central bulk. The galaxy lies almost 600 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_j0204_potw2315a.jpg