The four astronauts who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II visited Washington on Wednesday, May 17, to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52905606104_de61d2a117_k.jpeg
The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_ngc6325_potw2320a_0.jpg
Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia19836-ngc2174.jpg
The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, named Freedom, is seen as it approaches the International Space Station with four Axiom Mission 2 private astronauts aboard on Monday, May 22, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52920038606_816bedf573_k.jpeg
Two black-bellied whistling ducks walk through a field of wildflowers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 19, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230519-ph-fwm01-0167orig.jpg
The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_jw39_potw2321a.jpg
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket stands on Pad B, Launch Complex 1, in Māhia, New Zealand, just ahead of a successful launch on Friday, May 26, with NASA’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) CubeSats payload. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230526-ph-rkl01_0003orig.jpg
Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who worked for the agency for more than 30 years. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s69-28578_0.jpg
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reads her poem for the Europa Clipper mission during an event with NASA, Thursday, June 1, 2023, at the Library of Congress in Washington. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52944606582_c478c5c2ab_o.jpg
This colorful zinnia, shown in an image from Jan. 22, 2016, grew aboard the International Space Station as part of the VEG-01 experiment. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss046e017198orig.jpg
On June 5, 2023, Crew-5 astronauts Josh Cassada (left) and Nicole A. Mann (second from left) of NASA, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata (right) visited NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana (second from right) at NASA Headquarters in Washington. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202306050017orig.jpg
The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate the cloud tops above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan, providing a dramatic background for the SpaceX CRS-28 Dragon cargo craft as it approached the International Space Station for docking on June 6, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e018147orig.jpg
The jellyfish galaxy JO206 trails across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_j0206_potw2323a.jpg
Spacewalker Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm while maneuvering a roll-out solar array toward the International Space Station's truss structure. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e018537.jpg
In this long exposure photo from June 5, 2023, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket creates a beam of light as it launches from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230605-ph-fmx01_0206orig.jpg
The European Service Module for the Artemis II Orion spacecraft moves into the Final Assembly and System Testing Cell at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in this image from May 22, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52940993135_2c9e07b650_o.jpg
This image of Galveston was taken by the Expedition 67 crew aboard the International Space Station on June 20, 2022, as it orbited 224 miles above. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067-e-190647.jpg
Astronauts Reid Wiseman of NASA (left), Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency (middle), and Victor Glover of NASA (right) pay close attention to Moon samples as they receive a lesson in the Apollo Lunar Lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on May 9, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52938180835_ef496d02b7_o.jpg
As sunlight and warmth increase in the spring and summer, the North Sea starts to gain swirls and tendrils of color. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/northseabloom_oli2_2023165_lrg.jpg
During the Skylab 2 crew's final fly-around inspection on June 22, 1973, they saw this overhead view of the Skylab Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sl2-07-651_orig_1_0.jpg