This artist’s concept from July 11, 1969, depicts the Apollo 11 lunar module (LM) Eagle landing on the surface of the Moon. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s69-39011orig_0.jpg
While wearing clean room suits, the Artemis II crew members check out their Orion crew module inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 7, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230807-ph-kls01_0487orig.jpg
On August 8, 2023, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of dense plumes of smoke streaming from dozens of large fires in the Northwest Territories. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/yellowknife_fire_amo_2023220_lrg.jpg
Two ospreys perch in their nest atop a marshalling area sign in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this photo from June 7, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230607-ph-jbs01_0025orig.jpg
A Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket carrying students experiments for the RockOn! mission successfully launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Aug. 17 at 6 a.m. EDT. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/wff-2023-068-004.jpg
The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks in the center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_abell3322_potw2332a.jpg
The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission spoke at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 20, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/53129326002_795029a83d_o.jpg
Gateway's International Habitat module, provided by ESA, is the focus of this rendered image from Aug. 18, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/gateway_summer_req_images_rev2_11orig.png
In this image from July 18, 2023, a NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto a stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230718-ph-ilw01_0234orig.jpg
A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in this photo from the late 1950s. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/9306795orig.jpg
The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_eso300-16_potw2334a.jpg
At 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 26, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230826-ph-kls03_0119orig.jpg
Rocky Garcia and Wesley James prepare a weather balloon to collect wind data at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on July 20, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2023-0119-17orig.jpg
In this image from Sept. 5, 1983, Guion “Guy” Bluford checks out the sample pump on the continuous flow electrophoresis system experiment in the middeck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/83hc597.jpg
Hurricane Idalia is pictured in the Gulf of Mexico from the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e084548.jpg
Voyager 1 Lifts Off Toward an Interstellar Journey http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia17464orig.jpg
🔥1
A recovery team member takes part in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission in this image from Aug. 29, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202308290009orig.jpg
Hubble's colorful image of the globular star cluster Terzan 12 is a spectacular example of how dust in space affects starlight coming from background objects. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_terzan12_stsci-01h7tesnnsx9ch4eq29c919c4m.jpg
Support teams onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN work to open the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 4, 2023, with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/53167092730_590273feff_o.jpg
A snowy egret, identifiable by its slender black bill, black legs and yellow feet, marches through a pond near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, looking for food in this image from March 29, 2007. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-07pd0726orig.jpg