NASA is preparing to explore electric-powered flight with the X-57 Maxwell, a unique all-electric aircraft which features 14 propellers along its wing. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/grc-2018-c-09843.jpg

Eat. Breathe. Do ccience. Sleep later. That's the motto of Derrick Pitts, NASA Solar System Ambassador. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/g1_-_dpitts_telescope.jpg

Cracks growing across Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf are poised to release an iceberg with an area about twice size of New York City. It is not yet clear how the remaining ice shelf will respond following the break, posing an uncertain future for scientific infrastructure and a human presence on the shelf that was first established in 1955. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/brunt_oli_2019023_lrg_0.jpg

Good morning to our beautiful world, said astronaut Anne McClain from aboard the Space Station on Feb. 21, 2019. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/2.21-iss058e016863_highres.jpg

This picture showcases a gravitational lensing system called SDSS J0928+2031. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw1903a.jpg

NASA astronaut Alvin Drew participated in the STS-133 mission's first spacewalk. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss026e030929.jpg

Earnest C. Smith in the Astrionics Laboratory in 1964. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ec_smith_1.jpg

The Curiosity Mars Rover took this image with its Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Feb. 10, 2019 (Sol 2316). http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia23047_0.jpg

Two days remain until the planned liftoff of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket—the first launch of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft and space system designed for humans. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/demo-1.jpeg

Mae Jemison was the first African Ameican woman in space. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/mae_jemison_29487037511.jpg

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard launches from Launch Complex 39A, Saturday, March 2, 2019. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/33384173438_dfb4fa5e4a_o.jpg

On March 2, 2:49 a.m. EST, a two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for Demo-1, the first uncrewed mission of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/46531972754_27aefcb3cb_k.jpg

One of the greatest challenges of the fourth phase of Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren flights, or AirBOS flight series was timing. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/f4_p3_cam_plane_drop_new_2-22-19.jpg

Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief astronomer, is known as the 'Mother of Hubble.' http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/27154773587_c99105746d_k.jpg

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine was photographed inside the Super Guppy aircraft that will carry the flight frame with the Orion crew module to a testing facility in Ohio. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/47300989392_663a074b76_k.jpg

The Soyuz rocket is transported by train to the launch pad, Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/46634947384_8ecb255750_o.jpg

Stephanie Wilson is a veteran of three spaceflights--STS-120, STS-121 and STS-131--and has logged more than 42 days in space. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jsc2007e08828.jpg

The Soyuz rocket is seen at dawn on launch site 1 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/33498981418_5880fa2253_k.jpg

The Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft lifted off with Expedition 59 crewmembers on a journey to the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/47328135122_85619ed320_o.jpg

​Electronics technician Anna Noe makes final checks to the Doppler Aerosol Wind Lidar (DAWN) before it begins a cross-country road trip for use in an upcoming airborne science campaign. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/lrc-2019-h1_p_dawn-031115.jpg