The core of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has taken center stage in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/1-main-europa-clipper-module.jpg
The supersonic X-1E research aircraft was the last of NASA's experimental X-1 series of aircraft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2021-0149-02_orig.jpg
This time lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy taken from the International Space Station (ISS) also captured a lightning strike on Earth so bright that it lights up the space station’s solar panels. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss044e045215.jpg
T-38 planes are a fixture of astronaut training, making pilots and mission specialists think quicky in changing situations. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jsc2022e066539_alt.jpg
This view of the crescent Earth over the Moon's horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/5052744416_353f737db7_o.jpg
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, as the Artemis I launch teams loaded more than 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellants including liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52319135048_b2acddc60e_o.jpg
Auroras and hazes glow in this composite image of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52303461859_0db4d9b739_o.png
A little-studied star, TYC 3203-450-1, upstages a galaxy in this Hubble Telescope image from December 2017. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/gsfc_20171208_archive_e000084_orig.jpg
Three impact craters are displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus taken NASA's Magellan, the first deep space probe launched by a space shuttle. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/f_craterfarm.jpg
The Voyager mission was designed to take advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of the outer planets in the late 1970s and the 1980s which allowed for a four-planet tour for a minimum of propellant and trip time. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21747_orig.jpg
This nighttime photograph from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited 261 miles above looks across the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa to southern Europe. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067e302248.jpg
On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in Houston. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jfk_rice_speech_17_s62-05616.jpg
The International Space Station captured a portion of the Tanggula Mountains near Hala Lake from 260 miles above the Earth on Sept. 5th, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067e344813_orig.jpg
A little blue heron is seen in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building as preparations for launch continue, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52328260762_710cae0518_k.jpg
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Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría, mission specialist, is photographed in this close-up view during one of the STS-92 sessions of extravehicular activity on Oct. 18, 2000. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/29320032513_4882b65e29_o.jpg
This cloudy, turbulent scene shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/gsfc_20171208_archive_e000226_orig.jpg
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In this March 7, 2022, image, astronaut Frank Rubio gets help putting on a spacesuit at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to train for spacewalks. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52233797698_f69643fde4_o.jpg
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Our Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferries the Space Shuttle Endeavour over the Johnson Space Center in Houston in this Sept. 20, 2012, image. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/48764490972_6b62d06416_o.jpg