This composite made from ten images shows the progression of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse above the Vehicle Assembly Building, Nov. 8, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52486072251_b8254d9621_o.jpg
In this image from June 24, 2022, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines work on the XROOTS space botany investigation, which used the International Space Station’s (ISS) Veggie facility to test soilless hydroponic and aeroponic methods to grow plants. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/10_iss067e149651_watkins-hines.jpg
Jerry Elliott, a former NASA physicist and one of the first Native Americans hired at NASA's Johnson Space Center, speaks during Native American Heritage Month event in 2017 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/msfc-1701440_orig.jpg
The Moon makes a stunning backdrop for the successful launch of the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and our Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) on Nov. 10 at 1:49 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52489574532_dc6bc4a5f7_o.jpg
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The Moon is seen rising above NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52501183334_08fafd4729_o.jpg
Our Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:47 a.m. EST. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52503823645_68f1fc0f28_o.jpg
Stephanie Yazzie, Northern Arizona University student and NAU Space Jacks team member, poses with her team’s rocket in this photo from the 2019 NASA First Nations Launch (FNL) competition. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/dsc06042.jpg
A small, dense cloud of gas and dust called CB 130-3 blots out the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_cb130-3_potw2246a.jpg
On Nov. 20, the fifth day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera mounted on the tip of one of Orion’s solar array wings captured this footage of the spacecraft and the Moon as it continued to grow nearer to our lunar neighbor. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/cmasaw1_20221120192424.jpg
NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft snapped this black and white photo of Earth on Nov. 17, 2022, the second day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/fd2_opnav_art001e000013_orig.jpg
Snoopy, the zero-gravity indicator for NASA’s Artemis I flight test, floating in space Nov. 20, 2022, while attached to his tether in the Orion spacecraft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/cmcab3_202211181205502_enhanced_colorpop.jpg
The annual Thanksgiving event was held Nov. 24, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52521339794_b792579525_o.jpg
A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken Nov. 21, the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52514776572_284e4294c2_k.jpg
In this image, Orion captures a unique view of Earth and the Moon, seen from a camera mounted on one of the spacecraft's solar arrays. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52530824918_0f808fa548_4k.jpg
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks prior to meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson for an Earth Science briefing, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52534361804_9bed2f19c0_k.jpg
On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, Nov. 21, 2022, the Orion spacecraft’s optical navigation camera captured black-and-white images of craters on the Moon below. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/art001e000343_orig.jpg
This whole collection is NGC 1858, an open star cluster in the northwest region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way that boasts an abundance of star-forming regions. NGC 1858 is estimated to be around 10 million years old. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_ngc1858.jpg
On the 19th day of the Artemis I mission, Dec. 4, 2022, a camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured the Moon just in frame as Orion prepared for its return powered flyby on Dec. 5, when it passed approximately 79 miles above the lunar surface. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/art001e001999_orig.jpg
In this Dec. 1993, onboard view from Space Shuttle mission STS-61 shows astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey Hoffman's Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/9401028_orig.jpg
This classic photograph of the Earth was taken on Dec. 7, 1972, by the crew of the final Apollo mission, Apollo 17, as they traveled toward the moon on their lunar landing mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/apollo_17_blue_marble_photo_dec_7_1972_as17-148-22727.jpg