An osprey is seen in front of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as launch preparations continued Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52329096977_2d3bfc71c5_o.jpg
Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft shortly after it landed on Friday, May 6, 2022 with Crew-3 NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Tom Marshburn, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer aboard. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52054927331_241db0ff59_o.jpg
On April 8, 2022, this 30-second exposure captured the International Space Station as it passed over the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51991984485_c7806146ae_o.jpg
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft is in this early morning photo from Dec. 14, 2022, as preparations for launch continued. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52563811575_3e75f081cc_o.jpg
The Artemis I Orion capsule is secured on a platform inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this image from Jan. 6, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230106-ph-jbs01_0028_orig.jpg
NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is all smiles as he observes the behavior of a free-flying water bubble inside the International Space Station's (ISS) Kibo laboratory module on Oct. 10, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e006386.jpeg
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthplace, Atlanta, Georgia, is seen on January 20, 2013, in this image from the International Space Station as it flew approximately 240 miles above the city. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/730353main_iss034e032466_full.jpg
Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, wears a smile after being unpacked from his transport case on Jan. 5, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230105-ph-ilw01_0023_orig.jpg
Snow and ice cover mountains of the Tien Shan range in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 9, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss066e149154_lrg.jpg
Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are pictured on Jan. 12, 2023, during a fit check of their spacesuits inside the Quest airlock ahead of a planned spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station's power generation system. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e040058_orig.jpg
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained an in-depth inventory of the deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-01gq5chesabwmhrf5na60a6mpf_0.png
Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station's starboard truss structure. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e041215.jpg
On January 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan used his State of the Union address to call for NASA to build a permanent manned space station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/naid75853211.jpeg
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lays a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52651369605_4555503bb1_k.jpeg
The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_v372ori_potw2304a.jpg
Chile’s Villarrica volcano emits steam and other volcanic gases in this photo taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 17, 2023. The gases come from a series of minor explosions—called Strombolian eruptions—that have been ongoing at Villarrica since October 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068-e-40596_lrg.jpg
In this photo from Oct. 14, 2008, a great blue heron stands watch among a pond of water lilies on NASA's Kennedy Space Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-08pd3162_orig.jpg
The waxing gibbous Moon stands out in this Jan. 2, 2023, image from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the southern Indian Ocean. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e036313_orig.jpg
This Jan. 10, 2013, composite image of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 combines visible light images from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope with far-ultraviolet data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and infrared data acquired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia16613_orig.jpg
Officials from NASA, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and the Indian Embassy visit a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 3, 2023, to view the scientific instrument payload for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/e1a-pia25599-1041.jpg