A team member from the Environmental Management Branch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center works to remove a mangrove seedling deposited by tropical winds on the shoreline of KARS Park at Kennedy in this image from April 12, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230412-ph-geb01_0130orig.jpg

Clouds of smoke billow out over the surrounding area as the uncrewed Skylab 1/Saturn V space vehicle launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on May 14, 1973. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s73-26913orig.jpg

Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the world premiere performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Cosmic Cycles,” in this photo from Thursday, May 11, 2023, as an enhanced color image of Jupiter is displayed above. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52892444353_ae84d54281_o.jpg

The waxing gibbous Moon stands out against the stark darkness of space on May 3, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e008558orig.jpg

Laguna San Rafael National Park, photographed on May 9, 2023 as the space station orbited 268 miles above Chile. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52892230003_1f3d0ebf6d_k.jpeg

The four astronauts who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II visited Washington on Wednesday, May 17, to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52905606104_de61d2a117_k.jpeg

The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_ngc6325_potw2320a_0.jpg

Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia19836-ngc2174.jpg

The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, named Freedom, is seen as it approaches the International Space Station with four Axiom Mission 2 private astronauts aboard on Monday, May 22, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52920038606_816bedf573_k.jpeg

Two black-bellied whistling ducks walk through a field of wildflowers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 19, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230519-ph-fwm01-0167orig.jpg

The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_jw39_potw2321a.jpg

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket stands on Pad B, Launch Complex 1, in Māhia, New Zealand, just ahead of a successful launch on Friday, May 26, with NASA’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) CubeSats payload. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230526-ph-rkl01_0003orig.jpg

Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who worked for the agency for more than 30 years. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s69-28578_0.jpg

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reads her poem for the Europa Clipper mission during an event with NASA, Thursday, June 1, 2023, at the Library of Congress in Washington. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52944606582_c478c5c2ab_o.jpg

This colorful zinnia, shown in an image from Jan. 22, 2016, grew aboard the International Space Station as part of the VEG-01 experiment. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss046e017198orig.jpg

On June 5, 2023, Crew-5 astronauts Josh Cassada (left) and Nicole A. Mann (second from left) of NASA, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata (right) visited NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana (second from right) at NASA Headquarters in Washington. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202306050017orig.jpg

The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate the cloud tops above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan, providing a dramatic background for the SpaceX CRS-28 Dragon cargo craft as it approached the International Space Station for docking on June 6, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e018147orig.jpg

The jellyfish galaxy JO206 trails across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_j0206_potw2323a.jpg

Spacewalker Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm while maneuvering a roll-out solar array toward the International Space Station's truss structure. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e018537.jpg

In this long exposure photo from June 5, 2023, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket creates a beam of light as it launches from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230605-ph-fmx01_0206orig.jpg