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
The European Service Module for the Artemis II Orion spacecraft moves into the Final Assembly and System Testing Cell at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in this image from May 22, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52940993135_2c9e07b650_o.jpg
This image of Galveston was taken by the Expedition 67 crew aboard the International Space Station on June 20, 2022, as it orbited 224 miles above. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067-e-190647.jpg
Astronauts Reid Wiseman of NASA (left), Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency (middle), and Victor Glover of NASA (right) pay close attention to Moon samples as they receive a lesson in the Apollo Lunar Lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on May 9, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52938180835_ef496d02b7_o.jpg
As sunlight and warmth increase in the spring and summer, the North Sea starts to gain swirls and tendrils of color. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/northseabloom_oli2_2023165_lrg.jpg
During the Skylab 2 crew's final fly-around inspection on June 22, 1973, they saw this overhead view of the Skylab Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sl2-07-651_orig_1_0.jpg
The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_ngc6544_potw2325a.jpg
Local students take in the sights—and data—at an Earth Information Center student engagement event, Friday, June 23, 2023, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52996510071_c5abce524b_o.jpg
A young alligator rests on a concrete structure at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 25, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52862884106_250dbfd475_o.jpg
Students from 20 middle and high schools watched as their experiments launched aboard a high-altitude balloon on June 14 as part of NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/top_image_0.jpg
Teams install the heat shield on the Artemis II Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230622-ph-csh01_0012orig.jpg
The highly irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, which resembles a lonely, hazy cloud against a backdrop of bright stars, dominates this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_eso174-1_potw2326a.jpg
A full moon was visible behind the Artemis I SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft at Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022. The first in an increasingly complex series of missions, Artemis I tested SLS and Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20220614-ph-jbs01_0332orig.jpg
NASA’s X-59 research aircraft moves from its construction site to the flight line – or the space between the hangar and the runway – at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, on June 16, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/p23-092-09.jpg
The last rays of an orbital sunset begin fading in Earth's atmosphere silhouetting the cloud tops. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e025337.jpg
NASA's Psyche spacecraft is nearly complete as it rests in a clean room on June 26, 2023, at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230626-ph-fmx01_0015orig.jpg