One of three specially designed, fully electric, environmentally friendly crew transportation vehicles for Artemis missions sits at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 11, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230711-ph-kls01_0013orig.jpg
As the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above North Africa, clouds covered the sky. To the bottom right of the image, one of the station's roll-out solar arrays peeks through. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/53045825893_872a3861ea_o.jpg
On July 17, 2023, NASA’s four Starling CubeSats successfully deployed after having launched aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket, shown in this image. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/53054363868_e1b80fb25f_o.jpg
AS11-40-5875 (20 July 1969) -- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/589552main_as11-40-5875_full.jpg
In preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, recovery teams tour the projected landing ellipse in the Utah desert on July 17, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202307170007orig.jpg
Elaborate Passiflora incarnata, or purple passionflower, sit pretty in a field at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 13, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/53029341562_035f5e2c96_o.jpg
GE Aerospace and magniX have revealed the paint schemes of the hybrid electric aircraft they will fly as part of NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EFPD) project. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/epfd_image.png
Woody Hoburg took this photo of Laguna Verde’s inviting waters as the International Space Station orbited 264 miles (425 km) over South America on July 7, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e030011orig.jpg
NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) interns Dorothy Sue Grimmer and Victoria Tran pose for a photo in front of the Dynamic Aviation B200 ahead of their morning research flight on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/53070888088_8e4826ee89_o.jpg
The tranquil spiral galaxy UGC 12295 basks leisurely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_ugc12295_potw2330a.jpg
The Crew Module Test Article, a full-scale mockup of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, is seen in the waters of the Pacific Ocean on July 26, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230726-ph-fmx01_0008orig.jpg
Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve, seen here in an image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on the Terra spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2010, is a special site. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/gsfc_20171208_archive_e001530orig.jpg
On April 28, 2023, the Crew-7 members (from left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa) took a moment to snap a photo atop an emergency egress vehicle at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jsc2023e037670orig.jpg
United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi captured this image of the city lights of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Tigris River on July 18, 2023, as the International Space Station orbited 261 miles above the Middle Eastern nation. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e032946orig.jpg
The glittering, glitzy contents of the globular cluster NGC 6652 sparkle in this star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_ngc6652_potw2331a_sm.jpg
In this image from June 2023, an engineer watches a development model rover during a test for NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) technology demonstration in the Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/e1b-pia25665_cadre-dm-with-sand-engineer-edited-web.jpg
In this image from June 2023, an engineer watches a development model rover during a test for NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) technology demonstration in the Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/e1b-pia25665_cadre-dm-with-sand-engineer-edited-web.jpg
In this image from April 2023, NASA’s Moonikin Campos enjoys a quiet moment during acceleration sled testing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/moonikin_campos_2.jpg
NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander gathered images of itself for this selfie from June 5 through July 12, 2008, with its Surface Stereo Imager. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia11719orig.jpg