In June 1975, Marshall management named Clyde Foster to the position of director of the Equal Opportunity Office where he directed and administered a comprehensive program to assure equal opportunity in the conduct of all operations undertaken by the Center and its contractors. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/clyde_foster_2.jpg

See swirling cloud formations in the northern area of Jupiter's north temperate belt in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21978-opt.jpg

On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn made history by becoming the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the place we call home--planet Earth. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s62-00955.jpg

A technician works on the European Service Module that will propel the Orion spacecraft in space and provide air, water and electricity for future crews. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/2018-01-esm1.jpg

On June 30, 1967, the U.S. Air Force selcted Maj. Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, Authorized in August 1965, a program which envisioned a series of mini-space stations in low polar Earth orbit. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/lawrence-with-f104_0.jpg

This series of images captures cloud patterns near Jupiter's south pole, looking up towards the planet’s equator. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21979.jpg

Though sea ice has been significantly below normal extent and thickness across much of the Arctic, the ice in the Labrador Sea has been relatively close to normal. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/labrador_tmo_2018049_lrg.jpg

The six-member Expedition 54 crew poses for a lighthearted crew portrait inside the Japanese Kibo laboratory module on Feb. 18, 2018. Three of the crew members are packed up and prepared to return to Earth today, Tuesday, Feb. 27. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/40398158532_e964189eb9_o.jpg

The Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 54 crew members Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei of NASA and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 (February 27 Eastern time). http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/40528908571_b5d655f369_o.jpg

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-S) satellite sits on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, backdropped by the setting Sun. GOES-S is slated to lift off on March 1 at 5:02 p.m. EST. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/goes-s_20180228.jpg

A ULA Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Launch was at 5:02 p.m. EST, March 1, 2018. GOES-S is the second satellite in a series of next-generation weather satellites. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/39853231794_48d98dbeb5_o.jpg

This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial region. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21980.jpg

Astronauts Joan Higginbotham (foreground) and Suni Williams refer to a procedures checklist as they work the controls of the Canadarm2, in this 2006 image. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss014e09635_1.jpg

This image was originally meant to track the movement of sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, but what's on the ground in between the dunes is just as interesting! http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22334-1041.jpg

The intertank is the second piece of structural hardware for the massive Space Launch System core stage, built at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and delivered to Marshall Space Flight Center for testing. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/msfc-20180306-sls-itunload-1.jpg

Known as the 'Mother of Hubble,' Nancy Grace Roman is shown here at the Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago in 1948, where she was studying for her doctorate in astronomy. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ngr_1948_yerkestelescope.jpg

The crew aboard the International Space Station have grown two batches of mixed greens (mizuna, red romaine lettuce and tokyo bekana cabbage), and are now running two Veggie facilities simultaneously. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss054e054071_0.jpg

Cassini captured this striking view of Saturn’s moon Dione on July 23, 2012. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia17197-1041.jpg

Not everyone gets to become a part of history, but mathematician Billie Robertson is one of the lucky ones. In this image taken on Nov. 27, 1972, she was running a real-time simulation of Translunar Injection (TLI) Go-No-Go for the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/billie_robertson_cropped_0.jpg

Just by determining how circular a given crater is – using pi and the crater’s perimeter and area – planetary geologists can reveal clues about how the crater was formed and the surface that was impacted. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia20661_hires.jpg