Posted to Twitter by @Astro_Alex, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, this image shows our planet's Moon as seen from the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss056e025635.jpg

NASA has selected six women and men to join the elite corps of flight directors who will lead mission control for a variety of new operations at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jsc2018e061789.jpg

As the International Space Station flew overhead, NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold captured this photograph of a changing landscape in the heart of Madagascar, observing drainage into the sea in the Betsiboka Estuary due to decimation of rainforests and coastal mangroves. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/7.11-400d1709madagascar.jpg

The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, contains the young star cluster NGC 6611. It also the site of the spectacular star-forming region known as the Pillars of Creation, which is located in the southern portion of the Eagle Nebula. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/m16-optical-xray.jpg

Launched 15 years ago, the Spitzer Space Telescope has made many discoveries, including this detection of the merger of two neutron stars. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ssc2017-14a1.jpg

Regardless of the amount of winter ice cover, the waters off of the Alaskan coast usually come alive each spring with blooms of phytoplankton. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/chukchi_oli_2018169_lrg_0.jpg

The parachute system for Orion, America’s spacecraft that will carry humans to deep space, deployed as planned after being dropped from an altitude of 6.6 miles on July 12, at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Yuma, Arizona. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/cpas_photo.jpg

NASA's satellite servicing technologies are opening up a new world where space robots diagnose, maintain and extend a spacecraft’s life. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/42629312864_f8d9749073_k.jpg

Forty-nine years ago on July 20, 1969, humanity stepped foot on another celestial body and into history. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/as11-40-5944.jpg

In July 2018, an iceberg weighing 11 million tons parked just offshore of Innaarsuit, a small island village in northwestern Greenland. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/innaarsuit_oli_2018186_lrg.jpg

On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/candid_apollo.jpeg

NASA's Orion spacecraft that flew Exploration Flight Test-1 on Dec. 5, 2014, is seen after being uncovered in preparation for being moved onto the White House complex, Saturday, July 21, 2018, in Washington, DC. More than 1,000 companies across the country manufactured or contributed elements to the spacecraft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/42649788835_6f06dcd03c_o.jpg

July 26 is National Intern Day. See how far these two former interns at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have come! http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jsc2017e111693.jpg

Saturn is the solar system’s most photogenic planet, especially in this latest Hubble snapshot with the ring system near its maximum tilt. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-p1829b-m-2000x1230.png

The International Space Station soars into a sunrise every 90 minutes, each and every day. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/43656168861_3c30e55b14_o.jpg

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has cleared the final procedures in the clean room before its move to the launch pad. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/fencap2.jpg

More than a dozen wildfires are burning in the state of California, with several of them threatening life and property http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/califire.jpg

Administration Jim Bridenstine tours the inside of the Orion test crew capsule, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/43088894214_b3f687c43b_k.jpg

The first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made commercial spacecraft, to and from the International Space Station, wave after being announced, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/43778247512_598b3a1e5e_o.jpg

The Earth, in all its majesty and its tragedy, is the subject of images taken aboard the International Space Station. This image of the Carr and Ferguson fires was captured from the station on August 3, 2018, by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss056e102551.jpg