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A full moon was visible behind the Artemis I SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft at Launch Complex...
A full Moon is seen in the night sky at center left with the top of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft upright in the center of the frame. The mobile launcher is visible in the sides of the frame.
The highly irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, which resembles a lonely, hazy cloud against a backdrop of bright stars, dominates this...
A large, bright, diffuse galaxy. Center is brighter and bluer, fading to a pale, faint, gray halo. An arm on one side that curls around the top. Threads of dark dust cross the center. Many stars shine around the galaxy, on a black background.
Teams install the heat shield on the Artemis II Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June...
Teams install the heat shield on the Artemis II Orion spacecraft inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2023.
Students from 20 middle and high schools watched as their experiments launched aboard a high-altitude balloon on June 14, 2023,...
Aerostar’s high-altitude balloon is shown floating above expansive green fields and a small body of water appears in the lower left corner. The sun, low in the sky and out of frame, is casting sunlight through clouds and haze.
Local students take in the sights—and data—at an Earth Information Center student engagement event, Friday, June 23, 2023, at NASA...
Local students participate in an Earth Information Center (EIC) student engagement event, Friday, June 23, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington.
The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The view is filled with small stars, on a dark background. Stars become much denser and brighter around a core just right of center. Most of the stars are small, but some are larger with a round, brightly colored glow and four sharp diffraction spikes.
This week in 1973, the first crewed Skylab mission launched aboard a Saturn IB from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
This week in 1973, the first crewed Skylab mission launched aboard a Saturn IB from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
As sunlight and warmth increase in the spring and summer, the North Sea starts to gain swirls and tendrils of...
Swirling tendrils of phytoplankton—possibly Noctiluca scintillans—give a yellow glow to the shallow waters of the North Sea in this Jun 14, 2023, image from Landsat 9.
Astronauts Reid Wiseman of NASA (left), Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency (middle), and Victor Glover of NASA (right)...
Members of the Artemis II crew receive a lesson on lunar fundamentals in the Apollo Lunar Lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on May 9, 2023.
This image of Galveston was taken by the Expedition 67 crew aboard the International Space Station on June 20, 2022,...
This image of Galveston was taken by the Expedition 67 crew aboard the International Space Station as it orbited 224 miles above.
The European Service Module for the Artemis II Orion spacecraft moves into the Final Assembly and System Testing Cell at...
The service module for the Artemis II Orion spacecraft was moved into the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) Cell inside the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
In this long exposure photo from June 5, 2023, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket creates a beam of light as...
SpaceX's Cargo Dragon launches from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in its 28th commercial resupply mission.
Spacewalker Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm while maneuvering a roll-out solar array toward the International Space Station's truss...
Spacewalker Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm
"So here I am, a transgender woman, an engineer, working at Kennedy Space Center, and I get to work around...
Systems Engineering Supervisor Amy Lendian smiles at the camera in a white collared shirt and a black blazer. She is wearing an Artemis pin on her lapel. The background is out of focus.
The jellyfish galaxy JO206 trails across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Spiral galaxy tilted partially toward us. Bright and colorful inner disk with bluish and reddish star formation throughout the arms. An outer disk of dust has many arms being pulled, down and to the right. They stretch into faint trails.
iss069e018147 (June 6, 2023) --- The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft approaches the International Space Station for an automated docking less...
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.
On June 5, 2023, Crew-5 astronauts Josh Cassada (left) and Nicole A. Mann (second from left) of NASA, and Japan...
Crew-5 astronauts Josh Cassada, left, and Nicole Mann of NASA, second from left, and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, right, pose for a picture with NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana, second from right, on June 5, 2023.
This colorful zinnia, shown in an image from Jan. 22, 2016, grew aboard the International Space Station as part of...
Close-up view of Zinnia grown as part of VEG-01 experiment in the Columbus module aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reads her poem for the Europa Clipper mission during an event with NASA, Thursday, June...
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reads her poem for the Europa Clipper mission during an event with NASA, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington.
"'NASA for all.' That's something that I think is really important because we are the universe, right? We are made...
A woman with dark, long brown, wavy hair looks into the distance with a soft smile on her face. She's wearing a black blazer and the collar of her white button down shirt sticks out the top. A tree and greenery is blurred in the background.
Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who...
Portrait of Josephine Jue smiling as she poses with one of NASA Johnson Space Center's mainframe computers.
An Engineer maps out the position of rocks during VIPER testing at The NASA Glenn Research Center. A test version...
The VIPER Rover in Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket stands on Pad B, Launch Complex 1, in Māhia, New Zealand, just ahead of a...
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket stands on Pad B, Launch Complex 1, in Māhia, New Zealand, just ahead of liftoff at 3:46 p.m. NZST Friday, May 26, with NASA’s TROPICS CubeSats secured in the payload fairing atop the rocket.
The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
"If I can advocate for all the groups that need equity, I'm glad to do it." – Anita Dey, Strategic...
An Indian woman with short, curly, salt and pepper hair smiles softly at the camera wearing a sunshine yellow quarter sleeve blouse. Her hands are clasped as she leans agains a railing outside, with bright green bushes on her right-hand side.
Two black-bellied whistling ducks walk through a field of wildflowers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 19, 2023.
Two black-bellied whistling ducks walk through a field of wildflowers at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 19, 2023.
The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, named Freedom, is seen as it approaches the International Space Station with four Axiom Mission...
The SpaceX Dragon crew ship, with four astronauts aboard, is seen in orbit
Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174.
Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174
The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Dense cluster of bright stars. Its core is to the left and has a distinct group of blue stars. Surrounding the core are stars in warmer colors. They are numerous near the core, becoming more sparse, small, and distant toward the sides of the image.
The four astronauts who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II visited Washington on Wednesday, May 17, to...
Group photo with CSA astronaut Hansen, left, Sen. Moran, NASA Astronaut Koch, CSA President Campbell, NASA astronauts Wiseman, and VGlover, Sen. JShaheen, and NASA Administrator Nelson
Laguna San Rafael National Park, photographed on May 9, 2023 as the space station orbited 268 miles above Chile
Laguna San Rafael National Park, seen as the space station orbited 268 miles above Chile
The waxing gibbous Moon stands out against the stark darkness of space on May 3, 2023.
The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 268 miles above the southern Atlantic Ocean. The Moon is nearly full and it glows brightly against the darkness of space.
Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the world premiere performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Cosmic Cycles,” in this photo...
An image of Jupiter is projected large on a screen above an orchestra on a darkened theater stage. The musicians are barely visible, with a soft light on the conductor. Blue lights illuminate the back of the stage.
This week in 1973, the uncrewed Skylab was launched aboard a modified Saturn V launch vehicle from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
A team member from the Environmental Management Branch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center works to remove a mangrove seedling deposited...
A team member from Kennedy’s Environmental Management Branch works to remove a mangrove seedling on the shoreline of Kennedy Athletic, Recreation, and Social (KARS) Park at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 12, 2023.
Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center...
Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in this picture from April 22, 1965. Oyama had a long career at NASA, during which he served as Life Detection Systems branch chief; he examined lunar soil samples and also helped design experiments for the Viking Mars Landers. Both he and his brother Jiro pioneered new areas of life sciences research at Ames.
Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi are pictured in their Extravehicular Mobility Units, or spacesuits, exiting the International Space Station's...
Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi exit the Quest airlock
Popocatépetl, one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes, has been erupting since 2005.
Popocatépetl erupts in this image acquired by Landsat 8 on April 14, 2023.
Curtis Flack (left) and Paul von Hardenberg inspect the ice formation on the spinner of an Advanced Air Mobility proprotor...
Curtis Flack (left) and Paul von Hardenberg inspecting the ice that formed on the proprotor model.
Miloslav Stašek, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States (left), Foreign Affairs Minister for the Czech Republic, Jan...
Officials for the Czech Republic and NASA are seen following the signing of the Artemis Accords by the Czech Republic, Wednesday, May 3, 2023.