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A 35mm camera, operated by astronaut William R. Pogue, Skylab 4 pilot, recorded this wide scene of his Skylab 4...
A view from Skylab's airlock hatch, looking down the length of the orbiting workshop. Skylab has a hexagon shape, with metal mesh floors that you can see through. Equipment lines the walls, and at center, two astronauts, Edward G. Gibson (left, in a white t-shirt) and Jerry P. Carr (right, in a brown t-shirt) smile for the camera. Also in frame are parts of three spacesuits.
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility C-130 aircraft delivered the agency’s Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) payload to McMurdo Station, Antarctica,...
Tractors and other heavy machinery rest on the snowy plain in the foreground. In the middle of the image, a dark gray aircraft sits on the ground as a smaller white aircraft, NASA's C-130, lands.
In this photo from Nov. 9, 2023, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket illuminates the water as it launches at night...
SpaceX's Cargo Dragon launches from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in its 29th commercial resupply mission. The rocket's engines are glowing brightly as it takes off through the dark night sky, and the light illuminates the water below.
A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, carrying the DISSIPATION mission. The...
A long-exposure photograph of a sounding rocket launching into a night sky highlighted by aurora. The sounding rocket is a bright white streak, leaving from a snow-covered ground and moving from bottom left to upper right. A small break in the streak represents the first stage of the rocket burning out and the second stage igniting. A soft, green aurora frames the edges of the image, with many white stars speckled through the black sky. A bright green line toward the top of the frame is a lidar beam. A fisheye lens was used for the photograph, creating a curve for the ground and lidar beam.
Casey Denham, aerospace engineer with the Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, works...
Casey Denham, a Meskwaki woman, leans over to help two tribal students with a STEM project. The children sit at a white round table. Each of them holds wires in their hands. The black and red wires are connected to paper cups.
The spiral galaxy IC 342, located about 11 million light-years from Earth, lies behind the crowded plane of the Milky...
A big spiral galaxy is visible face-on in white/pink colours at the centre of this square astronomical image. The galaxy covers almost the entire image and appears whiter at its centre where more stars are located. Its spiral arms stretch out across the image and appear fainter at the edges. The entire image is speckled with stars ranging in colour from blue to white to yellow/red, across a black background of space. Blue stars are younger and red stars are older. A few of the stars are a bit larger than the rest, with six diffraction spikes.
The NASA Worm Logo sign is unveiled before the ribbon cutting ceremony to open NASA’s Earth Information Center, Wednesday, June...
A red sign reading "NASA" in the "worm" logotype created in the 1970s stands before a crowd of people clapping and taking pictures. The red three-dimensional letters rest on a black platform, which is on a blue carpet in front of the Earth Information Center at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ultraviolet view of Jupiter.
Jupiter looks iridescent in this ultraviolet image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The poles are a muted orange color, while swirls and stripes of pink, orange, blue, and purple cover the rest of the planet. Jupiter's "Great Red Spot" appears a deep blue here.
6,500 light-years away lies the Crab Nebula, the remains of an exploded star. While this target has been well-studied by...
The Crab Nebula is an oval nebula with complex structure against a black background. On the nebula’s exterior, particularly at the top left and bottom left, lie curtains of glowing red and orange fluffy material. Its interior shell shows large-scale loops of mottled filaments of yellow-white and green, studded with clumps and knots. Translucent thin ribbons of smoky white lie within the remnant’s interior, brightest toward its center. The white material follows different directions throughout, including sometimes sharply curving away from certain regions within the remnant. A faint, wispy ring of white material encircles the very center of the nebula. Around and within the supernova remnant are many points of blue, red, and yellow light.
This nighttime view from the International Space Station shows the city lights of the northeastern United States and major urban...
The city lights of the northeastern United States are visible from the International Space Station. The rest of the surrounding land is mostly dark, as is space. At left, part of the orbital lab and a docking port on a Russian space station module are visible.
On Sept. 7, 2023, during its 54th close flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of an area...
The image shows turbulent clouds and storms along Jupiter’s terminator, the dividing line between the day and night sides of the planet. The low angle of sunlight highlights the complex topography of features in this region, which scientists have studied to better understand the processes playing out in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
This image, taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station, shows the reddish-brown waters of the Betsiboka River Delta...
The waters of the Betsiboka River Delta, as seen from the International Space Station, are a vibrant orange. From left to right, the river branches off into many pathways, looking almost like the roots of a tree.
Maricela Lizcano poses inside NASA Glenn Research Center’s Aerospace Communications Facility.
Maricela Lizcano stands inside NASA Glenn Research Center’s Aerospace Communications Facility. She is wearing a teal jacket and behind her there are mathematical equations on the wall.
NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems conducts a water flow test with the mobile launcher at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B...
A large amount of water cascades over the edges of the gray mobile launcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Droplets of water also spray up through the air, creating a mist.
An engineer prepares a small rover – part of NASA's CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration that's headed...
An engineer in white protective gear, a blue mask, and glasses works on a small rover. The rover is small enough to fit on a black tabletop. The rover has a flat top and four gear-like wheels.
A storm is pictured in the Arabian Sea less than 700 miles off the coast of Oman as the International...
A storm, seen as massive, swirling white clouds dominates this image of Earth from the International Space Station. Peeking out from underneath the clouds and at the storm's edges is the deep blue of the Arabian Sea. In the background (top of image) is the curve of Earth, bordered by the darkness of space.
Former flight test instructor and current NASA test pilot Nils Larson reunited with former student and current astronaut Victor Glover...
Nils Larson, X59 pilot and Astronaut Victor Glover walking side-by-side.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, second from right, NASA associate administrator Bob Cabana, far right, and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy...
A group of 17 people sit and stand in a circle in a meeting area in an office. There are rocket models and space-themed imagery decorating the space. Everyone looks toward NASA administrator Bill Nelson, second from right, as he speaks.
On October 14, 2023, the Moon aligned with the Sun and Earth to produce an annular solar eclipse. The spectacle...
A full disc image of Earth in which North and South America are visible. The Moon casts a dark brown shadow in the top left quadrant.
The Moon passes in front of the Sun during the annular solar eclipse in this photograph taken by Expedition 70...
The Sun appears as a white disc in the darkness of space. The Moon begins to pass in front of it on the left, making it look like there's a circular portion of the Sun missing.
The north coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur on the Pacific Ocean is pictured from the International...
The north coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur on the Pacific Ocean is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above. The land is brown, with some smaller bodies of water. The northern coastline is scalloped. A few streaks of clouds stretch across land and water, but the sky is mostly cloudless.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023,...
In the distance, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches with the Psyche spacecraft onboard. They are gray and almost blend in with the sky. A bright blaze extends from the bottom of the rocket and clouds of smoke roll just above the trees. Palm trees on the right take up the majority of the foreground.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the horizontal...
In the foreground, a plant with several small white and yellow flowers is in focus near a grassy hill. In the distance, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and Psyche spacecraft roll out of a large rectangular building with "SpaceX" and an American flag on the side.
It’s easy to get swept up in the swirling starry arms of this intermediate spiral galaxy, NGC 4654, in the...
A bright spiral galaxy fills the frame from the lower-right to the upper-left. The galaxy is tilted toward us and holds bright blue-white stars and reddish-brown dust lanes that showcase its spiral nature.
“I think the experience of putting yourself in an uncomfortable environment and coming at the other end with lessons learned...
Alfonso Davila, a Hispanic person, stands in front of a building that is softly out of focus. He wears a black shirt with rolled up sleeves.
This feature looks a bit like a bear's face. What is it really? There's a hill with a V-shaped collapse...
A geographical feature on Mars looks like the face of a bear in this black and white image acquired by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Astronaut Raja Chari is ready for taco night as he shows off a taco made with fresh chile peppers.
Astronaut Raja Chari is ready for taco night
Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is carried to a medical tent shortly after he, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin...
Astronaut Frank Rubio gives the camera a thumbs up as he is carried by four men, including NASA astronaut Joe Acaba (front left). Rubio wears a white spacesuit with blue accents and several mission patches. He rests against the propped-up top portion of a stretcher and has a dark blue blanket on his lap.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created on October 1, 1958, to perform civilian research related to space...
From left to right, Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Dr. T. Keith Glennan smile as they have a discussion. Dryden and Eisenhower hold cylindrical objects in their hands; Glennan looks down at their hands. They are all wearing suits.
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24,...
View from above of a desert landscape with brush. The red and white striped parachute that slowed the descent of the Sample Return Capsule is on the ground near the upper left and the black capsule is near the center of the image.
At 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 26, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 26, from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida, carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members to the International Space Station.
The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Irregular galaxy of many tiny stars clumped together, surrounded in diffuse light with a bubble of blue gas in its bright center. It is surrounded by mostly small, faint objects with a few bright stars above and left of it and a string of galaxies nearby.
A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama...
A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand during the late 1950s.
In this image from July 18, 2023, a NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto...
A NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto a stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 18, 2023.
Gateway's International Habitat module, provided by ESA, is the focus of this rendered image from Aug. 18, 2023.
Gateway's International Habitat (I-Hab) module, provided by ESA, is one of two of the space station's habitation modules in addition to HALO. Astronauts will live, conduct science, and prepare for lunar surface missions inside I-Hab and HALO.
The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission spoke at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 20, 2023.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Crew are seen after arriving at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023.
The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy...
A crowd of oval-shaped elliptical galaxies gather around the largest galaxy in the center. They are surrounded by more distant stars and galaxies, that have many shapes and sizes but all are smaller, on a dark background.
A Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket carrying students experiments for the RockOn! mission successfully launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Aug....
Students watch a sounding rocket launch at sunrise.
Two ospreys perch in their nest atop a marshalling area sign in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s...
Two ospreys are perched in their nest atop a marshalling area sign in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 7, 2023.
On August 8, 2023, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of dense plumes of...
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of fires in the Northwest Territories on August 8, 2023.