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The STS-129 crew members posed for a portrait following a joint news conference on Nov. 24, 2009, with the Expedition...
Seven astronauts pose for a photo on the International Space Station. They are arranged with their heads in a circle, with a few people upside down. They're all wearing blue polo shirts with an STS-129 logo on them.
On Nov. 19, 1969, astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, begins to step off...
On the Moon, an astronaut in a white spacesuit climbs down a ladder on a lunar module. The lunar module is made of metal with gold and silver foil covering some of its lower half.
Participants from the 14th First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 launch from the Banana Creek viewing...
A group of people wearing yellow t-shirts wave at the camera as they sit outside at night. They are members or advisors of winning teams from the 14th First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition. The competition comprises students from tribal colleges and universities, Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions, and collegiate chapters of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.
NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launched on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16,...
An orange rocket lifts off from a launchpad. The sky is black, but the fire coming from the engines lights up the surrounding area, highlighting clouds of white vapor spreading across the ground.
The 363-feet tall Apollo 12 space vehicle launches from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
A white rocket lifts off from a launchpad, contrasting against the dark blue sky. A column of flames casts a bright light on the bottom of the image, highlighting white vapor spreading outward. An orange gantry is visible behind the rocket.
With the Caribbean Sea and part of the Bahama Islands chain as a backdrop, two STS-51 crewmembers, NASA astronauts James...
Two astronauts in white spacesuits inspect equipment outside of space shuttle Discovery during a spacewalk. The Caribbean Sea and part of the Bahama Islands chain is visible behind them.
Five varieties of seeds provided by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma were pictured inside the cupola on Nov. 21, 2023,...
Five plastic baggies are floating in front of a window on the space station. Each baggie holds a different kind of seed with a corresponding label on the outside. Some of the labels read “Choctaw Sweet Potato Squash,” “Choctaw Smith Peas,” and “Choctaw Corn Flour.”
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the spiral galaxy NGC 1672 with a supernova.
A spiral galaxy with an oval-shaped disk. Two large arms curve out away from the ends of the disk. Bright pink patches and dark reddish threads of dust fill the arms. The bright pink patches indicate where stars are forming. The core is very bright and filled with stars. Some large stars appear in front of the galaxy. Directly under the point where the right arm joins the disk, a fading supernova is visible as a green dot.
As the International Space Station soared 257 miles above northern Mexico, NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Don Pettit...
City lights on Earth appear as bright streaks in this long-exposure photo. Earth's atmosphere glows green on the horizon. Part of the International Space Station is visible at top right.
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits in its run stall at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California,...
A white airplane sits inside of a white hangar with its nose facing inward.
"[Now that I work for Safety and Mission Assurance,] it's really cool to read everything about the different types of...
Miranda Meyer, a Native American woman, poses for a portrait amid trees.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis returned to work after a refurbishing and a two-year layoff, as liftoff for the mission occurred...
A white space shuttle lifts off from the launch pad. Clouds of white vapor spread along the ground and rise upward on either side of the shuttle. Flames shoot out from the rocket. In the foreground are a body of water and green plants.
A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE....
A green nebula looks like a witch's head looking to the right of the image. There is a pronounced "nose" and "chin." Blue stars are around and in the green clouds.
NASA test pilot Joe Walker took the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) for its first spin 60 years ago today....
A man in an orange jumpsuit and white helmet sits in the pilot’s seat on a metal vehicle, the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, or LLRV. The LLRV has a lot of metal tubing everywhere, which made people compare it to a metal bedframe.
New Zealand’s stunning scenery has famously provided the backdrop for fictional worlds in fantasy films. A unique cloud that forms...
A part of New Zealand's South Island as seen by the Landsat 8 satellite. A long, thin white cloud floats above the green and brown landscape. A bit of water is visible on the right of the image.
Space science is fun! NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit fills this sphere of water with food...
Don Pettit's hand is at the right edge of the photo. He holds a syringe filled with red food coloring. A droplet of food coloring hangs off the needle above a bubble of water. The water sphere is pinkish on its left third. Dye swirls through the remaining two thirds, making it look a little like Jupiter.
The spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is IC 3225. It looks remarkably as if it was...
A spiral galaxy with a disk that glows visibly from the center. It has faint dust threaded through it. A spiral arm curves around the left edge of the disk and is noticeably denser with bright blue spots that hold hot and new stars. On the opposite side, the disk stretches out into a short tail where it covers a distant background galaxy. Other distant galaxies and some nearby stars are visible are also visible in this image.
A super blue moon rises above NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Aug. 18, 2024. Although not actually...
An orange full moon is the only thing you can see in this image. The sky is black, and the outline of some clouds are visible against the Moon.
The city lights of Melbourne, Australia are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 271 miles above.
Melbourne, Australia as seen from the International Space Station at night. There are areas where city lights are concentrated. The lights are less concentrated at the edges of the image.
Nearly four decades ago, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova,...
Clouds of gas and dust in shades of red cover the top of the image and a little bit of the bottom. Right in the middle is Supernova 1987a, the remnant of an exploded star. The site of the supernova is surrounded by an illuminated pinkish ring. Two faint outer rings are also visible. Stars and galaxies shine throughout, giving off red and blue light.
A drone camera captures NASA’s mobile launcher 1 atop the agency’s crawler-transporter 2 moving from Launch Complex 39B to the...
A large rectangular structure - the mobile launcher - rests atop a moving rectangular base - the crawler-transporter. In this aerial shot, they are moving along a road. Green grass covers the surrounding area.
The Oort Cloud comet, called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, passes over Southeast Louisiana near New Orleans, home of NASA’s Michoud Assembly...
The night sky goes from blue to pink as you look from top to bottom. In the middle is a comet; it looks like a relatively bright yellow dot with a long, diffuse yellow tail. Some stars are visible in the blue portion of the sky.
An unidentified illustration of NASA's space shuttle. The space shuttle fleet flew 135 missions and helped construct the International Space...
An illustration of a space shuttle liftoff. The shuttle flies upward at a slight angle as a column of fire shooting downward from the rocket boosters. In the background is the surrounding green land and blue water, along with white clouds on the top left and right sides of the image.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
A white rocket lifts off from the launch pad, spewing billowing clouds of white vapor horizontally along the ground. A relatively short column of flames erupts from below the rocket just after liftoff. The early afternoon sky and the water in the foreground are similar, vibrant shades of blue.
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was about 44 million miles away from Earth in this photograph from the International Space Station...
A bright blue arc appears in the darkness of space. The comet streaks upward, almost perpendicular.
On New Zealand’s North Island, a conical snow-capped volcano ringed by dark green forest rises above dairy pasture. The often-snowcapped...
An overhead view of Mount Taranaki from a satellite. A white peak (a snow-capped mountain) is circled by dark green forest. The rest of the land around it is a bright green.
"It took years but it felt like all of the sudden, I was here and everything, the entire time, was...
Lead Astromaterial Curation Engineer Salvador Martinez III smiles at the camera wearing a plaid shirt inside the OSIRIS REx Lab.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, and Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Sant Director, Kirk Johnson, preview the Earth Information Center...
Two men in suits stand behind a short curved barrier. They look at a large curved screen that spans the room. The screen shows information, maps, and other graphics that relay information about carbon dioxide. The man on the right is pointing at the display.
Flying aboard Voyagers 1 and 2 are identical "golden" records, carrying the story of Earth far into deep space. This...
A golden record cover shines against a black background. Etched into the cover are several diagrams that explain how to play the record.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photo of large meanders of the Alabama River while orbiting over...
The silvery waters of the Alabama River meander across the image, contrasted against surrounding land in shades of green. At various points, the water extends outward from the borders of the river.
Chirag Parikh, Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Space Council, left, and NASA Astronauts Frank...
Two Hispanic men in blue jumpsuits with NASA patches on them sit at a table, smiling at people off screen. There are people of different ethnicities in the background.
"This is why [Aubrey Gemignani] and I started Faces of NASA: We wanted to make that connection. It's not just...
A woman with long, dark brown hair and subtle blue highlights stares head on at the camera wearing a white tank top with blue and purple roses on it.
Earlier this year, the Florida Panthers won their first NHL championship and brought victory to the state of Florida. As...
The silver Stanley Cup is in the foreground at right. The Stanley Cup looks like a large silver bowl set on top of a stacked column of thick silver layers. There are words engraved on the Cup. Behind it is a body of water and the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a massive, boxy gray and white building.
The inaugural murals for the relaunched NASA Art Program appear side-by-side at 350 Hudson Street, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in...
An image of two murals painted on loading dock garage doors. The murals include bold, bright colors and geometric shapes. The image to the left features Earth with a satellite that features the NASA logo. The mural on the right has an image of a child in an astronaut suit playing with toys.
STS-128 mission specialist José Hernández waits his turn to enter space shuttle Discovery at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida....
Astronaut José Hernández, a Hispanic man, smiles broadly at the camera while waiting to board space shuttle Discovery. He wears an orange escape suit that has an American flag patch on the left shoulder. Behind him are mission specialists Patrick Forrester (left) and Christer Fuglesang (back to camera).
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is seen smiling and holding a gifted matryoshka doll outside the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft after...
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is seen smiling and holding a gifted matryoshka doll outside the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft after she landed with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub,
Joylette Hylick, left, and Katherine Moore, daughters of Katherine Johnson, accept the Congressional Gold Medal on behalf of Katherine Johnson...
Two Black women and a white man face slightly left as they pose for a photo. The man and the woman in the middle hold a box containing a Congressional Gold Medal.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709 located around 240 million light-years away in the...
A spiral galaxy with a bright-white core, a glowing disk thick with swirling patterns of dark dust, and a faint halo around the disk. It is on a black background with a few small, distant galaxies and some foreground stars around it.
"I would say family and part of that 'first-gen experience' [shaped me]...It shaped me to be a hard worker and...
Zaida Hernandez, a hispanic woman with long wavy brown hair and dark brown eyes, smiles brightly at the camera while sitting inside a mock up of NASA's Orion Crew Capsule. She's wearing a blue blazer and flight hardware is seen all around her.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photo of peak fall colors around Ottawa, the capital of Canada....
Orange tree leaves cover the left side of the aerial image of Ottawa, Canada. To the right, streets, buildings, and other city infrastructure is visible. A waterway splits the image horizontally through the middle; another river also travels from top to bottom slightly right of center.