Friday, September 30, 2022
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Neptune Shows Off Its Rings in Near-Infrared Light
On Sept. 21, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope delivered the clearest view of Neptune’s rings in more than 30 years. https://ift.tt/98IRXWB
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Ellen Ochoa Suits Up
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 flight engineer, wears a launch and entry suit as part of water survival training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in 2001. https://ift.tt/VAmJR25
DART Team Celebrates Successful Collision
In this image from Sept. 26, 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) team, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, and guests at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory cheer as they receive confirmation of DART’s collision with Dimorphos. https://ift.tt/i4D6GUy
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Monday, September 26, 2022
Golden DART’s Galactic Unboxing
Technicians prepare to move NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft from a shipping container onto a work stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in this image from Oct. 4, 2021. https://ift.tt/QTViKkO
Sunday, September 25, 2022
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Friday, September 23, 2022
John W. Young’s Lunar Salute
Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 spacewalk. https://ift.tt/SyrjXtB
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Endeavour Gets a Piggyback Ride
Our Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferries the Space Shuttle Endeavour over the Johnson Space Center in Houston in this Sept. 20, 2012, image. https://ift.tt/T7Gv4AW
Frank Rubio Trains for Spacewalk
In this March 7, 2022, image, astronaut Frank Rubio gets help putting on a spacesuit at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to train for spacewalks. https://ift.tt/HQ29k7t
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Monday, September 19, 2022
A Stormy Stellar Nursery
This cloudy, turbulent scene shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159. https://ift.tt/kxjMe5J
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Saturday, September 17, 2022
Friday, September 16, 2022
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Michael E. López-Alegría Poses During Spacewalk
Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría, mission specialist, is photographed in this close-up view during one of the STS-92 sessions of extravehicular activity on Oct. 18, 2000. https://ift.tt/nZqOdVv
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
A Bird's-Eye View of the Vehicle Assembly Base
A little blue heron is seen in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building as preparations for launch continue, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://ift.tt/JTb9Y6L
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Snowcapped Mountains in Western China
The International Space Station captured a portion of the Tanggula Mountains near Hala Lake from 260 miles above the Earth on Sept. 5th, 2022. https://ift.tt/k8PrEhD
Monday, September 12, 2022
Reflecting on President Kennedy's Moonshot Speech
On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in Houston. https://ift.tt/KHXCLTZ
Sunday, September 11, 2022
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Friday, September 9, 2022
Mediterranean Cities Light Up the Night
This nighttime photograph from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited 261 miles above looks across the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa to southern Europe. https://ift.tt/2pKbriL
Thursday, September 8, 2022
NASA's Hubble Finds Spiraling Stars, Providing Window into Early Universe
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Voyager 1’s Mission to the Outer Planet Begins
The Voyager mission was designed to take advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of the outer planets in the late 1970s and the 1980s which allowed for a four-planet tour for a minimum of propellant and trip time. https://ift.tt/s7TQp1J
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
A Cosmic Tarantula, Caught by NASA’s Webb
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Monday, September 5, 2022
Sunday, September 4, 2022
Saturday, September 3, 2022
Friday, September 2, 2022
The Crater Farm
Three impact craters are displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus taken NASA's Magellan, the first deep space probe launched by a space shuttle. https://ift.tt/Ey3GzAa
Thursday, September 1, 2022
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