Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Orion, Earth, and the Moon
In this image, Orion captures a unique view of Earth and the Moon, seen from a camera mounted on one of the spacecraft's solar arrays. https://ift.tt/aHx2ysU
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Orion Approaches Moon for Outbound Powered Flyby
A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken Nov. 21, the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. https://ift.tt/giTRm7h
Monday, November 28, 2022
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Friday, November 25, 2022
Astronaut Snoopy 'Lands' in New York
The annual Thanksgiving event was held Nov. 24, 2022. https://ift.tt/vb6Yhsd
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Snoopy Hitches Ride to Space Aboard Artemis I
Snoopy, the zero-gravity indicator for NASA’s Artemis I flight test, floating in space Nov. 20, 2022, while attached to his tether in the Orion spacecraft. https://ift.tt/OmCb6QX
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Orion’s Optical Navigation Camera Captures Earth
NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft snapped this black and white photo of Earth on Nov. 17, 2022, the second day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission. https://ift.tt/qtXJl2T
Monday, November 21, 2022
Orion Approaches Moon
On Nov. 20, the fifth day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera mounted on the tip of one of Orion’s solar array wings captured this footage of the spacecraft and the Moon as it continued to grow nearer to our lunar neighbor. https://ift.tt/5OlkE7c
Sunday, November 20, 2022
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Friday, November 18, 2022
Hubble Views a Billowing Cosmic Cloud
A small, dense cloud of gas and dust called CB 130-3 blots out the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. https://ift.tt/QvpL8uw
Thursday, November 17, 2022
First Nations Launch Teams Build Rockets
Stephanie Yazzie, Northern Arizona University student and NAU Space Jacks team member, poses with her team’s rocket in this photo from the 2019 NASA First Nations Launch (FNL) competition. https://ift.tt/ti8UBMP
We Are Going: Artemis I Launches
Our Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:47 a.m. EST. https://ift.tt/2r7BcuA
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Moonlit Launch Preparations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
The Moon is seen rising above NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://ift.tt/q7Ckh1x
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Monday, November 14, 2022
Liftoff! Successful Launch for JPSS-2, LOFTID
The Moon makes a stunning backdrop for the successful launch of the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and our Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) on Nov. 10 at 1:49 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. https://ift.tt/xWs5N83
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Friday, November 11, 2022
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month with Jerry C. Elliott
Jerry Elliott, a former NASA physicist and one of the first Native Americans hired at NASA's Johnson Space Center, speaks during Native American Heritage Month event in 2017 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. https://ift.tt/oZpvhs0
Astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines Study Farming in Space
In this image from June 24, 2022, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines work on the XROOTS space botany investigation, which used the International Space Station’s (ISS) Veggie facility to test soilless hydroponic and aeroponic methods to grow plants. https://ift.tt/3yoWYmH
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Blood Moon Total Eclipse at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
This composite made from ten images shows the progression of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse above the Vehicle Assembly Building, Nov. 8, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://ift.tt/NSbZXmq
Monday, November 7, 2022
Artemis I Glows After Sunset
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard was seen lit by spotlights atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continued Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://ift.tt/ldNBCUe
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Friday, November 4, 2022
Thumbs Up from NASA Astronaut Nicole A. Mann
Selected as an astronaut candidate in June 2013, Nicole A. Mann is the first Native American woman from NASA in space. https://ift.tt/QCvZHeY
Thursday, November 3, 2022
NASA ABoVE Team Studies Thawing Permafrost, Lakes
Since 2015, scientists participating in NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) have been studying the impacts of climate change on Earth’s far northern regions and how those changes are intertwined. https://ift.tt/6WXUY7H
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Stress Testing Super Hornet’s Wings
Teams at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, recently completed stress testing on the Navy’s F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, Maryland. https://ift.tt/KGZlHxJ
Grinning Gourd Decorates Milky Way
While observing the outer region of the Milky Way galaxy, our Spitzer Telescope captured this infrared image of a cloud of gas and dust that looks like the hollowed-out pumpkins we see every Halloween. https://ift.tt/r7JoXF5
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