This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show it is late summer in the Southern hemisphere,…
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Eleventh SpaceX Commercial Resupply Mission to Space Station Set for Launch
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, is seen shortly after being raised…
Space Station’s View of Florida at Night
Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet captured this nighttime photo of Florida from the International Space…
Space Station’s EarthKAM Sees the Grand Canyon
On April 3, 2017, the student-controlled EarthKAM camera aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph…
Close-up View of Neutron Star Mission’s X-Ray Concentrator Optics
A new NASA mission, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), is headed for the International…
Sequence of Juno Spacecraft’s Close Approach to Jupiter
This sequence of enhanced-color images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
May 24, 1962 – Scott Carpenter on the Way to Mercury-Atlas 7 Launch Site
Astronaut Scott Carpenter walks to the launch site to begin the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) mission on…
NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Artist’s Concept
This illustration depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars. The mission, targeted for…
CubeSats Deployed Outside Station’s Kibo Lab Module
A pair of CubeSats, with the Earth's limb in the background, moments after being ejected from…