Technicians prepare to move NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft from a shipping container onto…
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John W. Young’s Lunar Salute
Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar…
Endeavour Gets a Piggyback Ride
Our Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferries the Space Shuttle Endeavour over the Johnson Space Center in Houston…
Frank Rubio Trains for Spacewalk
In this March 7, 2022, image, astronaut Frank Rubio gets help putting on a spacesuit at…
A Stormy Stellar Nursery
This cloudy, turbulent scene shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159. …
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…
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…
Snowcapped Mountains in Western China
The International Space Station captured a portion of the Tanggula Mountains near Hala Lake from 260…
Reflecting on President Kennedy's Moonshot Speech
On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University…
Mediterranean Cities Light Up the Night
This nighttime photograph from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited 261 miles above looks…