DROID 2 Captures the Wind

Justin Hall lands the Dryden Remotely Operated Integrated Drone 2 (DROID 2) aircraft at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California...

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Frank Rubio Breaks NASA’s Single Spaceflight Record

In this image from July 24, 2023, astronaut Frank Rubio completes a session on the Surface Avatar Remote Control Terminal, which investigates how hapt...

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Snowy Egret Searches the Waters

A snowy egret, identifiable by its slender black bill, black legs and yellow feet, marches through a pond near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, looking fo...

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Opening the Hatch: Crew-6 Splashdown

Support teams onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN work to open the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed in the A...

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Hubble Sees Glittering Globular Cluster Embedded Inside Our Milky Way

Hubble's colorful image of the globular star cluster Terzan 12 is a spectacular example of how dust in space affects starlight coming from background ...

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Practicing for the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return

A recovery team member takes part in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission in ...

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Voyager 1 Lifts Off Toward an Interstellar Journey

Voyager 1 Lifts Off Toward an Interstellar Journey

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Hurricane Idalia in the Gulf of Mexico

Hurricane Idalia is pictured in the Gulf of Mexico from the International Space Station.

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Guy Bluford, the First African American in Space

In this image from Sept. 5, 1983, Guion “Guy” Bluford checks out the sample pump on the continuous flow electrophoresis system experiment in the midde...

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Studying the Wind with Weather Balloons

Rocky Garcia and Wesley James prepare a weather balloon to collect wind data at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Jul...

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Crew-7 Lifts Off

At 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 26, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Crew-7 Lifts Off

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Hubble Sees a Sparkling Neighbor Galaxy

The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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Hubble Sees a Sparkling Neighbor Galaxy

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Testing the First U.S. Crewed Launch Vehicle, Mercury-Redstone

A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in this ...

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Testing the First U.S. Crewed Launch Vehicle, Mercury-Redstone

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Psyche Comes Together

In this image from July 18, 2023, a NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto a stand inside the Astrotech Space Ope...

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Psyche Comes Together

In this image from July 18, 2023, a NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto a stand inside the Astrotech Space Ope...

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A Gateway to the Moon

Gateway's International Habitat module, provided by ESA, is the focus of this rendered image from Aug. 18, 2023.

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A Gateway to the Moon

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Crew-7 Members Arrive for Prelaunch Activities

The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission spoke at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 20, 2023.

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Crew-7 Members Arrive for Prelaunch Activities

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Hubble Captures Cosmic Cluster

The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks i...

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Hubble Captures Cosmic Cluster

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Student Experiments Take Flight on Sounding Rocket from NASA Wallops

A Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket carrying students experiments for the RockOn! mission successfully launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facili...

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Student Experiments Take Flight on Sounding Rocket from NASA Wallops

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Ospreys Make a Home at Kennedy

Two ospreys perch in their nest atop a marshalling area sign in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in th...

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Ospreys Make a Home at Kennedy

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Wildfires in the Northwest Territories

On August 8, 2023, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of dense plumes of smoke streaming f...

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Wildfires in the Northwest Territories

On August 8, 2023, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of dense plumes of smoke streaming f...

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Artemis II Crew, Meet Orion

While wearing clean room suits, the Artemis II crew members check out their Orion crew module inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Buildi...

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Artemis II Crew, Meet Orion

While wearing clean room suits, the Artemis II crew members check out their Orion crew module inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Buildi...

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An Artist’s Concept of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Landing

This artist’s concept from July 11, 1969, depicts the Apollo 11 lunar module (LM) Eagle landing on the surface of the Moon.

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An Artist’s Concept of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Landing

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Phoenix’s Red Planet Selfie

NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander gathered images of itself for this selfie from June 5 through July 12, 2008, with its Surface Stereo Imager.

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Phoenix’s Red Planet Selfie

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Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected

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OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. It will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, to drop off material from astero...

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Commander Moonikin Campos Goes Sledding

In this image from April 2023, NASA’s Moonikin Campos enjoys a quiet moment during acceleration sled testing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohi...

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Testing New Wheels for Mars

In this image from June 2023, an engineer watches a development model rover during a test for NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Explor...

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Testing New Wheels for the Moon

In this image from June 2023, an engineer watches a development model rover during a test for NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Explor...

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Hubble Glimpses a Glitzy Galactic Cluster

The glittering, glitzy contents of the globular cluster NGC 6652 sparkle in this star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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Hubble Glimpses a Glitzy Galactic Cluster

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Baghdad from the International Space Station

United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi captured this image of the city lights of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Tigris River on July 18, 2023, as the ...

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Baghdad from the International Space Station

United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi captured this image of the city lights of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Tigris River on July 18, 2023, as the ...

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NASA’S SpaceX Crew-7 Members Prepare for Their Mission

On April 28, 2023, the Crew-7 members (from left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astro...

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NASA’S SpaceX Crew-7 Members Prepare for Their Mission

On April 28, 2023, the Crew-7 members (from left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astro...

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Terra Observes Shark Bay, Australia

Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve, seen here in an image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on the Terra...

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