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Destination Mars Grand Opening

Kudo Tsunoda of Microsoft, speaks to members of the news media during a preview of the new Destination: Mars...

Sierra Nevada Open House

A mockup of the cargo logistics module for Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser, the company’s reusable...

LRC-2023-H1_P_ NilsVictorClayton-00792

Former flight test instructor and current NASA test pilot Nils Larson reunited with former student and current...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Daniel LeBlanc, chief operating officer of Delaware North Companies Parks and Resorts at KSC, makes the opening remarks to hundreds of guests and media representatives attending a ribbon cutting ceremony officially opening the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame as part of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The ceremony was held in conjunction with the induction of four Space Shuttle astronauts into the Hall of Fame including Daniel Brandenstein, Robert "Hoot" Gibson, Story Musgrave, and Sally Ride. Conceived by six of the Mercury Program astronauts, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame opened in 1990 to provide a place where space travelers could be remembered for their participation and accomplishments in the U.S. space program. The four new inductees join 48 previously honored astronauts from the ranks of the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, and Space Shuttle programs.

NASA Scientists Open One of the Last Sealed Apollo 17 Moon Samples

Over the past few years, a few unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 have been opened by a...

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Soyuz MS-27 Hatch Open – Tuesday, April 8, 2025

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky opened up the hatch of the...

The U.S. Cygnus space freighter from Northrop Grumman

iss058e002245 (Jan. 7, 2019) --- The U.S. Cygnus space freighter from Northrop Grumman and its prominent...

Martian Ground Seen by Arm Camera With and Without Dust Cover Thumbnails

As the last step in a series of inspections of the Mars Hand Lens Imager MAHLI aboard NASA Mars rover Curiosity,...

Delta of the Gurupi, Maracacume, and Tiriacu Rivers, Brazil

This is an image from NASA EarthKAM of the Rio Gurupi in the Brazilian state of Maranhao and its delta. It is the...

Vancouver Olympic Site Captures a Gold for Natural Grandeur

On Feb. 12, 2010, the 21st Winter Olympic Games opened in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. NASA...

Wild Duck Cluster

On April 7, 2005, NASA Deep Impact spacecraft Impactor Target Sensor camera recorded this image of M11, the Wild...

Small Effect of Vibrating Martian Soil Sample on Oven Door

This image shows a sample of Martian soil resting on a screen over the opening to one of the eight ovens of the...

Kirkenes, Norway

This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows the town of Kirkenes in northernmost Norway, with its 3400 inhabitants,...

Eos Chaos

The eastern end of Valles Marineris opens into huge low lying channels filled with the mound and valley terrain...

Mars Odyssey All Stars: Cerberus Crack

Geological faulting has opened cracks in the Cerberus region that slice through flat plains and mesas alike. This...

NEOWISE Next Light

NASA NEOWISE spacecraft opened its eyes after more than two years of slumber to see the starry sky with the same...

NGC 300

This image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows the galaxy NGC 300, located about seven million light-years...

Explosions - Large and Small Artist Concept

This artist concept is of Z Camelopardalis Z Cam, a stellar system featuring a collapsed, dead star, or white dwarf,...

NGC 7380

This picture of the open star cluster NGC 7380 is a mosaic of images from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer...

Inspecting a Canister and Sample Collector

Investigators from University of Washington, Johnson Space Center, and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, Denver,...

Soul Nebula

This mosaic from NASA WISE Telescope is of the Soul Nebula. It is an open cluster of stars surrounded by a cloud of...

Phoenix Lidar Operation Animation

This image from NASA Phoenix Mars Lander of the Canadian-built meteorological station lidar, which was successfully...

What’s Up: March 2019 Skywatching Tips from NASA

What can you see in the March sky? Jupiter and other planets in the morning, a change of seasons and an open star...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, a cameraman films part of Discovery’s payload bay for a special feature on the KSC Web. In the background is the open hatch of the airlock, located inside the middeck of the spacecraft’s pressurized crew cabin. The airlock is sized to accommodate two fully suited flight crew members simultaneously. Support functions include airlock depressurization and repressurization, extravehicular activity equipment recharge, liquid-cooled garment water cooling, EVA equipment checkout, donning and communications. The outer hatch isolates the airlock from the unpressurized payload bay when closed and permits the EVA crew members to exit from the airlock to the payload bay when open.