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NASA's Image and Video Library is one of the most comprehensive public archives of space imagery in the world, containing over 140,000 images, videos, and audio recordings spanning more than six decades of space exploration. From the earliest Mercury and Gemini missions through the Apollo Moon landings, the Space Shuttle era, and today's cutting-edge observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, this collection documents humanity's journey into the cosmos.
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S69-40110 (25 July 1969) --- The first Apollo 11 sample return container, containing lunar surface material, is...
NASA communications teams and members of the Air Force’s 2nd Audiovisual Squadron participate in television...
NASA communications teams and members of the Air Force’s 2nd Audiovisual Squadron prepare a backdrop, Sunday, Aug....
iss042e29609 (3/4/2015) --- Photographic documentation taken prior to collection of surface and air samples using...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Stardust spacecraft is ready for the sample return capsule to be...
iss043e198394 (5/15/2015) --- Photographic documentation taken prior to collection of surface and air samples using...
iss042e296526 (3/4/2015) --- Photographic documentation taken prior to collection of surface and air samples using...
iss042e296534 (3/4/2015) --- Photographic documentation taken prior to collection of surface and air samples using...
iss043e198418 (5/15/2015) --- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is shown during the collection of surface and air samples...
ISS015-E-31714 (3 Oct. 2007) --- NASA astronaut Clay Anderson, Expedition 15 flight engineer, poses with a microbial...
ISS015-E-31717 (3 Oct. 2007) --- Astronaut Clay Anderson, Expedition 15 flight engineer, poses with a microbial air...
ISS008-E-22362 (28 April 2004) --- Cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Expedition 9 commander representing Russia’s...
ISS008-E-22363 (28 April 2004) --- Cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Expedition 9 commander representing Russia’s...
OSIRIS-REx Launch Event at Goddard Visitor Center. NASA's first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at...
OSIRIS-REx Launch Event at Goddard Visitor Center. NASA's first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at...
ISS036-E-026661 (31 July 2013) --- In the International Space Station?s Rassvet Mini-Research Module (MRM1), Russian...
NASA Astronaut and Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt delivers remarks and shows a moon rock sample being...
ISS036-E-030115 (9 Aug. 2013) --- European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, Expedition 36 flight engineer,...
iss052e006446 (Jun. 23, 2017) --- Microbial Tracking-2 in the Node 2 module at air sampling location number 5...
A virtual tour of the JSC Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry Laboratory that is two distinct, but interrelated...
iss052e006453 (Jun. 23, 2017) --- Microbial Tracking-2 in the Node 2 module at air sampling location number 2...
NASA Glenn’s Propulsion Systems Lab (PSL) is conducting research to characterize ice crystal clouds that can create...
OSIRIS-REx Launch Event at Goddard Visitor Center. NASA's first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at...
A technology demonstration instrument aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has operated on the Moon as...