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S127-E-011177 (28 July 2009) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space, the International Space Station is seen from...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The afternoon sun streaming through the Fixed Service Structure throws grid-like...
Today's VIS image shows part of Ariadnes Colles. The term colles means hills or knobs. The hills appear brighter...
A locking pin can be seen in the background, almost as a shadow, next to the orbiter aft ET attachment. Locking pins...
S127-E-011181 (28 July 2009) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth’s horizon, the International Space...
The south polar layered deposits are icy layers that have been deposited over millions of years, preserving a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Afternoon shadows cast a grid over the Space Shuttle Endeavour’s white solid rocket...
STS080-752-011 (19 Nov.-7 Dec. 1996) --- This view, photographed by one the crewmembers aboard the Earth-orbiting...
The shadow of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard atop the mobile launcher is...
From the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, guests joined Americans from coast to coast following the solar...
From the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, guests joined Americans from coast to coast following the solar...
From the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, guests joined Americans from coast to coast following the solar...
As seen through a window on the Space Shuttle Endeavor's aft flight deck, the International Space Station (ISS),...
From the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, guests joined Americans from coast to coast following the solar...
Do you see a dome or a pit? Sometimes it is hard to tell! In this case, the answer is that we're looking at a pit,...
Dan Andrews, Project Manager LCROSS and Craig Tooley, Project Manager LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) in front of...
A partial eclipse on Florida's Space Coast, the rare astronomical event was photographed from the top of the Vehicle...
art002e009283 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew, the heavily cratered terrain of the eastern edge of...
art002e016299 (April 6, 2026) - Earthrise captured from a camera mounted on one of the Orion spacecraft’s solar...
art002e020686 (April 6, 2026) – A portion of the Moon’s farside is seen along the terminator—the boundary between...
On October 9, 2019, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, LCROSS project manager Daniel...
NASA is sending a mobile robot to the south pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and...
The downward-looking navigation camera aboard NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this image of the rotorcraft's...
Shadows cast across Mimas' defining feature, Herschel Crater, provide an indication of the size of the crater's...