NASA Gallery

Explore NASA's vast collection of space images, videos, and audio from missions past and present.

NASA's Image and Video Library: A Visual Archive of Space Exploration

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.

The library includes imagery from diverse sources: telescopes like Hubble and Webb that capture deep-space nebulae, galaxies, and exoplanets; planetary missions like the Mars rovers ( browse Mars photos) and Cassini at Saturn; Earth observation satellites ( see EPIC imagery); astronaut photography from the ISS; and documentation of rocket launches, spacecraft assembly, and ground testing. Most NASA images are in the public domain and free to download at full resolution for educational, editorial, and personal use.

Use the search bar above to find specific subjects — try queries like "Apollo 11," "Hubble Deep Field," "Mars surface," or "astronaut EVA." You can also filter by media type (image, video, or audio). For a daily curated experience, visit the Astronomy Picture of the Day.

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Apr 28, 2010

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the walls of the Mercury Mission Control...

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May 5, 2010

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a Caterpillar 330 track-hoe, at right, cleans...

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May 3, 2010

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, demolition of the Mercury Mission Control...

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Apr 28, 2010

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a Caterpillar 330 track-hoe rips through the...

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Mar 9, 1964

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Renamed the Mission Control Center, the facility continued to be the flight control through...

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Jun 22, 1964

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Renamed the Mission Control Center, the facility continued to be the flight control through...

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Apr 6, 1964

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Mission Control Center, flight controllers work during the Gemini I mission, an...

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Jun 4, 1963

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Between 1962 and 1963, the Mission Control Center was modified to handle the additional...

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Feb 13, 1963

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Between 1962 and 1963, the Mission Control Center was modified to handle the additional...

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Mar 1, 1963

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Between 1962 and 1963, the Mission Control Center was modified to handle the additional...

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Mar 9, 1964

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The tracking board and consoles are seen inside the Mission Control Center during the early...

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Feb 13, 1963

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Between 1962 and 1963, the Mission Control Center was modified to handle the additional...

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Oct 23, 1959

Artistic View of Mercury Astronaut Training

This composite image includes a photograph of pilot Joe Algranti testing the Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility...

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Jan 1, 1963

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S63-07881 (15-16 May 1963) --- Walter C. Williams, Flight Operations Director; and Chris Kraft, Chief of the Flight...

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Nov 7, 2016

Heroes and Legends Exhibit

Inside the Heroes and Legends attraction at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, interactive features include...

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Mar 10, 2004

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Shipped in an air-conditioned transportation van from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, the first Mercury orbiter, arrives at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be offloaded and taken into a high bay clean room. After the spacecraft is removed from its shipping container, employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, builders of the spacecraft, will perform an initial state-of-health check. Then processing for launch can begin, including checkout of the power systems, communications systems and control systems. The thermal blankets will also be attached for flight. MESSENGER will be launched May 11 on a six-year mission aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 2:26 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 11.