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iss074e0314160 (Feb. 16, 2026) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Expedition 74 Flight Engineer Sophie...
iss072e456120 (Jan. 13, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nick Hague works in the Destiny...
iss072e308314 (Dec. 2, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams swaps a hard drive inside...
iss074e0518253 (April 23, 2026) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 flight engineer Jessica Meir processes samples...
AS16-116-18671 (23 April 1972) --- Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, works at the "Shadow Rock",...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama at a site nicknamed "Ubajara" on April 30, 2023, the...
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what...
In this photograph, a laboratory technician handles a portion of the more than 20 different plant lines that were...
In this photograph, laboratory technician Bart Ruark visually inspects a Japanese Qail confined within a class III...
AS16-106-17413 (23 April 1972) --- Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, looks...
ISS022-E-068655 (19 Feb. 2010) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Expedition 22 flight engineer, collects samples...
iss072e146339 (Nov. 7, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams points to the Advanced...
ISS009-E-28772 (14 October 2004) --- Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, Expedition 9 NASA ISS science officer and...
ISS022-E-068654 (19 Feb. 2010) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Expedition 22 flight engineer, collects samples...
These 26 holes represent each of the rock samples NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected as of early July 2020. A...
The benefits of space station research and development, refining the architecture for the Mars Sample Return...
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers prepare to...
Ivanka Trump, advisor to President Donald Trump, touches a sample from the moon that former astronaut Jack Schmitt,...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover examined a mudstone outcrop area called "Pahrump Hills" on lower Mount Sharp, in 2014...
This self-portrait of NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at a drilled sample site called Okoruso, on the...
NASA Mars rover Curiosity has delivered sample portions of rock powder collected from the interior of a rock on Mars...
This illustration shows some of the components on and near the end of the robotic arm on NASA Phoenix Mars Lander....
This illustration based on results from Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, instrument on NASA Curiosity rover shows...
One part of the MECA instrument for NASA Phoenix Mars Lander is a pair of telescopes with a special wheel on the...