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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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S131-E-009486 (13 April 2010) --- NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson, STS-131 mission specialist, participates in the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Pegasus barge, carrying external tank 134, passes through a bridge into the river near...
S88-31376 (5 May 1961) --- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) suborbital...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery majestically begins its ascent into the predawn sky at Launch Pad 39A...
ISS036-E-011745 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (bottom center), Expedition 36 flight...
Like a rising sun lighting up the afternoon sky, the Space Shuttle Columbia soars from Launch Pad 39B at 2:46:00...
STS066-129-043 (3-14 Nov 1994) --- Clouds over the Atlantic Ocean serve as the backdrop for this 70mm scene of the...
A model Sample Recovery Helicopter drives and positions itself over a sample tube during a test in the Mars Yard at...
S128-E-007171 (1 Sept. 2009) --- Astronaut John “Danny” Olivas, STS-128 mission specialist, participates in the...
ISS023-E-022222 (13 April 2010) --- Dwarfed by components of the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Rick...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An Air Care team from Orlando take a distressed lobster diver to the helicopter to...
S131-E-009379 (13 April 2010) --- NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, STS-131 mission specialist, participates in the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery begins its ascent into the predawn sky over Launch Pad 39A at NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery clears the tower on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Rising on a column of fire, space shuttle Discovery hurtles toward space after liftoff from...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station take a look at one of the...
The abort motor for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, secured in a heavy transport truck, arrives at the entrance to the...
S131-E-009477 (13 April 2010) --- NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, STS-131 mission specialist, participates in the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Port Canaveral, a tugboat relieves the Liberty Star for the move of the Pegasus barge,...
NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations Bill Gerstenmaier, left, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The International Space Station flies across the face of the moon over NASA's Kennedy Space...
This is an onboard photo of the deployment of the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) from the cargo bay of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Vehicle Assembly Building high bay 4 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...