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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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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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NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The crawler-transporter carrying Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) number 3, with a set of twin solid rocket boosters bolted atop, crawls to the intersection in the crawlerway in support of the second engineering analysis vibration test on the crawler and MLP. From this perspective, the Launch Control Center (left) and the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building (right) in the background appear dwarfed by the 184-foot-tall boosters. The crawler is moving at various speeds up to 1 mph in an effort to achieve vibration data gathering goals as it leaves the VAB, travels toward Launch Pad 39A and then returns. The boosters are braced at the top for stability. The primary purpose of these rollout tests is to gather data to develop future maintenance requirements on the transport equipment and the flight hardware. Various parts of the MLP and crawler transporter have been instrumented with vibration data collection equipment.
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Nov 21, 2003

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The crawler-transporter carrying Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) number 3, with a set of twin solid rocket boosters bolted atop, crawls to the intersection in the crawlerway in support of the second engineering analysis vibration test on the crawler and MLP. From this perspective, the Launch Control Center (left) and the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building (right) in the background appear dwarfed by the 184-foot-tall boosters. The crawler is moving at various speeds up to 1 mph in an effort to achieve vibration data gathering goals as it leaves the VAB, travels toward Launch Pad 39A and then returns. The boosters are braced at the top for stability. The primary purpose of these rollout tests is to gather data to develop future maintenance requirements on the transport equipment and the flight hardware. Various parts of the MLP and crawler transporter have been instrumented with vibration data collection equipment.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The crawler-transporter carrying Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) number 3, with a set of...

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NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, a lift helps offload NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft shipped from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be taken into a high bay clean room and 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.
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Mar 10, 2004

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, a lift helps offload NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft shipped from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be taken into a high bay clean room and 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.

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Feb 8, 2013

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VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – The Mission Director's Center MDC inside the Remote Launch Control Center RLCC at...

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NASA image: Wernher von Braun
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Jan 31, 1971

Wernher von Braun

Dr. Wernher von Braun, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Future Programs, uses binoculars to monitor data on...

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Feb 8, 2013

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VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – The Mission Director's Center MDC inside the Remote Launch Control Center RLCC at...

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Mar 26, 2004

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The 525-foot-high Vehicle Assembly Building dominates the Launch Complex 39 Area. The major...

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Feb 8, 2013

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VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – The Mission Director's Center MDC inside the Remote Launch Control Center RLCC at...

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NASA image: KSC-2013-1819
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Feb 8, 2013

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VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – The Mission Director's Center MDC inside the Remote Launch Control Center RLCC at...

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Jan 3, 2001

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- At the top of the incline to Launch Pad 39A, Space Shuttle Atlantis nears the Rotating...

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NASA image: STS-118 Flight Controllers on console during mission - (Ascent Team) - (WFCR)
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Aug 8, 2007

STS-118 Flight Controllers on console during mission - (Ascent Team) - (WFCR)

JSC2007-E-41734 (8 Aug. 2007) --- At the CAPCOM console in the space shuttle flight operations control room of...

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Dec 4, 1998

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In a firing room of the Launch Control Center,U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright waves to the personnel...

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NASA image: MCC during STS-106
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Sep 8, 2000

MCC during STS-106

JSC2000-E-22288 (8 September2000) --- In Houston's Mission Control Center, flight directors LeRoy Cain, from left...

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Jan 3, 2001

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- At the top of the incline to Launch Pad 39A, Space Shuttle Atlantis nears the Rotating...

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NASA image: Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1
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Jul 11, 2019

Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1

Members of the Artemis 1 launch team, including personnel with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and Jacobs...

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NASA image: Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1
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Jul 11, 2019

Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1

Jeremy Graeber, chief NASA test director, participates in validation testing inside Firing Room 1 in the Launch...

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NASA image: STS-134 Flight Controllers on Console - Launch. Flight Director: Richard Jones
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May 16, 2011

STS-134 Flight Controllers on Console - Launch. Flight Director: Richard Jones

JSC2011-E-044080 (16 May 2011) --- Inside the space shuttle flight control room in Houston?s Mission Control Center...

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NASA image: STS-133 launch
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Feb 24, 2011

STS-133 launch

STS133-S-064 (24 Feb. 2011) --- In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...

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NASA image: Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1
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Jul 11, 2019

Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1

Members of the Artemis 1 launch team, including personnel with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and Jacobs...

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NASA image: Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1
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Jul 11, 2019

Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1

Members of the Artemis 1 launch team, including personnel with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and Jacobs...

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NASA image: Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1
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Jul 11, 2019

Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1

A member of the Artemis 1 launch team participates in validation testing inside Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control...

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Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1

Members of the Artemis 1 launch team, including personnel with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and Jacobs...

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Jul 11, 2019

Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1

Members of the Artemis 1 launch team, including personnel with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and Jacobs...

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NASA image: Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1
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Jul 11, 2019

Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1

Members of the Artemis 1 launch team, including personnel with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and Jacobs...

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Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1

Members of the Artemis 1 launch team, including personnel with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and Jacobs...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, a lift helps offload...

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