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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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Standing on a workstand in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, STS-103 Mission Specialists Steven L. Smith and...
Members of the VERITAS science team pause for a photograph on July 31, 2023, after arriving in Iceland to begin a...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, four STS-103 crew members check the Flight Support System avionics to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Towering atop the mobile launcher platform and crawler transporter, Space Shuttle...
The colorful streamers that float across the sky in this photo taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) were...
This photograph shows the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (GRO) being deployed by the Remote Manipulator System (RMS)...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Towering atop the mobile launcher platform and crawler transporter, Space Shuttle...
During a Crew Equipment Interface Test in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, members of the STS-103 crew...
STS-103 Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. answers a question from the media about the mission. As a preparation for...
Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, best known as the discoverer...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Under low clouds and fog, Space Shuttle Discovery makes its trek along the stretch of...
Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy....
In this photograph, Dr. Gerald Fishman of the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), a principal investigator of the...
The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO...
In the mid-deck of the orbiter Discovery, STS-103 crew Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. and Pilot Scott J. Kelly check...
This is an onboard photo of Astronaut John M. Grunsfield, STS-109 payload commander, participating in the third of...
About 110 million light years away, the bright, barred spiral galaxy NGC3259 was just forming stars in dark bands of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Pad 39B, STS-103 Mission Specialist C. Michael Foale (Ph.D.) looks over the...
In the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 1, STS-103 Pilot Scott J. Kelly sits in the pilot's seat of the orbiter...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging...
Standing left to right, STS-103 Pilot Scott J. Kelly, Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr., and Mission Specialist...
Final still from Fermi video [bit.ly/Y2K4LN]. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration ----- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray...
STS-103 Mission Specialists Jean-François Clervoy of France takes his seat inside the Space Shuttle Discovery during...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, a member of the STS-103 crew checks out rib clamp to be used on the...