The official crew portrait of the SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts representing NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. From left are, Pilot Robert Hines, Mission Specialists Samantha Cristoforetti and…
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A snap of ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during the second spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power system, taken by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough.…
Astronaut Kayla Barron poses for a portrait in front of the Advanced Plant Habitat inside the space station’s Kibo laboratory module. Credit: NASA The seven-member…
Inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the work platforms have been retracted from around the…
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei harvests plants and collects samples to analyze later for a space agriculture study. Credit: NASA Friday’s research schedule aboard the International…
NASA astronaut Drew Feustel is pictured tethered to the International Space Station just outside of the Quest airlock during a spacewalk he conducted with fellow…
This map, made using COWVR’s new observations, shows Earth’s microwave emissions at a frequency that provides information on the strength of winds at the ocean…
Astronauts Kayla Barron and Raja Chari harvest cotton cell samples to explore the genetic architecture of plant regeneration in microgravity. Credit: NASA A U.S. cargo…
February 21, 2022: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Crew Dragon; Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter;…
Americans can feel safer in their homes now than decades ago thanks to studies and standards that have removed highly flammable materials in clothing, beds,…
The next commercial cargo mission to the space station, celebrating the first year of Perseverance on Mars, and the first science images from a recently…
An Antares rocket launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Credit: Bill Ingalls / NASA A fresh supply of 8,300 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo…
Cygnus space freighter. Credit: NASA A U.S. resupply ship is poised to blast off Saturday morning on a day-and-a-half-long journey to replenish the International Space…
The Cygnus space freighter is pictured launching atop the Antares rocket from Virgina to the space station in April of 2019. Credit: NASA A U.S.…
Russia’s Progress 80 resupply ship blasted off on February 14 at 11:25 p.m. EST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA TV The uncrewed…
The Nauka multipurpose laboratory module and the Prichal docking module are pictured as the space station orbited above Australia. Credit: NASA A Russian cargo craft…
This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror, and is reflected to the secondary,…
Astronauts (from left) Thomas Marshburn and Mark Vande Hei peer at the Earth below from inside the seven-windowed cupola, the space station’s window to the…
The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a flyaround of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking…
NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory…