NASA curation team members along with Lockheed Martin recovery specialists look on after the successful removal of the sample return canister lid. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz…
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Lockheed Martin Recovery Specialists Levi Hanish and Michael Kaye remove the lid of the sample return canister. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowiz NASAEstablished in 1958, the National…
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba poses for a portrait on September 16, 2020, in the Blue Flight Control Room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently received samples of the lunar surface that have been…
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…
Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan preparing to collect samples 73001 and 73002 on the Moon in 1972. Gene Cernan collected the sample from a landslip…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Like a time capsule that was sealed for posterity, one of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] People say good things come to those who wait. NASA thinks 50 years is the right amount of time as…
A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A retired microscope and samples from studies on colloids and cellular signaling…
A human journey to MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron oxide is prevalent…
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon capsule atop is raised to the vertical position on June 2, 2021, at Launch Complex 39A at…
An artist’s concept of the Juno spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter. Credit: NASA On August 5, 2011, NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space…
A color composite mosaic showing most of the Moon’s surface, based on images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, photometrically normalized. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University Since…
[embedded content] On July 20, 2001, two NASA astronauts took the first “steps” out of the International Space Station’s Quest airlock, marking the start of…
Illustration showing a close-up of the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), one of the elements of Gateway. Credit: NASA NASA and Northrop Grumman of Dulles,…
Credit: NASA NASA recently received its first sample of asteroid Ryugu, which was returned to Earth last December by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA)…
In this image, engineers use a suited manikin that will fly on Artemis I to conduct vibration testing at Kennedy Space Center on Orion’s seat…
Taken by NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, this picture shows Earth’s limb, or horizon, from the International Space Station asit orbits above the Pacific Ocean off…
NASA astronaut candidate Kayla Barron poses for a portrait after donning her spacesuit, Friday, July 12, 2019, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.…
STS-51L crew members Michael J. Smith, front row left, Francis R. “Dick” Scobee, Ronald E. McNair; Ellison S. Onizuka, back row left, S. Christa McAuliffe,…