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Astronauts' View of the Moon

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The waxing gibbous Moon stands out in this Jan. 2, 2023, image from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the southern Indian Ocean.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/astronauts-view-of-the-moon

Public Affairs Officer Tiffany Fairley

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay "My big takeaway is: it's okay to take chances. Sometimes we step in our own way and we need to accept help." — Tiffany Fairley, Public Affairs Officer, Artemis Team Lead, NASA's Kennedy Space Center

http://www.nasa.gov/faces-of-nasa/tiffany-fairley

Flora, Fauna at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay In this photo from Oct. 14, 2008, a great blue heron stands watch among a pond of water lilies on NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/flora-fauna-at-nasa-s-kennedy-space-center

Volcanic Plumes in Chile

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Chile’s Villarrica volcano emits steam and other volcanic gases in this photo taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 17, 2023. The gases come from a series of minor explosions—called Strombolian eruptions—that have been ongoing at Villarrica since October 2022.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/volcanic-plumes-in-chile

Day of Remembrance

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lays a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/day-of-remembrance

Hubble Views a Stellar Duo in Orion Nebula

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-views-a-stellar-duo-in-orion-nebula

President Reagan Calls for Space Station

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay On January 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan used his State of the Union address to call for NASA to build a permanent manned space station.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/president-reagan-calls-for-space-station

Astronaut Nicole Mann Makes Her First Spacewalk

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station's starboard truss structure.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/astronaut-nicole-mann-makes-her-first-spacewalk

Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station's starboard truss structure.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/astronaut-nicole-mann-is-pictured-during-her-first-spacewalk

Webb Unveils Dark Side

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained an in-depth inventory of the deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/webb-unveils-dark-side

Suiting Up for Their First Spacewalk

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are pictured on Jan. 12, 2023, during a fit check of their spacesuits inside the Quest airlock ahead of a planned spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station's power generation system.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/suiting-up-for-their-first-spacewalk

Hubble Visits Galactic Neighbors

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy LEDA 48062 in the constellation Perseus.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-visits-galactic-neighbors

Snowy Celestial Mountains

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Snow and ice cover mountains of the Tien Shan range in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 9, 2022.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/snowy-celestial-mountains

A Well-traveled Beagle

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, wears a smile after being unpacked from his transport case on Jan. 5, 2023.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-well-traveled-beagle

Atlanta Shines at Night

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthplace, Atlanta, Georgia, is seen on January 20, 2013, in this image from the International Space Station as it flew approximately 240 miles above the city.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/atlanta-shines-at-night

Fun with Fluid Physics

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is all smiles as he observes the behavior of a free-flying water bubble inside the International Space Station's (ISS) Kibo laboratory module on Oct. 10, 2022.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/fun-with-fluid-physics

Space Station Peek

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann peers through one of the seven windows in the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world" on Jan. 2, 2023.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/space-station-peek

Hubble Gazes at Colorful Cluster of Scattered Stars

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-gazes-at-colorful-cluster-of-scattered-stars

Space Station Swings by Kennedy

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay On April 8, 2022, this 30-second exposure captured the International Space Station as it passed over the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/space-station-swings-by-kennedy

Crew Recovers SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft shortly after it landed on Friday, May 6, 2022 with Crew-3 NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Tom Marshburn, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer aboard.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/crew-recovers-spacex-crew-dragon-endurance