Psyche Rollout
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the horizontal integration facility at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Psyche mission, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will travel to a metal-rich asteroid by the same name orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter to study its composition. The spacecraft also carries the agency's Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration, which will test laser communications beyond the Moon.
Hubble Views a Vibrant Virgo Cluster Galaxy
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay It’s easy to get swept up in the swirling starry arms of this intermediate spiral galaxy, NGC 4654, in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy has a bright center and is labeled “intermediate” because it has characteristics of both unbarred and barred spirals. NGC 4654 is just north of the celestial equator, making it visible from the northern hemisphere and most of the southern hemisphere. The galaxy is around 55 million light-years from Earth.
Research Scientist Alfonso Davila
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay “I think the experience of putting yourself in an uncomfortable environment and coming at the other end with lessons learned is always positive. Trying to expand the windows of where you feel comfortable gives you a chance to know yourself better." — Alfonso Davila, Research Scientist, Exobiology Branch, NASA's Ames Research Center
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/environmental-portrait-of-alfonso-davila/
A Bear on Mars?
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay This feature looks a bit like a bear's face. What is it really? There's a hill with a V-shaped collapse structure (the nose), two craters (the eyes), and a circular fracture pattern (the head). The circular fracture pattern might be due to the settling of a deposit over a buried impact crater. Maybe the nose is a volcanic or mud vent and the deposit could be lava or mud flows? Maybe just grin and bear it.
Astronaut Raja Chari Is Ready for Taco Night
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay iss066e083715 (Nov. 26, 2021) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Raja Chari is ready for taco night as he shows off a taco made with fresh chile peppers harvested from inside the International Space Station's Advanced Plant Habitat.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/astronaut-raja-chari-ready-taco-night-2/
Expedition 69 Soyuz Landing
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is carried to a medical tent shortly after he, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev landed in their Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The trio are returning to Earth after logging 371 days in space as members of Expeditions 68-69 aboard the International Space Station. For Rubio, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/expedition-69-soyuz-landing-2/
Origin of Marshall Space Flight Center
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created on October 1, 1958, to perform civilian research related to space flight and aeronautics. President Eisenhower commissioned Dr. T. Keith Glennan, right, as the first administrator for NASA and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden as deputy administrator.
OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Lands in the Utah Desert
Hubble Sees a Sparkling Neighbor Galaxy
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-eso300-16-potw2334a/
Testing the First U.S. Crewed Launch Vehicle, Mercury-Redstone
Crew-7 Members Arrive for Prelaunch Activities
Hubble Captures Cosmic Cluster
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-abell3322-potw2332a/
Student Experiments Take Flight on Sounding Rocket from NASA Wallops
Ospreys Make a Home at Kennedy
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/ksc-20230607-ph-jbs01-0025orig/
Wildfires in the Northwest Territories
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/yellowknife-fire-amo-2023220-lrg/
Artemis II Crew, Meet Orion
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/ksc-20230807-ph-kls01-0487orig/
An Artist’s Concept of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Landing
