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The four astronauts who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II visited Washington on Wednesday, May 17, to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen were announced Monday, April 3, as the four astro...
拉古纳圣拉斐尔国家公园以其众多河流和巴塔哥尼亚北部最大的冰川之一而闻名，这张照片拍摄于2023年5月9日，当时空间站在智利上空268英里的轨道上运行。
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Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the world premiere performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Cosmic Cycles,” in this photo from Thursday, May 11, 2023, as an enhanced color image of Jupiter is displayed above. “Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony” is a collaboration between composer Henry Dehlinger, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and th...
Clouds of smoke billow out over the surrounding area as the uncrewed Skylab 1/Saturn V space vehicle launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on May 14, 1973. The Skylab 1 payload included the major components of the space station: the orbital workshop, Apollo Telescope Mount, multiple docking adapter, and airlock module. The Skylab 2 crew was scheduled to ...
A team member from the Environmental Management Branch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center works to remove a mangrove seedling deposited by tropical winds on the shoreline of KARS Park at Kennedy in this image from April 12, 2023. This spring, workers in the area replaced sand and finished an offshore wave break. The mangroves will be repotted and held in nearby ...
Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in this picture from April 22, 1965. Oyama had a long career at NASA, during which he served as Life Detection Systems branch chief; he examined lunar soil samples and also helped design experiments for the Viking Mars Landers. Both he an...
NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi (partially obscured) are pictured in their spacesuits, exiting the International Space Station’s Quest airlock and beginning a spacewalk on April 28, 2023. The duo spent seven hours and one minute in the vacuum of space routing cables and installing insulation, readying the...
Popocatépetl, one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes, has been erupting since 2005. On April 14, 2023, when this image was acquired by Landsat 8, monitoring systems detected water vapor, volcanic gases, and ash coming from the volcano. Plumes rose as high as 4.5 miles (7.3 kilometers). Learn more about Popocatépetl. Image Credit: NASA/Lauren Dauphin; USGS 波波卡...
Curtis Flack (left) and Paul von Hardenberg inspect the ice formation on the spinner of an Advanced Air Mobility proprotor model tested in the Icing Research Tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Data from the test will be used by icing researchers to better understand the risks of icing on electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles, assis...