Hurricane Idalia in the Gulf of Mexico

Hurricane Idalia is pictured in the Gulf of Mexico from the International Space Station. via NASA https://ift.tt/nSiklge

Guy Bluford, the First African American in Space

In this image from Sept. 5, 1983, Guion “Guy” Bluford checks out the sample pump on the continuous flow electrophoresis system experiment in the middeck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger. via NASA https://ift.tt/bu30sq7

Studying the Wind with Weather Balloons

Rocky Garcia and Wesley James prepare a weather balloon to collect wind data at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on July 20, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/fbQTLVU

Testing the First U.S. Crewed Launch Vehicle, Mercury-Redstone

A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in this photo from the late 1950s. via NASA https://ift.tt/3qte2FX

Psyche Comes Together

In this image from July 18, 2023, a NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto a stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida. via NASA https://ift.tt/CNdfjwY

A Gateway to the Moon

Gateway's International Habitat module, provided by ESA, is the focus of this rendered image from Aug. 18, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/z20t184

Crew-7 Members Arrive for Prelaunch Activities

The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission spoke at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 20, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/YQR1jwf

Hubble Captures Cosmic Cluster

The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks in the center. via NASA https://ift.tt/oFkGwyU

Student Experiments Take Flight on Sounding Rocket from NASA Wallops

A Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket carrying students experiments for the RockOn! mission successfully launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Aug. 17 at 6 a.m. EDT. via NASA https://ift.tt/rObh5nR

Ospreys Make a Home at Kennedy

Two ospreys perch in their nest atop a marshalling area sign in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this photo from June 7, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/XuMp61x

Wildfires in the Northwest Territories

On August 8, 2023, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of dense plumes of smoke streaming from dozens of large fires in the Northwest Territories. via NASA https://ift.tt/DdBG641

Artemis II Crew, Meet Orion

While wearing clean room suits, the Artemis II crew members check out their Orion crew module inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 7, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/ajRmTGU

An Artist’s Concept of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Landing

This artist’s concept from July 11, 1969, depicts the Apollo 11 lunar module (LM) Eagle landing on the surface of the Moon. via NASA https://ift.tt/Qz0sqhZ

Phoenix’s Red Planet Selfie

NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander gathered images of itself for this selfie from June 5 through July 12, 2008, with its Surface Stereo Imager. via NASA https://ift.tt/Vz6pHR3

Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected

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Commander Moonikin Campos Goes Sledding

In this image from April 2023, NASA’s Moonikin Campos enjoys a quiet moment during acceleration sled testing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. via NASA https://ift.tt/WvAmkng

Testing New Wheels for the Moon

In this image from June 2023, an engineer watches a development model rover during a test for NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) technology demonstration in the Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. via NASA https://ift.tt/tsoQDj6

Testing New Wheels for Mars

In this image from June 2023, an engineer watches a development model rover during a test for NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) technology demonstration in the Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. via NASA https://ift.tt/UKCDMOy

Hubble Glimpses a Glitzy Galactic Cluster

The glittering, glitzy contents of the globular cluster NGC 6652 sparkle in this star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/Ej8KZ7G

Baghdad from the International Space Station

United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi captured this image of the city lights of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Tigris River on July 18, 2023, as the International Space Station orbited 261 miles above the Middle Eastern nation. via NASA https://ift.tt/nJiz04W

NASA’S SpaceX Crew-7 Members Prepare for Their Mission

On April 28, 2023, the Crew-7 members (from left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa) took a moment to snap a photo atop an emergency egress vehicle at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. via NASA https://ift.tt/qQh2rtB

Terra Observes Shark Bay, Australia

Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve, seen here in an image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on the Terra spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2010, is a special site. via NASA https://ift.tt/km7RlWx