OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Lands in the Utah Desert

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A Leisurely Swim

A turtle moves through a waterway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 4, 2017. via NASA https://ift.tt/A1VrCvU

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Lands in the Utah Desert

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. via NASA https://ift.tt/9ma2lQf

Seeing New Zealand From a New Perspective

Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli captured this image of New Zealand, dotted by white clouds, on Sept. 12, 2023, as the International Space Station orbited 230 miles above the island nation. via NASA https://ift.tt/p93ysEr

Artemis II Astronauts Complete Day of Launch Dry Run for Moon Mission

The Artemis II crew and teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program successfully completed on Sept. 20, the first in a series of integrated ground system tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the upcoming mission around the Moon. via NASA https://ift.tt/zwPfeZS

Strategic Communications Manager Isidro Reyna

"The stars aligned – I was working at Johnson Space Center in Houston about six months later. That’s how I got here, in a roundabout way.” — Isidro Reyna, Strategic Communications Manager, Strategic Integration and Management Division, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters via NASA https://ift.tt/srpXhND

NASA Moon Camera Mosaic Sheds Light on Lunar South Pole

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Artemis Landing and Recovery Director Liliana Villarreal

"It's amazing when I get a chance to see the space station fly over. I am very fortunate to be able to say that my hands were on a lot of the hardware that is up there. I’m very proud to have been part of the International Space Station program.” — Liliana Villarreal, Artemis Landing and Recovery Director, Exploration Ground Systems via NASA https://ift.tt/fX7nBuk

Accelerated Ice Breakup in Hudson Bay

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the NOAA-20 satellite captured this image of fragmented ice in Hudson Bay on June 28, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/cTOC6Pv

DROID 2 Captures the Wind

Justin Hall lands the Dryden Remotely Operated Integrated Drone 2 (DROID 2) aircraft at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Aug. 22, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/bEBKULc

Frank Rubio Breaks NASA’s Single Spaceflight Record

In this image from July 24, 2023, astronaut Frank Rubio completes a session on the Surface Avatar Remote Control Terminal, which investigates how haptic controls, user interfaces, and virtual reality could command and control surface-bound robots from long distances. via NASA https://ift.tt/OUbhHjl

Snowy Egret Searches the Waters

A snowy egret, identifiable by its slender black bill, black legs and yellow feet, marches through a pond near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, looking for food in this image from March 29, 2007. via NASA https://ift.tt/jH94RxA

Opening the Hatch: Crew-6 Splashdown

Support teams onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN work to open the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 4, 2023, with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard. via NASA https://ift.tt/S2eLJgi

Hubble Sees Glittering Globular Cluster Embedded Inside Our Milky Way

Hubble's colorful image of the globular star cluster Terzan 12 is a spectacular example of how dust in space affects starlight coming from background objects. via NASA https://ift.tt/WXqURZo

Practicing for the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return

A recovery team member takes part in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission in this image from Aug. 29, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/Wa5uTzo

Voyager 1 Lifts Off Toward an Interstellar Journey

Voyager 1 Lifts Off Toward an Interstellar Journey via NASA https://ift.tt/gXlJKrm