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Let’s Roll, Crew-6!

Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, Pilot Warren "Woody" Hoburg, Commander Stephen Bowen, and Mission Specialist Sultan Alnedayi, the SpaceX Crew-6 mission, pose for a photo atop an emergency egress vehicle at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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NASA Celebrates National Engineers Week: Perspectives from Jamesa Stokes

As NASA celebrates National Engineers Week, NASA Glenn gets perspectives from materials research engineer Jamesa Stokes. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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A Blue Farewell

A blue halo glows around Pluto’s receding crescent in this parting image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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John Glenn Goes Into Orbit

Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Crew-6 Preparations Continue

The sun rises on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Social Media Lead Courtney Lee

“I wanted to create a game because right now, a lot of what we [at NASA] make is geared toward people who already know science...But there are huge audiences out there who, like me, didn't realize that they could love or be intrigued with NASA because it was never where they were." – Courtney Lee, Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Social Media Lead (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Venus, Jupiter, Moon Shine from Space Station

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly snapped this photo of the Earth’s crescent, the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter (from top to bottom) on Aug. 6, 2015, while he was aboard the International Space Station. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Pre-Dawn Launch for Crew-6

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries the company's Dragon spacecraft with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission members aboard in this five-minute long exposure taken on Thursday, March 2, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Cyclone Freddy is Pictured from the Space Station

Cyclone Freddy is pictured northeast of the island nation of Mauritius from the International Space Station as it orbited 267 miles above the Indian Ocean on Feb. 20, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Dumbbell Nebula Pumps Out Light Show

Infrared light surges out from the Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27, in this Aug. 10, 2011, image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Eileen Collins, Discovery Pilot

Former astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot’s station aboard space shuttle Discovery during a hotfiring procedure on Feb. 2, 1995. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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A Sliver of the Sun

The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Aug. 21, 2017. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Hubble Spots a Star-Forming Spiral

The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with Crew-5 mission members aboard on Saturday, March 11, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Deputy Associate Administrator for STEM Engagement Kris Brown

"…Yes, you must be good at math and do the academic work to prepare you to do the kind of work we do. But in the end, it really comes down to unleashing this creativity and bringing minds together to achieve something that hasn’t been done before." — Kris Brown, Deputy Associate Administrator for STEM Engagement, NASA Headquarters (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Diana Trujillo Sparks Students' Curiosity

Elementary school students eagerly raise their hands as Diana Trujillo, technical group supervisor for sequence planning and execution and tactical mission lead for the Mars Perseverance rover, speaks to them on March 13, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Sunrise Over the Pacific

An orbital sunrise reveals cloud tops above the Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above on Feb. 10, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Venus' Volcano

Maat Mons, a volcano on Venus that has shown signs of a recent eruption, is in the black square near the planet’s equator in this annotated, computer-simulated global map of Venus’ surface. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Galactic Giants Titan and Saturn

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks quite small in comparison to the giant planet behind it in this natural color view from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Louisiana’s Rice Fields

This Feb 3, 2023, enhanced-color image from Landsat 9 highlights a green and blue patchwork pattern in flooded rice fields in southwestern Louisiana. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)