Space NASA Image of the Day

Frank Rubio Trains for Spacewalk

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In this March 7, 2022, image, astronaut Frank Rubio gets help putting on a spacesuit at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to train for spacewalks. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
John W. Young’s Lunar Salute

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Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 spacewalk. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Golden DART’s Galactic Unboxing

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Technicians prepare to move NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft from a shipping container onto a work stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in this image from Oct. 4, 2021. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
DART Team Celebrates Successful Collision

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In this image from Sept. 26, 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) team, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, and guests at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory cheer as they receive confirmation of DART’s collision with Dimorphos. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Staring Into the Hurricane's Eye

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On September 28, the Landsat 8 satellite passed directly over Ian’s eye as the storm approached southwest Florida. The natural-color image above was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) at 11:57 a.m. local time (15:57 Universal Time), three hours before the storm made landfall in Caya Costa. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Solid Science from Serena Auñón-Chancellor

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Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor installs samples for the Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in this image from Nov. 27, 2018. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Mission Casts Long Exposure Light Beam

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In this 20-second exposure from Oct. 5, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Systems Engineer Andres Rivera

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“A lot of people in similar positions as myself, we struggle a lot with confidence and imposter syndrome – I try to help people see that there’s an opportunity, and that if you work hard and are willing to evoke whatever it takes to get there, you can get it.” – Andres Rivera, Systems Engineer II, Europa Clipper, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Safe Return for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Astronauts

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After 170 days in orbit, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti safely splashed down Friday, October 14, 2022, off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Aerial Leaf Peeping in Adirondack Park

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Our Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 acquired this vibrant image of deciduous trees and conifers in the Adirondack Mountains in northeast New York on Oct. 8, 2022. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
Crew-4 Members Pose for Pre-Return Photo

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 members Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti link arms for a portrait on Oct. 14, 2022, just before boarding the Dragon Freedom crew ship, undocking from the International Space Station, and returning to Earth, completing a 170-day space research mission. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)
 
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