Posted on November 3, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Orion Crew Module Underway Recovery Testing
U.S. Navy divers and other personnel in a rigid hull Zodiac boat have attached tether lines to a test version of the Orion crew module during Underway Recovery Test 5 in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of… Read More
Posted on November 2, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors Will Piece Together Cosmic Puzzles
The primary mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope that consists of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle piece standing in the massive clean room of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The telescope… Read More
Posted on November 1, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Prototype Capture System, Mock Asteroid Help Simulate Mission Sequence
A prototype of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) robotic capture module system is tested with a mock asteroid boulder in its clutches at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The robotic portion of ARM is targeted… Read More
Posted on October 31, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Rains of Terror on Exoplanet HD 189733b
This Halloween, take a tour with NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration site of some of the most terrifying destinations in our galaxy. The nightmare world of HD 189733 b is the killer you never see coming. To the human eye,… Read More
Posted on October 30, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Expedition 49 Soyuz Spacecraft Landing
The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 49 crew members NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) near the town… Read More
Posted on October 28, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins Prepares For the Journey Home
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is pictured inside of the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft while conducting routine spacesuit checks. The Expedition 49 trio of Rubins, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin are scheduled to undock their Soyuz on… Read More
Posted on October 27, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: First Pass of Echo 1 Satellite Over the Goldstone Tracking Station
This photograph shows the first pass of Echo 1, America’s first communications satellite, over the Goldstone Tracking Station managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, in the early morning of Aug. 12, 1960. The movement of… Read More
Posted on October 26, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Paw Paw Bends
The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this image of the Potomac River and canal on September 27, 2016. The image shows the stretch between Hancock and Cumberland, Maryland—about 97 kilometers (60 miles) if you were… Read More
Posted on October 25, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Cygnus Spacecraft Attached to Space Station’s Unity Module
Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo craft (left) is seen from the Cupola module windows aboard the International Space Station on Oct. 23, 2016. The main robotic work station for controlling the Canadarm2 robotic arm is located inside the Cupola… Read More
Posted on October 24, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: CST-100 Starliner Manufacturing
An engineer guides the upper dome of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner as it is connected to the lower dome to complete the first hull of the Starliner’s Structural Test Article. The Starliner is one of two spacecraft in… Read More