Posted on October 6, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Suited Up for a Day’s Work
Astronaut Randy Bresnik conducts a spacewalk on October 5. October 06, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2y0CIR2
Posted on October 5, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: First Meeting of the National Space Council
Members of the National Space Council are seen during the council’s first meeting on Oct. 5 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The council, chaired by Vice President Mike Pence heard testimony… Read More
Posted on October 4, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Oct. 4, 1957 – Sputnik, the Dawn of the Space Age
History changed on Oct. 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The world’s first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball, about 23 inches in diameter and… Read More
Posted on October 3, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: It’s Planting Season on the International Space Station
It’s planting season on the International Space Station! NASA astronaut Joe Acaba prepared the Veggie facility for three different kinds of lettuce seeds as part of the VEG-03-D investigation. This is the first time seeds from multiple kinds… Read More
Posted on October 2, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Goodbye to the Dark Side
Stunning views like this image of Saturn’s night side are only possible thanks to our robotic emissaries like Cassini. October 02, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2hHltR0
Posted on September 29, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: 95 Minutes Over Jupiter
This sequence of color-enhanced images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it swoops by Jupiter. September 28, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2yMOui7
Posted on September 28, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: This Week in NASA History: Second Crewed Skylab Mission Splashes Down – Sept. 25, 1973
This week in 1973, the second crewed Skylab mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean following a successful 59-day mission in the orbiting laboratory. September 27, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2wWUaUt
Posted on September 27, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Rift on Pine Island Glacier
A new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where ice from the interior of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured… Read More
Posted on September 26, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: OSIRIS-REx Views the Earth During Flyby
A color composite image of Earth was taken on Sept. 22, 2017, by the MapCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. September 26, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2xD7UHx
Posted on September 25, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Phantom Limb
The brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looks ethereal against the blackness of space. This image is a composite of images taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 29, 2017, using filters that allow infrared,… Read More