Actor Brad Pitt spoke with NASA astronaut Nick Hague, currently aboard the International Space Station, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019 from the Space Operations Center at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Pitt, who stars as an astronaut in his latest film Ad Astra, spoke with Hague about what it’s like to li […]
In this image from June 2002, astronaut Franklin R. Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a spacewalk on the STS-111 mission to perform work on the International Space Station. The first spacewalk of the mission began with the installation of a power and data Grapple fixture (PDGF) for the
At 10:23 a.m. EDT Sept. 12, 1992, Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space, launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour for the STS-47 mission. In this image, she had just completed participating in crew egress training for the mission during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. Jemison and Sha
This 2019 photo of Manhattan, taken by astronaut Nick Hague from aboard the International Space Station, shows Manhattan as it looks today, 18 years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. NASA remembers the anniversary in images and looks to the future as we continue to explore space. Image Credit: NA
It’s Back to School Week and NASA has STEM activities to keep students motivated. In this image, students use real data from NASA’s GRACE satellites to track water mass changes in the U.S. Student activities include estimating water resources using heat-map data, creating a line graph for a sp
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, a veteran of two stays aboard the International Space Station and Space Shuttle mission STS-134, works through a check list inside a mockup of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner during a simulation at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Aug. 21, 2019. Fincke, along with NASA astronaut
In late August 2019, scientists from NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 mission joined their counterparts from the joint European-Russian ExoMars mission in an expedition to the Australian Outback, one of the most remote, arid regions on the planet. Both teams came to hone their research techniques bef
Located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major, which also includes the Big Dipper, nearby galaxy Messier 81 is easily visible through binoculars or a small telescope. M81 is located at a distance of 12 million light-years. M81 was one of the first publicly released datasets soon after the laun
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 61 crewmember Jessica Meir of NASA climbs aboard a Soyuz trainer during final crew qualification exams on Aug. 30, 2019. Meir will launch with Expedition 61 crewmember Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and spaceflight participant H
NASA astronaut Christina Koch snapped this image of Hurricane Dorian as the International Space Station during a flyover on Monday, September 2, 2019. The station orbits more than 200 miles above the Earth. Image Credit: NASA 2019年9月2日，星期一，美国宇航局宇航员克里斯蒂娜·科赫在国际空间站上空拍摄了多里安飓风的照片。空间站绕地球200多英里的轨道运行。 图片来源:
