NASA Science to Return to Earth aboard SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled to be released from the International Space Station and splash down in the Pacific Ocean Saturday, Jan. 13, west of Baja California.
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Studying the Genetics of Organisms in Space At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, organisms in a Petri plate are exposed to blue excitation lighting in a Spectrum prototype unit. NASA scientists and engineers are developing experiments to determine how different organisms, such as plants, microbes or worms, develop under conditions of microgravity.
Hubble Digs into Cosmic Archaeology This Hubble infrared image is part of an observing program that imaged 41 massive galaxy clusters to find the brightest distant galaxies for theJames Webb Space Telescope to study.
Viewing Australia’s Great Sandy Desert From Space Flying hundreds of miles above, astronauts aboard the International Space Station photographed Lake Hazlett and Lake Willis in Western Australia’s Great Sandy Desert. Hundreds of ephemeral salt lakes are peppered throughout the arid Australian Outback.
Learning to Walk Before Heading to Space Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen is suspended over a mock-up of the International Space Station during a microgravity simulation.
From Hot to Hottest This sequence of images shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere, all taken at about the same time on Oct. 27, 2017.
Revealing What Lies Beneath This false-color image demonstrates how use of special filters available on the Curiosity Mars rover’s Mast Camera (Mastcam) can reveal the presence of certain minerals in target rocks.
Tests Ensure Astronaut, Ground Crew Safety Before Orion Launches NASA is performing a series of tests to evaluate how astronauts and ground crew involved in final preparations before Orion missions will quickly get out of the spacecraft, if an emergency were to occur on the pad prior to launch.
Pandora, the Would-Be Perturber As Cassini hurtled toward its fatal encounter with Saturn, the spacecraft turned to catch this final look at Saturn’s moon Pandora next to the thin line of the F ring.
Space Station Crew Sees Lots of Clouds Expedition 53 Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (ESA) photographed cloudy skies over Sudan during an International Space Station flyover on Oct. 22, 2017. Nespoli shared the image with his followers on social media on Nov. 6, writing, « #EarthFromSpace means also… Lots of clouds! How