jsc2024e052324 (July 22, 2024) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Zena Cardman and Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson are pictured in their flight suits at SpaceX’s new Dragon refurbishing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2024e052329 (July 22, 2024) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Pilot Nick Hague smiles and gives two thumbs up during the crew equipment interface test (CEIT) at SpaceX’s new Dragon refurbishing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This will be his second mission to the orbiting laboratory. Credit: SpaceX [...]
jsc2024e052323 (July 22, 2024) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Zena Cardman smiles as she gets better acquainted with the Dragon spacecraft, which will take them to the International Space Station no earlier than mid-August. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2024e052330 (July 22, 2024) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov is pictured familiarizing himself with the interior of the Dragon spacecraft, which will take him and the rest of the crew to the International Space Station no earlier than mid-August. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2024e052327 (July 22, 2024) --- The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station poses for a group photo in their flight suits at SpaceX’s new Dragon refurbishing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This will be the first spaceflight for Cardman and Gorbunov, the second mission to the orbiting laboratory [...]
jsc2024e052328 (July 22, 2024) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson focuses during the crew equipment interface test (CEIT). She has collectively spent 42 days in space aboard three space shuttle Discovery missions – STS-120, STS-121, and STS-131. Credit: SpaceX
Photo of the Day A visitor to the inner solar system every 70 years or so Comet 13P/Olbers reached its most recent perihelion, or closest approach to the Sun, on June 30 2024. Now on a return voyage to the distant Oort cloud the Halley-type comet is recorded here sweeping through northern summer night [...]
Photo of the Day What is creating these unusual spots? Light-colored spots on Martian rocks, each surrounded by a dark border, were discovered earlier this month by NASA's Perseverance Rover currently exploring Mars. Dubbed leopard spots because of their seemingly similarity to markings on famous Earth-bound predators, these curious patterns are being studied with [...]
Photo of the Day To some, it looks like a penguin. But to people who study the universe, it is an interesting example of two big galaxies interacting. Just a few hundred million years ago, the upper NGC 2936 was likely a normal spiral galaxy: spinning, creating stars, and minding its own business. Then [...]
Photo of the Day Saturn now rises before midnight in planet Earth's sky. On July 24, the naked-eye planet was in close conjunction, close on the sky, to a waning gibbous Moon. But from some locations on planet Earth the ringed gas giant was occulted, disappearing behind the Moon for about an hour from [...]
