Artemis III crewmembers NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, commander; Frank Rubio, mission specialist; European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, pilot; NASA astronauts Andre Douglas, mission specialist, and Bob Hines, backup crewmember, visit the Starship launch tower at Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo Credit: (NASA/John Kraus) [...]
Artemis III crewmembers European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, pilot; and NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, commander; Frank Rubio, mission specialist; and Andre Douglas, mission specialist, are seen in the Starship launch tower elevator at Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo Credit: (NASA/John Kraus) [...]
Artemis III crewmembers NASA astronauts Bob Hines, backup crewmember; Andre Douglas, mission specialist; European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, pilot; and NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, mission specialist; and Randy Bresnik, commander, pose for a photograph at the top of the Starship launch tower at Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space [...]
These photos show how engineers with conducted testing on a 1.2% scale model of SpaceX’s Super Heavy Version 3 rocket booster at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The tests focused on better understanding the extreme aerodynamic forces the rocket can experience during re-entry and builds on a previous test series completed at [...]
These photos show how engineers with conducted testing on a 1.2% scale model of SpaceX’s Super Heavy Version 3 rocket booster at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The tests focused on better understanding the extreme aerodynamic forces the rocket can experience during re-entry and builds on a previous test series completed at [...]
These photos show how engineers with conducted testing on a 1.2% scale model of SpaceX’s Super Heavy Version 3 rocket booster at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The tests focused on better understanding the extreme aerodynamic forces the rocket can experience during re-entry and builds on a previous test series completed at [...]
These photos show how engineers with conducted testing on a 1.2% scale model of SpaceX’s Super Heavy Version 3 rocket booster at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The tests focused on better understanding the extreme aerodynamic forces the rocket can experience during re-entry and builds on a previous test series completed at [...]
These artist’s concepts depict NASA’s Orion spacecraft and SpaceX’s Starship human landing system test article during rendezvous and docking operations as part of NASA’s upcoming Artemis III demonstration mission in low Earth orbit. NASA is working with two American companies to develop the human landing systems that will safely transport astronauts from lunar orbit to [...]
Photo of the Day rlier this week, Earth’s shadow swept across the full Moon in the year’s only total lunar eclipse. This stunning sequence combines images showing the Moon’s path across the night sky. Each lunar image captures our planet’s shadow gradually engulfing the Moon, culminating in its red glow. Sunlight scatters and refracts [...]
Photo of the Day The dark-floored, 95 kilometer wide crater Plato and sunlit peaks of the lunar Alps (Montes Alpes) are highlighted in this this sharp telescopic snapshot of the Moon's surface. While the Alps of planet Earth were uplifted over millions of years as continental plates slowly collided, the lunar Alps were likely [...]
