Orion, Earth, and the Moon

In this image, Orion captures a unique view of Earth and the Moon, seen from a camera mounted on one of the spacecraft’s solar arrays. via NASA https://ift.tt/dmIabCq

Orion Approaches Moon for Outbound Powered Flyby

A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken Nov. 21, the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. via NASA https://ift.tt/uBgmWwq

Astronaut Snoopy ‘Lands’ in New York

The annual Thanksgiving event was held Nov. 24, 2022. via NASA https://ift.tt/kYrhavp

Snoopy Hitches Ride to Space Aboard Artemis I

Snoopy, the zero-gravity indicator for NASA’s Artemis I flight test, floating in space Nov. 20, 2022, while attached to his tether in the Orion spacecraft. via NASA https://ift.tt/qBEugfZ

Orion’s Optical Navigation Camera Captures Earth

NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft snapped this black and white photo of Earth on Nov. 17, 2022, the second day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission. via NASA https://ift.tt/i7gFAEP

Orion Approaches Moon

On Nov. 20, the fifth day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera mounted on the tip of one of Orion’s solar array wings captured this footage of the spacecraft and the Moon as it continued to grow nearer to our lunar neighbor. via NASA https://ift.tt/wa3XCIH

Hubble Views a Billowing Cosmic Cloud

A small, dense cloud of gas and dust called CB 130-3 blots out the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/dK9lxVE

First Nations Launch Teams Build Rockets

Stephanie Yazzie, Northern Arizona University student and NAU Space Jacks team member, poses with her team’s rocket in this photo from the 2019 NASA First Nations Launch (FNL) competition. via NASA https://ift.tt/s7SJrHn

We Are Going: Artemis I Launches

Our Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:47 a.m. EST. via NASA https://ift.tt/l9EiHNe

Moonlit Launch Preparations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

The Moon is seen rising above NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. via NASA https://ift.tt/lj1pKeP

Liftoff! Successful Launch for JPSS-2, LOFTID

The Moon makes a stunning backdrop for the successful launch of the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and our Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) on Nov. 10 at 1:49 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. via NASA https://ift.tt/eRjfzsp

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month with Jerry C. Elliott

Jerry Elliott, a former NASA physicist and one of the first Native Americans hired at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, speaks during Native American Heritage Month event in 2017 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. via NASA https://ift.tt/qRpaFsV

Astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines Study Farming in Space

In this image from June 24, 2022, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines work on the XROOTS space botany investigation, which used the International Space Station’s (ISS) Veggie facility to test soilless hydroponic and aeroponic methods to grow plants. via NASA https://ift.tt/cZ6Osip

Blood Moon Total Eclipse at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

This composite made from ten images shows the progression of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse above the Vehicle Assembly Building, Nov. 8, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. via NASA https://ift.tt/CVbLoEF

Artemis I Glows After Sunset

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard was seen lit by spotlights atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continued Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. via NASA https://ift.tt/TrBN9W0

Thumbs Up from NASA Astronaut Nicole A. Mann

Selected as an astronaut candidate in June 2013, Nicole A. Mann is the first Native American woman from NASA in space. via NASA https://ift.tt/wQSFLPd

NASA ABoVE Team Studies Thawing Permafrost, Lakes

Since 2015, scientists participating in NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) have been studying the impacts of climate change on Earth’s far northern regions and how those changes are intertwined. via NASA https://ift.tt/3726edP

Stress Testing Super Hornet’s Wings

Teams at the NASA Armstrong Research Center recently completed stress testing on the Navy’s F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, seen here in a top view while in a wing loading test configuration at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, Maryland. via NASA https://ift.tt/NmCB9Ah

Grinning Gourd Decorates Milky Way

While observing the outer region of the Milky Way galaxy, our Spitzer Telescope captured this infrared image of a cloud of gas and dust that looks like the hollowed-out pumpkins we see every Halloween. via NASA https://ift.tt/v4r83im

Webb Reveals New Details in Pillars of Creation

Our James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of the famous Pillars of Creation—first imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995—that reveals new details about the region. via NASA https://ift.tt/EFXP9UB