An aurora streams across Earth’s horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited off the coast of southeast Australia. At bottom, a portion of the station’s U.S. segment is illuminated including the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the Harmony module’s forward port.NASA The seven-member Expedition 73 crew is gearing up [...]
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An aircraft body modeled after an air taxi with weighted test dummies inside is shown after a drop test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The test was completed June 26 at Langley’s Landing and Impact Research Facility. The aircraft was dropped from a [...]
Monitors show a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft and members of the closeout crew during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov onboard, Monday, July [...]
For Melissa John, protecting the environment is her way of contributing to space exploration while preserving the Earth we call home. As the sustainability program lead at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, John manages efforts to reduce waste, prevent pollution, and promote eco-conscious practices. Over the past 13 years, she [...]
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket rolls to the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, July 27, 2025, for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon crew spacecraft atop, for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission rolled out to [...]
Photo of the Day Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? You're not alone. Details of what causes lightning are still being researched, but it is known that inside some clouds, internal updrafts cause collisions between ice and snow that slowly separate charges between cloud tops and bottoms. The rapid electrical discharges [...]
The NASA Gulfstream V carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov is seen as it arrives at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ahead of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission, Saturday, July 26, 2025, in Florida.NASA NASA astronauts Zena [...]
The official portrait of the four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. From left, are Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Oleg Platonov; NASA astronaut and Pilot Mike Fincke; JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut and Mission Specialist Kimiya Yui; and NASA astronaut and Commander Zena Cardman.NASA/Robert Markowitz NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 [...]
The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station train inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in Hawthorne, California. From left to right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui.SpaceX After meeting for several hours today, NASA, SpaceX, and international partner teams [...]
NASA/Jonny Kim NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. A truly global endeavor, the International Space Station has been visited by more than 280 people from 23 countries and a variety of international and commercial spacecraft. The unique microgravity laboratory has hosted more than 4,000 experiments [...]
