On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride made history, becoming the first American woman to go space. In this image, Ride stands on Challenger’s middeck, wearing light blue flight coveralls and communications headset, as she floats alongside the middeck airlock hatch.
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This artist rendering shows an aerial view of the liftoff of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. This Block 1 crew configuration of the rocket that will send the first three Artemis missions to the Moon.
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This aerial view of Launch Complex 14 with Missile Row visible to the right shows the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9), which is visible on Pad 14. This mission carried astronaut Gordon Cooper for the fourth manned orbital mission.
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Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) passes over NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in this Oct. 13, 2024, image. This comet comes from the Oort
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This multiple exposure from 1967 shows a simulated landing of the Apollo Lunar Lander trainer at Langley’s Lunar Landing Research Facility.
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This 1962 photo shows Robert St. John in a pilot restraint and closed loop breathing system at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Such research was crucial in the development of pressurized spacesuits.
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Commander Peggy Whitson works to change the media in a BioCell for the OsteoOmics experiment.
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Retired NASA astronaut and research pilot Fred Haise mugs with a „bobblehead“ figure of himself.
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Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko participate an emergency scenario training session in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer.
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Dr. Anita Sengupta and Donn Liddle of NASA are pictured in the low speed wind tunnel at Texas A&M University, which is being used for testing of a scale model of the Orion spacecraft and its parachute system.
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