Artemis I
NASA is testing before launching an unmanned test flight to the Moon later this year. Artemis I as it is known is massive and will one day take man to the Moon.
Extravehicular Activities
This shot shows Extravehicular Activities happening at 356 nautical miles above the Earth. With the west coast of Australia forming the superb backdrop.
The Blue Marble
Mercury shows its colours
Clouds of Atlantis
An incredible view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis launching off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2009.
One final Endeavour
A marble view of Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured high-resolution enhanced colour images of Pluto in 2015 as it passed by the planet.
A Moon with a view
Spacecraft on approach
A brilliant light show
A spectacular view of the Aurora Borealis taken over Canada in 2017 by the occupants of the International Space Station.
Mothership
Aerial launch in action
The X-38 is a crew return vehicle designed for the International Space Station and this kind of test flights ensure the craft is safe and ready for its job.
Mars Rovers
A curious selfie
A multi-national space effort
Not your usual piggyback ride
This incredible photo shows the space shuttle Columbia catching a ride on the back of a Boeing 747 aircraft as it makes a 2,400-mile journey from California.
Soaring through the clouds
Touchdown
Docking in progress
Shuttle resupplies
This shot shows the space shuttle Atlantis in 2010 during a resupply mission.
Buzz Aldrin on the moon
A backdrop of blackness
A nighttime view of Earth from ISS
The Northern Lights from above
A view of Earth taken from 3.9 million miles
In 1992, the Galileo spacecraft took this image of Earth and the Moon from around 3.9 million miles away.
A vision of solar flares
Mercury - The swiftest planet
This colourful view of Mercury was crafted by NASA using images captured by the MESSENGER spacecraft.
Unmasking the secrets of Mercury
Jupiter Abyss
The magnificent marble
SpaceX resupply
This simple view shows a rocket lifting off to take supplies and equipment to the International Space Station.
High altitude research
A pilot selfie
Astronauts obviously have to do a lot of training and test flights as part of their role. This image was taken during one such mission.
A journey’s end
A docked Endeavour
Communications systems
This satellite that was put into stationary orbit in 1991 to allow for almost uninterrupted communications between Earth and orbiting shuttles and more.
Two suns
This image is actually an artist’s concept and shows a distant planet where two suns set instead of just one. The views here must be incredible.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Significant Solar flares
Recovery practice
In 1966, frogmen are seen taking part in a recovery exercise as practice for recovering command modules that have returned to Earth.
Views of Jupiter
In 2016 NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter’s orbit. Its mission was supposed to end this year but has now been extended to 2025.
Cygnus Orbital ATK OA-6 Liftoff
Soviet Soyuz spacecraft
Elektron oxygen-generation system
This tool uses electrolysis to produce oxygen by splitting water molecules using water from elsewhere in the station.
Astronauts working
Here Astronaut Mark C. Lee is seen photographing worn insulation on the Hubble Space Telescope before work can be carried out.
Northern Summer on Titan
Underwater rehearsals
Astronauts are seen here underwater using the Weightless Environment Training Facility to practice for the mission repairing the Hubble Space Telescope.
