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ALT The first long-duration crew aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 1, is pictured in microgravity with fresh oranges. From left is Flight Engineer Yuri Gidzenko, Commander William Shepherd, and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev.
ALT he Expedition 72 crew poses for a group portrait ahead of the departure of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission. From top left is NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, astronauts Matthew Dominick and Mike Barratt, and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Aleksandr Gorbunov. From bottom left are astronauts Suni Williams, Nick Hague, Don Pettit and Butch Wilmore, and cosmonaut Ivan Vagner.
ALT A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. After launch, the spacecraft plans to fly by Mars in February 2025, then back by Earth in December 2026, using the gravity of each planet to increase its momentum. With help of these “gravity assists,” Europa Clipper will achieve the velocity needed to reach Jupiter in April 2030. Photo credit: SpaceX
ALT An adult bear and past contender for the Fat Bear Week crown, sitting in water fishing for salmon.
ALT iss071e046270 (May 1, 2024) -- NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, wearing a long-sleeved red shirt and khaki pants, is touching an Astrobee floating just above her left shoulder with her right hand and holding a microphone in her left hand. The robot has a blue panel on each side, black panels inside those, and a white and silver center with two camera lenses and multiple buttons on the front of it.
ALT iss064e039521 (3/4/2021) --- NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins is wearing a black t-shirt and khaki pants with a tablet attached to the thigh by Velcro. He is using his right hand to pull a strip of wide orange tape from a round dispenser attached to the wall. A roll of duct tape is stuck to a blue handrail just below his hand.
ALT iss051e029182 (4/27/2017) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet is wearing khaki pants and a black polo shirt with an ESA emblem on the chest and a French flag on the sleeve. He is floating horizontally in the space station, facing the camera, and pointing with his left hand at the two computers, small silver cubes with green LED screens and multiple knobs on the front.
ALT Globe of Earth with binary code cascading vertically over its surface and in the black space behind it
ALT Drawing of an egg parachuting next to the words Design, Build, Test. In the lower left corner is a Lesson icon with the words 3rd-12th grade. A NASA logo is in the upper right corner
ALT Astronaut Sunita William smiles while floating on the space station. Her curly dark hair billows above her head. How many birthdays has NASA astronaut Suni Williams celebrated in space? Rocket plus rocket equals 16 Rocket minus satellite equals 4 Satellite plus party face equals 9 Two party faces minus rocket equals ?