Pictures from NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly’s Year in Space

Picture of the East Indian Ocean from Space. Photo Credit: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly NASA recently published several photographs featured on astronaut Scott Kelly’s social media account. The stunning visuals include photographs of everything including Tropical...
Fifty Years Ago: America’s First Spacewalk

Fifty Years Ago: America’s First Spacewalk

Image: Astronaut Ed White became the first American to conduct a “spacewalk” in the vast emptiness of space on June 3, 1965 during Gemini IV.  Commander James McDivitt, his mission counterpart, captured this photo of him outside the space craft over the Pacific...
ISS Astronaut Captures Incredible View of Hawaii Island

ISS Astronaut Captures Incredible View of Hawaii Island

Image Credit: Samantha Cristoforetti/ESA/NASA. European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured this amazing view of Hawaii Island some 200 miles overhead from the International Space Station (ISS) late last month.  Cristoforetti shared her photo on...
30th Anniversary of Hawaii Astronaut Onizuka’s First Spaceflight

30th Anniversary of Hawaii Astronaut Onizuka’s First Spaceflight

Image: Mission Specialist Ellison S. Onizuka (left) posing with Pilot Loren J. Shriver (right) at mid-deck aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in January, 1985. Credit: NASA. Saturday, January 24, 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Hawaii astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka’s...
Lunar Pits May Shelter Astronauts on Moon

Lunar Pits May Shelter Astronauts on Moon

An image taken by the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) of the ‘Sea of Tranquility’ pit-crater (Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University). It’s no small challenge to build a settlement on the moon.  An endless barrage of micrometeorites, damaging solar...