This image shows sample site Nightingale Crater, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. via NASA https://ift.tt/3b9y8CN

Equipped with visionary science instruments, the Mars Perseverance rover underwent an “eye” exam after several cameras were installed. via NASA https://ift.tt/3bhhd1z

Apollo 13 launched on April 11, 1970, on a journey to become the third crew to land on the Moon. The crew never made it. via NASA https://ift.tt/2wyrnf0

The Soyuz MS-16 lifts off from Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, April 9, 2020. via NASA https://ift.tt/2JQapM3

The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, wing assembly is lifted by a crane and moved to another area of the manufacturing floor in preparation for wing skin installation. via NASA https://ift.tt/2USFIMv

Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir conducts cardiac research inside the Life Sciences Glovebox. via NASA https://ift.tt/34kQo9H

In this Hubble Space Telescope image, researchers has revisited one of Hubble’s most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. via NASA https://ift.tt/3dYT0hY

This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent emptiness of space, but don’t be fooled — it keeps a violent secret. via NASA https://ift.tt/2JxQd1s

This 2010 image from the Herschel Space Observatory shows dust clouds associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the Monoceros, or Unicorn, constellation. via NASA https://ift.tt/3aOfQa0

Appearing as strings of orange dots, the brightest sets of dots belong to asteroids Klotho and Lina. Both orbit out in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. via NASA https://ift.tt/3dOjZwA