The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/k3f1Ip7

On January 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan used his State of the Union address to call for NASA to build a permanent manned space station. via NASA https://ift.tt/j0lIQYp

Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure. via NASA https://ift.tt/ZAkE8Ho

Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure. via NASA https://ift.tt/dvmErVU

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained an in-depth inventory of the deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud. via NASA https://ift.tt/CnaFwzo

Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are pictured on Jan. 12, 2023, during a fit check of their spacesuits inside the Quest airlock ahead of a planned spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power generation system. via NASA https://ift.tt/Juvt0pd

Snow and ice cover mountains of the Tien Shan range in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 9, 2022. via NASA https://ift.tt/lGLnKOk

Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, wears a smile after being unpacked from his transport case on Jan. 5, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/U3rEzMN

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthplace, Atlanta, Georgia, is seen on January 20, 2013, in this image from the International Space Station as it flew approximately 240 miles above the city. via NASA https://ift.tt/usUTKfk

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is all smiles as he observes the behavior of a free-flying water bubble inside the International Space Station’s (ISS) Kibo laboratory module on Oct. 10, 2022. via NASA https://ift.tt/GgvdYi5