A recovery team member takes part in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in this image from Aug. 29, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/j1LWbYh

Voyager 1 Lifts Off Toward an Interstellar Journey via NASA https://ift.tt/wSnyqPD

Hurricane Idalia is pictured in the Gulf of Mexico from the International Space Station. via NASA https://ift.tt/ySOXLvc

In this image from Sept. 5, 1983, Guion “Guy” Bluford checks out the sample pump on the continuous flow electrophoresis system experiment in the middeck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger. via NASA https://ift.tt/B6UbQZg

Rocky Garcia and Wesley James prepare a weather balloon to collect wind data at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on July 20, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/TEM2eLp

A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in this photo from the late 1950s. via NASA https://ift.tt/3KwcC2L

In this image from July 18, 2023, a NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto a stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida. via NASA https://ift.tt/bsygl7V

Gateway’s International Habitat module, provided by ESA, is the focus of this rendered image from Aug. 18, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/WH3ovRB

The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission spoke at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 20, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/dOXeUzt

The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks in the center. via NASA https://ift.tt/jXOqL5u