The Empire State Building is illuminated in red to celebrate this Thursday’s scheduled landing on Mars of NASA’s Perseverance rover, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. via NASA https://ift.tt/3puOo7O

If we find life on the Red Planet, we’ll have astrobiologists like Dr. Kennda Lynch to thank. via NASA https://ift.tt/3qv8rEA

A physician, flight surgeon, and NASA astronaut, Bernard Harris became the first African American to perform a spacewalk in February 1995, . via NASA https://ift.tt/3u2vCbE

There are more than 100,000 proteins in the human body. Every structure is different, and each one of them holds important information related to our health. via NASA https://ift.tt/3jCCWG9

This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99. via NASA https://ift.tt/3aTsFRW

This view of a sunrise breaking through the Earth’s horizon was taken as the International Space Station orbited 271 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile. via NASA https://ift.tt/2YYoePY

In this image from 2018, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps trains in a U.S. spacesuit at the Johnson Space Center. via NASA https://ift.tt/3rwM9Cv

The tip of the “wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this view from NASA’s Great Observatories. via NASA https://ift.tt/3tuRPPf

Apollo 14 arrived n lunar orbit on Feb. 4, 1971 to prepare for the landing in and exploration of the Fra Mauro highlands. via NASA https://ift.tt/39OY4p2

The waning gibbous moon is pictured the day after its full Moon phase as the International Space Station orbited 264 miles above China near the Mongolian border. via NASA https://ift.tt/3ayzjwL