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These stunning images show a year in the life of America's space agency NASA.
The top images of 2024 feature faraway galaxies, life onboard the International Space Station (ISS), and the space agency’s ongoing mission to make interplanetary travel a reality.
The gallery also features images of Hurricane Milton as seen by the astronauts onboard the ISS, as well as satellite imagery of lava flowing out of a volcano in Iceland near the country’s Blue Lagoon spa.
Featuring: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:05 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Intuitive Machines’ first lunar mission will carry NASA science and commercial payloads to the Moon to study plume-surface interactions, space weather/lunar surface interactions, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, and a communication and navigation node for future autonomous navigation technologies.
Where: KSC
When: 30 Dec 2024
Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett/Cover Images
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