These are the images that NASA considers the most memorable of 2023 related to space.
The year 2023 was significant for NASA, featuring the 25th anniversary of the International Space Station, the launch of Artemis II, and asteroid samples returned to Earth. To commemorate this special year, NASA has released the most memorable images from the past year related to space.
The Soyuz rocket was launched with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and fellow Roscosmos astronauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub on September 15, 2023, in Kazakhstan. (Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls).
NASA astronauts participated in a STEM demonstration with local students at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. These three astronauts spent 170 days in space during Expeditions 67 and 68 aboard the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber)
A sample from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen immediately after landing in the desert at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. (Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber)
Support teams worked around the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft right after it landed with astronauts aboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa. (Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber)
Members of the flight operations team at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) are seen controlling a helicopter. (Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber)
The Russian All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Search and Recovery team is seen having lunch and preparing for the landing of a NASA astronaut outside Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. (Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft is seen launching from Launch Complex 39A, preparing for its Psyche mission. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will journey to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter to study its composition. (Photo: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
A student’s letter is seen during a meeting with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona before the signing of an MOU on May 24, 2023. This memorandum focuses on enhancing cooperation between the two agencies, including efforts to promote STEM education in the United States. (Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber)
The Soyuz rocket is seen after arriving at the launch pad at Site 31 in September 2023 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Astronauts participated in a press conference outside the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., to discuss the upcoming Artemis II test flight around the Moon. (Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber)
