NASA Image of the Day

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reads her poem for the Europa Clipper mission during an event with NASA, Thursday, June 1, 2023, at the Library of Congress in Washington.

“‘NASA for all.’ That’s something that I think is really important because we are the universe, right? We are made of star stuff, and I think now more than ever, we all need to remember that we’re part of a greater purpose.” – Rebecca Sirmons, NASA TV Executive Producer, NASA Headquarters

Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who worked for the agency for more than 30 years.

By recreating realistic Moon-like environments, we can get a much better idea of how VIPER will perform on the surface.

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket stands on Pad B, Launch Complex 1, in Māhia, New Zealand, just ahead of a successful launch on Friday, May 26, with NASA’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) CubeSats payload.