Never Stop Exploring Image Gallery
Space exploration should inspire our nation. It should push back the scientific and technological frontier and lead to amazing discoveries. It should inspire the youth of our nation and create an ethos that embraces science and technology. Bureaucrats call this STEM education and the secret to the future economic well-being of our country. For many of us, it is simply an exciting way to live. Let’s Never Stop Exploring.
David A. Kring
August 2009
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During the 2008 Desert RATS tests at Black Point Lava Flow in Arizona, engineers, geologists and astronauts came together to test NASA's new Lunar Electric Rover. Lunar Electric Rover (right) and the next generation chassis (left) at a lunar mission test site. (Background image courtesy of NASA Desert RATS). | |
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Artistic rendering of the Altair lunar lander for the next phase of our nation’s exploration of the Moon. Altair will be able to take four astronauts to the surface of the Moon for long-duration exploration. It will have room for air and other supplies. It will help astronauts stay there for a week. NASA plans to build a lunar outpost. When that is built, astronauts can stay on the moon for months. (NASA image JSC2007-E-113280). |
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One of the first steps taken on the Moon, this is an image of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint from the Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969. (Detail from NASA image AS11-40-5877). |
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Photo of the Earth taken from the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. (Detail from NASA image AS11-44-6548). | |
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Crew perform mission operations during a simulated lunar mission in northern Arizona. In these mission simulations, crew work with mission control and a science operations center to learn how to maximize their productivity in future missions to the Moon and other planetary surfaces. (Background image courtesy of NASA Desert RATS). | |
