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Operating the Lunar Soil Distribution System
Operating the Lunar Soil Distribution System

Life Detection Systems Branch Chief Vance Oyama operates a specially designed soil distribution system, used for dispersing the lunar soil…

Moon Soils Under a Microscope
Moon Soils Under a Microscope

Chemist Oscar Whitfield examines an Apollo lunar sample in the fall of 1969 at NASA Ames’ Research Center.

Handling Apollo Samples Inside a Glove Box
Handling Apollo Samples Inside a Glove Box

Biologist Elaine Muñoz transfers an Apollo 11 lunar sample in the glove box in NASA Ames’s Lunar Biological Laboratory.

Fires in Brazil’s State of Tocantins Captured by Suomi NPP
Fires in Brazil’s State of Tocantins Captured by Suomi NPP

It is the dry season in Brazil and fires tend to break out easily in hot climates such as the…

Yet Another Fire Breaks Out in Greenland
Yet Another Fire Breaks Out in Greenland

Greenland is once again experiencing wildfires on this large, mostly ice-covered island.

We Are NASA: Bruce Window, Operations Supervisor, Australia
We Are NASA: Bruce Window, Operations Supervisor, Australia

To celebrate the Apollo 50th anniversary in July, we spotlighted those who spent countless hours at tracking stations around the…

Artist Russ Arasmith’s Visions of Apollo
Artist Russ Arasmith’s Visions of Apollo

Artist Russ Arasmith’s vision of Apollo was a potent vision of the program that shows in the works he created.

We Are NASA: Claros Guerra, Telecommunications Engineer, Spain
We Are NASA: Claros Guerra, Telecommunications Engineer, Spain

To celebrate the Apollo 50th anniversary in July, we spotlighted those who spent countless hours at tracking stations around the…

Faces of Apollo: Hank Cole
Faces of Apollo: Hank Cole

“I knew Neil Armstrong. I had a young daughter and she took her first step on the day that Neil…