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Black and white perpsective of a jet of gases exploding from the surface of a comet.

Rosetta Spacecraft Spies Jet of Gases

Two Museum interns work to create model supports custom to over 800 model aircraft being transported between Museum sites.

Creating Custom Model Supports

A Museum photographer moves an aircraft model prior to taking photos of the model.

Photographing Aircraft Models

Gene Kranz's white Apollo 13 Vest with pockets

Gene Kranz's Apollo 13 Vest

An image of Pluto with a large heart shape on it in the bottom right.

New Horizons Flies by Pluto

Close-up view of part of Pluto's icy, terrestial surface.

Close-Up of Pluto's Surface

An image looking down at a frozen surface that has curved lines running through it.

Pluto's Frozen Plains

Blurry, close-up perspectives of two of Pluto's moons. Nix is seen in color on the left side as a semi-spherical celestial body. Hydra is on the right side in grayscale, and also appears as a semi-sphere.

Nix & Hydra, Moons of Pluto

A disk view of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, which has a gray and brown color. Different colored arrows highlight various geographical features on the planet.

New Horizons Sees Charon

Disk view of Charon, one of Pluto's moons, which has a gray and brown color.

Pluto’s Satellite Charon

Disc perspective of Pluto, on the right, and Charon, a moon of Pluto, on the left.

Pluto and Charon from New Horizons

Disk view of Pluto, showing a brown planet with a heart-like shape coloration on the lower right quadrant of the dwarf planet.

A Heart on Pluto

A topographic map showing the various elevations on Ceres, a dwarf planet. High points are in white whereas low points are in blue.

Topographic Map of Dwarf Planet Ceres

Disk view of Earth in full sunlight. The continents visible are North America (center) and part of South America (bottom right).

Earth from Deep Space Climate Observatory

Blue harness with various medical devices and instruments attached. The harness has undergone complete conservation treatment.

Apollo Medical Instrumentation Harness Following Conservation Treatment

A view of the dark side of the Moon as the Moon passes Earth in front of an observatory spacecraft.

Deep Space Climate Observatory - Moon Crossing