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NASA
Goldstone’s DSS-15 Antenna and the Milky Way
Deep Space Station 15, one of the 112-foot antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, looks skyward, with the stars of the Milky Way overhead, in September 2025. Goldstone is part of NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), which operates three complexes around the globe that support communications with dozens of deep space missions.
The DSN is NASA’s international array of giant radio antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions, plus a few that orbit Earth. The DSN also provides radar and radio astronomy observations that improve our understanding of the solar system and the larger universe.
Through Artemis, NASA is establishing an enduring presence in space and exploring more of the Moon than ever before. To achieve this, Artemis missions rely on both the Deep Space Network and the Near Space Network. These networks, with oversight by NASA’s SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation) Program office, use global infrastructure and relay satellites to ensure seamless communications and tracking as Orion launches, orbits Earth, travels to the Moon, and returns home.
James Webb
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Telescope
M16 (Eagle Nebula)
This region of star formation contains the Pillars of Creation, which was made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope. Chandra detects X-rays from young stars in the region, including one embedded in a pillar. X-rays from Chandra (red and blue); infrared image from Webb (red, green, and blue)
Humans In
Space
ISS
Astronaut Anne McClain is pictured near one
of the International Space Station's
main solar arrays
iss073e0008485 (May 1, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International Space Station's main solar arrays during a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost's power generation system and relocate a communications antenna.
Spacecraft
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Soyuz
The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft backs ways from the
International Space Station
iss074e0000143 (Dec. 9, 2025) --- The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft—carrying NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky—backs away from the International Space Station moments after undocking from the Poisk module while orbiting 265 miles above the frozen landscape of northwest Asia. The trio parachuted to Earth less than three-and-a-half hours later inside the Soyuz descent module completing a 245-day space research mission aboard the orbital outpost.