October 15, 2018 - Out-of-This-World Library

Out-of-This-World Library No library card is necessary to access NASA’s Image and Video Library website (images.nasa.gov), a comprehensive consolidated database of space images, videos, and audio files from more than 60 different collections created in the six decades of the space agency’s existence. The site allows users to search, discover, and download a treasure trove of more than 140,000 NASA multimedia files from across the agency’s many missions in aeronautics, astrophysics, Earth science, human spaceflight, planetary exploration, and more. The collection is growing every day, and it has a powerful search feature that lets you get very specific, or wander through the virtual stacks. Search for “Saturn” and you’ll find (among others) this Hubble montage of Saturn taken between 1996 and 2001.

Image credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)

Weekly Calendar

October 15 - 21, 2018

Holidays - Sky Events - Space History

Monday 15

1829: Asaph Hall born
1997: Cassini-Huygens launched
2003: Shenzhou 5 launched, Yang Liwei becomes first Chinese astronaut

Tuesday 16

First Qtr Moon 2:02 PM ET
Juno appears stationary

Wednesday 17

Moon at apogee

1956: Mae Jemison born
2016: Shenzhou-11 launched

Thursday 18

Mars 1.9° south of Moon

1967: Venera 4 makes first direct studies of Venus’s atmosphere
1989: STS-34 Atlantis launched
1993: STS-58 Columbia launched
2003: ISS Expedition 8 crew launched