ALT Sept. 19, 2026: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are attached to the space station including the SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL, the Soyuz MS-29 crew spacecraft, and the Progress 95 and 96 resupply ships.

ALT The hot blue star Zeta Ophiuchi creates a striking bow shock in the surrounding dust clouds in this infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. The dark backdrop is speckled with blue stars of varying sizes. Above one of the more prominent stars, near the center of the image, is a glowing curved shape with layers of wispy reddish-orange and yellow ribbons. Fainter green clouds ripple across nearly the entire image. The image is watermarked “Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA.”

ALT Katalyst engineers in white clean suits and blue gloves attach their LINK robotic spacecraft to a baseplate inside the Space Environment Simulator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on April 28, 2026. The chamber is black and circular. Two additional people in clean suits observe them, one to the left of the spacecraft and one further away standing in a doorway. A red ladder stands against the chamber’s far wall. The image is watermarked “Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts.”