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Best of 2025 by NASA HQ PHOTO by NASA HQ PHOTO
The 100 best images from 2025 as captured and selected by the NASA HQ
PHOTO team. (chronological order)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/albums/72177720331232608/NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Splashdown (NHQ202503180016)
Support teams work around a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/54396045718/in/album-72177720331232608NASA Artemis Underway Recovery Test 12 (NHQ202503280066)
NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, right, speaks to ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, left, and NASA astronaut Stan Love as they prepare to take part in practicing Artemis recovery procedures during Underway Recovery Test-12 onboard USS Somerset off the coast of California, Friday, March 28, 2025. During the test, NASA and Department of Defense teams are practicing to ensure recovery procedures are validated as NASA plans to send the Artemis II astronauts around the Moon and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/54415714937/in/album-72177720331232608NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown (NHQ202508090035)
NASA astronaut Anne McClain is helped aboard a helicopter on the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON to fly to Long Beach, Calif. along with NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov shortly after they landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after 147 days in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/54714633915/in/album-72177720331232608Expedition 74 Cosmonaut Hotel Departure (NHQ202511270054)
NASA astronaut Chris Williams puts his hands to the glass of the bus with his children, as he and fellow crewmembers, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev, depart the Cosmonaut Hotel to suit-up for their Soyuz launch, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The launch will send Williams, Kud-Sverchkov and Mikaev, on a mission to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/54951826382/in/album-72177720331232608