A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), the agency’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy… Read More »3-in-1 Launch
This stunning Earth image taken from the International Space Station looks at a large lake in eastern Kazakhstan with golden sunglint: Lake Balkhash. It is one of the largest lakes in Asia and is the 15th largest lake in the… Read More »Golden Lake
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nebula LMC N44C. www.nasa.gov · Public Domain
During its close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io on December 30, 2023, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured some of the most detailed imagery ever of Io’s volcanic surface. This image is the NASA Science Image of the Month for October 2025.… Read More »Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io
African Americans & the Arts in the Federal Government This series of blogs were written by Tina L. Ligon, Supervisory Archivist at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland This year the Association for the Study of African American Life… Read More »African American Artists & the Kennedy Center Honors
Today’s blog was written by Kaitlin Rogers, Archives Technician at the National Archives at College Park “Jazz will be the classical music of the future” -Dizzy Gillespie 12/4/1982 Dizzy Gillespie playing while attending PBS Taping “Performance in the White House… Read More »Happy Birthday Dizzy Gillespie!
Today’s blog was written by Kaitlin Rogers, Archives Technician at the National Archives at College Park “Where Everybody is Somebody” [Photograph of Long-Jones Hall, originally called Long Hall on Grambling State University’s campus. Louisiana SP Grambling State University Historic District,… Read More »Happy Founder’s Day Grambling State University
“You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.” ~Quincy Jones Luciano Pavarotti, Jack Nicholson, and Quincy Jones Listen as President George W. Bush Delivers Remarks in the East Room of the White House to Celebrate… Read More »Tribute to Quincy Jones
Today’s post is by Rachael Salyer, Subject Matter Expert for Modern Military Records at the National Archives in College Park, MD. Photograph of WAC Officers Inspecting the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion – NAID 531249 In early 1945, the 6888th… Read More »The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion and the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) in World War II
For an overview of Military Personnel Photographs, please see our website https://www.archives.gov/research/still-pictures/military-personnel-photographs. This post was written in collaboration with Heather Sulier, Archives Specialist. The Still Picture Branch has multiple indexes to search for various branches of the U.S. Military. Our… Read More »How to Search Still Photographs for Air Force Personalities