NASA Science Mission Directorate Astrophysicist Dominic Bedford, right, delivers remarks during the Library of Congress National Book Festival Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA Space Stories at National Book Festival

NASA Science Mission Directorate Program Executive Rosa Avalos-Warren delivers remarks during the Library of Congress National Book Festival Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA Space Stories at National Book Festival

NASA Science Mission Directorate Program Executive Rosa Avalos-Warren, left, delivers remarks during the Library of Congress National Book Festival Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA Space Stories at National Book Festival

Guests ask questions following presentations by NASA Science Mission Directorate Program Executive Rosa Avalos-Warren and NASA Science Mission Directorate Astrophysicist Dominic Bedford during the Library of Congress National Book Festival Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA Space Stories at National Book Festival

Guests receive educational materials following presentations by NASA Science Mission Directorate Program Executive Rosa Avalos-Warren and NASA Science Mission Directorate Astrophysicist Dominic Bedford during the Library of Congress National Book Festival Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA Space Stories at National Book Festival

Guests are seen during presentations by NASA Science Mission Directorate Program Executive Rosa Avalos-Warren and NASA Science Mission Directorate Astrophysicist Dominic Bedford during the Library of Congress National Book Festival Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA Space Stories at National Book Festival

NASA Office of Communications Agency Lead Lisa Frazier, center, introduces NASA Science Mission Directorate Program Executive Rosa Avalos-Warren, left, and NASA Science Mission Directorate Astrophysicist Dominic Bedford, right, prior to their presentations during the Library of Congress National Book Festival Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

This elevation anaglyph of Los Angeles and adjacent mountainous terrain was created by NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

Library of Congress Model, Anaglyph

NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission SRTM has produced the first high-resolution, near-global elevation dataset of Earth.

Library of Congress Model, Perspective View

NASA Art by Rick Guidice The Torus Wheel from 'Space Settlements; A Design Study' in colonization sponsored by NASA Ames, ASEE and Stanford University in the summer of 1975 to look at all aspects of sustained life in space. (ref: NASA SP-413, library of congress catalog card number 76-600068)

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The Wright Brothers

Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on Earth as his brother Wilbur looks on in this image taken at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on Dec. 17, 1903. Orville Wright covered 120 feet in 12 seconds during the first flight. The Wright brothers made four flights that day, each longer than the last. A small amount of the material that covered the wing of the aircraft, Flyer 1, during the first flight was flown to Mars aboard NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. An insulative tape was used to wrap the small swatch of fabric around a cable located underneath the helicopter's solar panel. Ingenuity is scheduled to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet in April 2021. The Wrights had been using the same type of material – an unbleached muslin called "Pride of the West" – to cover their glider and aircraft wings since 1901. A different piece of the material, along with a small splinter of wood, from the Flyer 1 was flown to the Moon and back aboard Apollo 11. The image was taken by John Daniels, a member of the U.S. Life-Saving Station in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Until the day of the flight, Daniels had never seen a camera. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24434

Russian Scientists Visitors

Russian Scientists from the Commission of Interplanetary Travel of the Soviet Academy of Science November 21,1959 Left to right: Front row: Yury S. Galkin, Anatoly A. Blagonravov, and Prof. Leonid I. Sedov (Chair of the Commission for Interplanetary Travel)-Soviet Academy of Science, Leninski Gory, Moscow, Russia Dr. H.J. E. Reid and Floyd L. Thompson Langley Research Center. Second row: Boris Kit Translator, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Eugene C. Draley and Laurence K. Loftin, Jr. -Langley Research Center Arnold W. Frutkin and Harold R. Lawrence NASA Headquarters. Back row: T.Melvin Butler-Langley Research Center John W. Townsend Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Washington D.C., and George M. Low NASA Headquarters.