Out of this world! Nasa mission to
SPACE agency Nasa embarked on a mission to find its Photographer of the Year competition – and the results were out of this world.
The extraordinary images show scientists and staff spearheading the agency’s work in its 10 centres across the US.
The contest was categories – places, people and portraits.
Chris Gunn won the first two with images of a lone person standing in front of a wall of air particle filters, and four scientists working on the optical element of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Tracy Caldwell Dyson was photographed having a rest in her spacesuit before going under water at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center, in a portrait taken by Bill Ingalls.
Robert Markowitz captured astronaut Reid Wiseman as he is about to be lowered into a buoyancy lab where astronauts practice spacewalks.
Harlen Capen won first place in the people category for his photograph of wind tunnel technicians.
The contest was launched in 2018 by the space agency’s Maura White, who assembled a panel of judges including Nasa’s oldest active astronaut, Don Pettit, 65. split into four documentation,