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Astronomer Caroline Herschel, born #OTD in 1750, was the first woman credited with discovering a comet and the first woman to earn a salary as a scientist. She went on to discover 7 additional comets in her lifetime! #WomensHistoryMonth
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Read about Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott's wild ride: https://go.nasa.gov/3JyLhZQ
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Watch a video with highlights of the Apollo 9 mission: https://go.nasa.gov/3ITxtaZ
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Apollo 9: 'A Hell of a Ride'
50 years ago, we tested the capabilities of our Moon landing spacecraft in Earth’s orbit. Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott and Luna...YouTube
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field image unveiled a powerful, deep view of our universe #OTD in 2004.
This image only covers the amount of sky you can see through an eight-foot-long soda straw: https://go.nasa.gov/3FaoVLC
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Kepler Space Telescope Poster - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Kepler was NASA’s first exoplanet hunting space telescope. It ushered in a golden age of exoplanet discovery, with more than 2,600 worlds to its credit. We’re still making discoveries in Kepler’s data.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Hubble captured a “light echo” from the star V838 Mon. A sequence of images shows how a pulse of light from this star illuminated its surrounding clouds of material!
Find out more about V838 Mon, including an image released #OTD in 2004: https://go.nasa.gov/3SNCyG4
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Learn more about how the STA prepared Shuttle pilots: https://go.nasa.gov/3ZbIbAi
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NASA - Test Drive: Shuttle Training Aircraft Preps Astronauts for Landing
Shuttle Training Aircraft preps astronauts for landingTerry McDonald - JSC
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50 Years Ago: Pioneer 10 Launches to Explore Jupiter
Pioneer 10 began its unprecedented multi-year journey from Earth on March 2, 1972. Managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center (ARC) in California’s Silicon Valley, it was the first spacecraft designed to travel beyond the orbit of Mars.Kelli Mars (NASA)
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In Depth | Io – NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.NASA Solar System Exploration
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About the HL-10: https://go.nasa.gov/3xM3YCy
📷 Dana after his 4th free flight in the HL-10 in Sept. 1969
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NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: HL-10 Lifting Body
HL-10 Lifting Body Project Summary Edwards, CA, from July 1966 to November 1975 to study and validate the concept of safely maneuvering and landing a low lift-over-drag vehicle designed for reentry from space.NASA
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55 Years Ago: Apollo AS-201 Test Flight
The first uncrewed spaceflight test of a production Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM), and the first launch of a Saturn-IB rocket, took place on Feb. 26, 1966.Kelli Mars (NASA)
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In Depth | Mariner 06 – NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.NASA Solar System Exploration
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#evolution #science #microbiology #experiments #time #TimeTravel
More images from this day in history: https://go.nasa.gov/3ShuNYV
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John Glenn, the First American to Orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7
In February 1962, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was in full swing. Both nations had developed spacecraft to send humans into space and selected a group of pilots to fly those spacecraft.Kelli Mars (NASA)
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Pluto Moons
Pluto's entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between the dwarf planet and another Kuiper Belt Object early in the history of the solar system.NASA Solar System Exploration
Read the details of this landmark space flight: https://go.nasa.gov/40UWMSa
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John Glenn, the First American to Orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7
In February 1962, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was in full swing. Both nations had developed spacecraft to send humans into space and selected a group of pilots to fly those spacecraft.Kelli Mars (NASA)
Learn more about these early Shuttle tests: https://go.nasa.gov/3ltHoMa
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AFRC Contributions to the Space Shuttle Program
Ebook page for NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center's Contributions to the Space Shuttle ProgramMichele Ostovar (NASA)
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NEAR Shoemaker became the 1st ever spacecraft to touch down on an asteroid #OTD in 2001. Although the probe wasn't expected to survive the landing, it surprised scientists by continuing to transmit data for ~2 weeks on Eros! https://go.nasa.gov/3JN2Vd0
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In Depth | NEAR Shoemaker – NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.NASA Solar System Exploration
STS-82, launched #OTD in 1997, was dedicated to servicing @NASAHubble. Over 5 EVAs totaling more than 33 hours, the telescope's scientific instruments were updated and Hubble's orbit was boosted by 3.2 km (2 mi).
Get the details: https://go.nasa.gov/3YuUhns
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About - Hubble Servicing Missions | SM2
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.NASA
Mickey Mouse greeted the astronauts and cosmonauts making up the prime crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project during a visit to Disney World #OTD in 1975. The visit took place at the end of a 3-day tour of the launch facilities at @NASAKennedy in Florida.
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STS-63 Mission Specialist Bernard Harris gained this distinction #OTD in 1995. Before his 1990 selection as an astronaut, Dr. Harris worked at @NASA_Johnson as a flight surgeon & clinical scientist. #BlackHistoryMonth
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📷 Astronaut Ed Mitchell disembarks
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Read about the criteria that NASA used to choose the landing sites: https://go.nasa.gov/3Yjj3r1
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50 Years Ago: Lunar Landing Sites Selected
On February 8, 1968, after two years of study NASA’s Apollo Site Selection Board announced five potential landing sites for the first human lunar landing.Mark Garcia (NASA)
Astronaut Alan Shepard famously worked on his #golf game on the 2nd lunar EVA of the Apollo 14 mission #OTD in 1971. How well do you know your Moon golf trivia? Tell us how many golf balls are on the Moon!
Watch Al's shot: https://go.nasa.gov/40gDgPA
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Alan Shepard Hits A Golf Ball on the Moon
Apollo 14 Commander and original Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to fly in space, tees off on the lunar surface during his 1971 mission, w...YouTube
Watch highlights of NASA's 1st mission to the lunar highlands: https://go.nasa.gov/3HScjdV
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Apollo 14: ‘A Wild Place Up Here’
Apollo 14 was the eighth crewed Apollo mission and the third to land on the Moon. On January 31, 1971, Apollo 14 launched from Kennedy Space Center with a cr...YouTube
The Douglas D-558-II "Skyrocket" was first flown #OTD in 1948. One of the early transonic research airplanes, the Skyrocket later became the first aircraft to fly 2x the speed of sound.
More about the D-558-II: https://go.nasa.gov/3Ru386H
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D-558-II Skyrocket
The Douglas D-558-II "Skyrockets" were among the early transonic research airplanes like the X-1, X-4, X-5, and X-92A.NASA
Ron McNair is seen here training for his first mission, STS-41B (launched #OTD in 1984). #BlackHistoryMonth
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Rick Husband
Willie McCool
Michael Anderson
Kalpana Chawla
David Brown
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon
We will never forget. https://go.nasa.gov/3YezowF
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20 Years Ago: Remembering Columbia and Her Crew
The year 2003 was shaping up to be an ambitious one for NASA, with six space shuttle missions planned, five to continue construction of the ever-growing and permanently occupied International Space Station.Kelli Mars (NASA)
Watch the news reel: https://archive.org/details/1958-02-03_First_US_Satellite_Launched
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First U.S. Satellite Launched! 1958/02/03 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
(1) Cape Canaveral launch of 30-pound Explorer satellite by 3-stage Redstone missile, press conference with von Braun and Van Allen with model, night time...Internet Archive
Read more about the launch: https://go.nasa.gov/3WOFR0c
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They were Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, and Judy Resnik. #NASARemembers
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Here’s what Hubble captured #OTD in 2000 – the galaxy NGC 4013, seen edge-on from 55 million light-years away!
Find your image: https://go.nasa.gov/3WwqARC
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What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday?
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.NASA
The uncrewed Apollo 5 mission was launched on the Saturn IB SA-204 rocket #OTD in 1968 with the primary objective of testing the Apollo Lunar Module's ascent and descent propulsion systems while in Earth's orbit.
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#OTD in 2006, NASA launched the first spacecraft to take a close look at the edges of our solar system: New Horizons! We got our first detailed views of Pluto and its moons 9 years later in 2015.
More on @NASANewHorizons: https://go.nasa.gov/3GO3MHg
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In Depth | New Horizons – NASA Solar System Exploration
New Horizons was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto and its five moons up close and, later, made the first close exploration of a Kuiper Belt Object.NASA Solar System Exploration