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More about the Gemini VII mission: https://go.nasa.gov/3Fm6GmY
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#OTD in 1969, President Nixon announced that Neil Armstrong would serve as Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the @PeaceCorps, a role Armstrong would serve from 1971–1973.
A video on Armstrong's life: https://go.nasa.gov/3umHlDi
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Launch of ASTRO-1 – Dec. 2, 1990
This week in 1990, space shuttle Columbia, mission STS-35, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying Astronomy Laboratory 1 in its cargo bay.Lee Mohon (NASA)
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#OTD in 1964, the Houston Colt .45s baseball team changed its name to the Houston @astros reflecting the city's new fame as home to the Manned Spacecraft Center (later renamed @NASA_Johnson).
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📷 #OTD in 1959
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Commercial Lunar Payload Services
As the first major step to return astronauts to the Moon under Space Policy Directive-1, NASA is working with nine American companies on delivery services to the lunar surface through Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts.NASA
Which other Apollo mission did the USS Hornet serve as the prime recovery carrier for?
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Overview | Planet Types – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
So far scientists have categorized exoplanets into the following types: Gas giant, Neptunian, super-Earth and terrestrial, but there is complexity within these groups.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
#OTD in 1964, Mariner 4 launched. This 1965 photo is the first closeup picture of what planet in our solar system? 🤔
A. Mercury
B. Venus
C. Mars
D. Jupiter
Comment below with your answer!
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Tête-à-tête | NASA Solar System Exploration
Saturn’s moon Tethys disappears behind Titan as observed by Cassini on Nov. 26, 2009.NASA Solar System Exploration
Contributing to Space Shuttle research, these wingless vehicles were designed to fly to Earth from space and land like planes.
More: https://go.nasa.gov/3VhA3fn
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NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: Lifting Bodies
Lifting Bodies demonstrated the ability of pilots to maneuver and safely land a wingless vehicle.NASA
Catch up with the rover's latest images and discoveries: https://go.nasa.gov/3AAdmLB
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Home | Curiosity – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity is the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars. View the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet.NASA Mars Exploration
In 2015 #OTD, President Barack Obama awarded former @nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, for her contributions to early spaceflight: https://go.nasa.gov/3EQKqBp
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Katherine Johnson
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
What happened next: https://go.nasa.gov/3gpEXIt
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#OTD in 2014, Expedition 42 launched to the @Space_Station aboard Soyuz TMA-15M. The mission included scientific experiments to find the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
More on the mission: https://go.nasa.gov/3tMvZbp
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Expedition 42
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
#OTD in 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts captured a photograph of the eclipse of the Sun on their return to Earth. The view was created when the Earth moved directly between the Sun and the Apollo 12 spacecraft.
Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/3XcSpzX
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Earth Eclipses the Sun - Apollo 12 – Moon: NASA Science
This photograph of the eclipse of the Sun was taken with a 16mm motion picture camera from the Apollo 12 spacecraft during its trans-Earth journey home from the Moon.Moon: NASA Science
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William Pogue
NASA brings you images, videos and features from the unique perspective of America's space agency. Get updates on missions, watch NASA TV, read blogs, view the latest discoveries, and more.NASA
In Depth | Mariner 09 – 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
55 Years Ago: Gemini XII Closes Out a Successful Program
The primary objectives of Project Gemini included proving the techniques required for the Apollo Program to fulfill President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end of the 1960s.Kelli Mars (NASA)
15 Years Ago: Phoenix Mars Lander Launches to the Red Planet
Mars has long fascinated us as a place possibly once hospitable to life. The early robotic missions of the 1960s relayed images of a Moon-like cratered terrain with a forbiddingly cold and thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide.Kelli Mars (NASA)
X-15 #2 Crash Landing
NASA research pilot Jack McKay was injured in a crash landing of the X-15 #2 on November 9, 1962.NASA
NASA Rocket Experiment Finds the Universe Brighter Than We Thought
A NASA sounding rocket experiment has detected a surprising surplus of infrared light in the dark space between galaxies, a diffuse cosmic glow as bright as all known galaxies combined.NASA
Icy Jupiter Moon Throws a Curve Ball at Formation Theories
Scientists studying data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft have found that Jupiter's moon Amalthea is a pile of icy rubble less dense than water.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
In Depth | Mariner 09 – 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
X-15 #2 Crash Landing
NASA research pilot Jack McKay was injured in a crash landing of the X-15 #2 on November 9, 1962.NASA
55 Years Ago: Gemini XII Closes Out a Successful Program
The primary objectives of Project Gemini included proving the techniques required for the Apollo Program to fulfill President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end of the 1960s.Kelli Mars (NASA)