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Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan, circling the Moon in the Apollo 10 Lunar Module (LM) fly to within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface #OTD in 1969. Two months later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would complete the descent.
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Six of the Mercury Seven astronauts and their wives visit John F. Kennedy at the White House 60 years ago today on May 21, 1963, celebrating the successful end of the Mercury program.
Which astronaut is missing?
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America's first spacecraft to orbit Venus, the Pioneer-Venus Orbiter, was launched #OTD in 1978. The spacecraft's radar penetrated Venus's thick atmosphere, allowing scientists to produce this topographical map of the surface. @NASASolarSystem
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/41Dn8al
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In Depth | Pioneer Venus 1 – 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
The #ArtemisGeneration has big shoes to fill. đź‘ž
During Apollo 11 the average age in mission control was only 28 years old. Today, @nasa is preparing for the next generation to take the helm. The Artemis generation, like Apollo before them, will guide humanity to new heights.
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They will return us to the Moon, and one day land humans on Mars—all while being representative of America’s diverse society. Join us in taking on this colossal task.
Apply or share the application for our Fall @NASAInterns session by May 27: http://intern.nasa.gov
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"Houston, Hubble has been released. It's safely back on its journey of exploration" –Scott Altman, STS-125 Commander
Space Shuttle Atlantis released the @NASAHubble Space Telescope #OTD in 2009 after the STS-125 crew made the observatory's final repairs and upgrades.
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The dress rehearsal for landing the first astronauts on the Moon
#OTD in 1969, Apollo 10 astronauts Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, and John Young launched to the Moon. The crew rehearsed all aspects of a lunar landing mission, except for the landing. https://go.nasa.gov/4542N0K
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50 Years Ago: Apollo 10 to Sort Out the Unknowns
As Commander Thomas P. Stafford stated during a preflight press conference, Apollo 10 was planned to “sort out all the unknowns” to make the Moon landing possible.Kelli Mars (NASA)
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Raised in South Korea 🇰🇷, Seunghee Lee began her engineering career at @NASAKennedy in 1987. Over the years, she has supported the Space Shuttle Program, a high-altitude atmospheric research glider, and the SLS rocket! #AANHPI
▶️ Lee's path to NASA: https://go.nasa.gov/3MylxhX
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All hands on deck!
The launch of the first Skylab crew, scheduled for May 15, 1973, was delayed as NASA worked around the clock to come up with a plan to save the space station. Temperatures in the orbital workshop were rising quickly… #Skylab50
More: https://go.nasa.gov/3W6hXyr
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50 Years Ago: The Launch of Skylab, America’s First Space Station
Skylab, America’s first space station and the first crewed research laboratory in space, lifted off on May 14, 1973, on the last Saturn V rocket.Kelli Mars (NASA)
"Faith 7 is all go."
#60YearsAgo today, L. Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. was launched in his Faith 7 spacecraft on the final mission of Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 9. 🧵 1/4
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Cooper took photos of Earth and performed experiments while circling the planet.
All was going well until the 19th orbit when a short circuit knocked out the automatic stabilization and control system, carbon dioxide levels began to rise and the cabin temperature exceeded 54°C!
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Cooper, seen here getting into his tiny spacecraft, was the last NASA astronaut ever to be launched into orbit on a solo flight, orbiting the Earth 22 times, and logging more than 34 hours in space, longer than all previous Mercury missions combined.
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Despite the malfunctions, Cooper was able to make a perfect manual reentry. Faith 7 splashed down about 80 miles southeast of Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean on May 16, 1963.
Get the details of this highly successful mission: https://go.nasa.gov/3MCktcZ
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Fifty-five Years Ago, Faith 7 Closes Out Project Mercury
Project Mercury was America’s first human space flight program. The Space Task Group at Langley Research Center in Virginia initiated the project in 1958 with three goals: orbiting a human spacecraft, investigating an astronaut’s ability to function …NASA
The Skylab space station was launched into orbit 50 years ago today — the last launch of a Saturn V rocket! #Skylab50
63 seconds into the flight, controllers saw the first signs that something had gone wrong, kicking off a dramatic race to save the entire Skylab program.
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"Ground control to Major Tom" 🎤
@csa_asc astronaut @Cmdr_Hadfield treated us to the first music video made in space, released #OTD in 2013 (10 years ago today)! It's unclear whether we've been able to get David Bowie’s Space Oddity out of our heads since.
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Celebrating 50 years!
Skylab, America's first space station, launched 50 years ago this Sunday! Join us as we revisit the first long-duration space missions made by @nasa astronauts and see how they paved the way for the future. #Skylab50
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Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-125) launched for the fifth and final Hubble Servicing Mission #OTD in 2009.
Over 5 spacewalks, the crew replaced 2 instruments and repaired 2 others, bringing @NASAHubble to the apex of its scientific capabilities!
More: https://go.nasa.gov/3B7Bx3O
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About - Hubble Servicing Missions | Servicing Mission 4
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The first woman of Indian descent to go to space, a pilot, and an aerospace engineer, Kalpana Chawla's trailblazing role in aerospace history will be remembered for decades to come. #AANHPIHeritageMonth
Learn more about her life: https://go.nasa.gov/3LT5aef
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#DYK that Skylab was made from the third stage of a Saturn V rocket?
Weighing about 100 tons, the interior had two "floors" divided into areas to sleep, eat, and do experiments. The largest piece of scientific equipment was the Apollo Telescope Mount. #Skylab50
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Hayabusa - Asteroid & Comet Missions - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Launch and mission summary for the Japanese Hayabusa mission (with NASA/JPL participation), the first mission to return a sample of material from the surface of an asteroid.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Fast forward to today ⏩
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way back to Earth and scheduled to drop off its sample from the asteroid Bennu on September 24! https://go.nasa.gov/44I6YPE
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In Depth | OSIRIS-REx – NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid.NASA Solar System Exploration
Mars Global Surveyor captured this photo of the Earth and our Moon from Mars orbit #20YearsAgo today in 2003. It was the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that shows our home as a planetary disk!
See more views of Earth from space: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/albums/72157625096855580
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#OTD in 1968, Astronaut Neil Armstrong takes the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle 1 (LLRV-1) for a training flight and is forced to eject right before it crashes in a fiery blaze!
More about this hair-raising episode 55 years ago today: https://go.nasa.gov/3LWJHCr
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55 Years Ago: Astronaut Armstrong Survives LLRV Crash
On May 6, 1968, NASA astronaut Neil A. Armstrong took off on a simulated lunar landing mission in a Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) at Houston’s Ellington Air Force Base (AFB).Kelli Mars (NASA)
Alan Shepard became the first American to venture into space #OTD in 1961! Squeezing into the tiny "Freedom 7" capsule, Shepard's 15-minute suborbital flight was just a few weeks after Yuri Gagarin's landmark trip to space.
Watch highlights of this day ▶️ https://go.nasa.gov/3AKgGDy
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60 Years of Human Spaceflight: Launching The First American into Space
Sixty years ago, on May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. launched on the Freedom 7 mission, powered by a Mercury-Redstone rocket to become the first ...YouTube
One year ago today the @NASAMars InSight mission recorded the largest quake ever detected on another planet! https://go.nasa.gov/3noY3Sn
See how InSight's seismological data have given scientists an unprecedented view of Mars' core: https://go.nasa.gov/44l3mmq
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Lower your blast shield and stretch out with your feelings
Launched #OTD in 1976 (a year before we 1st witnessed Luke's lightsaber training), LAGEOS was a laser-ranging satellite able to measure small changes in the Earth. #StarWarsDay
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Now 40, LAGEOS Set the Bar for Studies of Earth
Still going strong after 40 years in space, the LAGEOS satellite was NASA's first orbiter dedicated to precise laser measurements of Earth.NASA
Today we mark the 60th anniversary of the first test of the Apollo parachute system, a vital element in bringing the Apollo astronauts home safely after their flights to the Moon.
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/60-years-ago-apollo-parachute-development-and-testing
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60 Years Ago: Apollo Parachute Development and Testing
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.Kelli Mars (NASA)
25 years ago #today at 12:08 pm EDT, Space Shuttle Columbia touched down at @NASAKennedy 's Shuttle Landing Facility to complete the nearly 16-day STS-90 mission.
Learn more about STS-90: https://go.nasa.gov/44lEsTO
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25 Years Ago: The STS-90 Neurolab Mission
On April 17, 1998, space shuttle Columbia lifted off on the STS-90 Neurolab mission to conduct cutting edge research on the responses of the brain and central nervous system to spaceflight.Kelli Mars (NASA)
75 years ago today, Howard C. "Tick” Lilly was tragically killed in the line of duty when the Douglas D-558-I Skystreak he was piloting crashed on takeoff. He was just 31 years old. @NASAArmstrong
Learn more about Howard Lilly: https://go.nasa.gov/42bMWLA
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65 years ago today, James Van Allen announced at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, the existence of radiation belts around the Earth.
These "Van Allen Belts," detected by Explorer I and III, were an unexpected scientific phenomenon: https://go.nasa.gov/3NykuQ3
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Studying the Van Allen Belts 60 Years After America’s First Spacecraft
The U.S.' first satellite in space, launched Jan. 31, 1958, heralded the emergence of space physics and ushered in a new era of technology and communications. This satellite, Explorer 1, discovered Earth's Van Allen Belts.NASA
STS-51B launched #OTD in 1985, for the 2nd flight of the Spacelab module (Spacelab 3) carrying 15 primary microgravity experiments.
@NASAMarshall Space Flight Center had management responsibility for the Spacelab 3 mission. đź“· Marshall Spacelab Operations Control Center
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A must-listen episode of Houston We Have a Podcast featuring former NASA Chief Historian Roger Launius!
Download his new e-book: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/naca-to-nasa-to-now.html
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NACA to NASA to Now
NACA to NASA to Now: The Frontiers of Air and Space in the American Century tells the story of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and its successor, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).Michele Ostovar (NASA)
Deadline extended to June 15!
We're seeking paper proposals for our upcoming symposium celebrating the NASA Discovery Program's 30 years of solar system science. Get details on the symposium and a list of topics👇 https://go.nasa.gov/3HbVDgz
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Call for Papers for Discovery@30, New Frontiers@20 Symposium
The NASA History Office and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum invite proposals for papers to be presented at a two-day symposium in November 2023, in Washington, DC.Michele Ostovar (NASA)
Canadarm, meet Canadarm2 🤝
#OTD in 2001, the @Space_Station's newly installed Canadarm2 transferred its launch cradle to Space Shuttle Endeavour's Canadarm, performing a "handshake" in space. @csa_asc astronaut Chris Hadfield was at the STS-100 shuttle's Canadarm controls.
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"Whew! That's what I call a thrill." –Apollo 16 astronaut Ken Mattingly
Travelling at more than 11,000 m/s (36,000 ft/s) as the Apollo 16 spacecraft entered the atmosphere, its heat shield reached 2200–2480°C (4000–4500°F) and the crew pulled 7 Gs before its parachutes deployed.
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50 Years Ago: Apollo 16 Splashes Down
On April 27, 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. “Ken” Mattingly, and Charles M. Duke successfully ended their 11-day Moon landing mission with a splashdown in their Command Module (CM) Casper in the Pacific Ocean.Kelli Mars (NASA)