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While most aircraft run on fossil fuels, NASA has been working on alternatives for decades. 🌱

Helios, a record-breaking, remotely-piloted, solar-powered aircraft, suffered a mishap #20YearsAgo today, breaking apart over the Pacific.

More about Helios: https://go.nasa.gov/447cmLh
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NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: Helios Prototype

Helios Prototype is a remotely piloted flying wing aircraft developed under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) project.
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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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The World from Space

Happy World Space Week!
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#20YearsAgo Rick Husband was orbiting the Earth as commander of STS-107, his 2nd Shuttle flight. Husband dreamt of being an astronaut from childhood and, after becoming a @usairforce test pilot, applied 4 times before being selected to NASA's 1994 astronaut class. #NASARemembers
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Earth received its last, faint signal from Pioneer 10 from 12,230,000,000 km away #20YearsAgo today (taking 11+ hours to reach us). Launched in 1972, the Pioneer 10 spacecraft saw many firsts over its mission, including our first encounter with Jupiter. https://go.nasa.gov/3QNPtal
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Pioneer 10 Sends Last Signal

After more than 30 years, it appears the venerable Pioneer 10 spacecraft has sent its last signal to Earth. Pioneer's last, very weak signal was received on 23 January 2003.
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#20YearsAgo today Space Shuttle Columbia launched on mission STS-107 with Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon on board.

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Launched #20YearsAgo today, ICESat's laser altimeters measured the thickness of the Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets for 7 years. Its measurements, along with ICESat-2's, showed that from 2003–2019, Greenland lost ~200 gigatons of ice per year.

More: https://go.nasa.gov/3IDlG21
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Earth's Cryosphere Is Vital for Everyone. Here's How NASA Keeps Track of Its Changes.

Due to ice's important role in the Earth system, NASA is committed to studying it extensively.
NASA Sea Level Change Portal
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2 years after its 1st flyby of Earth, the Galileo spacecraft snapped this pic of our Moon on its 2nd flyby #20YearsAgo today. Galileo used what flight planners called a "VEEGA," a Venus-Earth-Earth gravity assist, to gain momentum for its trip to Jupiter: https://go.nasa.gov/3UCutn1
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Galileo - Overview

Galileo was designed to make the first study of Jupiter and its moons and magnetosphere from orbit. The orbiter carried 10 science instruments and a atmospheric probe.
NASA Solar System Exploration
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When STS-113 launched #20YearsAgo today, Mission Specialist John Herrington became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to travel to space.

Find out what he brought to space in honor of his Chickasaw Tribe: https://go.nasa.gov/3UZWu96 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
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John Herrington Carried A Piece of Native American History to Space

When astronaut John Herrington made his voyage to space aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-113 mission, he became the first Native American in space.
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