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This is the NASA History Office's official X account. We're happy that you share our passion for aerospace history. Verification: https://t.co/6BaN3zUqRN
Washington, DC
Joined June 2010
A super, bowl-shaped guide for the Apollo 11 astronauts In May 1969, the crew of Apollo 10 took this photo of Moltke Crater, a landmark on the approach to the Apollo 11 landing site in the Moon's Sea of Tranquility. Tranquility Base is about 30 miles (50 km) away. #SuperBowl
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The Skylab 4 crew, the last people to set foot on American's first space station, captured this photo #OTD in 1974—a sweet farewell to their home for the last 84 days.
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“We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.” –Bill Nye #OTD 41 years ago, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II performed the first untethered spacewalk. Read about the photos taken to document it:
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RT @NASA_Langley: Our wonder has always propelled us to new heights and the Langley hangar has been at the core of aeronautic @NASAhistory…
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RT @Astromaterials: 🌑🏈 Check out our lunar football, known as “Big Muley”! It’s the largest single rock Apollo astronauts returned from th…
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Our first rusty vistas from Mars On July 20, 1976, humanity got its first views from the surface of Mars minutes after the Viking 1 Lander touched down. The following day, the lander captured the first color view of the desolate rock-strewn landscape. #ArchivesLandscape
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Ever heard of the Moon Treaty? Read the story behind a fascinating episode in space history and law, as nations negotiated over how they might handle human activity on the Moon. Download the free e-book 📖
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RT @NASASTEM: Fore!🏌️♂️ #OTD in 1971, @NASA_Astronauts Alan Shepard golfed on the Moon. In the 1/6th gravity on the lunar surface, his 2n…
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Read the story of how artist Cecelia Bibby designed the artwork and painted it on the spacecraft.
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@JTK60 The image in our post was processed in 2020 by Kevin M. Gill from archived Mariner 10 data. Details: Here are the original images: visible light (L) and with Mariner 10's ultraviolet filter (R)👇
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30 years ago today, STS-63 lifted off for Discovery's 20th mission 🚀 STS-63 marked the first spaceflight for pilot Eileen Collins, the first shuttle flight to space station Mir, and astronauts Michael Foale and Bernard A. Harris, Jr. both performed their first spacewalks.
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RT @NASA_Johnson: 22 years ago, we tragically lost the Columbia STS-107 crew upon reentering the atmosphere. We will never forget the lives…
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America launched its first satellite, Explorer 1, #OTD in 1958, a mere four months after Sputnik. But what if the Navy's Dec 1957 launch of Vanguard had been successful? Would NASA have been created? Travel back in time with this Explorer 1 documentary:
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Launched from 1962 to 1975, NASA's 8 Orbiting Solar Observatory satellites showed the importance of getting above Earth's atmosphere to observe the Sun. NASA's Chief Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, shown here with an OSO model, directed the development of the early OSO satellites.
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But three hours into the mission, the Apollo 14 crew ran into problems of their own docking the command and service module to the lunar module. Trying repeatedly, the two modules would not latch, jeopardizing the mission. How they worked it out: 👉
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