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How do you put your pants on? Astronaut Winston Scott is seen putting on a training Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suit before an underwater simulated spacewalk. He was on STS-87 (Columbia) which helped with assembly for . This photo was taken in 1997.
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in 1903 Samuel P. Langley made a disastrous attempt to be first in flight in the Aerodrome A. The 1st photo shows the plane prior to launch on its platform in the Potomac River. The 2nd shows two men salvaging the shattered remnants from the river. Photos from .
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(11:30 PM EST) in 1959 the Russian Luna 3 spacecraft took the first image of the far side of the Moon. With probes like Luna and we have learned so much more about our travel companion. You can learn more about the Moon at: .
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Deploying its drag chute for landing at , the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down (5:55 p.m. EDT) in 1997! This marked the Atlantis' 40th landing at Kennedy Space Center, and the 87th Shuttle mission overall.
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Be free! The crew of STS-41 (Discovery) released the Ulysses spacecraft in 1990. Here you can see Ulysses on its way to a 5-year mission studying the north & south poles of the Sun. Using a gravity assist from Jupiter, the spacecraft maneuvered into solar orbit.
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in 1969, just over a month till launch, Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean conduct a training simulation inside the Flight Crew Training Center at . Almost all of an astronaut's time spent on the lunar surface was planned out and practiced.
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Edwin Hubble identified his first Cepheid variable star in 1923. Thanks to Hubble, scientists can use these pulsating stars as "standard candles" to measure the distances to neighboring objects like red giants and white dwarfs.
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Happy ! This image of a galaxy cluster taken by looks like a happy face. Its eyes are two bright galaxies and its smile is the result of an effect called gravitational lensing! More:
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On this day in 1984, Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-41G) launched at 7:03 a.m. (EDT) with seven crew members aboard. It was the first mission to have 2 women astronauts. From left to right: Kathryn Sullivan and Sally Ride!
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Happy birthday to pilot, TOPGUN graduate, and astronaut Brent Jett, born in 1958. Jett's career stretched from 1992 until his retirement in 2013. We can't confirm but it seems here that he feels the need...the need for speed.
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Astronaut Dick Gordon, Apollo 12 Command Module pilot, was born in 1929. He was also a pilot for Gemini XI. Today we remember his service and accomplishments.
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Today we Robert Goddard, born in Worcester, MA in 1882. An early pioneer in the field of rocketry, we honor his legacy with his namesake . Here, Goddard tows a rocket to a launch tower outside Roswell, NM circa 1931.
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The word 'Sputnik' means 'fellow traveler' in Russian! in 1957, the space race began when the Soviet Union's satellite launched & settled into its 98-minute orbit around Earth. The U.S. created to run our civil space effort - operational only 1 year later!
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You would think we would avoid setting fires in space, but has a long history of studying how fire behaves in microgravity. Astronaut Gregory Linteris, born in 1957, focused on combustion research aboard STS-94 (Columbia).
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“A Trip to the Moon” premiered in the United States in 1902. Space travel continues to be a popular subject in TV and the movies, with often providing inspiration for some outstanding shows and films. What is your favorite NASA inspired feature?
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Playing the flute in zero-gravity is only one of Dr. Ellen Ochoa's many amazing talents! The first Latina in space, a veteran of 4 shuttle flights, AND the first Hispanic director of ! After over 30 years at NASA, she retired earlier this year
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Testing, 1, 2, 3! (October 4) in 1978, the test Shuttle Enterprise was lifted into 's Dynamic Test Stand for ground vibration tests. These tests were used to verify that the Shuttle would perform properly in the launch configuration.
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., using 's Faint Object Camera, captured what were then the clearest photos of Pluto and Charon in 1990. In 2015, we learned much more about the pair, thanks to . The composite photo here shows their features, but not distance, to scale.
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Mercury-Atlas 8, carrying astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra launched in 1962. This mission is also referred to by the Mercury capsule's name, Sigma 7. Schirra has the distinction as the only astronaut to fly on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
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The first flight of Atlantis, STS 51-J launched (3:15 p.m. EDT) on this day in 1985! On board were astronauts Karol Bobko, Ronald Grabe, Robert Stewart and David Hilmers, as well as U.S.A.F. Major William Pailes (payload specialist)!
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