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Only 10 days left to get your proposal in! Do you have what it takes to design & build an information display system within an augmented-reality environment that will help complete spacewalk tasks? Proposals due 12/15. Details:

No buts about it: these are Saturn's moons Tethys (L) and Dione (R) imaged by on Dec. 6, 2010.

Mars Base Camp experience helps students learn how our & scientists will send humans to Mars

Instead of awful YouTube comments, why not start your day with this gorgeous shot of Dick Gordon training for Apollo 12? You'll never not be missed, Dick.

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The observable universe is 93 billion light-years across. So far, no human has ventured farther than 1.3 light-seconds from Earth.

Good morning from the flight line at the KSC shuttle landing facility! Today we're moving GOES-S from the plane down the road to Astrotech for satellite processing and launch prep!

5 December 1968, ESRO's HEOS-1 launched from . HEOS-1 was 1st European satellite to venture beyond near-Earth space, studying magnetic fields, radiation & solar wind (needing an orbit stretching 2/3 of way to Moon) See:

Grasped in the hand of the robotic arm, the cargo spacecraft was detached from today. It will be released tomorrow and you can watch it live starting at 7:45 a.m. EST:

Tonight's Target: The Pleiades! Hint: Look East at 7:30 pm

Pearls aren't formed around sand & grit but organic matter trapped in an Oyster, like pieces of worm.

in 1993, astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey Hoffman began the first spacewalk of Hubble’s first servicing mission, installing new gyros, electronic control units, fuse plugs & protective covers. The mission fully restored Hubble’s potential for exploration.

's sister satellite GOES-S, which will be called , has arrived Kennedy Space Center aboard a C-5 Super Galaxy cargo transport. Launch info:

Nice ride. Today first fit check in which we are backup for. Space ship looks ready. Prime Crew are and Launch is Dec 17. Stay tuned!

Please share and spread the word. is accepting applications to select students to receive full-paid to attend in summer of 2018. Transportation is included! Learn more and apply here:

Throughout 2017, RS-25 engines have been tested at to collect critical performance data for 's deep-space rocket. Read more about SLS engine testing >>

We live on a solar-powered planet. The Sun drives Earth’s ocean currents, seasons, weather and climate.

Dawn of 5 December, 2014 was also as NASA PAO Mike Curie declared, the Dawn of . with the Exploration Flight Test 1 Launch at 7:05 AM EST. Orion’s maiden voyage was an unquestioned success. Learn more via -

in 2014, ULA's Heavy blasted off, marking the "dawn of Orion and a new era of American space exploration" -- the Exploration Test Flight of

in 1901, animator Walt Disney was born. Walt Disney worked with NASA on science education, producing several films regarding space exploration right before and at the start of the Space Race, including “Man in Space” (1955) and “Mars and Beyond” (1957).

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Thank you so much for the beautiful birthday surprise 😉 at LAX 💕 you're the best

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