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"Insertion of astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr. (foreground) and Thomas P. Stafford into Gemini-6A spacecraft prior to launch."

Date: December 15, 1965

NASA ID: S65-66744

apollo astronauts train for recovery operations at sea

The Crew Pressure Vessel of Enterprise (OV-101) being lowered into the test chamber to a pressure test.

Date: January 21, 1975

NASA ID: MH75-6720

Like images of broken light, Webb captured these carbon-rich dust shells around a binary star system. Drifting swiftly outwards, they are seeding their surroundings with carbon - one way elements spread across the universe.

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Artemis II Stacking Operations Update

Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program continue stacking the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s twin solid rocket booster motor segments for the agency’s Artemis II mission, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Currently, six of the 10 segments are secured atop mobile launcher 1 with the right […] from NASA https://ift.tt/1uI7Dtq

the number of spacecraft failures recently has been absolutely insane and it all comes down to tech bros barging into the industry going "it's not that hard wtf is nasa so bad" and then completely skipping out on any testing

Trapezium: Teardrops in My Skies

Credits: CITA, U. Colorado, WFPC2, HST, NASA

Apollo 17 Landing On Dec. 11, 1972

Cosmic Keyhole" (NGC 1999) Scientists first believed that the conspicuous hole in the center of this nebula was a Bok globule - a dense, cold cloud of gas and dust that blocks out background light. But later observations suggest that the dark patch is actually an empty void in space