1st commercial company in history completed a moon landing – Blue Ghost lunar lander from Firefly 🚀🌕👏
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1st commercial company in history completed a moon landing – Blue Ghost lunar lander from Firefly 🚀🌕👏
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Liftoff! #SaturnV #Launch Vehicle 🚀 #NASA #Space #Rocket #Spacecraft #Astronaut #spaceexploration #apolloprogram #Apollo11 #Apollo13 #Apollo15 #Apollo17 #spacecrafting_photography #spacecraftphotos #KennedySpaceCenter #rocketlaunch #TikTokAstroNOT 🧑🚀🚫 (at Kennedy Space Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChWXEu8OXub/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Na data de hoje, há 47 anos, Gene Cernan comandava a Apollo 17, última missão a pousar na astronautas na Lua. . On today’s date, 47 years ago, Gene Cernan commanded the Apollo 17, the last mission to land astronauts on the Moon. . Credit: NASA . #nasa #moon #lua #space #espaço #otd #hnh #astrogram #astronomia #astronomy #apollo #apollo17 #history #historico #instagood #picoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/B57srxNJDuL/?igshid=1vge4pl522llh
Happy Birthday America! Remember when you sent men to the moon? Portrait by Astronaut Jack Schmitt of Astronaut Gene Cernan from the surface of the moon / Apollo 17
This is Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) on the Moon, meeting Shorty Crater in 1972 😮What vehicle would you like to drive on the Moon ?
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Can one really have too many "favorite #speedys"? 🤔😏😉 #SpeedyTuesday #apollo17 #apolloxvii #SpanishRobHC #SpanishRobMacro (at Greek Theatre)
Apollo 17, Earthrise over Moon
Credit: NASA / Apollo 17
Solar System: Things to Know This Week
With only four months left in the mission, Cassini is busy at Saturn. The upcoming cargo launch, anniversaries and more!
As our Cassini spacecraft made its first-ever dive through the gap between Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017, one of its imaging cameras took a series of rapid-fire images that were used to make this movie sequence. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Hampton University
1-3. The Grand Finale
Our Cassini spacecraft has begun its final mission at Saturn. Some dates to note:
May 28, 2017: Cassini makes its riskiest ring crossing as it ventures deeper into Saturn's innermost ring (D ring).
June 29, 2017: On this day in 2004, the Cassini orbiter and its travel companion the European Space Agency's Huygens probe arrived at Saturn.
September 15, 2017: In a final, spectacular dive, Cassini will plunge into Saturn - beaming science data about Saturn's atmosphere back to Earth to the last second. It's all over at 5:08 a.m. PDT.
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4. Cargo Launch to the International Space Station
June 1, 2017: Target date of the cargo launch. The uncrewed Dragon spacecraft will launch on a Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A at our Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The payload includes NICER, an instrument to measure neutron stars, and ROSA, a Roll-Out Solar Array that will test a new solar panel that rolls open in space like a party favor.
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5. Sojourner
July 4, 2017: Twenty years ago, a wagon-sized rover named Sojourner blazed the trail for future Mars explorers - both robots and, one day, humans. Take a trip back in time to the vintage Mars Pathfinder websites:
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6. Voyager
August 20, 2017: Forty years and still going strong, our twin Voyagers mark 40 years since they left Earth.
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7. Total Solar Eclipse
August 21, 2017: All of North America will be treated to a rare celestial event: a total solar eclipse. The path of totality runs from Oregon to South Carolina.
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8. From Science Fiction to Science Fact
Light a candle for the man who took rocketry from science fiction to science fact. On this day in 1882, Robert H. Goddard was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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9. Looking at the Moon
October 28, 2017: Howl (or look) at the moon with the rest of the world. It's time for the annual International Observe the Moon Night.
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10. Last Human on the Moon
December 13, 2017: Forty-five years ago, Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan left the last human footprint on the moon.
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