NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 probe snapped the first ever photo of Earth from the Moon, August 23, 1966.
TODAY IN HISTORY: NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 probe took the first ever photograph of Earth from the Moon, August 23, 1966. (Moon Views)
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TODAY IN HISTORY: Planet Earth glimpsed from space during NASA’s Apollo 7 mission on October 17, 1968. (NASA/ASU)
April 12, 1981 – Today in history, the Space Shuttle era goes into overdrive with mission STS-1 when the orbiter Columbia launches from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen into Earth orbit for a 54.5-hour mission that would circle the planet 37 times. (NASA)
5 YEARS AGO TODAY: Saturn, Earth, and Moon, all in one. On July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. Earth, which is 1.44 billion km (898 million miles) away, appears as a blue dot at center right; the moon can be seen as a fainter protrusion off its right side.
The Project Apollo Archive is NASA fan Kipp Teague’s collection of previously unavailable pictures of NASA’s space history, from pre-Apollo program to present. We’ve paired some of them with buried quotes from the mission transcripts that show the grainy, gritty, and funny side of space exploration.
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Five storied female NASA pioneers will soon grace toy-store shelves, in Lego form.
The Danish company announced on Tuesday that it would produce the Women of NASA set, submitted by science writer Maia Weinstock.
“Women have played critical roles throughout the history of the U.S. space program,” Weinstock wrote in her project proposal. “Yet in many cases, their contributions are unknown or under-appreciated – especially as women have historically struggled to gain acceptance in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.”
She said the set is meant to shed light on the rich history of women in STEM professions.
Women Of NASA To Be Immortalized — In Lego Form
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Planet Earth and the Space Shuttle Discovery, April 13, 2010. In the bottom image, you can see astronauts Clay Anderson and Rick Mastracchio at work in the open cargo bay of the orbiter.
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TODAY IN HISTORY: Jupiter and its moon Ganymede, observed by the Voyager 1 space probe on January 24, 1979. (NASA)
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