"There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together." - Bill Nye
On this day in @NASAHistory, the first humans set foot on the Moon during #Apollo11. With more than half a billion people watching on television, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went where no one had gone before. Explore archived images and stories: go.nasa.gov/2JEN9hu
Mr. Steven—now with more net. SpaceX’s fairing recovery vessel has been fitted with a 4x larger net ahead of its next recovery attempt targeted for later this month. instagram.com/p/BlLYeNnFZNA/
Countless amounts of man hours, money, and time just to launch a rocket into the sun.
Thankfully there won’t be much clean up. x.com/nasakennedy/status/101…
Flying faster & closer than ever to the Sun, @NASA's #SolarProbe and its @ulalaunch#DeltaIV Heavy prepares for a mission to kiss the Sun. The spacecraft aims to unravel 60 years of mysteries around the Sun’s corona. Watch @NASA_LSP countdown to launch: youtu.be/9Kcl_Wxd528
Commercial Crew astronaut Suni Williams wearing a #SpaceX spacesuit while training with a mock-up of the Crew Dragon in Hawthorne, California
đź“·: NASA, April 3, 2018
#OTD in 1950 the first Bell X-1 made its final flight. Chuck Yeager was piloting this plane in 1947 when he became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. This very airplane is now hanging at @airandspace in Washington, DC.
Here's a photo from my sound-activated camera that was placed within the launch pad fence at LC-39A. #Falcon9#Spacex#Bangabandhu1 (Marcus Cote/Space Coast Times) @spacex
#OTD in 1949 President Harry S. Truman signed legislation establishing the Joint Long Range Proving Ground on Florida's East Coast. Today we know it as Cape Canaveral, home to @NASAKennedy and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
“If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.”
Christa McAuliffe
#TeacherAppreciationWeek