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Val Jester Locke
Neloangelo314
This day on July 31st.1964 : Ranger( 7 )an unmanned lunar probe is sent to the moon it's main purpose is to discover what the moons surface would be like
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Dr. James O'Donoghue
physicsJ
Saturn's rings are a rainbow of ice scupted into position by gravity. Here's a natural colour 17 megapixel image taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Distances listed are from Saturn's center;
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NASA Landsat Program
NASA_Landsat
You can’t conserve what you can’t measure. Landsat satellites are designed to measure Earth’s features, from water use in the desert to urban expansion to crop health. Dive into the
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Jason Hutt
jhutt75
This is the time of year for all of us in this business to reflect on the horrific outcomes of our most egregious mistakes. While there were a lot of
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MissionControlMovie
missionmovie
January 27, 1967The #Apollo1 fire was a tragic and galvanising moment for #NASA, in which three astronauts were killed during a test of spacecraft power systems less than a month
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Bobak Ferdowsi
tweetsoutloud
To all the brown people out there today (especially): YOU ARE AMERICAN ENOUGH. You make this country better and you deserve to be here and be treated with respect. I
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HgraceQ
hgraceq
Why would the NAVY tell us about one guy whose name means “the savior of our nation” SALVATORE PAISHe who gave us the anti- gravity flying triangle & the reactor
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Emily Lakdawalla
elakdawalla
I've had 2 different happy hours today to celebrate a successful Mars launch and some other things so I'm now in the mood to answer your questions about Mars &
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bryce strauss
brycestrauss
Great demo to explain why you effectively cannot operate a spacecraft on Mars with a joystick on earth. Interplanetary space missions require the perfect balance of proactive planning and strategic
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ToughSF
ToughSf
Asteroid mining is much more plausible than you think: https://youtu.be/y8XvQNt26KI I propose a sequence of events that minimizes the set-up cost while maximizing the returns for processing asteroids, as I will
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Hugh Lewis
ProfHughLewis
Don Kessler and Burt Cour-Palais submitted the paper "Collision frequency of artificial satellites" on 7th November 1977, more than 43 years ago & just 20 years after the launch of
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Lars Osborne
lars_0
The Spacecamp to Raytheon pipeline is real.https://twitter.com/nohaggerty/status/1340362586668343298 I have been working in defense-adjacent roles for my whole career now, and have been thinking about this pipeline recently. I wanted to
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Scott Manley
DJSnM
The more I read about the 1201 & 1202 alarms during Apollo 11 the more I realize the existing narrative isn't quite true. The alarms were supposed to indicate that
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Sophia Gad-Nasr
Astropartigirl
If you touch two CLEAN blocks of the same metal together in space, they weld!Atoms in solid metals move a bit. Touch two clean surfaces together, and the atoms can't
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Gareth Harney
OptimoPrincipi
The Gemini Tow Test Vehicle (TTV) was one of two vehicles made by North American Aviation for @NASA in the 1960s. It was built to help develop a way to
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Laurie Winkless
laurie_winkless
On 30th July 2020, an Atlas V-541 rocket left the pad at Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida. On-board was @NASAPersevere – a rover destined for
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