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2️⃣ more days till our Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter attempts the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. Watch NASA TV live from @NASAJPL on April 12 at 3:30am ET (7:30am UT) as mission teams receive the first data signals from the historic test: https://t.co/uOrrDTZJ8J https://t.co/VaZ5DNdhIw

Mysterious X-rays are flaring out of Uranus

Breaking News from the #StarTrekUniverse! ✨ #StarTrek https://t.co/KXJTwR1ZXq

The #MarsHelicopter is set to make history: the first attempt at powered flight on another planet. The craft is expected to take off April 11, with data coming to Earth overnight April 12. If successful, it'll hover ~10 ft (3 meters) for up to 30 seconds. https://t.co/71lPIqyoOk https://t.co/GCYuCViS1f

Biden proposes $24.7 billion NASA budget in 2022 to support moon exploration and more https://t.co/cPOupNdth4 https://t.co/Ne7qGMkwIK

Early this morning in Houston, the flight control team on console worked to monitor the launch, docking, and onboarding of three humans to the @Space_Station. The arrival of Vande Hei, Dubrov, and Novitskiy brings the station's population to 10. https://t.co/pow7b629X3

A Cosmic Mess - 80 hour image of M81 and M82

For #EarthDay on 4/22, we’re bringing you with us to space. We’ll be livestreaming with a special guest & astronauts from the @Space_Station, answering your questions about our planet. Make a video using #AskNASA to submit or upload on https://t.co/4IkUCQNmU3 – more details soon! https://t.co/gghUgRmzE8

My minecraft base. Hope this is allowed here

How to watch the Mars helicopter Ingenuity's first flight online https://t.co/hNojUGqN5s https://t.co/9QdCtorEcX

Look at those blades turn! @NASA's Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter did a slow spin test yesterday as the @NASAPersevere rover looked on. If all goes well, Ingenuity will take flight on Sunday! (Gif: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) https://t.co/7VIq1GolOa

I just spent a week and a half in a campervan looking for the darkest skies in New Zealand. Needless to say, I'm very tired and would like my own bed now.

Need an energy boost? 💥 NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the iss discovered X-ray surges accompanying radio bursts from the pulsar in the Crab Nebula! A pulsar is a type of rapidly spinning neutron star, the crushed core of a massive sun that exploded as a supernova. This discovery means that these events release far more energy than we previously thought! Visit the link in our bio to learn more about these intense events. Credit: NASA, X-ray: CXC, J. Hester (ASU) et al.; optical: ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (ASU); infrared: JPL-Caltech, R. Gehrz (U. Minn)

"...as soon as I saw those solar arrays, I broke the silence and went 'Wow!'" Mark Vande Hei (@Astro_Sabot) remembers seeing the @Space_Station in person for the first time. Vande Hei returned to the station this morning for his second spaceflight. https://t.co/dWC8ljvbjt

“Malcolm S. Carpenter, Leroy G. Cooper, John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Alan B. Shepard, and Donald K. Slayton … the nation’s Mercury astronauts!” #OTD in 1959, NASA introduced the Mercury 7 astronauts to the public! https://t.co/pQOzwYynpV https://t.co/nI4d6VxcvV