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Resilience welcomed her sibling Endeavor to the @Space_Station. Perfect docking and great to have 11 crew members on board. Welcome, Crew 2! https://t.co/NnzwYNVzge

Some guy launches a rocket he built in his own house.

31 years ago, NASAHubble launched into space 🔭 To commemorate the occasion, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy: AG Carinae. The glowing halo of gas and dust is about five light-years wide — the same distance between Earth and the nearest star beyond the Sun, Proxima Centauri. 🌟 Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI #GlowGoals #NASA #Hubble #StarPower #Astronomy

The first core stage of our @NASA_SLS rocket that will power #Artemis I is on the way to @NASAKennedy! There, it'll be integrated with the rest of the rocket & our @NASA_Orion spacecraft for launch on a mission around the Moon: https://t.co/pGhN9haukc https://t.co/ho8bnCEXI8

The station will host 11 crewmates until April 28 when four @SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts return to Earth after a 162-day space research mission. https://t.co/lYYekoyWec

The Sun Today 04/24/2021

Charlie Bolden and Kathy Sullivan flew on STS-31, the mission to launch the Hubble Space Telescope today in 1990. Watch this video by @googlearts of the two astronauts exploring the inside of the Shuttle at our Udvar-Hazy Center: https://t.co/Heaifh5xN9 https://t.co/6p6yZnjIxK

NASA released this zoomed-in view from the Perseverance rover of the Ingenuity helicopter’s historic first flight on Mars. The rotor-driven drone is poised for a longer-range test flight Sunday. Read more: https://t.co/tLAc48LvqK https://t.co/qcifZzpEVH

A Soyuz rocket is standing on a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East for liftoff Sunday with the next 36 satellites for OneWeb’s internet network, the sixth Soyuz mission dedicated to the commercial broadband fleet. Read more: https://t.co/HGmPZb6TNC https://t.co/ZWUMFeaHs5

With 11 people on space station, astronauts get crafty with sleeping spots https://t.co/8n6XHHLGi2 https://t.co/y3m6R9FTQh

The Cosmic Reef consisting of nebulas NGC 2020 and NGC 2014 within the Large Magellanic Cloud

Volcano eruption from Space! (photo from the ISS)

Today in 1946, Soviet jets Yak-15 and MiG-9 made their first flights, within hours of each other. Pictured here is the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, a successor of the MiG-9, in our collection: https://t.co/q9bSHUpOQG https://t.co/7nBIMLoAg6

😮 To celebrate the anniversary of its launch, each year @NASAHubble releases an image that always leaves us in awe. This year’s image of star AG Carinae—one of the brightest seen in our galaxy—surrounded by a glowing halo of gas and dust, certainly lives up to the hype. https://t.co/BlBBWq38HU

Meet 'Zhurong': China names Tianwen-1 Mars rover ahead of mid-May landing attempt https://t.co/17F8lIdyVn https://t.co/gpmmtaRePm