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Dropped in the name of science 🪨 Engineers tested dropping a heavy-duty aeroshell from 1,200 ft in the air. It’s part of Mars Sample Return, and when it comes back to Earth in the 2030s, the unit will be filled with samples collected by @NASAPersevere. https://t.co/QZC6vMcorp https://t.co/X4YB4XkD7e

Pathfinder on Mars

One crew enters, another one leaves: #Ax1 wrapped on @Space_Station and #Crew4 arrived. We celebrate three years of Astrobees, and extend several @NASASolarSystem missions. Want more space? Sign up for official NASA newsletters: https://t.co/MyG37QzGhO https://t.co/pYgVhomeWM https://t.co/NjMAtmt1fP

Space Shuttle Discovery and the crew of STS-31 touched back down on Earth having successfully deployed the Hubble Space Telescope, today in 1990. https://t.co/qpe0GnwmlQ

First stage landing confirmed. This Falcon 9 booster — tail number B1062 — has launched and landed for the second time in just 21 days, a new record. It was the sixth flight overall for this booster. https://t.co/dc9LCfFbCQ https://t.co/wHCvR0xhsz

This week, the @Space_Station saw the arrival of four new scientists on board! With the launch of Crew-4, the astronauts kicked off another science-filled mission in low-Earth orbit. https://t.co/fHrME8h1QE https://t.co/ImHH9ifsjF

NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the @Space_Station launched on the 50th anniversary of the day Apollo 16 splashed down back on Earth after their Moon mission. https://t.co/j7spnNQOoW

#OTD in 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery landed after successfully deploying the @HubbleTelescope. You can read more about the development, deployment, and operations of the HST in historian @ChrisGainor's book Not Yet Imagined. https://t.co/4Mv4DvBc5o https://t.co/RhQvaOYIGs

Tonight, look low in the west-northwest for Mercury close to the Pleiades. Then, early Saturday morning look low in the southeast an hour before sunrise. There will be Venus and Jupiter spectacularly close. They'll be lined up more or less horizontally. https://t.co/hpiW6MxY23 https://t.co/qxuKoI9pbr

U.S. Seeks to Lure Top Scientists Away From Russia - Bloomberg I know some very talented and good Russian people that are ready to leave right now! https://t.co/qxOKgcsZQ1

Underwater volcano in Antarctica triggers 85,000 earthquakes https://t.co/536ICjS3IO https://t.co/xgSnQabPT7

The Tadpoles Nebula

Wouldn't you know it? Many astronauts are poets! This National Poetry Month, read poems written by astronauts during and after their spaceflights: https://t.co/iBS5B8dBfh https://t.co/9PP6OQU3pu

See the Milky Way sparkle with two telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning photo https://t.co/4mpWHDPFm0 https://t.co/H4DXuQX5ao

Good afternoon from Florida’s Space Coast, where SpaceX is counting down to the 151st flight of a Falcon 9 rocket — and the 43rd dedicated to the Starlink program — at 5:27:10pm EDT (2127:10 GMT). Watch live: https://t.co/gJcqfZ308j https://t.co/iT1PstWgdN