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The four #Crew2 astronauts will share highlights from their mission with the public at 5:30pm CT on Monday, May 16 at Space Center Houston’s visitor center. https://t.co/KE9K1kfPo0 https://t.co/5jAAcNZ3Wv

The mission was to document night-flying birds -- but it ended up also documenting a beautiful sky. The featured wide-angle mosaic was taken over the steppe golden fields in Mértola, Portugal in 2020.

Jessica Cox is the first licensed pilot without arms. Combining her love of flight and desire to be a positive force, she routinely issues the challenge, "If I can fly an aircraft without any arms, what can't you do?" Discover her story: https://t.co/RnSTvYxRQw #AAPIHeritageMonth https://t.co/dAXs5TBFxJ

Watch as SpaceX’s brand new Falcon 9 booster — tail number B1073 — tilts its titanium grid fins and fires is braking engine for landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. This landing completed the reusable booster’s first mission. https://t.co/B6jNLRcd0k https://t.co/7E5Hvq3KZq

Just before dawn, the eastern skies over much of planet Earth are decorated by a notable line of familiar planets.

We love looking back in time, but telescopes take it to a new level! The 2004 Hubble Ultra Deep Field shows about 10,000 galaxies. Because of the time it took for their light to reach us, we see some of the #GalaxiesGalore as they were just 500 million years after the Big Bang. https://t.co/IPoYcaxtFB

Tomorrow night is the first total lunar eclipse of 2022! Total lunar eclipses take place when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are precisely aligned and Earth prevents sunlight from reaching the Moon. During the eclipse, viewable across the country, the Moon will appear orange-red. https://t.co/Elf5qJHPG2

Starlink 4-15 from 50 miles away!

T-minus 2 hours. SpaceX is counting down to its 20th mission of the year. Liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket with 53 more Starlink internet satellites is set for 4:40:50pm EDT (2040 GMT). Falcon 9 and its brand new booster stage are vertical at Cape Canaveral. https://t.co/B6jNLRcd0k https://t.co/3j7y8eYaeD

Andromeda untracked

Someone flew a helicopter and then drove a cruise ship through my streak shot of Starlink 4-15!

You know Alexander Graham Bell for his work on the telephone, but did you know he was interested in aviation too? On this day in 1909, Bell wrote to the Secretary of the @Smithsonian to offer a donation of photos of the Wright brothers' 1908 Fort Myer flight trials. https://t.co/7S0yOd4WBp

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Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on the Starlink 4-15 mission, expanding the capacity of the Starlink internet network and debuting a new booster in SpaceX’s reusable rocket fleet. https://t.co/B6jNLRcd0k https://t.co/dDMV9TNFPg

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 upper stage is now coasting before reigniting its engine for a brief orbit circularization burn, then deployment of 53 Starlink internet satellites. https://t.co/B6jNLRcd0k https://t.co/9BWoop78ZM