Space Contents Archive

It was a busy week! 🚀 Samples of a 4.5-billion-year old asteroid head to Earth 🔭 Our @NASAWebb telescope checks off a key prelaunch milestone ⛈️ Scientists develop a way to view satellite data in 3D Watch This Week at NASA for these stories & more: https://t.co/P1cygvz2Km https://t.co/OhGarUAQCY

Today's crescent moon in HDR

🤩 This view of the planet Venus was created using synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the Magellan spacecraft, mapped onto a computer-simulated globe. https://t.co/dMoyXTX3uz

It’s a breezy afternoon here at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but skies are mostly sunny as SpaceX counts down to liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket with 54 satellites at 6:54pm EDT (2254 GMT) — a little less than two hours from now. Live coverage: https://t.co/Aq4pqgWUH1 https://t.co/BX1tD9X4oE

Exciting celestial events are happening during May, so download our narrated Sky Tour astronomy podcast to find out about this month’s Eta Aquariid meteor shower and a total lunar eclipse. https://t.co/qP7fU2VOj6 https://t.co/Is5l1X1jyu

During Gordon Cooper's flight in the "Faith 7" Mercury capsule today in 1963, he completed 21 orbits of the Earth. The mission lasted 34 hours, 19 minutes, and 49 seconds—nearly four times longer than the mission that preceded it. https://t.co/k3BRBqXa8z

👨‍🔬 Interested in becoming a citizen scientist? 👩‍🔬 Meet @DoNASAScience virtually at CitSciCon, a virtual event with interactive activities taking place May 21 – 22. Register today: https://t.co/sFZS4VjmvN https://t.co/xy9mSBqjqy

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — featuring a reused payload fairing halves and a booster that’s launched seven times before — is standing on pad 39A for liftoff with 52 Starlink internet satellites and two hitchhiker spacecraft at 6:54pm EDT (2254 GMT). Photos: https://t.co/DgGZpZwatP https://t.co/Xq2uVSWPFV

Falling sky

Today in 1918, multiple Curtiss JN-4H biplanes flown by Army pilots took off from Washington, DC, establishing official U.S. Air Mail service between DC and New York. More from @PostalMuseum: https://t.co/Q7r8fzTgJ0 https://t.co/G08jReaiWu

Sat., May 15: Tonight, we're targeting the next launch attempt for a mission to explore energy transport in space. If skies are clear, you may see it in the Eastern U.S. 🚀 Liftoff is no earlier than 8:03pm ET. ➡️ Follow @NASA_Wallops for the latest: https://t.co/RL7uBsddb2 https://t.co/I2eeRJKAyv

Where to get raw images from other countries?

I’m familiar with where to get them from NASA but what about China, Russia, Japan, etc...

Watch a time-lapse video of the Falcon 9 rocket going upright at launch pad 39A earlier today: https://t.co/MJWGm8dQgG https://t.co/g5YLewE0Wh

T-minus 60 minutes. SpaceX is in the final hour of today’s countdown. This will be the: • 118th Falcon 9 launch • 35th SpaceX launch from pad 39A • 28th launch with a Starlink primary payload • 15th launch from Cape Canaveral in 2021, all by SpaceX https://t.co/Aq4pqhew5B https://t.co/Nro59dmJRU

SpaceX has adjusted today’s Falcon 9 launch time to 6:56pm EDT (2256 GMT), two minutes later than previously planned. No explanation was given for the revised time. Watch a live view of the launch pad in Florida: https://t.co/Aq4pqhew5B https://t.co/dOOr9w1pvh