Space Contents Archive

Job well done, @Astro_Kimbrough and @Thom_Astro! 👏👏 The astronaut duo are safely inside the @Space_Station, marking the end of today’s spacewalk after 6 hours and 45 minutes. https://t.co/PppRIGJaCt

The new 60-foot-long roll-out solar array has been fully deployed successfully! #AskNASA | https://t.co/lCvrNKHbhT https://t.co/VBJoFdL8vc

The International Space Station is seen in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second while @NASA astronaut @Astro_Kimbrough and @esa astronaut @Thom_Astro performed a spacewalk to upgrade @Space_Station's power supply. See More 📷 https://t.co/2cfJ3BbeHl https://t.co/o4zq9orTyE

Keep on flying! #MarsHelicopter’s 8th flight on June 21 was the first flown after a software update, which fixed a known “flight-mode” transition issue. So what’s next for Ingenuity? The team’s operations lead shares more: https://t.co/1pzoBf1PRU https://t.co/dmSByPrXPj

My highest resolution image of the sun to date

This time-lapse shows the second iROSA, or roll-out solar array, unrolling after installation by @astro_kimbrough and @Thom_astro during their spacewalk. The actual unraveling took just 10 minutes and concluded at 1:55 EDT. 👨‍🚀👨‍🚀 Details: https://t.co/1eYY4qreKs https://t.co/n9sZuv04gD

Check out this amazing composite image of the station in transit across the Sun while @Thom_Astro and @Astro_Kimbrough were working outside during today's spacewalk. 📸: NASA/Joel Kowsky https://t.co/Kxn8I55Nru

This week aboard the @Space_Station: ⚡️@Astro_Kimbrough & @Thom_Astro complete two spacewalks 🔍 @Aki_Hoshide experiments with freeze drying pharmaceuticals in microgravity And more! Watch #SpaceToGround for details: https://t.co/rfSOCSHFfs https://t.co/FidAOvKUof

#OTD in 1992, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on Spacelab mission STS-50. The 13-day mission was the first Extended Duration Orbiter flight and the longest shuttle mission to that date. https://t.co/kUxcMzyD9r

Report backs NASA proposal to change astronaut radiation exposure limits

NASA is continuing to diagnose a problem with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope after completing another set of tests on June 23 and 24. https://t.co/ubxYvYy4aI

@NASAPersevere Oh yeah. It’s all in the flex.🦾It takes our teams several days to stitch our images together to create our bot selfies. Like humans, our arms have joints too: shoulder, elbow, and wrist. They help us keep our arms steady and flexible so we can snap away. https://t.co/no4CJu71IS

The second of the new roll-out solar arrays is unfurling slowly. Deployment began at 12:45pm CT during today's spacewalk. https://t.co/cBNqC5JGaz https://t.co/HZLaz4Jp2e

📸🤖 Our @NASAPersevere rover captured a historic selfie with our Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter on April 6, 2021. But how was it taken? Engineers from @NASAJPL break down the science for a rockin' selfie: https://t.co/BKgjWlQg17 https://t.co/7mU16JM9K3

Virgin Galactic can fly passengers to suborbital space, FAA says https://t.co/yC2T9GH9bO https://t.co/YpVqpRAgbi