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That signature great flash of TEA-TEB igniting the center Merlin for landing.

☄️ #AsteroidDay news: Our NEOWISE space telescope has been given a two-year mission extension to continue searching for asteroids and comets. To date, it's made confirmed infrared observations of approximately 39,100 objects in our solar system: https://t.co/LwfjLO7oXJ https://t.co/vYxgFqYU01

.@NorthropGrumman's #Cygnus cargo craft is pictured during its release from the @CSA_ASC #Canadarm2 robotic arm on June 29, 2021. More pix... https://t.co/1UaS5HmLuD https://t.co/Szmqqp2W8n

NASA is preparing and testing procedures to turn on backup hardware on the Hubble Space Telescope as investigations on its payload computer continue. https://t.co/V0SRnSfVnG

Falcon 9 has landed! Exactly one year since its first flight, this SpaceX booster has just completed its eighth trip to space and back. This was the 20th Falcon rocket landing at Cape Canaveral. ttps://spaceflightnow.com/2021/06/29/falcon-9-transporter-2-mission-status-center/ https://t.co/qfEWscm7aY

The scientific heart of int'l water-monitoring satellite SWOT was assembled in our Spacecraft Assembly Facility & is now in France. Engineers & techs will spend a year integrating hardware with the rest of the spacecraft. Launch is scheduled for late 2022. https://t.co/JZQ63RVAdT https://t.co/kff5euzsNH

🐉 A dragon is coming home and you can watch! On Tues., July 6, @SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft will depart the @Space_Station and bring approximately 5,000 pounds of @ISS_Research and cargo to Earth! Watch the action LIVE at 10:45am ET (14:45 UT): https://t.co/PzlPkW5kAV https://t.co/9GlMM6HOfU

The Moon look likes Saturn on this photo

The @SpaceX #CargoDragon will depart the station with about 5,000 pounds of cargo and science experiments on July 6 live on @NASA TV. https://t.co/D8DQXs7ZQh

Congratulations to Vanessa Wyche (@v_wyche), who was named director of NASA's Johnson Space Center! Serving as acting director since May, Wyche will continue to oversee human spaceflight programs: @Space_Station, @NASA_Orion, @NASAArtemis missions, @NASA_Astronauts, and more. https://t.co/qeaUK64ouB

Amazing photos from @mdcainjr show SpaceX’s 15-story-tall Falcon 9 booster coming in for landing at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this afternoon. This was the eighth flight of this booster, coming one year to the date after its first mission. https://t.co/m6uvzPh9qp https://t.co/thFpeJXFUm

Booster B1060 ignition after free falling [OC]

These days, we're used to astronauts tweeting from the @Space_Station, but it hasn't always been that way. @Astro_Mike was the first astronaut to compose a tweet from space (sent by a team on Earth) and @Astro_TJ was the first to tweet directly from space. #SocialMediaDay https://t.co/qMaJiup9bi

“I’m 2nd generation American, the 1st in my family to go to university, & here I am married, working at NASA, & learning something new every day.” Stratis Catacalos pursued amazing global travels but always found his way back home to NASA. Read his story: https://t.co/ys4Es0qe5z https://t.co/sjNim27Nqi

How rockets work: A complete guide https://t.co/ifwtj6Wtfo https://t.co/2GVEVkahqh