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🚀 Experiments developed by eight community colleges & university teams are being prepared for launch on a sounding rocket from @NASA_Wallops. Liftoff is scheduled on Thurs., Aug. 19 between 5-8:30pm ET, with livestream coverage beginning at 4:40pm. More: https://t.co/x0D4FcBrXY https://t.co/25Rpq2KMEa

Elon Musk on Twitter: And ship will be caught by Mechazilla too. As with booster, no landing legs. Those are only needed for moon & Mars until there is local infrastructure.

If you’re a student looking to build your resume to land a NASA internship, there are quite a few NASA programs you should look out for. Current interns describe the paths they took on this week’s "Houston We Have a Podcast." 🎙️| https://t.co/Ld1lB3y5V2 https://t.co/XlSh8nRHl0

A genome editing experiment on the station studies how the body repairs space-caused DNA damage and expands biology research. https://t.co/AQn0mRmtBu

NASA leadership now rebukes Russian accusations after getting called out

Rings found around a black hole

Old Soviet space lamp

Cygnus Wall from my backyard

My best Saturn pic ever

“A Beautiful Trifid” Mike Selby

NASA's X-59' quiet' supersonic jet gets closer to flight

Made a post yesterday about the milky way by the beach, here's the milky way from an urban area, Oranjestad, Aruba

I hope someone will take photographs of this event in east Asia

Perseids Meteor Shower, Canon City Colorado

This weekend marks the 55th anniversary of the Lunar Orbiter 1's trip around the Moon - becoming the first US spacecraft to ever orbit the Moon. The spacecraft was launched on 8/10/1966, and entered lunar orbit on 8/14/1966. See a few of the photos it sent back in this thread 👇 https://t.co/6FEpLsAQ1I