Space Contents Archive

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On Monday, Nov. 21, the #Artemis I @NASA_Orion spacecraft will do a powered flyby of the Moon to set itself on a distant retrograde orbit. We’re previewing the milestone today at 5pm ET (20:00 UTC) during a media briefing. #AskNASA your questions: https://t.co/4iRXJ7CXGm https://t.co/fu2BOdyQdv

Horse Head and Flame Nebulae

Rosette nebula

Tonight's sky on mobile phone.

Jupiter and its moons 😍 #JunoMission sped low over Jupiter’s cloud tops, capturing Io and Callisto in the distance last November. Two citizen scientists made and processed this photo using raw JunoCam data. Learn more about this stunning image here: https://t.co/w8UvlzNGxR https://t.co/aTOLwNCDny

The @SpaceX #Dragon cargo craft is due to launch at 3:54pm ET on Tuesday as the Exp 68 crew preps for five spacewalks before the end of the year. https://t.co/wukUZydZfF

LightSail 2, our wonderful big little spacecraft, entered the atmosphere and came down. It's gone. Thanks to all our supporters. Meanwhile, Artemis I is up and on its way to the Moon. And The Planetary Academy launched. What a week! https://t.co/HrHCbKWRZt

#HappyBirthday to the first American in space—pilot, naval aviator, and first person to hit a golf ball on the Moon—Alan Shepard! As one of the original NASA Mercury 7, and commander of Apollo 14, he was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990 🧑‍🚀 https://t.co/j5pJ7Hw91D

Where is @NASA_Orion now? You can track the spacecraft in real time using AROW, the #Artemis Real-Time Orbit Website. Take it for a spin: https://t.co/tg9kzShbkR https://t.co/qcKhTTGYVI

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a remote galaxy shining 350 million years after the birth of the cosmos 13.8 billion years ago, surprising astronomers struggling to figure out how stars and galaxies could have formed so soon after the Big Bang. https://t.co/hKR68ePQJ0 https://t.co/6vFNCGVJOv

The plane was in orbit for a record 908 days ⬇️ https://t.co/GfpbVvPUd6 https://t.co/QaH4hh95j6

@NASA_Johnson will be hosting a news conference today to preview @NASA_Orion's entry into the Moon’s sphere of influence and the pair of maneuvers that will propel the spacecraft into a distant retrograde lunar orbit. 📺Tune in at 5 pm ET on NASA TV. Got questions? Use #askNASA https://t.co/PaCcK0XsSj

#OTD in 2000, Cassini captured this photo of Jupiter’s eye, the Great Red Spot you see disappearing around the eastern edge of the planet, staring at its largest moon Ganymede, which is about 50% larger than Earth’s Moon. https://t.co/GJni4tkPOg

The #Artemis I mission is on its way to the Moon — and you have a front-row seat. No, really. @Snapchat just released the Orion 360 Lens, which gives you a 360-degree look inside the @NASA_Orion spacecraft: https://t.co/JJjTvhmL5V https://t.co/uY65viO8ys