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The first photo of the surface of Mars, captured by NASA’s Viking 1 lander on July 20, 1976.

November 5, 2007 – The Space Shuttle Discovery floats high above our lovely Earth, observed from the International Space Station.

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View of Earth from Apollo 12 spacecraft window

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Margaret Hamilton

Ieri Margaret Hamilton ha ricevuto il prestigioso premio "Presidential medal of freedom" per aver guidato con successo il team per la creazione dell'on-board computer dell'Apollo 11, permettendo quindi il primo allunaggio umano della storia

X-15 Rocket Plane. Artist: Wilf Hardy by Atomic Scout on Flickr.

We don’t have any real pictures of the Milky Way galaxy. Most non-illustrated images of the entire Milky Way spiral are actually of another spiral galaxy called Messier 74. It’s impossible to take a full photo of the Milky Way’s spiral structure because it’s about 100,000 light-years across, and we’re stuck on the inside. Source  Source 2  Source 3

This is about as good as we can get:

This picture of the Milky Way was captured by NASA’s COBE satellite. This photograph was taken using the infrared spectrum, which allows astronomers to peer through the gas and dust that normally obscures the center of the Milky Way.

Image Credit: The COBE Project, DIRBE, NASA

The most amazing and inspiring vision of the future I’ve ever seen! This is a must watch video!

SDO Sees Solar Eclipse – “Image of the Moon transiting across the Sun, taken by SDO [Solar Dynamics Observatory] in 171 angstrom extreme ultraviolet light on August 21, 2017.” Photo credit: NASA/SDO [4096 x 4096]

Collage delle ultime foto dalla sonda Cassini, negli ultimi passaggi ravvicinati prima del fatidico Grand Finale, previsto per settembre, dopo 20 anni di attività.

45 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Apollo 16 mission blasts off from Cape Canaveral on April 16, 1972.