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    Space Roy S. Estess

    NASA Picture Of The Day Roy S. Estess In this image from 2001, Johnson Space Center Acting Director Roy Estess (right) greets the Expedition 3 and STS-108 crews during return ceremonies. Seated (from left) are Nikolai Zubov, Deputy Director for Logistics and Procurement, Gagarin Cosmonaut...
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    Space Supersonic Green Machine

    NASA Picture Of The Day Supersonic Green Machine This future aircraft design concept for supersonic flight over land comes from the team led by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. The team's simulation shows possibility for achieving overland flight by dramatically lowering the level of sonic...
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    Space Rachmaninoff on Mercury

    NASA Picture Of The Day Rachmaninoff on Mercury The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved the name Rachmaninoff for an intriguing double-ring basin on Mercury. This basin, first imaged in its entirety during MESSENGER's third Mercury flyby, was quickly identified as a...
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    Space NASA Day on the Hill

    NASA Picture Of The Day NASA Day on the Hill Exhibits highlight NASA's Earth and space science portfolio, cutting-edge aeronautics research and technology development and continued leadership in human space flight and exploration for NASA Day on the Hill in the Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House...
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    Space A Light in the Sky

    NASA Picture Of The Day A Light in the Sky The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft streaked across the sky like a saber of light through the clouds as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Woomera Test Range in Australia. In Kingoonya, the spacecraft’s re-entry was...
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    Space Light for the Ages

    NASA Picture Of The Day Light for the Ages Today, our sun reaches its northernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, the date traditionally marks a change of seasons -- from spring to summer in Earth's Northern Hemisphere and from fall to winter in Earth's Southern Hemisphere...
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    Space Launching Into History

    NASA Picture Of The Day Launching Into History On June 18, 1983, a young physicist from California took her seat aboard the space shuttle and launched into history. On that date, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space as a mission specialist on STS-7. In this image Ride monitors...
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    Space From the Beginning

    NASA Picture Of The Day From the Beginning The bulkhead and nosecone of the Orion spacecraft are joined using friction stir welding at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility. Nondestructive evaluations will validate the strength and integrity of the weld before the spacecraft is prepped for ground...
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    Space Expedition 24 Heads to the Station

    NASA Picture Of The Day Expedition 24 Heads to the Station The Soyuz TMA-19 rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, carrying Expedition 24 NASA astronauts Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock, and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin to the...
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    Space Shooting for the Moon

    NASA Picture Of The Day Shooting for the Moon This image from 1967 shows the S-II stage of the Saturn V rocket as it was hoisted onto the A-2 test stand at the Mississippi Test Facility (now the Stennis Space Center). This was the second stage of the 364-foot tall moon rocket, which was...
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    Space Preparing for Liftoff

    NASA Picture Of The Day Preparing for Liftoff The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sunday, June 13, 2010. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 24 astronauts Shannon Walker and Doug Wheelock, and Russian...
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    Space Kicking Off the Summer of Innovation

    NASA Picture Of The Day Kicking Off the Summer of Innovation NASA Administrator Charles Bolden spoke with teachers and middle school students during the kick off of NASA's Summer of Innovation program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, June 10, 2010. Through the...
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    Space Blue Like Mars

    NASA Picture Of The Day Blue Like Mars This image shows the west-facing side of an impact crater in the mid-latitudes of Mars' northern hemisphere. Like many mid-latitude Martian craters, this one has gullies along its walls that are composed of alcoves, channels and debris aprons. The...
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    Space Centaur's Rocket Engine

    NASA Picture Of The Day Centaur's Rocket Engine In this image, engineers test the RL-10 engine in NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center's Propulsion Systems Laboratory. Developed by Pratt & Whitney, the engine was designed to power the Centaur second-stage rocket. Centaur was responsible for...
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    Space Lagoons of New Caledonia

    NASA Picture Of The Day Lagoons of New Caledonia In 2008, UNESCO added the Lagoons of New Caledonia to the World Heritage Site list. The Lagoons comprise six marine clusters that represent the main diversity of coral reefs and associated ecosystems in the French Pacific Ocean archipelago of...
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    Space Rhapsody in Black

    NASA Picture Of The Day Rhapsody in Black This silhouette of Saturn was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 13, 2010. Although the sun is eclipsed by Saturn in this dramatic image, some sunlight scatters through the uppermost part of the atmosphere to reach Cassini's cameras. This view...
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    Space Preparing for the Shuttle Mission

    NASA Picture Of The Day Preparing for the Shuttle Mission The NASA Railroad transported the last space shuttle solid rocket booster segments over the Indian River on the 13-mile trip from the Jay Jay Rail Yard in Titusville, Fla., to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Six cars transported the...
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    Space X-51A Makes Longest Scramjet Flight

    NASA Picture Of The Day X-51A Makes Longest Scramjet Flight The X-51A successfully made the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight to date off the southern California coast on May 26. It was powered by a SJX61-2 that was first validated in a NASA wind tunnel. The...
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    Space Expedition 23 Returns to Earth

    NASA Picture Of The Day Expedition 23 Returns to Earth The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. NASA Astronaut Creamer...
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    Space Stellar Shrapnel

    NASA Picture Of The Day Stellar Shrapnel This composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A new long observation from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals evidence for a bullet-shaped object being blown out of debris field left over...
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