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On board Apollo 7 - these days 50 Years ago!

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Happy Birthday America! Remember when you sent men to the moon? Portrait by Astronaut Jack Schmitt of Astronaut Gene Cernan from the surface of the moon / Apollo 17

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10 favorite photos from every Apollo mission → Apollo 8 (December 21, 1968 – December 27, 1968)

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A loss of a legend. Farewell, John Young. Thank you for inspiring us all.

Image Credit: NASA

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Bruce McCandless, who was captured in a iconic photograph in 1984 as he made the first untethered flight in space, has died aged 80.

At a post-flight news conference back on Earth, he said he had experienced no fear of flying loose from the craft.

«Once you’re accustomed to seeing the Earth rushing by at four miles per second and you concentrate on the Orbiter and/or the spar as your references at hand, you feel quite comfortable flying around at the relatively slow velocities with respect to them.»

On STS-41B in 1984, he performed the famous spacewalk and on STS-31 in 1990 he helped deploy the Hubble Space Telescope.

RIP

Image credit: nasa.gov

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Exactly 45 years ago mankind landed on the Moon for the 6th and last time. When will we return?

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Farewell Cassini - What will remain is science.

Image Credit: nasa.gov

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Happy 4th of July! 

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Unusual Dunes on a Crater Floor

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Io over Jupiter from Voyager 1 http://go.nasa.gov/2lURFwW

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50 Years ago...

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via…  Apollo 1 - January 27, 1967 - We will always remember!

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Last man on the moon. Gene Cernan; March 14 1934 - January 16 2017. “Curiosity is the essence of human existence”. Rest in Peace. One of the moments of my life when I had the opportunity to meet this kind and humble man personally. He took the time to talk to me about his travels to the moon.

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Visibly tired Gene Cernan takes a selfie in the CM.

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Yes, indeed!

APOLLO 11 FLIGHT PLAN

digitally remastered and enlarged by a Redditor.

the details are just… magnificent.

don’t you think?

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Sadly, we've lost the last of the Mercury 7 - A true hero. Godspeed John Glenn!

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The Mercury 7... how I miss these silver space suits.

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Jim McDivitt, Apollo 9