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    Space Astronauts in the Oval Office

    NASA Picture Of The Day Astronauts in the Oval Office President Barack Obama greets the STS-132 Atlantis crew and International Space Station astronaut T.J. Creamer in the Oval Office, July 26, 2010. From left, STS-132 Commander Ken Ham; Expedition 22/23 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer; STS-132...
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    Space Fractured

    NASA Picture Of The Day Fractured This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the floor of a large impact crater in the southern highlands, north of the giant Hellas impact basin. Most of the crater floor is dark, with abundant small ripples of wind-blown material. However...
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    Space Lulin

    NASA Picture Of The Day Lulin NASA's Swift satellite views Comet Lulin as it made it closest approach to Earth in February 2009. Lulin, like all comets, is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. These "dirty snowballs" cast off gas and dust whenever they venture near the sun. Comet Lulin...
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    Space Take Your Children to Work Day

    NASA Picture Of The Day Take Your Children to Work Day Children experience NASA from the inside during the annual "Take Your Children to Work Day" held each summer at NASA facilities across the country. Children get to see NASA facilities, participate in education activities and shadow their...
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    Space Celebrating Apollo 11

    NASA Picture Of The Day Celebrating Apollo 11 NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) officials joined with flight controllers to celebrate the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission in the Mission Control Center. From left foreground Dr. Maxime A. ***et, MSC Director of...
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    Space Making Home a Safer Place

    NASA Picture Of The Day Making Home a Safer Place One day homeowners everywhere may be protected from deadly carbon monoxide fumes, thanks to a device invented at NASA's Langley Research Center. The device uses a new class of low-temperature oxidation catalysts to convert carbon monoxide to...
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    Space Symbol of Cooperation

    NASA Picture Of The Day Symbol of Cooperation On July 17, 1975, Cold War rivals America and the Soviet Union met in Earth orbit as American Apollo astronauts Tom Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton docked with Soviet Soyuz cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov and Valeriy Kubasov. During their joint...
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    Space Aerojet AJ26 Rocket Engine Arrives at Stennis

    NASA Picture Of The Day Aerojet AJ26 Rocket Engine Arrives at Stennis An Aerojet AJ26 rocket engine was delivered to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center on July 15, 2010. This is the first of a series of Taurus II engines to be tested at Stennis to include acceptance testing of flight...
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    Space In the Constellation Cassiopeia

    NASA Picture Of The Day In the Constellation Cassiopeia Tycho's Supernova, the red circle visible in the upper left part of the image, is SN 1572 is a remnant of a star explosion is named after the astronomer Tycho Brahe, although he was not the only person to observe and record the...
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    Space Farewell Lutetia

    NASA Picture Of The Day Farewell Lutetia On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, with NASA instruments aboard, flew past asteroid Lutetia on Saturday, July 10. The instruments aboard Rosetta recorded the first...
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    Space Securing a Place for History

    NASA Picture Of The Day Securing a Place for History A piece of NASA history landed at the Glenn Research Center's Visitor Center, now located at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The Apollo Command Module, used for the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, was moved successfully from...
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    Space Standing on the Chukchi Sea

    NASA Picture Of The Day Standing on the Chukchi Sea Scientists on the sea ice in the Chukchi Sea off the north coast of Alaska disperse equipment on July 4, 2010, as they prepare to collect data on and below the ice. The research is part of NASA's ICESCAPE mission aboard the U.S. Coast Guard...
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    Space Smoother Landings

    NASA Picture Of The Day Smoother Landings Spacecraft attempting to land on an unfamiliar surface need to perform a maneuver called “deep throttling" -- a step that allows the vehicle to precisely throttle down to perform a smooth, controlled landing. NASA and industry partners have...
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    Space A Place in History

    NASA Picture Of The Day A Place in History NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this full 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings after a drive on the 2,220th Martian day, or sol, of its mission (April 22, 2010). Opportunity...
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    Space Celestial Fireworks

    NASA Picture Of The Day Celestial Fireworks Like an Independence Day fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust -- the raw material for new star formation. The nebula, located 20,000...
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    Space Launched on the Fourth of July

    NASA Picture Of The Day Launched on the Fourth of July Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched at 2:38 p.m. EDT on July 4, 2006 to begin their journey to the International Space Station during the STS-121 mission. The shuttle made history as it was the first human-occupied...
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    Space All-American Salute

    NASA Picture Of The Day All-American Salute Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity. Astronaut Charles M. Duke...
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    Space A Rover Gets Its Wheels

    NASA Picture Of The Day A Rover Gets Its Wheels Mars rover Curiosity, the centerpiece of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, is coming together for extensive testing prior to its late 2011 launch. This image taken June 29, 2010, shows the rover with the mobility system -- wheels and...
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    Space On the 'Couch'

    NASA Picture Of The Day On the 'Couch' The Mercury 7 astronauts examine their 'couches.' Each astronaut's couch was molded to fit his body to help withstand the G-loads of the launch. Plaster casts of the astronauts were created in order to properly mold the couches. Left to right are Alan...
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    Space Ghostly Encounter

    NASA Picture Of The Day Ghostly Encounter The surface of Saturn's moon Dione is rendered in crisp detail against a hazy, ghostly Titan. Visible in this image are hints of atmospheric banding around Titan's north pole. The image was taken in visible blue light with the Cassini spacecraft...
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