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When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, the crew brought devices with them called retroreflectors, which are essentially small arrays of mirrors. via NASA https://ift.tt/3ifdBj5

Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor examines her eye with a Fundoscope aboard the International Space Station with remote support from doctors on the ground. via NASA https://ift.tt/3kXWT9C

Pictured is the Soyuz MS-16 crew ship, currently docked to the International Space Station's Poisk module. via NASA https://ift.tt/34a42Ni

This image from 1991 shows Earth's Moon, with its dark basaltic mare, clearly visible in great detail. via NASA https://ift.tt/33UAinC

Humanity has "eyes" that can detect all different types of light through telescopes around the globe and a fleet of observatories in space. via NASA https://ift.tt/2RTThcv

Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color rendering of an image from NASA’s Juno mission. via NASA https://ift.tt/330xeqZ

Then-NASA Johnson Space Center deputy director Ellen Ochoa poses for a photo with Robonaut 2 (R2) during media day in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility on Aug. 4, 2010. via NASA https://ift.tt/3mCJOo1

A unique and exciting detail of Hubble’s snapshot appears at mid-northern latitudes as a bright, white, stretched-out storm traveling around the planet at 350 miles per hour. via NASA https://ift.tt/2ZKuI5U

NASA's Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of the United States on Sep. 15, 2020, showing the fires in the West, the smoke from those fires drifting over the country, several hurricanes converging from different angles. via NASA https://ift.tt/3iFZmoo

Dr. Frank Rubio was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. He reported for duty in August 2017 and having completed the initial astronaut candidate training is now eligible for a mission assignment. via NASA https://ift.tt/35FzCFg

During her first mission to space and to the International Space Station, Kate Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space. via NASA https://ift.tt/3it1ZKc

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Globular cluster NGC 1805, a tight grouping of thousands of stars is, located near the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. In the dense center of one of these clusters, stars are 100 to 1,000 times closer together than the nearest stars are to our Sun. via NASA https://ift.tt/3iqlYJy

Not every flight director is a legend, but some are. Take Eugene Kranz, for example. via NASA https://ift.tt/33f8zxE

This NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite image from Sept. 7, 2020, shows the night band image of the Creek Fire at night as well as the smoke from the fire causing lights at night to diffuse or "bloom." via NASA https://ift.tt/33bCZRt

Star Trek debuted 54 years ago on Sept. 8, 1966. via NASA https://ift.tt/3jY79OE

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror, which will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, has been completed. via NASA https://ift.tt/350wOlI

The first solid rocket booster test for Space Launch System (SLS) missions beyond Artemis III seen here during a two-minute hot fire test, Wednesday, September 2, 2020, at the T-97 Northrop Grumman test facility in Promontory, Utah. via NASA https://ift.tt/3hP00j4

NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the Red Planet on July 4, 1997. It's tiny rover, named Sojourner after abolitionist Sojourner Truth, spent 83 days of a planned seven-day mission exploring the Martian terrain. via NASA https://ift.tt/2YXyQiF

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Carr passed away on Aug. 26, 2020. “NASA and the nation have lost a pioneer of long duration spaceflight," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Read the statement. via NASA https://ift.tt/2YVhuD1