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Female Astronauts in History:

Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963.

She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut.

Let’s fly into Jupiter! Does this ball of gas have a surface? Let’s see!

Astronaut readjusts to life back on Earth

> Don’t give him a baby for a while.

Star cluster NGC 346 with mosaic imagery from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, JWST, XMM-Newton X-Ray Observatory, and the New Technology Telescope.

Swirls of Jupiter

The Map of Dione

Credits: Paul Schenk, LPI, Cassini, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA

X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planet

Flight Commander John Young reviewing checklists aboard Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-1

Typhoon Maysak viewed from the International Space Station, Expedition 43

the number of spacecraft failures recently has been absolutely insane and it all comes down to tech bros barging into the industry going "it's not that hard wtf is nasa so bad" and then completely skipping out on any testing

This was shot from Roswell New Mexico using a canon 6D, rokinon 135mm, and star adventurer. I captured about 30x30" frames during the deepest part of the eclipse and stacked them here. All of the data for m45 and the faint nebula was acquired during the eclipse, no compositing from other images here!

Sharp Nebula Shot!

IC 405 & 410 Mosaic - Flame and Tadpole Nebulas

Saturn from the James Webb Space Telescope

The Medusa Nebula

I will be honest, I just thought this was my astigmatism acting up the first time I saw it.

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) 2024-10-23, clearest photo ever taken of a comet!

Oyster Nebula (NGC 1501)

(NEW) click on ALT for brief description.

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) 2024-10-23, clearest photo ever taken of a comet!

Science Services’ Science Program series booklet Moon. Nelson Doubleday - 1967.

Adhesive color plates for Science Services’ Science Program series booklet Man in Space. Nelson Doubleday - 1965.

Science Services’ Science Program series booklet Man in Space. Nelson Doubleday - 1965.