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International Space Station..

Visiting Kennedy Space Center yesterday was very emotional for me. It brought back the memories of how much I had longed to be an astronaut, and how hard I worked toward that goal until illness crushed my dreams. I also may have sobbed through the Challenger and Columbia Memorial Exhibit. If you get a chance to visit the center, I highly recommend it. It’s massive and awesome.

Aurora on Saturn captured by the Hubble Telescope

Launch of Gemini 6 Titan II (SC6/GLV-6 12561) from Launch Complex 19. "The Gemini VI, scheduled as a two-day mission, was launched from Pad 19, carrying astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., Command Pilot, and Thomas P. Stafford, Pilot. Gemini VI rendezvoused with Gemini VII, already orbiting the Earth."

Date: December 15, 1965

NASA ID: KSC-65PC-0161, S65-44293, S65-59987

Planetary Nebula NGC 2440

Planetary nebula NGC 2440 is a relic of a star once like our Sun that has cast off its outer layers of gas, forming a colorful cocoon around the star's remaining core.

The Boogeyman Nebula and Tarantula Nebula

The Map of Dione

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