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    Space Pitch, Roll

    NASA Picture Of The Day Pitch, Roll This view of the underside of the crew cabin of the space shuttle Discovery was provided by the Expedition 23 crew during a survey as STS-131 approached the International Space Station. As part of the survey and part of every mission's activities, Discovery...
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    Space Flying Across the Moon

    NASA Picture Of The Day Flying Across the Moon The International Space Station flew across the face of the moon over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida approximately 15 minutes before the launch of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-131 mission. Discovery successfully launched on April 5...
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    Space Discovery Lifts off

    NASA Picture Of The Day Discovery Lifts off An exhaust cloud billowed around Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as space shuttle Discovery lifted off to begin the STS-131 mission. The seven-member crew will deliver the multi-purpose logistics module Leonardo, filled with...
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    Space 3-2-1 Lift Off

    NASA Picture Of The Day 3-2-1 Lift Off Space shuttle Discovery's engines ignited at 6:21 a.m. EDT Monday, April 5, for liftoff of the STS-131 mission from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The seven-member crew will deliver the multi-purpose logistics module Leonardo, filled with...
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    Space Playing Forward

    NASA Picture Of The Day Playing Forward Edwin P. Hubble--famed astronomer--and basketball star? In fact, Dr. Hubble was both. The University of Chicago alumnus was a member the UC Maroons team that in 1909 won the college championship over Indiana University. It's only fitting that the man...
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    Space Llullaillaco Volcano

    NASA Picture Of The Day Llullaillaco Volcano The summit of South America’s Llullaillaco Volcano has an elevation of 22,110 feet above sea level, making it the highest historically active volcano in the world. The current stratovolcano--a cone-shaped volcano built from successive layers of...
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    Space Tiros

    NASA Picture Of The Day TIROS On April 1, 1960, a satellite designed by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) launched to become the nation's first weather satellite. That satellite, the Television InfraRed Observational Satellite, or TIROS 1, operated for only 78 days but demonstrated the...
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    Space Expedition 23 Soyuz Rollout

    NASA Picture Of The Day Expedition 23 Soyuz Rollout The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft arrived by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March, 31, 2010. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 23 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov, Flight Engineer...
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    Space A Subtle Difference

    NASA Picture Of The Day A Subtle Difference Subtle color differences on Saturn's moon Mimas are apparent in this false-color view of Herschel Crater captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its closest-ever flyby of that moon. The image shows terrain-dependent color variations...
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    Space Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

    NASA Picture Of The Day Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust This new composite image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star, the dust from which is flying past and engulfing a nearby family of stars. Scientists believe the stars...
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    Space NASA's First Class of Female Astronauts

    NASA Picture Of The Day NASA's First Class of Female Astronauts From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978...
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    Space Preparing Discovery for Flight

    NASA Picture Of The Day Preparing Discovery for Flight A specialized transporter brought the payload canister to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for the STS-131 mission. The canister, which is the same dimensions as the shuttle's cargo bay, held the Leonardo supply module during the move from...
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    Space Learning Can Be a 'Drag'

    NASA Picture Of The Day Learning Can Be a 'Drag' When Ajay Ramesh and Prithvi Aiyaswamy, two seventh graders from Chaboya Middle School, San Jose, Calif., visited the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center they found that the principles of fluid mechanics are not such a...
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    Space Mars' Concepcion Crater

    NASA Picture Of The Day Mars' Concepcion Crater NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this image in preparation for the first autonomous selection of an observation target by a spacecraft on Mars. Opportunity used its navigation camera to take this image after a drive during the...
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    Space A Burst of Spring

    NASA Picture Of The Day A Burst of Spring Spring has sprung on Mars, bring with it the disappearance of carbon dioxide ice (dry ice) that covers the north polar sand dunes. In spring, the sublimation of the ice (going directly from ice to gas) causes a host of uniquely Martian phenomena. In...
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    Space STS-125 Crew Visits the Stock Exchange

    NASA Picture Of The Day STS-125 Crew Visits the Stock Exchange NASA astronauts Scott Altman and Mike Massimino of the STS-125 mission visit the New York Stock Exchange to support the release of Hubble 3D, the newest IMAX film, which documents the mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope...
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    Space Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D

    NASA Picture Of The Day Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D This image depicts a vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula from a 3-D computer model based on observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and created by science visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science...
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    Space Expedition 22 Crew Lands

    NASA Picture Of The Day Expedition 22 Crew Lands The Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Thursday, March 18, 2010. NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian Cosmonaut...
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    Space Mars Express Images Phobos

    NASA Picture Of The Day Mars Express Images Phobos This image of Mars' moon Phobos was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on Mars Express. The HRSC camera is operated by the German Aerospace Center and the Mars Express mission is operated by the European Space Agency. The HRSC...
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    Space The Wizard Nebula

    NASA Picture Of The Day The Wizard Nebula This image of the open star cluster NGC 7380, also known as the Wizard Nebula, is a mosaic of images from the WISE mission spanning an area on the sky of about 5 times the size of the full moon. NGC 7380 is located in the constellation Cepheus about...
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