"The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth."⁣⁣
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On #ChristmasEve in 1968,
Apollo 8 became the first mission to orbit the Moon.
During a live broadcast,
the astronauts showed pictures of the Earth and Moon as seen from their spacecraft and took turns reading from the book of Genesis.⁣⁣
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Inage Credit:
NASA⁣⁣
⁣⁣ #NASA #ChristmasEve #Apollo #Earthrise

The majesty of @NASAHubble imagery…
from your backyard.
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A new gallery of Hubble Space Telescope images highlights celestial objects visible to amateur and professional astronomers alike.
All of the objects are from a collection known as the Caldwell catalog,
which includes 109 interesting objects visible in amateur-sized telescopes in both the northern and southern skies.
Click the link in the bio for more info ⬆️⁣
⁣ #NASA #Hubble #Space

Welcome home, #Starliner!
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@Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft safely completed the first touchdown on land of a human-rated capsule in U.S.
history at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Sunday,
Dec.
22,
2019,
at 7:58 a.m.
EST.⁣⁣
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Following a successful pre-dawn launch out of Cape Canaveral,
Florida,
on Dec.
20 aboard a @ulalaunch Atlas V rocket,
Starliner did not reach its planned orbit and could not dock with the @iss.
Teams worked to preserve its fuel for a return to Earth.
Despite this,
the uncrewed capsule successfully met the majority of its test objectives on its first orbital flight test,
including checking propulsion systems,
verifying space-to-space communications and validating life support systems for future crews.⁣⁣
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Boeing is a partner in our Commercial Crew Program that works with American aerospace companies to send astronauts to the space station,
allowing NASA to use resources to explore far destinations like the Moon and beyond.
For more info about the Orbital Flight Test,
check out the link in our bio.⁣⁣
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Photo credits:
NASA/Aubrey Gemignani/Bill Ingalls/Joel Kowsky⁣
⁣ #Boeing #NASA #OFT #space