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

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2024,
we’re coming for you.
🌎🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀🌖⁣
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Returning to the Moon –
to stay –
and this is how we’re going.
With #Artemis,
men and women will work and live on another world for the first time!
Using the lunar surface as a proving ground for living on Mars,
this next chapter in exploration will forever establish our presence in the stars.
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Can you guess which “@Starwars:
The Rise of Skywalker”
actor lent their voice for this project?
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⁣⁣ #Artemis #NASA #Explorer #StarWars #ShootForTheMoon

We're here for the cozy cosmos!
In this @nasachandraxray image,
two groups of galaxies rush together and produce warmth.⁣
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Most galaxies don't exist in isolation.
They're bound to other galaxies through gravity —

either in relatively small numbers known as “galaxy groups”
or larger concentrations called “galaxy clusters”
consisting of hundreds or thousands of galaxies.
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The system of galaxies is called NGC 6338,
located about 380 million light-years from Earth,
with a mass within about 100 trillion times the mass of the Sun.
In this composite image,
X-ray data from Chandra in red shows hot gas with temperatures upward of about 20 million degrees Celsius.
Cooler gas detected with Chandra and @europeanspaceagency's XMM-Newton is shown in blue.
Optical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey shows galaxies and stars in white.⁣
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Image credit:
X-ray:
Chandra:
NASA/CXC/SAO/E.
O'Sullivan;
XMM:
ESA/XMM/E.
O'Sullivan;
Optical:
SDSS⁣
⁣ #nasa #cosmos #universe #galaxies #hygge #space