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One Giant Leap For Mankind

On July 20, 1969, humans walked on another world for the first time in history, achieving the goal that President John F. Kennedy had set in 1961, before Americans had even orbited the Earth.

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On the Move

On July 6, NASA and Boeing moved the Space Launch System rocket core stage to another part of the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans as teams prepare to roll the massive rocket stage to the agency’s Pegasus barge for delivery to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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SLS Rocket Development

The Artemis II Core Stage moves from final assembly to the VAB at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in preparation for delivery to Kennedy Spaceflight Center later this month. Image credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker

Happy Birthday, Meatball!

On July 15, 2024, NASA’s logo will turn 65. The iconic symbol, known affectionately as “the meatball,” was developed at Glenn Research Center. Employee James Modarelli, an artist and technical illustrator, was its chief designer.

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Since the first crew’s arrival aboard more than twenty years ago, the International Space Station has evolved into a state-of-the-art scientific lab.

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NASA’s Webb Investigates Eternal Sunrises, Sunsets on Distant World

NASA to Commemorate 55th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb’s Second Anniversary

NASA Cloud-Based Platform Could Help Streamline, Improve Air Traffic

Hubble Measures the Distance to a Supernova

Take a Summer Cosmic Road Trip With NASA’s Chandra and Webb

Surfing NASA’s Internet of Animals: Satellites Study Ocean Wildlife

What’s Up: July 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Lunar Space Station

On this episode of "Houston, We Have a Podcast," NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik and Gateway’s integration and utilization manager, Stephanie Dudley, discuss how the future lunar space station will be used for deep space exploration.

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A close-up view of Gateway’s Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Turin, Italy. The image captures the intricate internal structure of the cylindrical module, highlighting its framework and the interior. The module is positioned horizontally, with light casting dramatic shadows.

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Earth Information Center

For more than 50 years, NASA satellites have provided data on Earth's land, water, air, temperature, and climate. NASA's Earth Information Center allows visitors to see how our planet is changing in six key areas: sea level rise and coastal impacts, health and air quality, wildfires, greenhouse gases, sustainable energy, and agriculture.

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Taken from the International Space Station (ISS) by the EarthKAM camera, this nadir (straight-down) photograph shows Australia’s famed Eighty Mile Beach. Despite its name, the beach is 140 miles (220 kilometers) long.

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NASA Meatball Painting on Kennedy’s VAB

Painting of the NASA logo, also called the meatball, continued on the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 29, 2020.

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