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[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Happy 65th Birthday NASA!

[Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum @ccspacemuseum]

The @HughesConnects #JUPITER3 /@EchoStar XXIV mission makes two launches in 24 hours, and 250 successful missions for @SpaceX! 🚀

📸@ProjectHabu

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Rats laugh when tickled and play with one another, and we now know which part of their brain helps them do both.
https://t.co/D0fGOamzUT

[Katabasis Aerospace LLC @KatabasisEng]

@UrbanSpaceMan64 @ParachuteMuseum They also towed with a souped-up Pontiac. Knew how to have fun working in those days!!

[MAVEN Mission to Mars @MAVEN2Mars]

Live Now! Watch @LASPatCU researcher Phil Chamberlin discuss how MAVEN is contributing to space weather research at Mars! ⤵️

[ESA's Euclid mission @ESA_Euclid]

The #DarkUniverse 🕵️‍♂️detective begins its mission!

🛰️ #ESAEuclid is on its way to unravel the cosmic mystery of #DarkMatter & #DarkEnergy, and tell us more about the curious past & ultimate fate of our Universe.

Full story ��� https://t.co/g3HivC9bDE

#ExploreFarther

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

The OG of Mars rovers

#OTD in 1997, Pathfinder landed on @NASAMars with the first Martian rover, Sojourner. Pathfinder and Sojourner returned 1000s of images from Mars and well outlived their primary design life.

Read more about Pathfinder and Sojourner: https://t.co/APor0fSmoR

[Katabasis Aerospace LLC @KatabasisEng]

My first Mars mission!! Remember that day well … my wife and I were invited to watch it from JPL. So grateful to have been a part of the resurgence of NASA’s exploration of Mars after a 25 year hiatus.

[Ron Eisele @ron_eisele]

4 July 1997. 16.56.55 UTC/GMT. The Mars Pathfinder (MESUR Pathfinder), American spacecraft carrying a base station with roving probe 'Sojourner', landed in the Ares Vallis, Chryse Planitia, on Mars.

[Katabasis Aerospace LLC @KatabasisEng]

Looking forward to seeing those #parachutes in the air!! https://t.co/Is8aAmWzCH

[Katabasis Aerospace LLC @KatabasisEng]

To all my #parachute friends: check out this vid and tell me what you see. I think it is quite edited and is possibly different flights. There's a ribbon, 2 cross (I think), and then a #parafoil (with sections of the stage being re…https://t.co/ermz4kIcsE https://t.co/UvRmk8QyIL

[Katabasis Aerospace LLC @KatabasisEng]

Impressive Mach 30 #windtunnel (but the images don't look anything like 4m test sections). #space #spacetechnology #chinaspace #hypersonics https://t.co/DVDFJN56W3

[Katabasis Aerospace LLC @KatabasisEng]

A little embellished but c’mon it is mid-air capture #parachute! Started as a means to pick up mail in towns too small for an airport in the 1920’s by the way (All American Engineering). https://t.co/nAKWGlcnU4

[Katabasis Aerospace LLC @KatabasisEng]

I am guessing that they had the wrong culture in place for designing a #space capsule for #humanspaceflight early on (a long time ago now) and they are paying the piper now. Fortunately, seems like they are getting on track! #space…https://t.co/GniZ66Oifx https://t.co/EagyqHske3

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

Swati Mohan, who emigrated from India to the US when she was one year old, served as @NASAPersevere mission commentator and guidance, navigation, and controls operations lead. Her voice was heard was heard around the world when Perseverance landed on Mars. #AAPIHeritageMonth

[Nepal Space @NepalSpace]

We have a @YurisNight every year. How About a Tenzing Day?

Tenzing Norgay atop Mt. Everest - Sagarmatha - Qomolangma - Chomolungma (Goddess Mother of The World) (8848.86 m 29,032 ft) #OTD 29 May 1953 at 11:30 NPT. Pic by Edmund Hillary #Namaste

[NASA @NASA]

Ad astra per aspera ✨

Join us this #MemorialDay in remembering and honoring all those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country.

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Soaked sand dunes and rushing rivers once graced the surface of Mars, according to findings by two different rovers on the red planet https://t.co/ruI1KFcGUv

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is 4 months away
from returning to Earth with a sample of asteroid Bennu. Scientists will examine the sample with questions about,

🧬Origins of life
📚 History of the solar system
🪨 Changes to the sample on its journey.

https://t.co/xN2fXebxjJ

[Gizmodo @Gizmodo]

Virgin Galactic Reaches 'Space' for the First Time in 2 Years https://t.co/SJTfq2Nco7

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

50 years ago today, Skylab 2 launched with the first crew to rendezvous with the Skylab space station: Paul Weitz, Pete Conrad, and Joseph Kerwin. They launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket from Pad 39B.