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🚨 Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket just blew up on the pad at Kennedy Space Center while attempting to Static Fire

Office views for astronauts during a spacewalk 248 miles above Earth 👨‍🚀

Meteor strikes Mayon Volcano as it’s erupting ☄️

China launched three astronauts to the Tiangong space station aboard Shenzhou-23, with one expected to stay for up to a year, marking one of its longest missions Source: Reuters

A full rotation of the planet Mars

Earth had 3 very close asteroid flybys last week! All 3 passed closer to us than the Moon AND a 4th, the size of a basketball court, skims past tomorrow too 😮‍💨

Artemis II crew shared a new POV video capturing their first moments back on Earth 🌎 Video shared by Reid Wiseman!

🚨 New iPhone footage from Artemis II of Earth 🌎 (via NASAArtemis)

NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman shares a video of ‘Earthset’ that was taken with his iPhone “This is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye…” Wiseman said. This has to be the greatest iPhone video of all time.

Christina Koch, mission specialist on NASA’s Artemis II, became the first woman to leave Earth orbit and head toward the Moon’s far side. She also spent 328 days on the ISS in 2019-20 and helped complete the first all-female spacewalk in human history.

NASA has given approval to begin implementing its project to support ESA's Rosalind Franklin mission. Scheduled to launch in 2028, this Mars rover will be the first to search for signs of past or present life under the Red Planet’s surface.

🚨 The Artemis II crew reached a peak velocity of 24,664 mph during its mission, says NASA The equivalent of flying from LA to NYC in 6 mins 🤯

houston: amaze, amaze, amaze!

The Artemis 2 crew name a new crater on the moon after Reid Wiseman's wife Carroll. One of the most beautiful videos you’ll ever see 🥹

It’s not a straight shot to the far side of the Moon! 🌕 Over approximately 10 days, the Artemis II astronauts will orbit Earth twice before looping around the far side of the Moon in a figure eight and returning home. Credit: NASA