NASA's SpaceX 33rd Commercial Resupply Services Rendezvous and Docking

4.4K views · 230 reactions | One final time, an Apollo mission lifted off for a rendezvous with another celestial body. One final time, its command module splashed down in the ocean. In between, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt made history, becoming the last two men to step foot on the moon. | Space Center Houston | Facebook

14K views · 775 reactions | Get a feel for the disorientation experienced by first-time astronauts in a full-sized, rotating mock-up of an International Space Station module in our summer exhibit! See it by Sept. 1 before it leaves! https://spacecenter.org/journey-to-space/ | Space Center Houston | Facebook

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On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles travelling through space. Space History Archives👉https://space-com.visitlink.me/RSUG9h It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Delta II rocket and spent the next three and a half months making its way to its orbital post near the L1 Lagrangian point, a point of gravitational equilibrium between Earth and the sun. There, the spacecraft is monitoring the stream of accel