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#DYK These fun facts about the American flag on the front of the Vehicle Assembly Building? 🌟 The flag is 209 feet high. 🌟 The flag is 110 feet wide. 🌟 Each star is 6 feet across. 🌟 Each strip is 9 feet wide. The flag was first painted on the Vehicle Assembly Building in 1976. In 1998, NASA’s iconic “meatball” logo was added! Credit: NASA
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Photo NASA's Kennedy Space Center - Managers from across @NASA are gathered here at Kennedy Space Center to start the #Artemis I mission Flight Readiness Review (FRR). The FRR will focus on the preparedness of the @NASA_SLS rocket,…
Video NASA's Kennedy Space Center - 🤩🤩🤩🤩 Through #Artemis, NASA will once again land humans on the Moon! But before that can happen, we must first launch our Space Launch System (SLS) rocket—the most powerful rocket we've ever…
Photo NASA's Kennedy Space Center - ♻️ Is it possible to recycle trash in space? Researchers here at Kennedy are using OSCAR to test technology to convert trash generated during spaceflight into useful gases such as carbon dioxide,…
Video NASA's Kennedy Space Center - Artemis I Path to the Pad: The Spacecraft Named after one of the largest constellations in the night Sky, Orion is the name given to the spacecraft that will carry the first woman and the first…
Video NASA's Kennedy Space Center - Digging the Dirt 🤖 Seen here is the In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Pilot Excavator digging in the regolith bin during testing inside of Swamp Works here at Kennedy Space Center. The robot…
Photo NASA's Kennedy Space Center - 🤩 It’s the #OOTD 🤩 🗓#OTD in 1966, Astronauts John W. Young, command pilot, and Michael Collins, pilot, walked up the ramp at Pad 19 to enter the elevator which took them to the white room and the…

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