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🗓 #OTD in 1995, STS-71 Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down at KSC’s Shuttle landing facility! STS-71 marked several historic firsts in human spaceflight history: 100th U.S. human space launch conducted from Cape; first U.S. Space Shuttle-Russian Space Station Mir docking and joint on-orbit operations; largest spacecraft ever in orbit; and first on-orbit changeout of Shuttle crew. After 9 days in space, Space Shuttle Atlantis made its way back to the Cape ending its journey on Runway 31. STS-71 return crew: Robert L. “Hoot” Gibson, Charles J. Precourt, Ellen S. Baker, Bonnie J, Dunbar, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Norman E. Thagard, Cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Cosmonaut Gennady M. Strekalov 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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