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Astronauts aboard the Space Station took this photo of the underside of Endeavour on August 10, 2007 during the STS-118 mission, as part of an inspection of the Shuttle's heat-resistant tiles.
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Huygens Art Contest First Prize Winner: "Titan Touchdown"
Hettick says: "The Titan question had been discussed at length on the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA) member's listserver -- and I was intrigued by the conversations about �What will the surface really be like? What color will the sky turn out to be? Could Saturn or any stars actually be visible from Titan's surface? I decided to paint "Titan Touchdown" the way I would expect the surface to look and I decided to downplay the mechanical and technical aspects of the probe itself --
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The Falcon Heavy is SpaceX's entry into the heavy lift launch vehicle category.
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Galileo over Jupiter's moon Io
Galileo arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, and plunged into the planet on September 21, 2003. The image shows the spacecraft's high gain antenna fully deployed, whereas in fact it never fully opened.
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3d Red-blue analgyph of the "face" of Curiosity, shot by Emily Lakdawalla while in the clean room at JPL.
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MESSENGER entering orbit at Mercury
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Artist's concept of the Dawn spacecraft orbiting asteroid Vesta.
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Skylab, America's first space station
The Skylab space station, as imaged by the departing final crew, SL-4. Parasols in the foreground cover the absent micrometeorite/sun shield, and the left solar array is missing. A windmill of solar panels surrounds the Apollo Telescope Mount, which observed multiple solar flares throughout the program. Docking ports for NASA Command Modules are located on the Multiple Docking Adapter, directly beneath the ATM.
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The payload, a classified satellite, was bound for an unusual, 123 degree retrograde orbit.
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