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Apollo 40th Anniversary

Humans first traveled to the moon 40 years ago.

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This Month in Exploration

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This Month in Exploration - February

An image of an active region of the sun captured by the Solar Maximum Mission satellite.

02.05.10

Thirty years ago the first mission to study the sun in detail was launched. Read more historical facts in This Month in Exploration.

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Agency Remembers Fallen Astronauts

A woman lays a flower at the Astronaut Memorial.

01.29.10

NASA recalled the heroism and sacrifice of space exploration during Day of Remembrance services at Kennedy Space Center.

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President Obama on NASA's Day of Remembrance

01.29.10

We mourn their loss while celebrating their spirit of discovery. May their sacrifice be an inspiration as we continue our nation's work to explore our universe.

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Preflight Interview: Nicholas J. M. Patrick, Mission Specialist

"A space shuttle mission takes about two weeks. They’re full of amazing new experiences, new sights, new sounds, new smells. Everything is like nothing you’ve ever had in your life up to that point."
This Month in Exploration - January

Eighty years ago one of the first humans to set foot on the moon was born. Read more historical facts in This Month in Exploration. Read more historical facts in This Month in Exploration.
NASA Ames Celebrates 70 Years of Innovation

NASA's Ames Research Center was launched 70 years ago as a high-speed aeronautics research laboratory as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and was named after NACA's chair, Joseph S. Ames.
This Month in Exploration - December

Thirty years ago the Concorde flew from New York to London in just under three hours. Read more historical facts in This Month in Exploration.
NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

Two key instruments from Hubble have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis in May 2009.

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News Releases

NASA Reveals New Batch Of Space Program Artifacts

01.19.10 - NASA is inviting eligible education institutions, museums and other organizations to examine and request space program artifacts online. The items represent significant human space flight technologies, processes and accomplishments from NASA's past and present space exploration programs.
NASA Briefs Preliminary Plume Findings from Moon Mission

11.10.09 - NASA will hold a news conference Friday to talk about early science results from its successful moon impacting mission, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS.