May 30, 2011
 The Carina Nebula, a star-forming region in the Sagittarius-Carina arm of the Milky Way, is a mere 7,500 light years from Earth.
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May 30, 2011
 The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 27
Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Cady
Coleman in a remote area southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan,
Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. NASA Astronaut Coleman, Russian
Cosmonaut Kondratyev
and Italian Astronaut Nespoli are returning from more than five months
onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of
the Expedition 26 and 27 crews. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill ... Continue reading...
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May 30, 2011
 Astronaut Andrew Feustel reenters the space station after completing n
8-hour, 7-minute spacewalk at 10:12 a.m. EDT Sunday, May 22, 2011. He
and fellow spacewalker Mike Fincke completed this, the second of the
four STS-134 spacewalks, for a mission total of 14 hours 26 minutes. It
was the 246th
spacewalk conducted by U.S. astronauts, the 116th from space station
airlocks, and the 157th in support of space station assembly and
maintenance. It was Feustel's fifth spacewalk and Fincke's se... Continue reading...
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May 30, 2011
 The newly-installed Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 is visible at center
of the International Space Station's starboard truss. The Alpha Magnetic
Spectrometer, or AMS, is the largest scientific collaboration to use
the orbital laboratory. This investigation is sponsored by
the U.S. Department of Energy and made possible by funding from 16
nations. Led by Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting, more than 600 physicists
from around the globe will be able to participate in the data generated
from this p... Continue reading...
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May 23, 2011
 Astronaut Drew Feustel works in the vacuum of space during the first of
four spacewalks during the STS-134 mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour to
the International Space Station. Working early in the morning of Fri.,
May 20, 2011, Feustel and Astronaut Greg Chamitoff successfully
installed antennas for the External Wireless Communication system,
routing cables, setting up the antenna, installing handrails, and
connecting power cables during this spacewalk. This was the 245th
spacewalk co... Continue reading...
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May 23, 2011
 At 5:15 a.m. EDT 18th may , Endeavour began the nine-minute Rendezvous Pitch
Maneuver, or 'backflip,' on its last visit to the Inernational Space
Station. With Commander Mark Kelly at the controls, Endeavour rotated
360 degrees backward to enable space station astronauts
Dmitry Kondratyev, Paolo Nespoli and Cady Coleman to take high
resolution pictures of the shuttle’s heat shield. Kelly then flew the
shuttle through a quarter circle to a position about 400 feet directly
in front of t... Continue reading...
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May 23, 2011
 Shuttle Atlantis makes its final planned move from Orbiter Processing
Facility-1 to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida. The move, called "rollover," is a major milestone in
processing for the STS-135 mission to the International Space Station,
targeted for early July. Inside the VAB, the shuttle will be attached to
its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters. Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and R... Continue reading...
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May 23, 2011
 An exhaust cloud forms around Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida as space shuttle Endeavour soars into the sky on the
STS-134 mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle and its
six-member crew lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida at 8:56 a.m. EDT on May 16. STS-134 will deliver the
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS), Express Logistics Carrier-3, a
high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for the Dextre robot... Continue reading...
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May 16, 2011
 Chandra takes a long-term series of views of the Crab Nebula. Continue reading...
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May 16, 2011
 The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds.
Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes
Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy's close proximity, combined
with the wide variety of evolutionary stages among the stars, make it
an ideal laboratory to research the triggers of star formation and
evolution. This color image was taken using the Hubble Space Telescope's
Wide Field Camera 3 in December 2009. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble
Her... Continue reading...
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