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  • Honoring the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s Skylab: America’s First Space Station

    Honoring the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s Skylab: America’s First Space Station

    America’s first space station and the first crewed research laboratory in space, Skylab, lifted off on May 14, 1973.

    Skylab helped pave the way for permanent operations in low-Earth orbit. Over the course of its human occupation from May 25, 1973, to Feb. 8, 1974, three crews visited Skylab, carrying out 270 scientific and technical investigations in astronauts’ physiological responses to long-duration space flight, Earth sciences, solar physics, and astronomy.

    The research conducted on Skylab helped prepare NASA for living and working in space on the International Space Station, and our journey to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

    To learn more about Skylab, check out: https://www.nasa.gov/skylab

    Link to download this video: https://images.nasa.gov/details/Honoring%20the%2050th%20Anniversary%20of%20NASA’s%20Skylab

    Music: Universal Production
    Video Producer: Haley Reed

    Credit: NASA

  • Honoring Our Fallen Heroes on This Week @NASA – January 27, 2023

    Honoring Our Fallen Heroes on This Week @NASA – January 27, 2023

    Honoring our fallen heroes, working on a nuclear option for space travel, and the next crewed mission to the space station … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

    Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2023_0127_Honoring%20Our%20Fallen%20Heroes%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20January%2027,%202023

    Video Producer: Andre Valentine
    Video Editor: Haley Reed
    Music: Universal Production Music
    Credit: NASA

  • Honoring the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 17 Moon Mission

    Honoring the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 17 Moon Mission

    On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA astronauts Harrison Schmitt, Eugene Cernan, and Ronald Evans lifted off on Apollo 17—the final mission of the Apollo program. Cernan and Schmitt landed on the Moon on Dec. 11, spending three days on the lunar surface before rejoining Evans in orbit and returning to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 19.

    Apollo 17 was the most recent mission to land humans on the Moon—and our next one isn’t far away. As our Artemis missions prepare to return humans to the Moon and build a sustainable lunar presence, join us for a look back at Apollo 17.

    Take a real-time journey through Apollo 17: https://apolloinrealtime.org/17/
    Learn more about the Artemis missions: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/

    Producer/Editor: Jori Kates
    Music Credit: Universal Production Music

    Credit: NASA

  • Honoring a ‘Hidden Figure’: NASA to Unveil the Mary W. Jackson Headquarters Building

    Honoring a ‘Hidden Figure’: NASA to Unveil the Mary W. Jackson Headquarters Building

    Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA, began her career with the agency in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The mathematician and aerospace engineer went on to lead programs influencing the hiring and promotion of women in NASA’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. In 2019, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously.

    Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk will lead a ceremony at 1 p.m. EST Friday, Feb 26, officially naming the NASA Headquarters building in Washington in honor of Mary W. Jackson.

    The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website and will stream live on the agency’s flagship social media accounts. and theNASA app.

    In addition to unveiling a building sign with Jackson’s name, the event will feature video tributes with reflections on Jackson’s career and legacy from current and former NASA employees and astronauts, celebrities, elected officials and others. The event will also feature a video of poet Nikki Giovanni reading an excerpt from her poem “Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea,” which is about space and civil rights.

    Producer Credit: Sonnet Apple
    Music: “My One and Only”/Universal Production Music

  • A Sign of Progress: Honoring NASA’s Hidden Figures

    A Sign of Progress: Honoring NASA’s Hidden Figures

    Thanks to new signage, visitors to NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. will be reminded of the contributions of the “hidden figures” essential to the success of early spaceflight. The renaming honors Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, who were featured in Margot Lee Shetterly’s book – and the movie – Hidden Figures, as well as all women who honorably serve their country, advancing equality, and contributing to the United States space program. News release: https://go.nasa.gov/HiddenFiguresWay

    On June 12, Administrator Jim Bridenstine joined U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and author Margot Lee Shetterly for the renaming of the street in front of NASA Headquarters in Washington – E Street SW – to “Hidden Figures Way.”

    Learn about NASA’s hidden and modern figures: https://www.nasa.gov/modernfigures