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  • NASA Explorers: Giant Leaps

    NASA Explorers: Giant Leaps

    What does a half-century of lunar science sound like? Join Moon data expert Ernie Wright on a musical time-traveling journey through the Apollo program and the exploration era of today. We explore what we knew about the Moon before Apollo, what we discovered because of it and the mysteries today’s scientists are working to solve.

    Elena, from Nantes, France, shares her memory of watching the Apollo 11 landing from a friend’s house in Seattle.

    You can find the series, soundtrack, artwork, and more here: https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-explorers-apollo

    Join the NASA Explorers community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASAExplorersSeries/

    Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

    Katie Atkinson (GSFC Interns): Narrator
    Katie Atkinson (GSFC Interns): Producer
    Haley Reed (ADNET): Producer
    Micheala Sosby (NASA/GSFC): Producer
    Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support

    Data sonification by SYSTEM Sounds/Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida
    Music by Lee Rosevere and Daniel Wyantis

    This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13204

  • Message from the Administrator: Celebrating NASA’s 60th Birthday

    Message from the Administrator: Celebrating NASA’s 60th Birthday

    NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine’s message to the NASA workforce on the agency’s accomplishments over six incredible decades, and future plans including missions to the Moon and on to Mars. For more, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/60

  • NASA | Guy Bluford Reflects on the 35th Anniversary of His First Space Flight

    NASA | Guy Bluford Reflects on the 35th Anniversary of His First Space Flight

    On August 30, 1983, mission specialist Guion “Guy” Bluford became the first African-American astronaut to fly in space. The dramatic night launch of space shuttle Challenger on the STS-8 mission (https://go.nasa.gov/2N8y4e8), 35 years ago today, marked an important milestone in American history. Bluford, who flew on three more shuttle missions during his NASA career, reflects on the significance of his first space flight.

  • Explorer 1: How America’s First Satellite Helped Create NASA

    Explorer 1: How America’s First Satellite Helped Create NASA

    On Jan. 31, 1958, at 10:48 p.m. EST, Explorer 1 launched into space, hurtling into Earth’s orbit in seven and a half minutes. Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/2nwic63
    The next day’s front-page news declared that the United States was now officially in the Space Age.
    Music: Look Forward by Laurent Dury, The Space Between by Max Concors, Picking Locks by James Alexander Dorman and Foraging At Dusk by Benjamin James Parsons. Complete transcript available.

    This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12837

    Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/LK Ward