Butch & Suni. Ready for space 🌹

Happy launch day!

We are one hour away from the start of our NASA broadcast on plus.nasa.gov!

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Liftoff of today's NASA Commercial Crew Crew Flight Test is targeted for 12:25pm ET from SLC-41 with 90% favorable weather.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode May 24 due to an ongoing gyroscope issue, temporarily suspending science operations.

Hubble’s instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health: go.nasa.gov/4aInyAS

🎞️🍁Last night in Toronto: ' #Space : the The Longest Goodbye' wins TWO Canadian Screen Awards! Ramachandra Borcar is awarded for Best Original Music in a Feature Documentary Film and Deschênes Anouk is awarded for Best Editing in a Feature Documentary Film!
PBS Independent Lens

🚀🎉 David Hilmers brought so much to all his missions & now uses his medical skills to continue to create change around the globe. I've seen what a difference he makes in the medical world and appreciate his way of saving the planet. Congrats on #Astronaut Hall of Fame!

🚀It's induction weekend for the Astronaut Hall of Fame, which includes two remarkable people. First up, Marsha Ivins! 🎉Congratulations!!
Astronaut Scholarship Foundation #AHOF #space #Astronaut #herstory #yesshecan

Congratulations to Wally Funk on her induction into the Texas #Aviation Hall of Fame!
Blue Origin The Ninety-Nines, Inc.® #space #herstory #Mercury13 #yesshecan

It's a huge weekend on the #space coast! 🚀🎉

🚀 #OTD 5/31/2009: JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)'s #Kibo pressurized module -the largest piece of hardware in the Japanese Experiment Module known as 'Kibo,' or hope - launched to the International Space Station on #STS124 : nasa.gov/mission_pages/…
NASA #space #ISS #space shuttle #Discovery

#OTD 5/31/2009: Toy Story's iconic space hero, Buzz Lightyear, made it to the International Space Station aboard #space shuttle #Discovery on #STS124 ! nasa.gov/mission_pages/…
@nasa #space #ISS

Check the map - and keep an eye tonight and tomorrow! 👁
earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-a…
#aurora #northernlights #aurora borealis #space #astronomy

🚀 #OTD 5/30/1966: NASA launched #Surveyor1 , which would become the first US spacecraft to soft-land on the #Moon : jpl.nasa.gov/missions/surve… #space #space craft #lunarexploration

#OTD 5/30/1971: NASA's #Mariner9 was 🚀launched to 🔴 #Mars , and would become the first #space probe to enter another planet's orbit 💫 solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/marin…

#OTD 5/30/2020: NASA's SpaceX #Demo2 launched to the International Space Station carrying 'space dads' Bob Behnken and Col. Doug Hurley issnationallab.org/spacex-demo-2-…
ISS National Lab #ISS #CrewDragon #space #astronauts #BobandDoug

#TBT 🎶Such a great time this weekend celebrating #magician Le Grand David at his birthday bash at The Cabot! I was graciously invited to play with Minstrels in the Gallery - a Tribute to Classic Jethro Tull. SUCH a fun and warm crowd!
D'Excelsior Productions

🥳🎂Happy Birthday to my friend and #STS73 crewmate, Michael L-A - on the right with with #FredLeslie and me, coming out of our sleep stations ahead of another 12 hours in support of the 2nd US Microgravity Laboratory ( #USML2 ). Here's to many more amazing orbits!
Axiom Space

🥳🎂Warm Birthday wishes to Dr Helen Sharman - who became the first🇬🇧British #astronaut in #space in #1991, traveling to #SpaceStation #Mir on the #Juno mission. Here's to many more amazing orbits! 💫 Helen Sharman #space #UK #Soyuz #TM11 #TM12

#OTD 5/30/1975: European Space Agency - the European #Space Agency was founded. 🥳🚀Happy birthday #ESA ! youtube.com/watch?v=cKb5H5…

Butch and Suni, your rocket is on the launch pad! The #AtlasV just completed its rollout in final preparation for Saturday's mission to launch Boeing Space's #Starliner #CFT mission for NASA's NASA Commercial Crew program. bit.ly/av_cft

Happy Asian American Pacific Islander History Month!

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