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A total eclipse of the Sun, showing the Sun’s atmosphere, or corona, stretching out into space, which is not normally visible during daylight. Photo Credit: Fred Espenak/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Exactly two years from today, on Aug. 21, 2017, a rare total solar eclipse will be seen again in the skies of […] 
“Forever Remembered” at KSCVC pays tribute to the 14 fallen astronaut heroes who sacrificed their lives during America’s 30-year space shuttle program. Photo Credit: Talia Landman / AmericaSpace “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted, it belongs to the brave.” – President Ronald Reagan There was not a dry eye in the […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Ground Based Roving: Apollo 15 astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin spend time at the Lunar Rover simulator located in the Crew Training Building at Kennedy Space Center. Scott and Irwin are assisted by support crew astronaut Joe Allen, who would also serve as […] Northrop Grumman hosted a barbecue luncheon for the men and women who worked on the Apollo Program. This and other events took place a day prior to the 44th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / awaltersphoto.com TITUSVILLE, Fla — Just one day before the 44th anniversary of […] Humanity’s first piloted landing on the Moon was perhaps our species’ greatest triumph of the 20th century … or maybe of any century in history. Photo Credit: NASA Forty-four years ago this very day, the ground in Florida shook to 7.7 million pounds of thrust as the largest and most powerful rocket ever […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images First Steps: The crew of Apollo 11 are seen here starting their voyage to the Moon from Pad 39A. Like what you see? Then check out: Retro Space Images Want to keep up-to-date with all things space? Be sure to “Like” AmericaSpace on Facebook and follow […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images The Start of an Era — Remembering STS-4, launched on this date in 1982. Astronauts Hank Hartsfield and Ken Mattingly are shown at Pad 39A on May 29, 1982.
Like what you see? Then check out: Retro Space Images Want to keep up-to-date with all […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Can You Train for History? — Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong during extra-vehicular activity training exercises at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in April 1969.
Like what you see? Then check out: Retro Space Images Want to keep up-to-date with all things space? Be sure […] Gus Grissom tests the fit of his spacesuit. Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Grissom Suits Up — Apollo 1 commander and former Mercury and Gemini Program astronaut Gus Grissom is shown suiting up for an altitude chamber test at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on October 18, 1966.
Like what you […] Astronaut Bruce Mcandless trains for STS-14B. Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Happy Birthday Wishes to Astronaut Bruce McCandless — Photo of astronaut Bruce McCandless in February 1984 during the STS-41B space shuttle mission.
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 Next Launch ICON on a Pegasus XL rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 11 Oct 19 at 1:30 GMT 10 Oct 19 at 9:30pm Eastern 
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