Building and assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope in the world's largest cleanroom at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

The Atlas V rocket rolls out to the launchpad. The MAVEN mission is scheduled for launch on Monday, November 18.

Politicians? Not as much as you'd think.

Did you know a direct flame on a water balloon won't pop it? Science, man!

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This mural in the lobby of the Launch Control Center displays the stages of human spaceflight, from Mercury-Redstone on the left, through the Apollo program, up to the Space Shuttle era, along with some fanciful depictions of the future of the Shuttle program, as imagined in the late 1970s.

Voyager Project Manager Suzy Dodd shows off her spacecraft [link] and explains how it detected the edge of interstellar space. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California

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This building is sadly empty, after #Mars2020 was moved out just hours before

Previously used for stacking Saturn V upper stages.

Note NASA TV showing Centaur stage in background.

The graph. Look closely at it.

About 36 hours before launch, the Antares rocket is seen through light drizzle from the end of Arbuckle Neck Road in Assawoman, Virginia.

Aboard SOFIA at NASA SOFIAxAFRC Social

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NASA photographer Jim Ross took our group photo. He also recently rode in an F-18 chase plane while Endeavour toured California on its 747 carrier.

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Aerogel is more like a slab of frozen smoke than it is jelly-like. It's not jiggly or wet at all. The lightest solid, it's only 3x as dense as air.

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Shuttle Endeavour's final landing at Edwards AFB. September 20, 2012

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