One small sample tube. Built on Earth by caring humans; filled on Mars by an inquisitive robot. Now it sits waiting for a potential pickup and return journey, not many years from now.
#MarsSampleReturn
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Is this real life? (Yes, it is.) 🌖
We’ve got a doozy of a video to share this morning.
Checkout this stunning video from the solar array wing camera of
@NASA_Orion
! 🤩
Whoa. 🤯 Y'all seeing this?
@NASA_Orion
, designed and built by us, snapped this selfie using the camera on one of the solar array wings IN DEEP SPACE WHILE FLYING TO THE MOON! 🌖
Humbling.
This is the whole world in one photo, taken by
@NASA_Orion
’s solar array wing camera from just above the lunar surface. It just keeps getting better.
Bruh.
This one is the most movie-like video from the
@NASAArtemis
launch yet. 🤯
Watch the Launch Abort System, designed and built by our engineers, jettison from inside
@NASA_Orion
!
🚨 New, absolutely incredible
@NASA_Orion
footage to cure your Tuesday blues! 🚨
Orion splashed down on Dec. 11, bringing the
@NASAArtemis
I mission to a close.
Okay, this is just wild. 😲
The
#JunoMission
spacecraft, developed by us, completed a flyby of Jupiter on September 29, 2022 and returned some amazing imagery, including this look at the storms raging across the Jovian atmosphere. 🌀
The future of spaceflight is clear. Actually, it's nuclear.
@DARPA
has awarded us a contract to develop a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP)-powered spacecraft under the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project, the first demo of an NTP system in space.
✨New
@NASA_Orion
video clip✨
We call this one, “A Delicate Balance.”
The
@LockheedMartin
-built Orion views our terrestrial home and its lunar satellite just before setting a distance record for a spacecraft designed for humans of 270,000 miles away from Earth. 🤯
STILL NOT OVER IT.
There were plenty of incredible space moments in 2022. Like the Moon transiting the Earth as seen from
@NASA_Orion
during the
@NASAArtemis
I mission. 🌕 🌎
What was your favorite space moment from this year?
🌎
🌕
On this day in 1968, astronaut Bill Anders of Apollo 8 captured this stunning photograph of the Earth rising over the Moon, giving the world a breathtaking look at our blue marble.
How much is that doggy in the window?
Don't worry! Snoopy is safely secured inside
@NASA_Orion
. But we just thought it'd be fun to imagine seeing him from the solar array wing camera.
Learn more about Snoopy's ride to deep space:
The whole world in our rearview. 🌎
The
@NASA_Orion
spacecraft, built by our engineers, is already 1/3rd of the way to the Moon, traveling at 2,500mph.
Onward to the Moon! 🌖
Yeeeeeeet! 🚀
This video shows
@NASA_Orion
’s launch abort system (LAS), built by our engineers, being jettisoned following the successful launch of
@NASA_SLS
!
🤯
On April 3, we'll find out who will be the first four human passengers to fly onboard
@NASA_Orion
to the Moon.
We can't wait to meet the
@NASAArtemis
II astronauts!
👩🚀👨🚀👩🚀👨🚀
Titan your seatbelts!
@NASA
has confirmed that development of the Dragonfly rotorcraft will continue into final design, construction and testing as it progresses toward its historic mission to Saturn's moon Titan, launching in July 2028.
We are excited to help bring Dragonfly
Tomorrow. 👀
@NASA_Orion
is set to make its final flyby of the Moon as it prepares for return home.
Coverage on
@NASA
TV begins at 9:00am EST with the powered flyby burn set for 11:43 am EST. Mark your calendars! 🗓️
After a successful launch from
@NASAKennedy
at 5:26pm ET (2126 UTC),
@NOAA
’s GOES-U is on its way to geostationary orbit, where it’ll assist in the study of weather on Earth and in space.
And as a part of
@NASA
's Mars Sample Return, we will help bring these samples back to Earth by launching the first rocket from the surface of another planet. 🚀
We’re celebrating the start of
@NASAPersevere
’s third year on Mars. The rover recently deposited ten samples of Martian soil.
As Percy continues to study the Martian surface, scientists gain new insights that may help future explorers on the Red Planet.
Get in, we're going to the Moon. 😎
@NASA_Orion
's optical navigation camera captured this black-and-white photo of the lunar surface during its flyby yesterday morning.
🌕
It’s a real life time machine. ⏳
One year ago today, on Christmas morning, we witnessed the launch of
@NASAWebb
, with the
@LockheedMartin
-built
#NIRCam
primary imager, ushering in a new age of deep space discovery! 🔭
One heck of a boom! 💥
We conducted a burst test of our expandable inflatable habitat that greatly exceeded expectations, bursting at 285 psi, 6x the max operating pressure.
These inflatable habitats will provide astronauts with a safe environment for work in deep space.
Coming soon to a Pacific Ocean near you. 🌊
@NASA_Orion
, built by our engineers, is set to splashdown off the coast of California on Sunday, Dec 11. Watch splashdown coverage on
@NASA
TV beginning at 11am EST! 📺
Don't miss tonight's planetary conjunction!
Venus and Jupiter are about 415 million miles apart, but they'll appear next to each other in the sky tonight just after sunset. Be sure to check it out and post your best photos of the planetary phenomena in the replies!
Seeing triple! 🤯
The future of
@NASA_Orion
is looking pretty good! The crew modules for
#Artemis
II, III and IV are in different production phases at
@NASAKennedy
in preparation for bringing astronauts back to the Moon.
It’d be absolute lunar-cy if you Arte-miss this. 🌙
Be sure to tune in tomorrow, Nov. 21 at 7:15am ET, for
@NASA_Orion
’s outbound powered flyby of the Moon. Orion will pass as close as 80 miles above the lunar surface! 📺
After our successful inflatable habitat burst test at our Waterton campus in Colorado, which is well-known for its elk population, we reviewed the footage and noticed that our stuffed elk mascot got a little too close for comfort... 💥 🎥 🦌
One heck of a boom! 💥
We conducted a burst test of our expandable inflatable habitat that greatly exceeded expectations, bursting at 285 psi, 6x the max operating pressure.
These inflatable habitats will provide astronauts with a safe environment for work in deep space.
Sound on and dance along! 🔊
We’re proud of the work that the entire
@NASA_Orion
team has done for the
#Artemis
1 mission. Join our celebration and dance along with Orion as it departs the Moon following today’s final flyby! 💃🕺
Any time you fly to the Moon, it's a celebration. Over the weekend, we put on a show for
@NASA_Orion
's purposeful passengers using our
#Callisto
tech demo! 🎉🥳
@alexa99
, party mode!
Bonus: Sound on to hear the ambience of Orion's interior as it travels in deep space. 🔊
See you again really soon,
@NASAMoon
!
As we look toward splashdown on December 11, we’re reflecting on some of the incredible lunar sights we saw during the
@NASAArtemis
I mission.
Now it’s time to bring
@NASA_Orion
home.
Always have a backup. And a backup, backup.
Redundancies are crucial for astronaut safety when it comes to deep space missions to the Moon. Here's how we're keeping
@NASA_Orion
astronauts safe.
Last week,
@NASAJPL
had to permanently end the Ingenuity helicopter's mission on Mars. 🔴
Looking back, one of our favorite moments was when Ingenuity found the Mars 2020 backshell, built by our engineers, on the Martian surface.
#ThanksIngenuity
How it started with EFT-1. 🔥
Tune into
@NASA
TV tomorrow to see how it’s going with
@NASA_Orion
and
#Artemis
I. Coverage begins at 11:00am EST, with splashdown at approximately 12:39pm EST. 📺
It's not everyday someone you know receives a Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
#Congratulations
,
@NASA
Astronaut
@AstroBehnken
,
@LockheedMartin
's director of technology acceleration, on this incredible accomplishment! 🎖👨🚀🚀
It's almost launch time and we've got GPS on the menu. 🚀🛰️
On the morning of Jan. 18, the sixth GPS III satellite for
@SpaceForceDoD
will launch onboard a
@SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket as the next in the series of
@LockheedMartin
-built satellites.
👉:
The
@NASAArtemis
II crew announcement is coming this Monday. Check out the flight path the
@NASA_Astronauts
will take during their historic mission to the Moon onboard
@NASA_Orion
.
Congrats to
@Int_Machines
on the landing of the IM-1 Odysseus lander, setting the stage for future commercial missions to the Moon in support of the
@NASAArtemis
program.
We can't wait to see
#LunarTrailblazer
, built by us, tag along during the launch of IM-2 later this year!
Your order was delivered… to the Moon! 📦
@Int_Machines
' uncrewed lunar lander landed at 6:23pm ET (2323 UTC), bringing NASA science to the Moon's surface. These instruments will prepare us for future human exploration of the Moon under
#Artemis
.
It’s the little things that tend to make our day. Like getting new photos of
@NASA_SLS
launching the
@LockheedMartin
-built
#Orion
spacecraft to the Moon from our stellar photographers. 📸
Too good not to share. 🚀
An unexpected treat! 🛰
The Lucy spacecraft, built and flown by us, discovered that main-belt asteroid, Dinkinesh, has a small friend!
The L'LORRI instrument captured this image, which revealed that Dinkinesh is actually a binary asteroid pair!