Galaxy NGC 5584

30 years ago today, Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the space shuttle, piloting Discovery on its STS-63 mission. She later also became the first woman to command the space shuttle. She reflects on her career in #ASQ: s.si.edu/3SJEOQq

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Eileen M. Collins, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, was the first woman to be the pilot on a NASA space shuttle flight. She recently spoke

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The celestial object of the day is Phobos!

It's Mars's largest moon with 21 km (13 mi), it orbits Mars at only 6,000 km (3,700 mi) and it gets closer by 1.8 meters every year, at that rate is expected to collide with Mars or form a planetary ring in about 30-50 million years!

LBN 420 ("Galileo's Finger")

She is indeed! Artemis is the goddess of the moon and the hunt.

Crazy how the original moon missions were named after Apollo. Isn't his twin sister, like, the goddess of the moon or sm?

Stunning New Images of Jupiter From NASA’s Juno Spacecraft (read article here)

Feel small now? Yup, we said the same thing! This is the comparison