We celebrate the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible. She partnered with us to recruit some of the first women and minority astronauts, and inspired generations to reach for the stars.

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✨ STS-46 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using Atlantis that was launched on July 31, 1992! The mission’s primary objectives were the deployment of the European Retrievable Carrier and the Tethered Satellite System.

🚀 Launch of the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter has officially been moved to August 4, 2022! It will launch from the Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket before cruising toward the Moon where it is planned to orbit for a year.

✨ Phoenix was an uncrewed space probe that launched on August 4, 2007 toward Mars! It landed on May 25, 2008 and operated until November 2, 2008!

🚀 MESSENGER was a NASA robotic space probe that launched on August 3, 2004 that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying yet planet’s chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field!

✨ Curiosity has been on Mars for 10 years as of August 6, 2022! Curiosity landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, and has been studying the climate and geology ever since!

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✨ The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, also known as Danuri, officially launched on August 4, 2022, and successfully separated from the Falcon 9 launch vehicle the next day! It is expected to enter orbit around the Moon in mid December.

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🚀 Vostok 2 was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6, 1961, to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body.

✨ STS-28 was the 30th NASA Space Shuttle mission, and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Columbia that launched on August 8, 1989. STS-28 was Columbia’s first flight since January 1986, when it had flown STS-61-C, the mission directly preceding the Challenger disaster.

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✨ STS-118 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station flown by the orbiter Endeavour that launched on August 8, 2007! STS-118 delivered and assembled the starboard S5 truss segment of the ISS, as well as External Stowage Platform 3.

🚀 NASA will make its second attempt at launching its ‘mega moon rocket’ on Saturday, September 3, after scrubbing the first liftoff attempt following an engine issue on August 29.

✨ For the first time, astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The exoplanet is seen through four different light filters, which shows how Webb can easily capture worlds beyond our solar system!

🚀 NASA has once again scrubbed the launch attempt for Artemis I because of technical issues after team members discovered a liquid hydrogen leak. A press conference is to be held to determine the next steps.

✨ NASA has delayed any new launch attempts for the Artemis moon mission until at least mid September after scrapping a planned launch due to several unsuccessful attempts to stop a leak of liquid hydrogen fuel.

✨ Voyager 1 is a space probe launched 45 years ago on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space beyond the Sun’s heliosphere.

✨ Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera has provided a mosaic image of Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, which includes tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust!