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In a Wednesday release accompanying the image, NASA notes that humans had never seen the far side of the moon

 (often called the "dark side," though it gets plenty of sunlight) until 1959, when the Soviet Luna 3 captured the first-ever images.


Eagle-eyed readers might notice a faint green outline on the right side of the moon above, 

which NASA explains has to do with the way EPIC processes photos:

Take a virtual tour of the Suttle discovery's Mid-Deck!

Angela Zander • 9 hours ago #Space #Flight Take a look at the crewed spaceships that have launched astronauts and cosmonauts into space
during the first 50 years of human spaceflight in this SPACE.com infographic.

The Russian Shuttle Launch System

J. E. Bruce saved to Illuminating The Space Age 25 Years of Buran (via Daniel Marin - Eurekablog) 23h

Soviet Energiya launch vehicle

Resuable Launchers

The Delta 4 Heavy Typical Mission

Delta 4 Heavy in the Assembly Hall

Delta IV Heavy NROL-37 Payload Mate

SURVEILLANCE SATELLITE SET FOR JUNE 9 LAUNCH ON MIGHTY DELTA 4 HEAVY

WORLD’S LARGEST ROCKET READY TO RUMBLE SATURDAY WITH SECRET NRO SPY SATELLITE – WATCH LIVE

Delta IV Heavy - Pre-Launch 06-09-2016

I G N I T I ON !!!!!!

Photos: Delta 4-Heavy launch as seen from press site
Photos by Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now

The Following two images CREDIT United Launch Alliance (ULA)

Photos: Delta 4-Heavy launch as seen from press site
Photos by Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now

Possible Orbits for NROL 37

The MUOS-5 Mission Typical Atlas 5 Launch

Mission Profile

Atlas V MUOS-5 Launch Highlights

ULA MUOS 5 launch 24 June 2016

Orion's First flight The Future???

Possible Timeline of the EM-1?

NASA’s Space Launch System View of the Assembly machinery

NASA’s Space Launch System Block 1 On the crawler

NASA’s Space Launch System View of the Future Launch Pad

NASA’s Space Launch System View of the Exhaust hole

America's Next Rocket as of September 4, 2016

NASA’s Space Launch System Passes Critical Design Review, Drops Saturn V Color Motif by KEN KREMER on OCTOBER 24, 2015

NASA’s Space Launch System Paving the way for deep space exploration

Artist conception of a SLS Launch

NASA’s Space Launch System Block 1 exploded view

First Manned Flight of NASA’s Orion Deep Space Capsule Could Slip to 2023
by KEN KREMER on SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

ISRO(Indian Space Research Organisation) successfully tested its GSLV Mk III cryogenic engine

Inside Japan's Huge Space Truck

From Pratt and Whitney

WEBCAST REPLAY: SpaceX Lands Falcon 9 After Space Launch! by SPACE.com Staff | December 21, 2015 10:00pm ET

Falcon Heavy | Flight Animation

Spacex's Falcon Heavy

How It Works: The Most Powerful Space Rocket. When the firm SpaceX launches its Falcon Heavy rocket
into space late this year, the craft will become the mightiest rocket in the world. Only NASA’s Saturn V,
which sent Americans to the moon, has ever generated more power. In rockets, the most important measure of power is thrust.
Falcon Heavy’s 27 individual booster engines together generate 3.8 million pounds of thrust—enough to lift the 3.1-million-pound rocket
and its 117,000-pound payload toward low-Earth orbit. The rocket's success is critical for both SpaceX and the U.S. space program:
The Air Force has already hired SpaceX and its Falcon Heavy to send two satellites into orbit sometime in 2015.

Peek Inside The SpaceX Falcon Heavy will be the world's most powerful rocket when it launches later this year.
It can carry a payload of up to 117,000 pounds in its clamshell fairing. The fairing is shown here open with the payload exposed,
but on a mission it would remain closed until the first stage has separated and the second stage has nearly reached orbit.

NASA’S FIRST SLS MARS ROCKET TEST MISSION

Exploration Mission-1 Map

Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) will be the first integrated flight test of NASA’s deep space exploration system: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, EM-1 will be an uncrewed flight that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. During this flight, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft will launch on the most powerful rocket in the world and travel thousands of miles beyond the Moon, farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown, over the course of about a three-week mission.

Titeflex Aerospace - Lewis & Saunders - Laconia is one of more than 1,000 companies helping to build #NASASLS! They provide plumbing for the turbopump, the heart of the RS-25 engine that will help launch #NASASLS and NASA’s Orion Spacecraft!

Aerojet Rocketdyne technicians inspect the engine controller that will be used for the first integrated flight of NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion in late 2018. The engine controller was installed on RS-25 development engine no. 0528 for testing at Stennis Space Center on the A-2 Test Stand on March 23, 2017. The RS-25 engine, with the flight controller, was test fired for a full-duration 500 seconds. Credits: NASA/SSC The post NASA Test Fires New Engine Controlling ‘Brain’ for First SLS MegaRocket Mission appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA engineers successfully conducted a development test of the RS-25 rocket engine Thursday, Aug. 18 2016
at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss. The RS-25 will help power the core stage
of the agency’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the journey to Mars. Credit: Ken Kremer/

NASA’S FIRST SLS MARS ROCKET FUEL TANK COMPLETES WELDING

Welding is complete on the largest piece of the core stage that will provide the fuel for the first flight of NASA's new rocket,
the Space Launch System, with the Orion spacecraft in 2018. The core stage liquid hydrogen tank has completed welding
on the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
Credit: NASA/MAF/Steven Seipel

Welding is complete on the largest piece of the core stage that will provide the fuel for the first flight of NASA's new rocket,
the Space Launch System, with the Orion spacecraft in 2018. The core stage liquid hydrogen tank has completed welding
on the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
Credit: NASA/MAF/Steven Seipel

The liquid hydrogen tank qualification test article for NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS)
heavy lift rocket lies horizontally after final welding was completed at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility
in New Orleans in July 2016. Credit: Ken Kremer/

The first liquid hydrogen tank, also called the qualification test article, for NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS)
heavy lift rocket lies horizontally beside the Vertical Assembly Center robotic weld machine on July 22, 2016
after final welding was just completed at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Credit: Ken Kremer/

The newly assembled first liquid hydrogen tank, also called the qualification test article,
for NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) heavy lift rocket lies horizontally beside the
Vertical Assembly Center robotic weld machine (blue) on July 22, 2016.
It was lifted out of the welder (top)
after final welding was just completed at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
Credit: Ken Kremer/

The ULA Delta Mariner barge arriving in Port Canaveral, Florida on March 7, 2017 after transporting the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) hardware for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from Decatur, Alabama. SLS-1 launch from the Kennedy Space Center is slated for late 2018. Credit: Ken Kremer/

The interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) for first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket arrived at Port Canaveral, Florida on March 7, 2017 loaded inside a shipping canister (right) aboard the ULA Delta Mariner barge that set sail from Decatur, Alabama a week ago. The ICPS shared the shipping voyage along with a ULA Delta IV first stage rocket core seen at left. Credit: Ken Kremer/

The interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has arrived by way of barge at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on March 7, 2017. The ICPS will be moved to United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Operation Center at the Cape for processing for the SLS-1/Orion EM-1 launch currently slated for late 2018 launch from pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: ULA

Orion crew module pressure vessel for NASA’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) is unveiled for the first time on Feb. 3, 2016 after arrival at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. It is secured for processing in a test stand called the birdcage in the high bay inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building at KSC. Launch to the Moon is slated in 2018 atop the SLS rocket. Credit: Ken Kremer/

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) blasts off from launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center
in this artist rendering showing a view of the liftoff of the Block 1 70-metric-ton (77-ton) crew vehicle configuration.
Credit: NASA/MSFC

First Manned Flight of NASA’s Orion Deep Space Capsule Could Slip to 2023
by KEN KREMER on SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The GOES-R Logo

IN THE CLEANROOM WITH GAME CHANGING GOES-R NEXT GEN WEATHER SATELLITE
LAUNCHING NOV. 19, 2016

The NASA/NOAA GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R Series) being processed at
Astrotech Space Operations, in Titusville, FL, in advance of planned launch on a ULA Atlas V slated for Nov. 19, 2016.
GOES-R will be America’s most advanced weather satellite. Credit: Ken Kremer/

The NASA/NOAA GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R Series) being processed at
Astrotech Space Operations, in Titusville, FL, in advance of planned launch on a ULA Atlas V slated for Nov. 19, 2016.
GOES-R will be America’s most advanced weather satellite. Credit: Ken Kremer/

The NASA/NOAA/Lockheed Martin/Harris GOES-R team gives a big thumbs up for the dramatic leap in capability
this next gen weather observation satellite will provide – during media briefing at Astrotech Space Operations,
in Titusville, FL. Launch is set for Nov. 19, 2016. Credit: Ken Kremer/

Track mobile used to push ULS Atlas V and NASA/NOAA GOES-R to pad 41 from VIF processing facility. Credit: Lane Hermann

SUNSET SATURDAY BLASTOFF OF GOES-R SET TO DELIVER QUANTUM LEAP IN WEATHER FORECASTING ON NOV. 19, 2016

The NASA/NOAA GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series) is poised for launch
on a ULA Atlas V from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Nov. 19, 2016. GOES-R will be America’s most advanced weather satellite.
Credit: Ken Kremer/

The NASA/NOAA GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series)
is encapsulated in the nose cone of a ULA Atlas V set for launch from Space Launch Complex-41
on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Nov. 19, 2016. GOES-R will be America’s most advanced weather satellite.
Credit: Ken Kremer/

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches the advanced new GOES-R weather satellite into orbit
from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Nov. 19, 2016.
Credit: United Launch Alliance

Launch of NASA/NOAA GOES-R weather observatory on ULA Atlas V on Nov. 19, 2016 from pad 41
on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Credit: Julian Leek

Blastoff of revolutionary NASA/NOAA GOES-R weather satellite on ULA Atlas V on Nov. 19, 2016
as seen from remote camera at Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
GOES-R will deliver a quantum leap in America’s weather forecasting capabilities. Credit: Ken Kremer/

Blastoff of revolutionary NASA/NOAA GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series)
on a ULA Atlas V from Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Nov. 19, 2016
– as seen from the VAB roof. GOES-R will soon deliver a quantum leap in America’s weather forecasting capabilities.
Credit: Ken Kremer/

Blastoff of revolutionary NASA/NOAA GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series)
on a ULA Atlas V from Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Nov. 19, 2016
– as seen from the VAB roof. GOES-R will soon deliver a quantum leap in America’s weather forecasting capabilities.
Credit: Ken Kremer/

Launch of NASA/NOAA GOES-R weather observatory on ULA Atlas V on Nov. 19, 2016 from pad 41
on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, as seen from Playalinda beach.
Credit: Jillian Laudick

Launch of NASA/NOAA GOES-R weather observatory on ULA Atlas V on Nov. 19, 2016 from pad 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida,
as seen from Playalinda beach. Credit: Jillian Laudick

Launch of NASA/NOAA GOES-R weather observatory on ULA Atlas V on Nov. 19, 2016 from pad 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, as seen from Playalinda beach. Credit: Jillian Laudick

Atlas V/GOES-R launch as seen rising over neighbor houses in Titusville, Florida on Nov. 19, 2016. Credit: Melissa Bayles

ULA Atlas V rocket and GOES-R weather observatory streak to orbit from launch pad 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: Julian Leek

The GOES-R satellite streaks into space aboard an Atlas V rocket in this long-exposure view of its successful launch
from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Nov. 19, 2016.
Credit: United Launch Alliance

GOES-R weather observation satellite instrument suite. Credit: NASA/NOAA

First "Light"

NEW AGE IN WEATHER FORECASTING BEGINS WITH SPECTACULAR 1ST IMAGES FROM NASA/NOAA GOES-16(was GOES-R) OBSERVATORY

GOES-16 (previously known as GOES-R) captured this view of the moon as it looked across the surface of the Earth on January 15, 2017. Like earlier GOES satellites, GOES-16 will use the moon for calibration. Credit: NOAA/NASA

This image clearly shows the significant storm system that crossed North America that caused freezing and ice that resulted in dangerous conditions across the United States on January 15, 2017 resulting in loss of life. Credit: NOAA/NASA

This composite color full-disk visible image shows North and South America and was taken on January 15, 2017. It was created using several of the 16 spectral channels available on the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument. Credit: NOAA/NASA

This 16-panel image shows the continental United States in the two visible, four near-infrared and 10 infrared channels on the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI). These channels help forecasters distinguish between differences in the atmosphere like clouds, water vapor, smoke, ice and volcanic ash. Credit: NOAA/NASA

Northeast Coast and New York Metropolitan region. On January 15, 2017 severe weather moved across the central United States before passing through the Northeast on the 16th and 17th where it resulted in wet and wintry weather for travelers across the region. Credit: NOAA/NASA

From 22,300 miles (35,900 kilometers) above Earth, GOES-16 will not only improve the precision of forecasts but also add to Earth's overall weather observation network, NOAA researchers said. GOES-16's updated instruments will enable it to take photographs with an image resolution four times higher than those taken by existing GOES spacecraft, the agency added.

THE KANOPUS_V_1K multiple launch 6-2017

THE KANOPUS_V_1K multiple launch 6-2017

FUTURE SPACE LAUNCHING SYSTEMS

ARCA UNVEILS THE WORLD’S FIRST SINGLE-STAGE-TO-ORBIT ROCKET

Artist's impression of the Haas 2CA deployed to orbit. Credit: ARCA

Artist’s impression of the Haas 2C rocket ascending into orbit. Credit: ARCA

Artist’s impression of the Haas 2C rocket, shown in its launch (top) and deployment configurations (bottom). Credit: ARCA

Published on Mar 29, 2017 Introducing the Haas 2CA Single-Stage-to-Orbit rocket. Outfitted with lightweight composite materials and the Executor aerospike engine, the Haas 2CA will be the first rocket in history to place itself into Earth's orbit as a single stage. Find out more at HAAS ARCA
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THE AEROSPIKE ENGINE WAS CONSIDERED FOR THE SHUTTLE, BUT NEVER FLEW. THAT’S ABOUT TO CHANGE

Artist's impression of the Demonstrator 3 aerospike test vehicle and the Haas 2CA SSTO rocket. Credit: ARCA

The test of twin Linear Aerospike XRS-2200 engines, originally built for the X-33 program, was performed on August 6, 2001 at NASA’s Sternis Space Center, Mississippi. Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

Haas 2CA - Orbital Flight Redefined

Published on Mar 29, 2017 Introducing the Haas 2CA Single-Stage-to-Orbit rocket. Outfitted with lightweight composite materials and the Executor aerospike engine, the Haas 2CA will be the first rocket in history to place itself into Earth's orbit as a single stage. Find out more at arcaspace.com Category Science & Technology License Standard YouTube License

Published on Jun 15, 2017 ARCA will soon launch an aerospike rocket engine into space. This will be the first linear aerospike to be tested in flight, and will increase the flight readiness level of ARCA's Haas 2CA single-stage-to-orbit rocket. Find out more about the Demonstrator 3 at arcaspace.com Category Science & Technology License Standard YouTube License

SpaceX is going to build a mini-BFR to launch on a Falcon 9

The Insight Mission Launching sequence

InSight delivered to Vandenberg launch site
From: The Bruce Murray Space Image Library Yje Planetary org

INSIGHT BEING PREPARED FOR LAUNCH NASA's InSight spacecraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base on March 1, 2018, undergoing final processing in preparation for a May launch. credit:NASA / JPL-Caltech / Lockheed Martin

NASA’s InSight spacecraft, pictured here in its cruise configuration, during launch preparations in a clean room at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Credit: USAF 30th Space Wing/Alex Valdez

One half of the Atlas 5 rocket’s payload shroud for the InSight mission. Credit: USAF 30th Space Wing/Julio Paz

United Launch Alliance conducted a “wet dress rehearsal” fueling test on the Atlas 5 rocket for the InSight mission last month. (april 2018) Credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin

NASA's InSight Mars lander, tucked inside its protective payload fairing, is moved to the launchpad to be attached to its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The mission will launch on May 5, 2018.

NASA’s InSight launched by Atlas V 401

NASA’s InSight mission was launched by a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex 3E, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on 5 May 2018, at 11:05 UTC (04:05 PDT/07:05 EDT). InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a NASA Mars lander designed to study Mars’ interior structure and provide insight into the formation of the rocky planets of the Solar System, as well as rocky exoplanets. Along with InSight, Atlas V launched two Mars Cube One (MarCO-A & MarCO-B) CubeSats, the first time CubeSats were launched into deep space.