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    The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013. During an eclipse of the Sun, the spacecraft...
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    features in the rings of Saturn. Porco was founder of The Day the Earth Smiled. She was also responsible for the epitaph and proposal to honor the renowned...
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    studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004. The voyage to Saturn included flybys of Venus (April 1998 and July 1999), Earth (August...
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  • from the original on March 27, 2021. Retrieved March 27, 2021. "This day in 2013: The Day the Earth Smiled". EarthSky. July 19, 2020. Archived from the original...
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    Earthrise (redirect from Earth rise)
    photograph of Earth and part of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission...
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    Day the Earth Smiled Space selfie Whole Earth Catalog, an eclectic catalog compiled by Brand which was inspired in part by photographs of the Earth as...
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  • The Near Earth Network (NEN, formerly GN or Ground Network) provides orbital communications support for near-Earth orbiting customer platforms via various...
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    Marble The Day the Earth Smiled Timeline of first images of Earth from space "A Pale Blue Dot". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on...
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    Earth) Planetary phase The Blue Marble The Day the Earth Smiled Gannon, Megan (30 June 2019). "If You're On the Moon, Does the Earth Appear to Go Through...
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  • missions) and "Earth Observing" (for missions demonstrating technology for Earth orbiting missions). With a refocussing of the program in 2000, the Deep Space...
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  • communications in Earth vicinity. The SN Project Office at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) manages the SN, which consists of: The geosynchronous Tracking...
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  • missions. In the 2010s, Republicans in congress increasingly opposed the Earth science aspects of NASA spending, arguing that spending on Earth science programs...
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    Space Task Group (category 1958 establishments in the United States)
    Kennedy set the goal in 1961 for the Apollo Program to land a man on the Moon and bring him back safely to Earth, NASA decided a much larger organization...
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  • rocket taking off Earth, which was also used on subsequent flights. As part of the Interkosmos program, the crewed flights to the Salyut and Mir space...
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    flags, the insignia of the Apollo program, and features two steel globes on top of two basalt columns to represent the Earth and the Moon. The monument...
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  • on studying the Sun-Earth system. It is part of NASA's Heliophysics Science Division within the Science Mission Directorate. Understand the fundamental...
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    The administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the highest-ranking official of NASA, the national space agency of the United...
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    Treadmill with Vibration Isolation Stabilization (category Science facilities on the International Space Station)
    as well as on planet Earth, in response to the possibility that NASA would overrule the voting. On the 14 April 2009 episode of The Colbert Report, astronaut...
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    Viking 1 (category August 1975 events in the United States)
    normally. The lander had two means of returning data to Earth: a relay link up to the orbiter and back, and by using a direct link to Earth. The orbiter...
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    The Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program places the three prime NASA space communications networks, Space Network (SN), Near Earth Network...
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    Giovanni Domenico Cassini (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    of the Sun's disk projected by the camera obscura effect allowed him to measure the change in diameter of the Sun's disk over the year as the Earth moved...
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    addition, space biologists and the United States Public Health Service expressed concern about "back contamination" of Earth by extraterrestrial microorganisms...
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    NASA insignia (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
    three logos include the NASA insignia (also known as the "meatball"), the NASA logotype (also known as the "worm"), and the NASA seal. The NASA seal was approved...
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    The cultural perspective on Earth, or the world, varies by society and time period. Religious beliefs often include a creation belief as well as personification...
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    was the first American in space and later became one of the twelve people to walk on the Moon. John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth and...
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    focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing System; advancing heliophysics through the efforts of the Science Mission Directorate's...
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    going to pass overhead. First images of Earth from space The Blue Marble Pale Blue Dot The Day the Earth Smiled Chang, Kenneth (23 February 2015). "Rarely...
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    goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third US...
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    2022. Cusick, Dawn (April 25, 2022). "Space star honored at Earth Day celebrations". The Mountaineer. Retrieved September 13, 2022. Walker, Colby (September...
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    returning him safely to the Earth." During his administration at NASA, the first seven Apollo missions were flown, highlighted by the first human lunar landing...
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