📅 November 27, 2009 – A historic moment in space exploration! After 11 days orbiting Earth, the Space Shuttle Atlantis completed the STS-129 mission and safely landed at Kennedy Space Center. 🚀🌍 During this mission, Atlantis delivered essential spare parts, tools, and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), including two “Express Logistics Carriers” filled with equipment that helps astronauts maintain and upgrade the station. The crew of seven astronauts also performed three spacew

Zoom in! 🦋 We saw the Butterfly Nebula for the first time in 2009 with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This year, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope got an up-close view. Webb’s infrared data, supplemented by radio data from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) specifically looks at the central region of the nebula, between the “wings,” and the complex structure of the gas and dust that surrounds it. The Butterfly Nebula is unique because it’s a planetary nebula, but doesn’t look h

Live HD Earth viewing from the International Space Station! Go full screen, sit back, watch and enjoy our home planet. Live views: http://go.nasa.gov/2oBrDS2 | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration