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Name of Image	Astronaut James Lovell Official Portrait
Date of Image	1966-09-09
Full Description	This is the official NASA portrait of astronaut James Lovell. Captain Lovell was selected as an Astronaut by NASA in September 1962. He has since served as backup pilot for the Gemini 4 flight and backup Commander for the Gemini 9 flight, as well as backup Commander to Neil Armstrong for the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. On December 4, 1965, he and Frank Borman were launched into space on the history making Gemini 7 mission. The flight lasted 330 hours and 35 minutes and included the first rendezvous of two manned maneuverable spacecraft. The Gemini 12 mission, commanded by Lovell with Pilot Edwin Aldrin, began on November 11, 1966 for a 4-day, 59-revolution flight that brought the Gemini program to a successful close. Lovell served as Command Module Pilot and Navigator on the epic six-day journey of Apollo 8, the first manned Saturn V liftoff responsible for allowing the first humans to leave the gravitational influence of Earth. He completed his fourth mission as Spacecraft Commander of the Apollo 13 flight, April 11-17, 1970, and became the first man to journey twice to the moon. The Apollo 13 mission was cut short due to a failure of the Service Module cryogenic oxygen system. Aborting the lunar course, Lovell and fellow crewmen, John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise, working closely with Houston ground controllers, converted their lunar module, Aquarius, into an effective lifeboat that got them safely back to Earth. Captain Lovell held the record for time in space with a total of 715 hours and 5 minutes until surpassed by the Skylab flights. On March 1, 1973, Captain Lovell retired from the Navy and the Space Program.

Title	Asteroid 2002 NY40
Explanation	Asteroid 2002 NY40 [ http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/ 30jul_ny40.htm ] will fly by planet Earth early in the morning August 18 Universal Time (late in the evening August 17 Eastern Daylight Time). Approaching to within [ http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ ] about 530,000 kilometers or 1.3 times the Earth-Moon distance 2002 NY40 [ http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=2002+NY40 ] will definitely not be close enough to pose any danger of collision. But it will be close enough and just bright enough for experienced skygazers to see this 800 meter wide space rock [ http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/ asteroids.html ] in a small telescope or binoculars as it glides quickly through northern skies [ http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/images/ny40/ skymap_ut.gif ] past the bright star Vega. It will also be close enough to ping with radar [ http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/ ], and asteroid hunters using the large Arecibo radio telescope [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981129.html ] in Puerto Rico expect to determine the three dimensional outline of 2002 NY40. Similar investigations of other near Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970120.html ] asteroids have revealed some surprising shapes [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000510.html ]. In this five minute time exposure, recorded at Cerro Tololo [ http://www.ctio.noao.edu/ ] Inter-American Observatory on August 14, 2002 NY40 shows itself as a long smudge as it moves against a background of faint stars in the constellation Aquarius [ http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/ Constellations/aquarius.html ].

Title	NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
Explanation	The Helix nebula (New General Catalog number 7293) is estimated to be a mere 450 light-years from the Sun, in the direction of the constellation Aquarius [ http://bradley.bradley.edu/~dware/aquarius.html ]. At that distance it may well be the closest planetary nebula [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/planetary.html ], offering a dramatic snapshot of a brief final evolutionary stage [ http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/CPEP/Chart_Pages/ 5.Plasmas/Nebula/Planetary.html ] in the life of a solar-type star. In this color image the nebula glows red in the light of nitrogen and hydrogen atoms energized by the ultraviolet radiation [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/glossary.html#uv ] from the central star [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960209.html ]. The main rings themselves, though faint, have an angular size about half that of the full moon and span about 1.5 light-years. Because it is so close, it is a prime subject for study by astronomers [ http://blackhole.aas.org/meetings/aas186/program/abs/S3804.html ]. When the Hubble Space Telescope was focused near the inner edge of the main ring, at about the 12 o'clock position in the above image, it resolved some of the spoke like radial structures visible into intriguing cometary knots [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960416.html ].

Gliese 876 System Includes Large Terrestrial Planet

Title	Gliese 876 System Includes Large Terrestrial Planet
Explanation	Is our Earth unique? In continuing efforts to answer this question, astronomers have now discovered [ http://exoplanets.org/gl876_web/press_release_NSF.htm ] an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant normal star. Previously over 150 gas-giant planets [ http://exoplanets.org/exoplanets_pub.html ] like Jupiter [ http://www.nineplanets.org/jupiter.html ] had been so discovered. Slight, fast, but regular wobbles [ http://exoplanets.org/gl876_web/gl876_tech.html ] of nearby small M [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040418.html ]-dwarf [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_sequence ] star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. The planet's small mass indicates that it is likely terrestrial [ http://wind.cc.whecn.edu/~marquard/astronomy/terrestrial.htm ] in nature, similar in composition to the inner planets of our Solar System [ http://www.nineplanets.org/overview.html ]. If indeed made predominantly of rock, the planet's surface gravity [ http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/surfacegravity.html ] would not even be able to contain the gasses of a Jupiter-like planet. The newly discovered planet [ http://exoplanets.org/gl876_web/press_release_NSF.htm ] would not make a good vacation spot [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050224.html ] for humans, however, as it orbits so close that the surface temperature probably tops a searing 200 degrees Celsius [ http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/temps.htm ]. The system is illustrated in the above drawing [ http://exoplanets.org/gl876_web/gl876_graphics.html ] as seen from a hypothetical moon orbiting one of the two Jupiter-like planets already known [ http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/planets/Gl876.html ]. The newly discovered terrestrial-like planet is depicted in the insert. Gliese 876 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980626.html ] lies only 15 light-years [ http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question19.html ] away and is visible with binoculars toward the constellation [ http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/constellations.html ] of Aquarius [ http://www.astronomical.org/portal/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=4 ].

Title	A Dark and Stormy Night
Explanation	It was a dark and [ http://www.abc.net.au/centralvic/stories/s904089.htm ] stormy night [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030424.html ]. But on 2003 August 29th the red planet Mars, near its closest approach [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/2003/22/astrofile ] to Earth in almost 60,000 years, shone brightly in the sky against a background of stars in the constellation Aquarius [ http://allthesky.com/constellations/aquarius/ constell.html ]. In the foreground of this scary view [ http://www.allthesky.de/various/marsflash.html ], huge thunder clouds are lit by lightning strokes [ http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/primer/ ] from within. Mars [ http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ ], of course, has nothing to do with storms on Earth, though both have the power to excite the imagination [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010331.html ] and wonder of Earthdwellers [ http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html ]. Tonight, the night before Halloween [ http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/events/Halloween.asp ], Mars will also pass close [ http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/27oct_halloween.htm ] to the Earth, closer than it will come during the next thirteen years. And once again, the red planet Mars will look particularly bright, although much smaller and dimmer than the Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050808.html ] and even Venus.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut Nicole Stott checks her gear before heading for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. She is part of the team, which includes astronauts Dave Williams and Ron Garan, plus Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati, working on a 17-day undersea mission as part of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project. Williams is team lead. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. The undersea laboratory is situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface.

Description	KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut Nicole Stott checks her gear before heading for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. She is part of the team, which includes astronauts Dave Williams and Ron Garan, plus Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati, working on a 17-day undersea mission as part of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project. Williams is team lead. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. The undersea laboratory is situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface.
Release Date	04/03/2006

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut Dave Williams dons his wet suit before heading for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. Williams is leading a 17-day undersea mission as part of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project. Other members of the mission are astronauts Nicole Stott and Ron Garan, plus Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati. The undersea laboratory is situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques.

Description	KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut Dave Williams dons his wet suit before heading for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. Williams is leading a 17-day undersea mission as part of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project. Other members of the mission are astronauts Nicole Stott and Ron Garan, plus Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati. The undersea laboratory is situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques.
Release Date	04/03/2006

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut Nicole Stott is one of three astronauts taking part in the 17-day NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. At left is NEEMO instructor "Otter" Mark Rutten. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. The 45-foot-long, 13-foot-diameter complex is three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and anchored 62 feet below the surface. Canadian astronaut Dave Williams is leading the undersea mission, along with Stott and astronaut Ron Garan. Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati rounds out the crew.

Description	KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut Nicole Stott is one of three astronauts taking part in the 17-day NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. At left is NEEMO instructor "Otter" Mark Rutten. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. The 45-foot-long, 13-foot-diameter complex is three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and anchored 62 feet below the surface. Canadian astronaut Dave Williams is leading the undersea mission, along with Stott and astronaut Ron Garan. Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati rounds out the crew.
Release Date	04/03/2006

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut Nicole Stott, Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati, and astronaut Dave Williams are preparing for their 17-day mission on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project. The mission will take place onboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface. Williams is leading the undersea mission, which also includes astronaut Ron Garan. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques.

Description	KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut Nicole Stott, Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati, and astronaut Dave Williams are preparing for their 17-day mission on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project. The mission will take place onboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface. Williams is leading the undersea mission, which also includes astronaut Ron Garan. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques.
Release Date	04/03/2006

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Marc Reagan (left) and Bill Todd, NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project leads, have left the current NEEMO team in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory to start their 17-day mission. The team comprises astronauts Dave Williams (team leader), Nicole Stott and Ron Garan, plus Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. The undersea laboratory is situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface.

Description	KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Marc Reagan (left) and Bill Todd, NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project leads, have left the current NEEMO team in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory to start their 17-day mission. The team comprises astronauts Dave Williams (team leader), Nicole Stott and Ron Garan, plus Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. The undersea laboratory is situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface.
Release Date	04/03/2006

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) team is ready to begin their 17-day undersea mission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. From left are Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati and astronauts Nicole Stott, Dave Williams (team lead) and Ron Garan. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. The undersea laboratory is situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface.

Description	KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) team is ready to begin their 17-day undersea mission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. From left are Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati and astronauts Nicole Stott, Dave Williams (team lead) and Ron Garan. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. The undersea laboratory is situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface.
Release Date	04/03/2006

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati dons his wet suit before heading for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. Broderick is part of the team, which includes astronauts Dave Williams, Nicole Stott (at right) and Ron Garan, working on a 17-day undersea mission as part of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project. Williams is team lead. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. The undersea laboratory is situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface.

Description	KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Dr. Tim Broderick of the University of Cincinnati dons his wet suit before heading for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. Broderick is part of the team, which includes astronauts Dave Williams, Nicole Stott (at right) and Ron Garan, working on a 17-day undersea mission as part of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project. Williams is team lead. The astronauts are testing space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. The undersea laboratory is situated three miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, anchored 62 feet below the surface.
Release Date	04/03/2006

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