NASA on Instagram: "POV: You’re looking at the Moon outside of your window on the Orion spacecraft. This visualization simulates what the crew of Artemis II might see out the Orion windows on the day of their closest approach to the Moon. It compresses 36 hours into a little more than a minute as it flies the virtual camera on a realistic trajectory that swings the spacecraft around the Moon's far side. Next year, the Artemis II astronauts could be the first humans to see some parts of the Moon’

Purely History on Instagram: "In the 1960s, women played a crucial role in the Apollo missions. The onboard guidance computers that helped land astronauts on the Moon used programs stored on woven memory known as core rope memory. Women, often called “little old ladies” in reports of the time, hand-wove wires through magnetic cores to physically encode the software. If a wire passed through a core, it represented a 1, and if it bypassed, it represented a 0. This painstaking work ensured flawless

NASA on Instagram: "What’s it like to fly through the International Space Station? In low Earth orbit, you don’t have to hold the camera in front of you — just push off and let momentum do the rest. Astronaut Matthew Dominick took this hands-off video during his mission to the @ISS in 2024, soaring from the aft end of the lab to the forward end of the station’s Node 2. As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the station, Dominick contributed to dozens of research experiments which are helping