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May 5, 2011
Alan Shepard enters his capsule, then launches aboard Freedom 7, May 5, 1961

A-OK Flight

May 2, 2011
Lightning strikes near space shuttle Endeavour, April 28, 2011

Close Call

April 29, 2011
Moon and planets in the dawn sky, April 30/May 1, 2011

Dawn Encounter

April 25, 2011
Artist's concept of TW Hydra, a young star encircled by a disk of gas and dust

Messy Youngster

April 22, 2011
Artist's concept of the planetary system Kepler 11

Close Family

April 19, 2011
A view of NGC 3582, a large stellar nursery in Karina

Life and Death

April 16, 2011
The Opportunity rover crosses the Martian plains toward Endeavour crater

Crater Crawling

April 14, 2011
Image of water distribution in northern hemisphere of Mars

Watery Mars

April 12, 2011
Launches of Vostok 1, STS-1 (space shuttle Columbia)

Double Date

April 6, 2011
Streamers of dust partially obscure the "seven sisters," members of the Pleiades

Veiled Sisters

April 3, 2011
Infrared view of planetary nebula NGC 4361 in Corvus

Cotton-Candy Star

March 31, 2011
MESSENGER's first color image of Mercury, March 29, 2011

First Glimpse

March 28, 2011
Storm clouds swirl through Saturn's atmosphere in an image from Cassini

Artistic Storm

March 24, 2011
New stars and the raw materials for more stars in the stellar nursery NGC 6729

Star Maker

March 21, 2011
Earth and Moon from International Space Station

Blue Moon?

March 18, 2011
Artist's concept of Messenger orbiting Mercury

Safe Arrival

March 13, 2011
Mercury and Jupiter passing in the evening sky

Just Passing By

March 10, 2011
X-ray and radio image of galaxy M87

Close to the Monster

March 8, 2011
Irregular galaxy Henize 2-10, which appears to contain a supermassive black hole

Small But Powerful

March 5, 2011
Giotto spacecraft view of Halley's Comet, March 1986

Halley's Armada

March 2, 2011
Sky view from space shuttle Discovery, February 2011

Nice View

February 25, 2011
Space shuttle Discovery launch, February 24, 2011

Last Show

February 21, 2011
M78, a reflection nebula in Orion

Beautiful Reflection

February 17, 2011
Comet Tempel 1 as seen by the Stardust spacecraft, February 14, 2011

Close Cometary Encounter

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