NASA and Space Florida Begin Partnership Discussions

NASA has selected Space Florida, the aerospace economic development agency for the state of Florida, for negotiations toward a partnership agreement to maintain and operate the historic Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF).

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Earth from Space

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Check out one of the first images from Proba-V over the border region of northern Syria, southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq in the seventy-first edition. 

See also ... to download the image.

• www-adm.esa.int/
• www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Earth_from_Space_Probing_Mesopotamia

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Aircraft Carrying IRIS Solar Observatory Takes Off

An Orbital Sciences L-1011 carrier aircraft takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on a mission to launch NASA's IRIS spacecraft into low-Earth orbit.