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Fifty years ago on Nov. 14, 1969, Apollo 12 launched at 11:22 a.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on a mission to land on the Moon’s Ocean of Storms. When the Earth moved directly between the Sun and the Apollo 12 spacecraft on the journey home from the Moon, the crew captured this image of a solar eclipse a 16mm motion picture camera. Aboard the craft were Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad; command module pilot Richard F. Gordon Jr. and lunar module pilot Alan Bean. While Conrad and Bean descended in the Lunar Module “Intrepid” to explore the Ocean of Storms, Gordon remained with the command and service modules “Yankee Clipper” in lunar orbit. Image Credit: NASA 50年前的1969年11月14日，美国东部时间上午11点22分，阿波罗12号从位于肯尼迪航天中心的39A号发射中心发射升空，执行登陆月球风暴海洋的任务。 在从月球返回地球的途中，地球在太阳和阿波罗12号宇宙飞船之间移动，宇航员们用16mm的摄像机拍摄了这张日食的照片。这艘船的船长是Charles “Pete” Conrad；指挥舱飞行员Richard…

Powtawche Valerino is a guidance engineer who works for Aerodyne Industries at the NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, supporting the agency’s Space Launch System program. She has worked at four different NASA facilities as an intern and as a full-time employee or contractor at Stennis Space Center, Johnson Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Without a doubt,” she says, “each NASA center’s unique mission, personality, heritage, and expertise makes working for NASA profoundly rewarding.” View the Native American Heritage Month Gallery. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth Image Credit: courtesy of Powtawche Valerino Powtawche Valerino是一位指导工程师，在NASA马歇尔太空飞行中心的Aerodyne工业公司工作，为该机构的太空发射系统计划提供支持。 她曾在四个不同的NASA设施担任实习生，并在Stennis航天中心，Johnson航天中心，Marshall航天飞行中心和喷气推进实验室担任全职员工或承包商。 她说：“毫无疑问，每个NASA中心的独特使命，个性，传承和专业知识使为NASA工作深有收获。” 查看美国原住民遗产月画廊。 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth 图片来源：Powtawche Valerino提供

A student from Sinte Gleska University, an accredited tribal university on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, works to build a model rover for a NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) rover competition at the 2018 American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Student Conference. View the Native American Heritage Month gallery. Ten Ways to Celebrate National STEM Day with NASA #NationalSTEMDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth Image Credit: NASA/Caroline Montgomery 在2018年美国印第安人高等教育联盟(AIHEC)学生大会上，一名来自罗斯巴德苏族保留地部落大学Sinte Gleska大学的学生正在为美国宇航局社区学院航空航天学者(NCAS)的漫游车竞赛制作模型漫游车。 查看印第安人遗产月画廊。 与NASA一起庆祝全国STEM日的十种方式 # NationalSTEMDay # NativeAmericanHeritageMonth 图片来源:NASA/Caroline Montgomery

This week in 1967, the Apollo 4 mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The mission marked the first launch of the Saturn V rocket. Mission objectives included testing of structural integrity, compatibility of rocket and spacecraft, heat shield and thermal seal integrity, overall reentry operations, launch loads and dynamic characteristics, stage separation, rocket subsystems, the emergency detection system and mission support facilities and operations. All mission objectives were achieved. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center designed, developed and managed the production of the Saturn family of rockets that took astronauts to the Moon. Today, Marshall is developing NASA’s Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket ever built, capable of sending astronauts to the Moon, Mars and deeper into space than ever before. The NASA History…