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Still image from: The Space Gal: Interview With Astronaut Peggy Whitson

Still image from: The Space Gal: Retrograde Motion

Still image from: The Space Gal: Solar Flare

Blurry image of glowing orange dots. Caption: Five million tons of hydrogen fuse into helium every second.

Planets with smiley faces and accessories circle around a sun wearing sunglasses in outer space. Text reads, "The Sun Is Kind of a Big Deal."

A brightly colored galaxy. Caption: In the middle of this huge whirlpool,

Six planets orbiting around the sun. Caption: (narrator) It is gravity that holds our solar system together.

Illustration of Jupiter's radiation. Caption: Its electromagnetic radiation is intense.

Image of the sun from above Earth. Caption: And the clock is ticking toward magnetic apocalypse.

Illustration of Mars in space. Caption: (narrator) How could life have first formed on Mars?

Earth and Mars passing each other in space. Caption: Mars and the Earth had been passing each other

Meteor on fire traveling downwards. Caption: Venus has been hit hard with meteors…

View of Saturn in space. Caption: "Saturn: Lord of the Rings."

Bubbling hot plasma. Caption: superheated into a plasma that burns at millions of degrees.

Two red orange planets in space. Caption: coalesced to shape our moon.

Close up view of Neptune in space. Caption: What happened to Neptune's great dark spot?

Galaxy filled with swirling stars. Caption: is that it both was and wasn't there.

A child wearing a harness next to a woman. Caption: here at the Kennedy Space Center.

Small patch of dirt showing through haze. Caption: TITAN'S DENSE HAZE BEGAN TO CLEAR ABOUT 45 MILES (70 KILOMETERS) ABOVE THE SURFACE

A photo of the surface of the Moon.

Illustration image of a satellite. Caption: Juno is an unmanned deep-space mission

Closeup of a skeleton of a Dilophosaurus on display at an exhibit, showing the characteristic fin on the top of its head. Caption. And some of its former very large nonhuman inhabitants.

Complex of buildings and roads. Caption: (narrator) Stretching 72 miles down Florida's east coast,

Illustration of an alien standing in a beam of light. Caption: of alleged alien abductees.

Old photograph of a space shuttle launching. Caption: It also fueled new interest in alien life.

Illustration of Earth with a spaceship in front of it. Caption: (narrator) If alien starships really are shooting across the cosmos,

A view of the earth from space. One vertical half of the earth is in darkness. Caption: The whole planet is made of bits of exploding stars.

White background with faint gray grid lines with a physics equation breaking down P, E sub G or Pressure times Gravitational Potential Energy.

Pointy hill with traces of snow appears in front of a lake and other snowy hills in the distance. Green Northern Lights are visible in night sky over the distant hills.

White background with gray grid lines with a molecule diagram on it. Text underneath the diagram reads, "Amino acid."

Computer graphic of a sphere superimposed with an infrared heat signature on a black background. Most of the globe is bright green with the middle in dark blue and purple and small red spot with yellow shooting out toward the bottom center.

Detailed photograph of the moon. Caption: In 1959 the Survey compiled a photogeologic map of the moon

A diagram comapres the color data from the planet Earth. Red and Blue lights are shown as reflected lights.

Slit screen of a person in a virtual reality suit and the computer representation of her body. Caption: It actually recognizes my skeleton based on these different markers.

Light shines on the top of the Earth as the rest fades into the darkness around it. Text reads, "Voyager. Images from the Odyssey."

An illustration of a planet.

Illustration of a solar system with planets on similar orbits except for one that is travelling on a skewed, debris filled elliptic. Caption: A dwarf planet could have a bumpy ride as it travels.

A satellite image of a planet surface. One of the four craters is labeled, Kandinsky.

Illustration of the Earth in space. Caption: As Earth orbits the Sun, it spins on its axis.

Illustration of the planets in our solar system. Caption: Mars is more like Earth than any other planet.

Illustration of the Sun and planets in our solar system. Caption: The Sun is the closest star to planet Earth.

Still image from: Who Was Galileo Galilei?

Man teaching at a table. Caption: The Sun and Jupiter have a lot in common.

Satellite orbiting around Jupiter. Caption: And that will help us figure out what's inside.

Planet Jupiter being shown next to Earth. Caption: Jupiter is bigger than all of the other planets combined.

Diagram showing the different orbits of planets. Caption: And today, it’s falling back toward the Earth,

Satellite in close proximity to Jupiter. Caption: to steer Juno precisely on course.

Satellite orbiting around a planet. Caption: The Juno spacecraft is powered by light from the sun.

Picture of Jupiter with muscular arms. Caption: Jupiter has a very strong magnetic field--

A ball between two bands. Caption: As the bands move, the Great Red Ball stays still.

Slide with black and white block letters reads the headline, “The Case of the Missing Day.”

Cartoon monkey in an astronaut suit floats next to a satellite in space as stars twinkle around him.

Woman wearing dark sunglasses. Caption: Never be afraid to pursue your dreams,

Woman speaking. Caption: My name is CJ Bixby, I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I'm Donna Lawson, the legislative affairs officer

Woman sitting in a chair. Caption: and I work at Johnson Space Center.

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I'd love to see red footprints on Mars.

Woman speaking. Caption: I told my folks, "I'm going to be an engineer.

Woman speaking. Caption: I grew up on the Space Coast watching Space Shuttle launches

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: My first day at NASA was quite interesting

Woman speaking. Caption: I am Loria West, I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I'm proud to be part of the NASA team, the Orion team.

Woman speaking. Caption: and I work for the Launch Services Program.

Woman speaking. Caption: I'm in the Game Changing Development Program Office

Woman speaking. Caption: and from then on, I wanted to work for NASA.

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: My name is Misty Davies,

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I'm an attorney at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Woman speaking. Caption: I'm Tarrie Hood, I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: My name is Toni Mumford, I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA headquarters, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: The first thing that came to mind was, "I'll work at NASA."

Person against a backdrop of the moon, earth, and an American flag. Caption: (female narrator) Alan Shephard, the first American in space,

Person in a space suit with the helmet removed, the moon in the background. Caption: Neil Alden Armstrong commanded a mission to the moon

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Earth's Views

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Water

Three people in space suits walk through the red desert of a Mars simulation. Each carries a large box on their backs, labeled with a distinct number.

In a grassy field, we see rows of solar panels angled toward the sun.

Against a backdrop of twinkling stars in a black night sky, we see text that reads, “Life 2.0, ‘Homo Spaciens.’”

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: 20 Greatest Moments in Space

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: 2011--A Year of Space Odyssey

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: A Satellite's Eye View

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: A Space Station for All

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Artemis

Astronomy photo. Close-up of a three-quarters moon is illuminated against the night sky, displaying details of dark spots and craters.

Human-made satellite floats toward us in a dark space.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Building Rockets

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Canadian Space Agency

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Citizen Science

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Deep Space Exploration / Risk and Rewards

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Engineering in Space

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Exoplanets

Man wearing a headset holds up a tablet and steers with a joystick as he looks out the window of a simulation.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Extreme Solar System

Three people wearing space suits crouch together in a red and rocky Mars-like landscape.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Fun With the Sun

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Future of Space Exploration

Two people operate a surgical robot in a space simulation.

From below a shuttle, we see a crew of workers in construction uniforms and helmets working.

Aerial view of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Louisiana.

From historical footage, we see a close-up of an astronaut in a spacesuit on the Apollo 11.

Star cloud twinkles in outer space.

Close-up shot of the NASA Insight Mars Lander space shuttle under on it’s launch pad.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Landing on Mars

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Legends of Apollo

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Lost in Space

Digital rendering of the light from a star shining past the edge of a planet encircled with rings.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Moon vs. Mars

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: NASA Spinoffs

Digital rendering of a Mars rover cruising over a red, rocky landscape with dusty mountains in the background.

Illuminated crust of an unnamed planet; it is tan in color and appears dry and cracked.

Space shuttle prepares for flight on its launch pad against a partly cloudy sky.

Animated rendering of our solar system displays the sun at the center with all nine planets and their orbits illustrated by gold rings.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Solving Mars

Close-up shot of the top of a space shuttle under construction.

In an artist’s studio, we see several easels holding paintings featuring astronauts in various space scenes.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Space Bots

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Space Camp

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Space Disasters

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Space Disruptors

Solar flares leap off the sun's surface, blazing against the black of space.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Space Firsts

Woman and her guide dog move toward us crossing the street at a crosswalk.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Space Junk

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Space Myths

In the background, we see Jupiter with its broad, colorful stripes. In the foreground are two moons, one large and one very small.

Space shuttle blasts off from its launch pad with a bright blast as plumes of smoke billow in its wake.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Space Shuttle Legacy

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Space--The Amusement Park

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Spectacular Space Views

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Stories From Space

Colorful spires of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, reach up towards a blue sky as people mill around the square below.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Surviving in Deep Space

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Surviving Space

Black and white footage of an astronaut working with a rover on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Teaming Up With NASA

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: The Art of Space

We look up towards a large sign that features a UFO and three cows. It reads, “Welcome to Roswell.”

Man sits at a desk reviewing a document in front of seven differently colored vials of liquid, labeled one through seven.

Orange flames leap off the bubbling surface of the sun.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: What Makes a Planet?

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Who Owns Space?

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Why We Explore