🏠 Home, home on Lagrange! We successfully completed our burn to start Webb on its orbit of the 2nd Lagrange point (L2), about a million miles (1.5 million km) from Earth. It will orbit the Sun, in line with Earth, as it orbits L2.
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This year's NASA Day of Remembrance also marks the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 1 tragedy.

Today, #NASARemembers and honors all the members of our family who lost their lives in the pursuit of exploration and discovery.

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Abandoned SpaceX Rocket Will Crash Into The Moon Within Weeks, Scientists Say

A chunk of a SpaceX rocket (the second stage) that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash into the Moon in March, experts say.

The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put into orbit a NASA satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR).

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Most COVID-19 ICU Survivors Still Experience Symptoms a Year After Admission
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Webb’s Camera Captures Its First Photons of Starlight

On February 3, 2022, astronomers saw the first photons of starlight that traveled through the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and were detected by its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument.

The detection marks the first of many steps to capture images that are at first unfocused and use them to slowly fine-tune the Webb telescope. This is the beginning of the three-month process of aligning the telescope, but so far the initial results match expectations and simulations.

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