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Day 9 of 11 Days of Apollo 11

July 24, 1969: Apollo 11 returns to Earth after successfully landing men on the moon for the first time

Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 210 nautical miles south of Johnston Atoll at 5:50 AM local time. The crew and spacecraft were recovered by the USS Hornet aircraft carrier and quarantined for 21 days in the mobile quarantine facility. Pictured is President Richard Nixon speaking with the astronauts in the MQF onboard Hornet's deck.

(Episode 4.1: Herrenvolk)

Time to start season 4! Let’s do this. This season has a rough start for Mulder. Bless his poor heart.

He‘s on a mission to save his mom and find his sister. But this is proving even more complicated than he thought.

His sister has been cloned. Repeatedly. Again.

You know your life’s going great when you have to douse yourself in gasoline and that’s not even the craziest part of your day.

He’s a broken man by the end. Breaks my heart.

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Return from Space Station 

Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev.

The crew made its safe, parachute-assisted landing at 5:27 a.m. CDT (3:27 p.m., Kazakhstan time), southeast of Dzhezkazgan, after departing the space station at 2:03 a.m., aboard the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft.

The crew was in space for 241 days, orbiting the Earth 3,856 times and traveling more than 102 million miles. They launched to the International Space Station on Nov. 27, 2025. The mission was the first for Williams and Mikaev and the second for Kud-Sverchkov.

While aboard the orbiting laboratory, Williams supported a wide range of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations. He helped advance research for new cancer treatments and improved in-space manufacturing of materials used in high-performance computers and electronics. Williams also completed two spacewalks to prep for space station power system upgrades and to replace a faulty joint on the Canadarm2 robotic arm. The crew’s work aboard the space station helps improve life on Earth and prepare for future human missions to the Moon and Mars.

Following post-landing medical checks, the crew members will fly by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan, where recovery teams are based. Williams then will board a NASA aircraft bound for the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

For more than 25 years, people have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. The space station helps NASA understand and overcome the challenges of human spaceflight, expand commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit, and build on the foundation for long-duration missions to the Moon, as part of the Artemis program, and to Mars.

Catacombs of Paris

Careful! You are being watched 😀😉

Always beautiful Helix Nebula! 😍

NASA releases insane new image of Helix Nebula.

700 light-years away from us.

Its the closest nebula to Earth.

Constantly watching us.