NASA Launches Instagram Account

One small step on a social media platform is one giant leap for Instagram.

That's because NASA launched an official Instagram account on Friday — a social profile it says will "take its fans on an out-of-this-world journey through images of Earth and beyond."

According to a news release, with content including aeronautics, astrophysics, Earth science and human spaceflight, the NASA account will provide a view of the agency by sharing new and historic images and videos.

On its first day on Instagram, NASA focused on the launch of its Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE, at 11:27 p.m. from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. NASA says LADEE is a robotic research mission that will orbit the moon to gather information about the structure and composition of the lunar atmosphere and determine whether dust is being lofted into the lunar sky. Read more...