The Latest NASA Launches Instagram Account One little step on a social newspapers platform is one giant leap for Instagram. That's because NASA launched an authorized Instagram account on Friday — a communal profile it says will "take its followers on an out-of-this-world excursion through images of soil and beyond." According to a report issue, with content including aeronautics, astrophysics, soil science and human spaceflight, the NASA account will provide a outlook of the bureau by distributing new and historic images and videos. On its first day on Instagram, NASA concentrated on the launch of its Lunar Atmosphere and dirt Environment Explorer, or LADEE, at 11:27 p.m. from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops isle, Va. NASA states LADEE is a robotic research objective that will orbit the moon to gather data about the structure and composition of the lunar air and determine whether dust is being lofted into the lunar atmosphere. By 11:30 p.m. ET on Friday, N...