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- 1NASA's Picture of the Day site down over certificate error▼The "Picture of the Day" site hosted by # NASA isn't working right now because its TLS certificate is for go-vip\.co ins
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day website is currently inaccessible to visitors because its TLS certificate is issued for go-vip.co rather than nasa.gov or apod.nasa.gov, triggering browser security warnings. go-vip.co redirects to WordPress VIP, suggesting the agency's hosting provider generated the site certificate incorrectly. Users are sharing the error online as they try to view the popular daily image page.
- 2NASA's APOD site serves a certificate dated in the future●`openssl s_client -4 -connect apod.nasa.gov:443` Nice cert you got there, NASA :-) ``` Certificate chain 0 s:CN=go-vip.c
A system administrator ran a TLS check against apod.nasa.gov and found the site's certificate chain shows a validity window starting in late 2026, issued via Let's Encrypt. The odd future-dated dates have drawn amused attention from tech observers, who note that such entries usually point to certificate misconfiguration or overlapping issuer logs rather than anything nefarious. NASA has not commented on the quirk.