Post(s) tagged with "nasa"
NASA’s 64-megapixel photo of Earth | The Verge
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’” - Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.
Source: theverge.com
Arizona State University in cooperation with NASA has released a treasure trove of photos from the Mercury and Gemini missions. If you need me, I’ll be looking through these photos for a while.
Source: tothemoon.ser.asu.edu
The Sagan Series - End of an Era: The Final Shuttle Launch
So you probably saw part one of this video series, cutting together narration by the great Carl Sagan with some astounding visuals, but Reid Gower put together 5 more after that, and they’re all great. This is the final one in the series for now, and it’s a great reminder of why we need to reach for the stars.
Source: youtube.com
- Chronology of Wakeup Calls, a constantly updated document of wakeup music played for all NASA missions to date, manned or unmanned. Yes, the Mars rovers all got their own wakeup music.
Discovery sits on launch pad 39A, November 3rd, 2010
Well, I don’t get to be there to see it first hand, but tomorrow afternoon, if everything goes according to plan, the Space Shuttle Discovery will launch for the final time.
Follow along with the mission status over at Spaceflightnow and see if you can tune in tomorrow at 13:50 PST for the launch, online at NASA TV (iPhone/iPad link) or on HDNet if you get that.
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