Post(s) tagged with "space"
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
From The Earth to the Moon - Chapter 5 - Spider
Probably my favourite episode of the series. The (condensed) story of how Grumman Aerospace designed and built the Lunar Module (It’ll always be the LEM to me) in just seven short years. From zero to functional lander. That’s the picture of American engineering and ingenuity during the space race.
This composition in stardust covers almost 2 degrees on the sky, close to the border of the zodiacal constellation Aries and the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. At the lower right of the gorgeous skyscape is a dusty blue reflection nebula surrounding a bright star cataloged as van den Bergh 13 (vdB 13), about 1,000 light-years away. At that estimated distance, the cosmic canvas is over 30 light-years across. Also surrounded by scattered blue starlight, vdB 16 lies toward the upper left, while dark dusty nebulae sprawl across the scene. Near the edge of a large molecular cloud, they can hide newly formed stars and young stellar objects or protostars from prying optical telescopes. Collapsing due to self-gravity, the protostars form around dense cores embedded in the molecular cloud.
Source: apod.nasa.gov
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