Post(s) tagged with "space"
It’s bittersweet, really. The final flights of the shuttles are not upwards, with four million pounds of force lifting them skywards, but rather strapped to the back of what is little more than a commercial airplane.
The hollowed out carcass of the mighty machine takes one last, slow flight to its final resting place. A monument to all the program accomplished, certainly, but its days of adventure and exploration are over.
Source: twitter.com
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission began mapping the sky in 2010, but after collecting more than 15 trillion bytes of data it took more than a little time to process the information. That task complete, NASA has now released a new atlas and catalog covering the more than half a billion celestial objects mapped by the project — some of which were captured for the very first time.
More on NASA’s new WISE mission atlas reveals the entire sky in infrared
Source: theverge.com
There are 67 moons in our solar system on which a 90 mph fastball could escape the gravitational field.
Source: wolframalpha
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
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