Post(s) tagged with "space"
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
Well it looks like going to the shuttle launch on November 1st is just about a lock, but I don’t know if I’ll ever get to a landing.
Source: crepusculaar
Space Shuttle Discovery Soars Over Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World
When you wish upon a star.
Source: disneyparks.disney.go.com
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