2012-10-15
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The Sunday Times Magazine cover, 3rd July 2011, a winner of the D&AD Cover Award (as seen at coverjunkie.com, via Tom Coates). The photo-montage is a reference to half of Fiona Banner’s wonderful Harrier and Jaguar, displayed as part of Tate Britain’s Duveen Commission in 2010.
I know there’s a whole series of photos of the Space Shuttle moving its way through Los Angeles that I could post here, but there’s something depressing about a spacecraft - flawed, yes, but still powerful and occasionally even graceful - dragged down to the level of crawling through suburban streets, like just another child being driven to the museum by its parents.
I’d rather wait until Endeavour is unveiled in place, since unlike Atlantis, Discovery, and Enterprise, it’ll be mounted as a full launch stack, vertical and poised: the opposite of the image above.
2012-09-25
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Endeavour Offload at LAX (201209220006HQ) by nasa hq photo on Flickr.
There’s a reason this picture has 77 favourites and nearly 4,000 views. Photograph: NASA/ Bill Ingalls.
2011-06-08
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Space Station Over Earth by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on Flickr.
The pictures are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the International Space Station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Image credit: NASA.
