2012-04-01
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Left: Sigourney Weaver, Alien, 1979.
Right: Anna Fisher, NASA, early 1980s.
2012-03-29
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Great Britain and Ireland by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr:
This nearly cloud-free view of Great Britain and Ireland was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite on March 26, 2012. Just a few days into spring, most of the land appears green, although not quite as brilliant as the summertime hues that give Ireland the nickname “the Emerald Island”.
London can be seen as a gray circle situated inland on the tan-colored River Thames.
Photograph: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team. Enlarged. via iamdanw. See also: British Isles under snow.
2012-03-28
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Perpetual Ocean - Gulf Stream by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr (via):
This image shows ocean surface currents around the world. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
2012-03-24
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Buzz Aldrin and Ted Freeman. (via, via)
This looks like it was taken in October 1964:
On Friday, October 30, Ted Freeman and Buzz Aldrin were engaged in a little public affairs activity for NASA, demonstrating their spacesuits and a mock-up of the Gemini spacecraft for a few members of the press.
However, Freeman would never fly a Gemini mission:
On October 31, 1964, Theodore Freeman was killed when a goose smashed through the cockpit canopy of his T-38 Talon jet trainer. Flying shards of Plexiglas entered the jet engine intake and caused the engine to flameout. Freeman ejected from the stricken aircraft, but was too close to the ground for his parachute to open properly.
Buzz Aldrin went on to be the second man on the Moon.
(via hammerandcode)
2012-03-22
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March Madness: NASA Style by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr:
Launch madness will hit the east coast in March as NASA launches five rockets in approximately five minutes to study the high-altitude jet stream.
The launch window begins March 14 and runs through April 4. ATREX launch info: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch…
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex.html
(via)
2012-03-19
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Space Suits by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives on Flickr:
Catalog #: 08_001663
Description: Garrett Corp Crew Systems EVA Branch
Format: Glossy Photo
NASA seems to have been keen on using sport to test suits. There’s video of a game of football, comparing the soft and hard suits in a competitive trial. (via)
2012-03-18
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Space Suit by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives on Flickr.
Title: Space Suit
Catalog #: 08_001678
Description: NASA
Format: Glossy Photo
Deliberately posted uncropped, because I love the NASA logotype.
2012-03-07
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What Doesn’t Stay in Vegas? Sprawl.
I did my own version of this - with far less spatial and temporal resolution - a few years ago, but this video (by NASA Goddard Photo and Video) is far better.
2012-02-20
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Friendship 7 by NASA on The Commons on Flickr:
On Feb. 20, 1962 at 9:47 am EST, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. In this image, Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule with assistance from technicians to begin his historic flight.
Ten months after Gagarin; fifty years ago today.
(Source: nasaimages.org)
2012-01-06
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A NASA mockup of the lunar module from 1964. It’s reasonably similar to the finished article.
(via hammerandcode)
