2013-04-25
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Two images from Dennis Crompton / Ephemera at the Archigram Archive.
2013-03-15
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Apollo X branded “Snoopy” astronaut dolls, 1969 (via thingsmagazine)
2012-12-31
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![Astronaut Takes Amazing Self Portrait in Space, (via meatrobot):
[Taken by] Aki Hoshide, [this] self portrait brings into one frame “the Sun, the Earth, two portions of a robotic arm, an astronaut’s spacesuit, the deep darkness of space, and the unusual camera taking the picture.”
As seen on Astronomy Picture Of The Day. Oddly, what grabbed me was the sensor flare around the sun in the top left.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e2ad58794749754e0272dbf1d73d64dd/tumblr_mfw55se31d1qz66rro1_500.jpg)
Astronaut Takes Amazing Self Portrait in Space, (via meatrobot):
[Taken by] Aki Hoshide, [this] self portrait brings into one frame “the Sun, the Earth, two portions of a robotic arm, an astronaut’s spacesuit, the deep darkness of space, and the unusual camera taking the picture.”
As seen on Astronomy Picture Of The Day. Oddly, what grabbed me was the sensor flare around the sun in the top left.
2012-12-07
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Supercut: Helmet Oddity, by Keith Melton:
A tribute to all space helmets in cinema. Edited by Keith Melton.
Music: Ground Control to Eleanor Rigby-Mash up by ‘Daft Beatles’
There’s a list of sources both at the end of the video and on the YouTube page. Previously.
2012-11-26
The Final Four - Update
Back in March, I posted this:
To make it easier for people to help find the four images I can’t identify from Eric Ulrich’s Thirty Five Images Of Space Helmet Reflections, I’ve posted the cut up images that I made to paste into visual search engines.
Update: it looks like #2 and #4 are from Battlestar Galactica, but I still don’t have an image link for either. Anyone?
Well, I’m now more convinced than ever that the #2 and #4 are from the remake of Battlestar Galactica, and at some point I’ll scan through the episodes and try to find them. I suspect that #4 is from the very end of the third series, but I can’t figure out if the first is also Kara Thrace- it might instead be one of the rookie pilots that were introduced in the second series. Thoughts?
#3 also got identified by someone who posted a mention on Twitter, but I didn’t make a good enough note at the time. (Sorry!) It’s a picture by Francois on Flickr: I know. I try to be in Sci-fi movies.
That just leaves #1, which Google Images now finds- pointing back to this site. Ah well. As usual, if you have any ideas, would you mind letting me know?
(via blech-dev)
2012-10-18
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![thingsmagazine (via letsdolaunch, adactio, and radar):
Helmet
Originally by Eric Ulrich, I annotated all but four of the source images back in March.]
Instead of listing the sources again, here’s some statistics.
Films: 21 (60%)
7: 2001
2: Alien, Moon Solaris (2002)
1: Apollo 13, The Astronaut Farmer, Barbarella, Cargo, The Right Stuff, Space Camp, Space Cowboy, Up in the Air
People: 3; Anna Fisher (US astronaut), Hubert Vykukal (spacesuit designer), Richard Branson (entrepreneur)
TV: 3; Battlestar Galactica (2), Space Odyssey
Music: 2; Radiohead (No Surprises video), Sbtrkt (Atomic Peace cover)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc09vhdgPO1qzk7t0o1_500.jpg)
thingsmagazine (via letsdolaunch, adactio, and radar):
Helmet
Originally by Eric Ulrich, I annotated all but four of the source images back in March.]
Instead of listing the sources again, here’s some statistics.
Films: 21 (60%)
- 7: 2001
- 2: Alien, Moon Solaris (2002)
- 1: Apollo 13, The Astronaut Farmer, Barbarella, Cargo, The Right Stuff, Space Camp, Space Cowboy, Up in the Air
People: 3; Anna Fisher (US astronaut), Hubert Vykukal (spacesuit designer), Richard Branson (entrepreneur)
TV: 3; Battlestar Galactica (2), Space Odyssey
Music: 2; Radiohead (No Surprises video), Sbtrkt (Atomic Peace cover)
2012-09-27
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A pre-flight CT scan of a NASA A7L spacesuit, the type of suit worn during the Apollo missions.
2012-09-25
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2012-04-21
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The suit for A-12 and SR-71 pilots. From the CIA’s Breaking Through Technology page:
Two Lockheed subcontractors, the David Clark Company and the Firewel Corporation, developed a full-pressure suit and oxygen supply system based on ones created for pilots of the X-15 rocket aircraft. The aluminized suit and breathing apparatus would protect the pilot from heat radiated from the 400 degree F. windshield and the effects of depressurization and extreme cold encountered during a high-altitude bail-out. The S‑901 suits were custom-made and cost $30,000 in the mid-1960s.
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Looking more like astronauts than aircraft pilots, members of a fully-suited NASA research flight crew is seen here alongside an SR-71 aircraft. Two SR-71A’s were initially loaned to NASA from the Air Force for high-speed, high-altitude aeronautical research. The SR-71As plus an SR-71B pilot trainer aircraft were based at NASA’s Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later, Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California.
(via letsdolaunch, iamdanw)
