Clik here to view.
atlantis
Quite vividly do I remember when I sat in my parents’ living room on 12 April 1981, watching the launch of ‘Columbia’ on television. The ↑first flight of a ↑Space Shuttle into orbit. During the years...
View ArticleClik here to view.
sphere from above
what goes up must come down Do you remember ‘↑The Gods Must Be Crazy‘ (Uys 1980)? That old comedy movie telling the story of Xi, a Kalahari bushman, who undertakes an epic journey to bring an artefact...
View ArticleClik here to view.
riding rockets
Tom Wolfe’s book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7...
View Articlelegonaut
Two 17-year-olds from Canada attached a LEGO minifigure to a helium-filled weather ballon and had it soar up 24 km, which is right in the middle of the stratosphere. During the journey upwards the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
astronaut mike mullane
He promised it ↵in a comment here, and made it true: The podcast ↑JetHead live with astronaut Mike Mullane is online. ↑Mike Mullane is a former NASA astronaut and author of the book ↑Riding rockets:...
View Article360° curiosity panorama
Mars Panorama – Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2 in New Mexico Click it, then hit fullscreen and enjoy the martian landscape in its full glory. via ↑entry at ↑kueperpunk share this post
View ArticleClik here to view.
rip neil armstrong
Neil Armstrong just went far, far away. Farther away than he appears reflected in Buzz Aldrin’s vizor above, and even farther away than where he took the picture—Neil Armstrong was the very first...
View ArticleClik here to view.
space aircraft carriers
Conceptual art for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s airborne aircraft carrier, the ‘↑Helicarrier,’ as seen in ‘↑The Avengers‘ (Whedon 2012). ↑Christopher Weuve, among other things a naval analyst and science fiction...
View Articlenasa johnson style
NASA Johnson Style is a volunteer outreach video project ↑created by the students of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. It was created as an educational parody of ↑Psy’s Gangnam Style. The lyrics and scenes...
View Articlehadfield and shatner
↑Chris Hadfield, currently on board of the ↑ISS (in mid-March he will take over command of the space station), having a chat with ↑William Shatner (on 07 February 2013). share this post
View ArticleClik here to view.
live iss stream
Live video from the International Space Station includes internal views when the crew is on-duty and Earth views at other times. The video is accompanied by audio of conversations between the crew and...
View Article
