Please note that this is from a thesis project called OMG Space, possibly the best-named thesis project ever.
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Please note that this is from a thesis project called OMG Space, possibly the best-named thesis project ever.
Throw-Away Photographs Shot During Neil Armstrong’s Visit to the Moon.
“Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin snapped a total of 122 70mm color photographs using modified Hasselblad 500EL cameras during their short visit on July 21, 1969. However, not all of them were pretty.
American Photo magazine writes that the photographic record left by those two men shows a very human picture of that first landing. Some of the “dud” photos show accidental shutter preses, focusing errors, lens flare, and even photobombed landscape shots.” [x]
You can find the entire collection of 122 photographs on this NASA website, listed in chronological order.
Double Rainbows in Space (What Does It Mean?)
“The two rainbows in this picture taken by an instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite are not actually rainbows at all but a phenomenon known as a glory. Glories and rainbows appear rather sumilar, but rainbows are formed by refraction and reflection, whereas glories are the result of backward diffraction. Glories tend to be circular rings of color, commonly seen from airplanes passing over thin clouds with droplets between 10 and 30 microns in diameter. The glory in this picture, taken on June 20th, doesn’t have a circular appearance because of the way the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) took the picture, scanning the Earth in strips perpendicular to the satellite’s path. Also visible in the image is the Pacific island of Guadalupe and swirling cloud eddies known as von Karman vortices.”
NASA Beams Mona Lisa to the Moon Because Lasers
Using a new kind of laser communication device, NASA transmitted an image of the Mona Lisa to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a 240,000 mile broadcast. Communicating from Earth across great distances in space can difficult because of signal loss and distortion by the atmosphere. Radio waves work pretty well, but lasers can serve as a backup and possibly carry even more information than previous methods. It isn’t faster, because the speed of light is the speed of light, but it has potential to be more useful.
Can you imagine a deep space network of space laser broadband? It’s like Star Trek!
Ever wondered what the inside of a working space shuttle looks like? Here’s a fisheye photo tour of space shuttle Atlantis, powered on for one last time before it’s moved to a museum.
Gallery: Last Look Inside Space Shuttle Atlantis
via boingboing
Neat-o!
But I have to say, this post of mine detailing the 360-degree cockpit experience of the shuttle Discovery from last week beats the HELL out of this one.
Why? SO MANY MORE BUTTONS. MUST PUSH THEM ALL.
Meteorite-infused steak sauce? Astronaut’s dinner menu brings space to the table, literally
Former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz has helped to create space-inspired dishes for the Four Seasons Resort in Costa Rica.
A few Major Telescopes
From left to right:
- James Webb Space Telescope (2018 launch)
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Kepler Space Telescope
- XMM Newton
- NASA Spitzer Space Telescope
At work in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station
NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 flight engineer, performs in-flight maintenance on combustion research hardware in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station in this image taken on Dec. 30, 2013. Hopkins replaced a Multi-user Droplet Combustion Apparatus (MDCA) fuel reservoir inside the Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR). The Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR) includes an optics bench, combustion chamber, fuel and oxidizer control, and five different cameras for performing combustion experiments in microgravity.
Image credit: NASA
Happy birthday to Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, seen here in his pre-flight days training for his mission to the Moon in July 1969. Aldrin was born on January 20, 1930, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. (NASA)
