With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.
Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.
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This is the sun. It’s a star. These types of stellar events are happening throughout the cosmos amongst many stars.
Think about this the next time you complain that “the sun is in your eyes” or, “it’s so hot”, or simply when you step outside, photons from this star encounter your face and you feel the warmth of this star’s energy immerse your fragile, human frame.
This is
scienceastronomyheliophysicsastrophysicsscientificliteracySPACE.Stay curious.
Everything is wonderful. Everything is a miracle.
People ask to see stars - my camera does its best in dim light. Our atmosphere glows in the dark.
The Nile and the Sinai, to Israel and beyond. One sweeping glance of human history.
This world is amazing.
Endeavour Space Shuttle | California Science Center
Can’t wait to check this out when Walter is in town!
“When I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.” - Neil DeGrasse Tyson [x]
The Family that Went to the Moon
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Well, the family photo, anyway.
On April 23, 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts Charlie Duke and John Young embarked on the third and final EVA of the mission, exploring the Descartes Highlands via Lunar Roving Vehicle. During the EVA, before setting up a Solar Wind Collector, Duke placed a small family photo he had brought along onto the lunar surface and snapped a few photos of it with his Hasselblad film camera. This is one of the photos.
The portrait shows Charlie, his wife Dorothy, and their two sons Charles and Thomas. It looks like they are sitting on a bench in the summertime.
The family photo, gingerly wrapped in clear plastic and slightly crumpled from being stashed in the pocket of a space suit, was left on the Moon. It presumably still sits there today, just inches away from Charlie’s boot print — which, presumably, is also there.
(via universetoday)
I love this.
