There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/03/...
At $200,000, a flight to the edge of space is cheap. That’s well within the budget for a lot of people on this planet. Not me personally (dagnappit) but I know people who can afford that. And hundreds of human beings across the world have signed up.
MattyMo
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MattyMo:
I need to sign up, by the time they get to me I'll have enough money saved up by then
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This 4:50 flyby over the surface of Mars—created by 3D artist Doug Ellison—is the most accurate to date, and the closest thing to being there than any of us would ever be. Simply spectacular.
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AndySchneider:
is it just me or are the agents from The Matrix modeled voiced after Sagan's speech cadence?
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JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi shares an image of Miami Beach Florida from the International Space Station.
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EugeneBelford:
first time i have seen something like that off-hollywood. amazing in 720p fullscreen.
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"Given the extreme age of the universe, and its vast number of stars, if planets like Earth are at all typical, then there should be many advanced extraterrestrial civilizations out there, and at least a few in our own Milky Way. Another closely related question is the Great Silence, which poses the question: Even if space travel is too difficult, if life is out there, why don't we at least detect some sign of civilization like radio transmissions?"
Was Einstein Wrong? Speed of Light May Not Be Constant
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Prepare for your mind to be blown. In 2005, a gamma-ray telescope recorded some data that suggested the idea that the speed of light might not be constant after all. When measuring light released from a galaxy 500 million light years away, the telescope found that the lower-energy photons arrived four minutes before the higher-energy photons.
In 1984, Space Shuttle Discovery successfully captured two satellites. After recovering the satellites, crewmember Dale Gardner posed for this famous picture. By now the Shuttle is also for sale, for only $28.8 million.
This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet.
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Video of a perfect launch of the Solar Dynamic Observatory, which launched on Feb. 11, 2010, at 10:23 a.m. EST, right on schedule.
Brent:
Amazing, I'm always impressed how far the cameras can actually track these things into the atmosphere.
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Guests watch from the terrace of the Operations Support Building II as space shuttle Endeavour launches from pad 39A on the STS-130 mission early Monday, Feb. 8, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
The Cupola is an ESA-built observatory module of the International Space Station (ISS). It will be used to observe experiments and dockings. It was launched aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-130 on 8 February 2010 attached to the Tranquility (Node 3) module. With the Cupola attached, ISS assembly reached 85 percent complete.
MattyMo:
ISWA is a flexible, turn-key, Web-based dissemination system for NASA-relevant space weather information that combines forecasts based on the most advanced space weather models with concurrent space environment information. iSWA is customer-configurable and adaptable for use as a powerful decision-making tool. The system offers an unprecedented ability to analyze the present and expected future space weather impacts on NASA’s human and robotic missions
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