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Don Pettit is a man of many talents (on Friday he'll use a robotic arm to wrangle a Dragon in space), with an insatiable curiosity. We put together a gallery of his best photos taken aboard the space station.
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"Strand of Pearls" by Rick Whitacre - absolutely beautiful!
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Very cool planet panorama of the Progress M-12M launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. By Andrew Bodrov.
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The James Webb Space Telescope got its first instrument today.
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Great article by astronaut Alan Poindexter about photography techniques in space.
Beyond Earth series of posters by Stephen Di Donato. Super cool.
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Michael Collins on Gemini 10. Air & Space mag has a neat collection of previously unpublished images from the Gemini program.
Shuttle Enterprise Flight to New York (201204270024HQ) by nasa hq photo, via Flickr
April 19, 2012. Space Shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Space shuttle Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles will now begin its new mission to educate and inspire. Photo Credit: (NASA/Smithsonian Institution/Carolyn Russo)
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A poingant moment as Discovery replaces Enterprise inside Smithsonian's hangar. Photo: Caroline Sheen.
Hungry? Grab yourself a constellation cheesecake tart!
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24 Hours of the Sun, Stars & Earth in a single image via It's Okay to be Smart
Shuttle Discovery Arrives at Udvar-Hazy by nasa hq photo, via Flickr
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Where to see flown U.S. manned spacecraft. Graphic by space.com.
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April 15, 2012 - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) NASA-905 is positioned beneath Space Shuttle Discovery in the mate-demate device at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The orbiter was mated to the modified 747 for its flight to Washington, DC on April 17, 2012. NASA Photo: KSC-2012-2218
Milky Way, over the two small towns of Gerlach and Empire, Nevada.
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Star trails from the ISS. "Due to our altitude, it is possible to see both the north and south axis of our orbit at the same time. This makes possible star trail images with two circles defined by arcs with opposite inflections."
Coming Back Down To Our Fragile Oasis (absolutely LOVE the video from this)
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A legendary scene from A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune), a 1902 French B&W silent sci-fi film that based loosely on Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon. The film was written and directed by Georges Méliès.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is my favorite astrophysicist. Everybody should have a favorite astrophysicist.
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Japanese astronaut, Satoshi Furukawa, Builds Lego Space Station While On The Space Station
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Amazing Astronomy: Victorian-Era Illustrations of the Heavens via Live Science
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I Heart Space Print from Christopher David Ryan. Sizes 6X8, 9X12, 18X24 or 30X40 inches. $24.00 for 9X12
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Feb. 20, 1962 file photo the Atlas rocket carrying the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla., piloted by Col. John Glenn Jr. - the first American to orbit the earth. Glenn orbited three times around the globe at 17,400 miles an hour. (AP Photo/NASA)
ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers onboard ISS: "I went to space...and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!"
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Cayce Utley No Pluto. :( Still in denial...