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Chris Hadfield's 30 Best Photos From Space
Incredible shots tweeted by the rock-star astronaut from the International Space Station
A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.
Watch the ISS spacewalk live for some respite from the manhunt madness
This morning’s manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers has left many of us glued to our screens. If you find yourself in need of a little mental/emotional/psychological vacation from it all, here’s a live feed of this morning’s spacewalk outside the ISS.
An Astronaut Recorded Music in Space, and the ISS Sounds Like a Plane
A couple days ago Canadian astronaut–and killer mustache wearer–Colonel Chris Hadfield posted a song he’d recorded aboard the International Space Station on Reddit.
Knate Myers made this awesome HD video using still images of Earth captured from the ISS.
On march 7, Dutch astronaut André Kupiers took this picture from the ISS, showing the 50 kilometers wide rock formation called Eye of Africa. The structure sits in Mauritania, at the Sahara desert, and can only be seen from space.
Source: NASA, ESA.
ISS could be used for satellite assembly until 2028
The service life of the International Space Station (ISS) may be extended until 2028, a Russian space official said on Tuesday. The service life of the ISS ends in 2015 but participants of the project – Canada, the European Union, Japan, Russia and the United States – have recently agreed to extend its operation until at least 2020. “At present, experts have been instructed to find ways to extend the station’s service life until 2028,” Alexei Krasnov, the head of Roscosmos manned spaceflight programs, told the participants of the Space Forum 2011. The orbital station could be used as an assembly line and a launch pad for experimental spacecraft, including small satellites, he said. “These are going to be small-size satellites, but we will be able to launch them from the ISS to a variety of orbits,” Krasnov said. NASA earlier called the ISS “an anchor for the future of human space exploration” and a major component of the U.S. human space program.
Space junk almost crashes into ISS
The Russian Mission Control has carried out an emergency adjustment of the International Space Station’s orbit to avoid its possible collision with a piece of an old Russian launch vehicle.
The orbit was raised by 4.7 kilometers to approximately 387.1 km on Thursday, and the ISS is now nine kilometers above the 10-cm fragment of the Tsiklone-3 carrier rocket launched in 1991.
“The crew continues to carry out its mission on board the orbital station in line with the program,” a Mission Control official said.
The adjustment cancels the routine one that has been scheduled for October 6, the official added.
The current ISS crew comprises NASA astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.
Source: Roscosmos Facebook page.
From the YouTube user:
“A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy. Raw data was downloaded from;
The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth
”http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.htm ”.
Virtualdub was used to create the final movie.
You can see more beautiful images of our universe at my blog;
http://infinity-imagined.tumblr.com/”
The International Space Station (kinda sorta) landed at Rice Stadium in Houston yesterday
The astronauts aboard the International Space Station said Tuesday that ground controllers are figuring out how best to leave the vast complex running — what lights to leave on, which vents to keep open — in case it needs to be temporarily abandoned.
A Russian rocket carrying space station supplies failed during liftoff two weeks ago and crashed into Siberia. It’s the same type of rocket used to launch people to the station. Until Russian engineers can figure out what went wrong, all Soyuz launches are on hold.
Astronauts have been living aboard the station, without interruption, for almost 11 years.
The ISS crew can clearly see the border between India and Pakistan. Special surveillance lightning make the division between both countries look orange from space.
Source: NASA/Reuters
“ISS, you are looking good this morning”, said Robonaut this morning on his Facebook profile via iPhone.
WITHOUTER SPACE The space shuttle Endeavour is shown docked with the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, in this photo by NASA astronaut Paolo Nespoli. With recent problems plaguing the Russian space program — namely, two of their most recent rocket launches
explodingfailing after launch — the $100 billion ISS, which can be operated remotely — may soon have to go without a crew for the time being. (Photo: Nespoli / NASA via NPR)
