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A Historic Observatory’s Connection to the Space Station
Ladd Observatory in Providence, RI, seen today and after its opening in 1891 (Brown University) It’s a wonderful thing for children to look up to their fathers, but some kids have to look a little...
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No, this isn’t a shot from the film “Gravity” (but it could be)
Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing I can do… I could say “how have I never heard of this!?” but the truth is I wasn’t blogging about space in February 2006 when this image was taken. Still, it’s...
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Happy Birthday, ISS!
It’s been 15 years since the first piece of what we now know as the International Space Station left the surface of our planet. It was Russia’s Zarya module, launched aboard a Proton rocket on Nov....
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Now You Can Watch Beautiful Live Video of Earth From Space
Video screen capture from one of the four HDEV cameras mounted on the ISS on May 7, 2014 (NASA) This is something really special, and everyone should know about it, and so I’m doing my part and sharing...
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This Is The First Photo Ever Taken of Earth From Space
This is the first photo of Earth taken from space. (Credit: White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory. HT to Smithsonian Air & Space.) These days we get to see photos of our planet taken...
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Watch a Beautiful Timelapse Captured from Earth Orbit
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst spent nearly six months living and working in orbit aboard the ISS during Expedition 41 in 2014, and during that time he captured some amazing photos of Earth from the...
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Learn How to See the Big Picture With “The Orbital Perspective”
The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles (By Ron Garan Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.) If you’re anything like me you get a lot of your...
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The Force is Strong With This ISS Crew!
The Expedition 45 team poster has astronauts and cosmonauts trading flight suits for Jedi robes. The Expedition 45 crew has gone full Jedi for their team poster! (The mission patch is kinda shaped like...
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Watch a Beautiful Timelapse Captured from Earth Orbit
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst spent nearly six months living and working in orbit aboard the ISS during Expedition 41 in 2014, and during that time he captured some amazing photos of Earth from the...
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Learn How to See the Big Picture With “The Orbital Perspective”
The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles (By Ron Garan Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.) If you’re anything like me you get a lot of your...
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The Force is Strong With This ISS Crew!
The Expedition 45 team poster has astronauts and cosmonauts trading flight suits for Jedi robes. The Expedition 45 crew has gone full Jedi for their team poster! (The mission patch is kinda shaped like...
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Watch This Stunning Seamless Video of Earth From Orbit
Recently featured on Universe Today, this video of Earth from space assembled by video artist Phil Selmes uses actual photos captured from the Space Station, with some fancy editing to create seamless...
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Astronaut Ron Garan Says Let’s Set Up a Moon Base First
Ron Garan: “I think we have a long, long way to go to get to Mars.” (HuffPost LIVE) Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan was recently interviewed for Huffington Post’s LIVE broadcast. Ron talked about his...
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An Absolutely Epic Photo of Humans Returning From Space
The Expedition 42 Soyuz capsule descending via parachute to land in Kazakhstan on March 12, 2015. (NASA/Bill Ingalls) It almost doesn’t look real but it is: the return of three humans aboard a Soyuz...
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Check out Atmospheric Breakup: a Webcomic About the ISS
Webcomic “Atmospheric Breakup” by Andy Warner featuring Ron Garan and the ISS (Source: The Nib) The International Space Station is the result of an amazing collaboration of many countries and countless...
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Elusive Red Sprite Seen From the Space Station
NASA photo ISS044-E-45576 showing storms over southern Mexico on Aug. 10, 2015. (NASA/JSC) Let’s take a look back at our own planet for a moment with this stunning photo captured from the Space...
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Astronaut’s Green Thumb Grows the First* Flower in Space
“Space Flower,” the first zinnia flower grown on orbit (NASA) Say hello to the first* flower unfurled in space! This picture, shared on Jan. 16, 2016 by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, shows a plant that...
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NASA Astronaut Returns to Earth After Historic “Year in Space”
Astronaut Mark Kelly after emerging from the Soyuz TMA-18M on March 1, 2016. (NASA TV) With a smile and an energetic thumbs-up, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly exited the Soyuz TMA-18M capsule shortly after...
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Did NASA Purposely Cut Space Station Footage of a UFO?
A truly “unidentified” object on ISS live feed on July 9, 2016…WHAT COULD IT BE? Various news outlets today have run with a story about a supposed UFO spotted on live video streamed from the...
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Meteors May Make Your Hair Hiss
Meteors typically occur about 50 to 75 miles above the ground. This Perseid meteor was photographed from above by astronaut Ron Garan aboard the ISS in August 2011. (NASA image) Have you ever gone...
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