Photograph by NASA [12 December 2006] Backdropped by a colorful Earth, astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (left) and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang, both STS-116 mission specialists, participate in the mission’s first of three planned sessions of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction resumes on the International Space Station. The landmasses depicted are…
Fifteen years ago, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Since its deployment on July 23, 1999, Chandra has helped revolutionize our understanding of the universe through its unrivaled X-ray vision. Chandra, one of NASA’s current “Great Observatories,” along with the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope,…
Using a helium balloon, a Walter White bobblehead was launched into space, reaching speeds of 95 mph (153km/h), temperatures as low as -65F (-54C), and attaining a maximum altitude of 85,000 feet (25,908m) before crashing back to Earth as Heisenberg 😉 The feat was made possible by the team at tvtag
In this inspired TED talk, Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to ever walk in space and the first Canadian to ever command the International Space Station, talks about fear versus danger and what he learned from going blind in space. There’s an astronaut saying: In space, “there is no problem so bad that you…
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles). At the request of Carl Sagan, the Voyager 1 spacecraft was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take a photo…
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