‘Space’ Archives
Geeky Space Picture of The Day: Flying Across The Moon
The International Space Station flew across the face of the moon over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida approximately 15 minutes before the launch of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-131 mission. (Image Credit: Fernando Echeverria)
Geeky Space Picture Of The Day: STS-131
We're one shuttle launch closer to the US space program being grounded. This one was pretty spectacular. NASA's space shuttle Discovery launches into space just before dawn on April 5, 2010 to begin the STS-131 mission to the International Space Station. Credit: Roger Guillemette for SPACE.com.
Falcon 9 is almost ready to fly
It has to be a sad time for the folks at the Kennedy Space Center... just today they were rolling Discovery out to the launch pad for the next space shuttle flight, one of only four remaining. Many of the folks on the space coast will lose their jobs, since President Obama has canceled NASA's follow-up to the shuttle program, and to add insult to [...]
The truth is out there?
(h/t to Clayton Morris) So clearly President Obama has canceled NASA's new Moon program to hide the existence of our alien overlords. You can't hide the truth. Roswell... Roswell!!
Geeky Space Picture of the Day: Atlantis
Space shuttle Atlantis with its crew of six astronauts lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Embiggened version) The next time we see Atlantis launch, it'll be the last time. After today's launch there are only 5 more left in the shuttle program. Assuming that it isn't extended by President Obama to close [...]
Geeky Space Picture Of The Day: I Can See My House From Here
A comet-chasing spacecraft swinging by Earth this week has snapped magnificent new images of our home planet. The new photos come from the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, which will make its closest approach by Earth Friday at 2:45 a.m. EST (0745 GMT), during its third and final flyby past the planet. The Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS [...]
Apollo 17 – “…our the flag was still there”
The Lunar Reconnassance Orbiter, currently orbiting the Moon just 50 km off the surface, has taken more shots of the Apollo 17 landing site… and has seen the actual U.S. flag! (Here is a wider shot of the landing site) So far all of the landing sites that the LRO has photographed have had tracks around them, and this one has the flag [...]
