Whisps Of The Orion Nebula

Saturn Wip // Michael MacRae

Animation visualising milestones during the launch of the ExoMars 2016 mission and its cruise to Mars.

The mission comprises the Trace Gas Orbiter and an entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, Schiaparelli, which are scheduled to be launched on a four-stage Proton-M/Breeze-M rocket from Baikonur during the 14–25 March 2016 window. About ten-and-a-half hours after launch, the spacecraft will separate from the rocket and deploy its solar wings. Two weeks later, its high-gain antenna will be deployed. After a seven-month cruise to Mars, Schiaparelli will separate from TGO on 16 October. Three days later it will enter the martian atmosphere, while TGO begins its entry into Mars orbit.

Crazy Facts About the #YearInSpace

Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned from their One-Year Mission on March 1. When you spend a year doing anything, you’re bound to accumulate some crazy stats. Here are a few:

During their year in space, Kelly and Kornienko traveled over 143 million miles, conducting research to prepare us for our journey to Mars, which will be about 140,000,000 miles from Earth.

The International Space Station travels at a speed of 5 miles per second and orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.

These visiting vehicles brought food, supplies, experiments and more crew members to the space station.

Since the space station is orbiting the Earth at 17,500 miles per hour, the crew onboard sees 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.

Water is a precious and limited resource in space, so crew members recycle it whenever possible. That includes recycling their own urine.

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Today marks 30 years since the world watched in horror as space shuttle Challenger broke apart on live TV just 73 seconds after takeoff. Seven crewmembers were killed, including high school teacher Christa McAuliffe, who had been selected as the first civilian to fly into space.

The European Space Agency’s Sentinel-3 satellite, launched this week, is seen crossing the sky not long after launch with a jettisoned rocket stage right behind it, all amidst the beautiful northern lights display in northern Finland.

Breathtaking.

In memory of the crew of Apollo 1, January 27, 1967.

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Spacex's rocket landing. Again.

The Milky Way and Andromeda above Yosemite’s Valley and Half Dome

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I Got Humans

The moon in the morning sky