The loneliest man.
STS-41B, February 12, 1984
Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless II, is seen further away from the confines and safety of his ship than any previous astronaut has ever been. This space first was made possible by the Manned Manuevering Unit or MMU, a nitrogen jet propelled backpack. After a series of test maneuvers inside and above Challenger’s payload bay, McCandless went “free-flying” to a distance of 320 feet away from the Orbiter. This stunning orbital panorama view shows McCandless out there amongst the black and blue of Earth and space.
Image: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-001087.jpg
(Credit: NASA-JSC)
“I could do so much more.”
Time Lords of Gallifrey, Daleks of Skaro, I serve notice on you all. Too long have I stayed my hand. No more. Today you leave me no choice, today this war will end. No more. No more.
The War Doctor
The Apollo Soyuz Test project was the first docking of an American spacecraft to a Soviet one. With the historic docking occurring in July of 1975, the mission was the last flight of the Apollo Command and Service module, and the only flight of Mercury 7 astronaut Deke Slayton, who had been grounded from the Mercury and Gemini programs as a result of a heart murmur. American spacecraft would later dock with Russian spacecraft once more when Commander Hoot Gibson docked Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station in the mid 1990s as the beginning of the Shuttle-Mir program. The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA would later work together once more not too long afterwards to build the International Space Station, a merger project which originally was two separate space stations called Mir-2 and Freedom as well as the planned European and Japanese modules onboard Freedom, and Canadian hardware such as the Canadarm (no seriously, that's legitimately what it's called).
George Romanes – Scientist of the Day
George Romanes, a British physiologist and animal psychologist, was born May 20, 1848, when Charles Darwin was twelve years back from the Beagle voyage and two years into his long barnacle project.
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I truly love this movie.
Interstellar (2014) // Gargantua
Director: Christopher Nolan
Visual Effects: Paul J. Franklin
They just went full retard. NEVER GO FULL RETARD!
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare: crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
Fascinating article, not AT ALL surprising, but fascinating all the same
All the Enterprises.
21, He/Him/His, lover of all things space, aviation, alt music, film, and anime
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