“Initiating power transfer in 3… 2… 1…”

fromme-toyou:

Space Mountain

-Disney World

If only I could give you this moon.

tovera:

Fredrik Akum

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wilwheaton:

And we did it in less than ten years from inception to completion, using technology that is eclipsed a thousandfold by disposable cell phones.

Whenever some halfwit in Congress drones on and on about how we can’t do something, or we don’t have the will or the money or the imagination, I want to grab that idiot by the collar and scream this quote into its stupid corrupt face.

monsterbeard:

John Carter (of Mars) trailer!

Starring FNL’s Taylor Kitsch and directed by Wall-E director Andrew Stanton!

Friday Night Lights. Cowboys. Sword fighting. Interplanetary romance. Space. Arcade Fire. Disney.

I’d say this movie is a good confluence of ALL MY INTERESTS.

"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."

Ray Bradbury (via libraryland)

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chromatichouse:

The Nautilus-X Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle Concept.

Download the full proposal powerpoint here.

Whoa. This stuff is for real.

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spacerules:

Return from outer-space LIKE A BOSS

Expedition 26 Soyuz Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka.

It’s the Space Pope!

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Aren’t those Mercury spacesuits just the classiest thing you’ve ever seen?

itsfullofstars:

Alan Shepard was the second person, and the first American, in space.

On May 5, 1961, Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 mission and became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space. He was launched by a Redstone rocket, and unlike Gagarin’s 108 minute orbital flight, Shepard stayed on a ballistic trajectory suborbital flight—a flight which carried him to an altitude of 116 statute miles and to a landing point 302 statute miles down the Atlantic Missile Range. Unlike Gagarin, whose flight was strictly automatic, Shepard had some control of Freedom 7, spacecraft attitude in particular. The launch, return from space and subsequent collection by helicopter were seen live on television by millions.

Source: Wikipedia.

A magnificent but unknown website →

Beyond Apollo highlights the space programs that never were — from the lull between the Apollo moon landing in 1969 to the end of the Cold War. It’s all very fascinating stuff!

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Amateur space enthusiasts launch paper plane into space →

This sounds like the beginning of a science fiction story. The obvious next step is to create a paper spacecraft that can carry paper astronauts into space.

It’s true: we really are living in a science fiction novel. Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson takes a look down at Earth from the International Space Station. (via APOD: 2010 November 15 - Home from Above)

jesuisperdu:

The above illustration (by Ed Emshwiller) is from the 1958 novel Have Space Suit – Will Travel by Robert Heinlein. The story centers around Kip, a young lad eager to get to the moon, but plagued by a mediocre public school system that fails to launch him into an academic trajectory likely to lead to Mare Tranquilllitatis. With a heapin’ helpin’ of hard work, and a dash of luck, Kip teaches himself Calculus, wins a space suit from a soap company and is abducted by aliens while wearing his space suit in his back yard. You might say “Gee whiz, thanks aliens!” but Kip ends up being sequestered to Pluto where he blows his captors up.

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kmikeym:

Space Helmet

This makes me want to write stories about astronauts and spacewalks, rocket ships and aliens and cold black nothingness. I love it. (via itsfullofstars, via dvdp)