A panel for internal communications onboard the International Space Station
<em>Monthly</em> février, 2017
Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques is currently in Russia for winter survival training for his upcoming mission to the ISS in 2018. They are learning to build shelters, signal fire & more, in case their Soyuz spacecraft lands off target when they come back to Earth.
Nantes vu par @thom_astro astronaute à l’ESA en mission sur l’ISS pour 6 mois.
[ 01.02.17 ���� ] Quand la station spatiale passe au dessus de Bordeaux, voici ce que ça donne. Un magnifique cliché où l’on aperçoit parfaitement la Garonne en forme de lune d’où son nom \ »Le port de la lune\ ». Merci @thom_astro Bordeaux, la ville de mon ❤️.
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May we never forget the astronauts who lost their lives in the line of duty
Always Exploring�� – a great day exploring @kennedyspacecenter
This is how the Orion Nebula looked like approximately 1325 years ago (it is ~1325 light years away). Spent the last 48 hours taking another shot at the Orion Nebula.This time shot frames at 500mm. Took a total of 900 Light, 50 Dark and 50 Bias Frames. Stacked them using Deep Sky Stacker (as expected
New additions to the space archives
Apollo 14 was launched on this day in 1971, bound for a nine-day mission to the moon and back. Astronauts Alan Shepard @usnavalacademy, Stuart Roosa @cuboulder, and Edgar Mitchell @mitstudents manned the eighth mission in the historic US Apollo program.