<em>Author</em> Conquest Space News
I was talking with a friend about our shared love of Tolkien, which reminded me of this quote, which reminded me of a picture Cmdr Scott Kelly took from the ISS- (I believe of Spain?) as twilight was coming on, all the blues and blacks and grays and clouds swirled together, and the delicate glow
•••Such a cool picture of inside a lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre, where engineers simulate conditions that astronauts in space suits would experience when the Orion spacecraft is vibrating during launch! Test subjects wear modified advanced crew escape suits that are being developed for astronauts. Although Orion’s late 2018 mission will be without a
Stunning new photos of Planet PP3… once towering mountain ranges made of rubber have been reduced to the height of nearby wear bars… dry canals indicate that water once flowed here. Little is known of the planets interior, although speculation is that it is of a pneumatic nature, approx 40-46 psi.Photo: @thisinnerninja SV1000.
The lights of Dubai, UAE. Shot taken from aboard the International Space Station in 2012. Palm Jumeirah is clearly visible on the bottom right of the photo
\ »La Conquista delle Stelle – Astrolatria Astrologia Astronomia Astrofisica\ » [Marc Joffe, 1958] A beautiful \ »preface\ » to the golden age of space exploration…
