Astronaut Kalpana Chawla conducting an experiment on the space shuttle Columbia in January of 2003. Chawla, an aerospace engineer that emigrated from India to the US in 1982, was accepted into the NASA astronaut corps in 1994, and flew as a mission specialist as part as STS-87 aboard the space shuttle Discovery. On this mission,
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I was very excited last night to finally start photographing the moon once again. This is the best shot I could get of Venus manly because of it being partly cloudy, which is a bummer, but check out the object right above Venus to the right. If i had to guess I’d say it might
The fiery blaze below space shuttle Endeavour as it launches from NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A bathes the smoke and steam with an orange glow…how awesome ! Also guys I’m now officially on @twitter under the name of @astro_luke_v so if you’re on @twitter and if you want to stay tuned with some
Crystals are complete! The kids were asking for directions to take home and make their own- that’s when you know you’re doing your job right
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Quand l’ISS passe juste au dessus de notre maison ✨ !!!!!
Took the kids to air and space museum today. Got to see the IMAX movie \ »beautiful planet\ ». When you see the earth from space there is such a sense of unity and oneness. There is a strong sense of international cooperation on the ISS.
Enjoying outer space adventure and groovy scenery, wish u were here …
Bordeaux By Thomas Pesquet La belle endormie vue du ciel
I was just there! (Ripley’s, not the Space Station.) regram @ripleysodditoriumCosting over $150 billion, the International Space Station is the most expensive object ever created.