Category: space

Here are the incredible photos behind SpaceX’s historic Falcon 9 rocket landing

Gannon Burgett

Six months after a experiencing a catastrophic explosion while en route to the International Space Station, SpaceX successfully delivered a payload to space and landed its 230-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket upright upon its return to Earth. Minutes after delivering 11 satellites into orbit via its ORBCOMM–2 payload, the first stage rocket fell back down into […]

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See a Beautiful New Photo of Earth With Every New Browser Tab You Open

Gannon Burgett

If you haven’t heard of Urthecast, you need to fix that. Based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Urthecast is a company working hand-in-hand with NASA to provide the first publicly accessible HD camera that’s attached to the International Space Station. While their main objective is a constant stream of HD footage broadcasted live for the […]

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Scott Kelly Is The American Astronaut Living The Most Time In Space And He Shoots Amazing Images Of Earth

Anna Gunn

Have you ever seen the Sahara desert from space? Chances are you already have, but never as spectacular as in the amazing images Astronaut Scott Kelly has been posting to his Instagram and Twitter feeds directly from the International Space Station. Last Friday, October 16, 2015, Kelly broke the record for the longest cumulative time for an American Astronaut living […]

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NASA’s enhanced photo of Pluto shows rich color variations and crazy detail

Liron Samuels

You know how sometimes you take such an amazing photo that you have to share immediately, just to later realize that you have an ever more awesome version of it? That’s pretty much the case here with NASA’s insane surface photo of Pluto, taken by the interplanetary space probe New Horizons. NASA released the first […]

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ISS Uses Still Camera and 800mm Lens to Demonstration Acceleration Through Space

Allen Mowery

In recent years we’ve become more familiar with the International Space Station (ISS) through live video feeds, experiment demonstrations, and fantastic images that have been brought back to earth.  (Then again, maybe it’s all just thrown together on some Hollywood sound stage…who knows.)  But, to the best of my knowledge, we have never before seen […]

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