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I Only Surf on Comets by Peter Kramar

“I Only Surf on Comets” by Peter Kramar

Posting two cool tees I saw recently on Threadless (via @moonrangerlaura.)

The Milky Way by Budi Satria Kwan

“The Milky Way” by Budi Satria Kwan

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Spacemen Rock

Spacemen Rock

I absolutely MUST have this shirt. Spacemen DO rock! (I especially love the cymbal and hi-hat details where the command module antennae would be.)

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The Future

Vintage advertising

Who knew the future had such groovy faux-wood-paneling refrigerators? (Via Vintage Ad Browser.)

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The Moon is Full of H2O

I discovered this totally awesome shirt two days after Christmas on Shirt.Woot, and impulsively bought it. (TEN! DOLLARS! SHIPPED! Now that is an impulse-buy of VALUE!) I originally went to see it because I was told the page had modified lyrics to Walking on the Moon by The Police, and boy did it ever. I reprint them here for your (my?) enjoyment:

NASA said if there was no
Water on the Moon
They would make it BYO
Water on the Moon
They crashed an Atlas V, ka-boom
Water on the moon
Then scanned the ejecta plume
For water on, water on the Moon

Some might cry
The Moon’s way up in the sky, too high
And plus it’s like super dry, but I
Would gladly suit up and fly, goodbye
And give it a try

Party up at our place
Water on the Moon
Go swimming at our lunar base
In water on the Moon
We will throw a big shebang
With water on the moon
We’ll reconstitute our Tang
With water on, water on the moon

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Astronauts & Scientists Cross

Astronauts & Scientists Cross

A lovely cross made up of Space Shuttles and Apollo Capsules:

Four figures of Space Shuttles make up body of our cross, while four Apollo Lunar Modules radiate out from the center. The space vehicles all point to their ultimate destination – the golden brilliance of the stars and the cosmos itself!

The elements of our Astronauts Cross come together to honor all those who have contributed to Humankind’s exploration of space. We honor the brave men and women of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and the Shuttle programs as well as the early programs of the NACA that took us through the sound barrier and to the outer regions of the atmosphere. We honor all those involved in current space research and engineering such as those involved in the Constellation program which will establish the first human colony on the moon. And most especially, we commemorate our three Astronauts who died in the fire onboard Apollo1, the crews of the Space Shuttles Challenger (STS-51L) and Columbia (STS-107), as well as all the unheralded test pilots, the cosmonauts of SOYUZ 1 and SOYUZ 11, and all the others who have given the ultimate sacrifice to advance science and our quest to reach out beyond the boundaries of Mother Earth.

Part of the purchase price goes to the Astronauts Scholarship Foundation, which is pretty cool.

Astronauts & Scientists Cross

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Shooting Star Pendant

Shooting Star Pendant by zippandesigns on Etsy

A striking pendant in sterling silver. And suddenly it reminds me very much of a cookie press insert. But spacey.

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Diamond Milky Way

Photo © C. Philip Hersey Photographer, Ltd

Photo © C. Philip Hersey Photographer, Ltd

I spotted this necklace in a small mention of a new exhibit at The Field Museum in Chicago, The Nature of Diamonds. “Milky Way” and “necklace” were all I needed to read before I scurried off to the Vast and Wonderous Intarwebs to find a larger picture, and luckily, a description!

“Milky Way” Necklace: This voluminous necklace, designed by Dieter Huebner, sponsored by Brinkhaus Jewelers, is adorned with 2,000 luminous diamonds.

The “Milky Way” necklace was designed in 2000 as a celebration and ode to the millennium.

Judging from the descriptive term “voluminous”, and taking into account the 2,000 diamonds, I can safely say this bauble is out of the realm of possible purchases, for, well, ANYBODY. All the same, I’d love to see it around a neck, for scale if nothing else.

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Fancy Rockets

Rocket Ship Pin by SterlingRoots on Etsy

Been a while since I’ve done a jewelry search for spacey things! Above, a quite awesome rocketship pin; below, a more abstract rocket launch necklace.

Rocket Ship enamel pendant by woodsholme on Etsy

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It's Sputnik

Sputnik shirt @ Woot!

…and it’s at shirt.Woot this week!

Sputnik shirt @ Woot!

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Dome Hack

Half-scale Eagle lander on MIT's Great Dome

This happened last month: “hackers” at MIT put a scale model of the “Eagle” Apollo moon lander on the Great Dome. (I remember, a while back now, seeing the Great Dome mocked up as R2D2 and it was FANTASTIC. Clever students… clever, clever hacks.)

Anyway, this week I’ve posted gobs of pictures already, so how about some link spam instead? For instance: Long distance space travel leaves you short, fat and ugly, claim scientists (I love Britain.) Also, I saw this fantastic moon painting earlier this week but I couldn’t find a larger image, and MySpace scares me. And for those of you that didn’t know it already, Buzz Aldrin is a sharp-dressed man with a spiffy watch.

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