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The Milky Way, Over Storms, Over Africa
Posting on a stormy Friday night? Why not? This is BEAUTIFUL. (I suppose technically it’s “Vidspam”, not Picspam.)
Lunar Transit
A very cool photo I received by email (see the other two here and here.) See that little white thing in the upper left? Yeah, that’s the ISS.
JSC2012-E-017827 (4 Jan. 2012) — The International Space Station can be seen as a small object in upper left of this image of the moon in the early evening Jan. 4 in the skies over the Houston area flying at an altitude of 390.8 kilometers (242.8 miles). Photo credit: NASA
Here’s the whole sequence (click for MONDO-VIEW):
JSC2012-E-017837 (4 Jan. 2012) — Multiple images of the International Space Station flying over the Houston area have been combined into one composite image to show the progress of the station as it crossed the face of the moon in the early evening of Jan. 4. The station, with six astronauts and cosmonauts currently aboard, was flying in an orbit at 390.8 kilometers (242.8 miles). The space station can be seen in the night sky with the naked eye and a pair of field binoculars may reveal some detail of the structural shape of the spacecraft. Station sightings in the area will be possible again (weather permitting) Friday, Jan. 6, beginning at 6:11 p.m. CST. Viewing should be possible for approximately six minutes as the station moves from 10 degrees above west-northwest to 10 degrees above south-southeast. The maximum elevation will be 44 degrees. To find sighting details by city, visit: http://go.usa.gov/81R. Equipment used by the NASA photographer, operating from NASA’s Johnson Space Center, was as follows: Nikon D3S, 600mm lens and 2x converter, Heavy Duty Bogen Tripod with sandbag and a trigger cable to minimize camera shake. The camera settings were as follows: 1/1600 @ f/8, ISO 2500 on High Continuous Burst. Photo credit: NASA
Expedition 30 Soyuz Rollout
A gorgeous photo of the Soyuz spacecraft as it rolls to the launch pad for your Monday.
The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft is rolled out by train on its way to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers is scheduled for 7:16 p.m. local time on Wednesday, December 21.
Photo Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi
Slow Pan
As far as shuttle photos go, I do believe this is a centerfold. Gaze at it longingly. Are you still upset by the end of the Space Shuttle Program? Good, me too. We can be sad together.
And yes, I did forget to post today. Better late than never, right?
ISS028-E-174501(19 July 2011) — This picture of the space shuttle Atlantis was photographed from the International Space Station as the orbiting complex and the shuttle performed their relative separation in the early hours of July 19, 2011. The Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module, which transported tons of supplies to the complex, can be seen in the cargo bay. It is filled with different materials from the station for return to Earth. Onboard the station were Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko, commander; Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev, both flight engineers; Japan Aerospace Exploration astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and NASA astronauts Mike Fossum and Ron Garan, all flight engineers. Onboard the shuttle were NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson, commander; Doug Hurley, pilot; and Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, both mission specialists.
Against the Night
This photo leaves me speechless… and falls into my “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Photoshop!” category. The stars are fixed (seemingly) while the Earth whirls below…. Amazing. Breathtaking!
Backdropped by a night time view of the Earth and the starry sky, the Space Shuttle Endeavour is photographed docked at the International Space Station on May 28, 2011. The STS-134 astronauts left the station the next day on May 29, after delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and performing four spacewalks during Endeavour’s final mission.
Image Credit: NASA
Hey! I know that guy!
Posted by Danielle in Perspectives, Picspam on April 5, 2011
It’s a funny feeling, following a spaceflight launch where you’ve seen one of the crew in person. Astronaut Ron Garan (@Astro_Ron) spoke at the first STS-133 Tweetup on November 1, 2010, and yesterday he launched into orbit as part of the Expedition 27 crew of the International Space Station. He sure looks happy to go! (He’s in the middle, in the above photo.)
Expedition 27 crew members from top, Russian Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko, NASA Flight Engineer Ron Garan, and Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev wave farewell from the bottom of the Soyuz rocket prior to their launch to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011.
The Soyuz, which has been dubbed “Gagarin,” is launching one week shy of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Yuri Gagarin from the same launch pad in Baikonur on April 12, 1961, to become the first human to fly in space.
Hey @Astro_Ron! There’s someone special waiting for you on the ISS, ready to serve your every need – a sleek, attractive feat of modern technology:
……..whoops! Wrong picture. Here you go:
Don't you like me?
Enjoy!
The Human Element
Posted by Danielle in Perspectives, Picspam on March 16, 2011
I think sometimes it’s easy to look at all these wonderful launch pictures and spacecraft pictures and forget that there’s people inside. It’s interesting (and somewhat rare) when you can see the craft and the people, as is the case if you zoom into the above photo:
Astronaut Nicole Stott gazing out the shuttle cockpit window
@Astro_Nicole posted another pic similar to this — very cute!
Celestial Art
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on February 15, 2011
International Space Station © Lucy West
A friend on Twitter posted a link to the lovely space artwork of Lucy West — these are my two favorites! Hope everyone had a nice Valentine’s Day (and if not, that you happily binged on chocolate), and remember: the Moon loves you.
Shines The Nameless (2009) © Lucy West
Partial Sun & ISS
Image Credit & Copyright: Thierry Legault, astrophoto.fr
The past few weeks have been particularly eclipse-y. Eclipse-ful? Ecliptic? And while I’m asking questions, how does Thierry Legault do it? He’s the KING of transit photos. (This photo of the January 4 partial solar eclipse, plus ISS transit, was featured on APOD yesterday. As it should be.)
Going Up
Photo Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi
This image (first seen by me at Pars3c) has buried the needle on the scale of AWESOME.
The Soyuz TMA-01M rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 carrying Expedition 25 Soyuz Commander Alexander Kaleri of Russia, NASA Flight Engineer Scott J. Kelly and Russian Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka to the International Space Station.
And below, another launch photo, this time with the rocket still in the frame:
Photo Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi
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