Neil Armstrong, August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012
Space Shuttle Enterprise flies over New York
In this photo provided by NASA, Space shuttle Enterprise, riding on the back of the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flies over New York on Friday, April 27, 2012. Enterprise is eventually going to make its new home in New York City at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. AP / Robert Markowitz
Lego figures of Jupiter, Juno and Galileo are going to be on board of Nasa’s Atlas V rock en route to Jupiter.
Via: Geek Dad
The final flight
VIa: inothernews:
FINISH LINE At 5:57 a.m. EDT on July 21, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles — the final flight for the Space Shuttle Program. (Photo: Kim Shiflett / NASA)
Designers + NASA= Amazing things
Via: Kottke
“Space photography and videography all looks pretty much the same: high contrast, lots of black backgrounds, smooth, and often sterile. Designer Chris Abbas took a bunch of photos from the Cassini Mission (to Saturn) and made them into something that is definitely not your usual NASA video.”
