ISS Passes Over Hurricane Irma

TODAY IN HISTORY: On October 18, 1989, the Galileo space probe launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, heading out on a decade-plus mission to explore Jupiter and its neighbors. This early ‘80s NASA simulation footage shows how the spacecraft would eventually release a probe for a one-way trip into the turbulent Jovian atmosphere.

Image of Titan taken by the Cassini spacecraft

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill

“Dear God, please don’t let me fuck up.”

—Alan Shepard

November 5, 2007 – The Space Shuttle Discovery floats high above our lovely Earth, observed from the International Space Station.

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constellation Cetus

Sufi Latinus (Latin translation of ‘Kitāb al-kawākib al-thābita’ of 'Abd al-Rahmān al-Ṣūfī), Bologna 1250-1275

BnF, Arsenal 1036, fol. 34v

On March 2, 1963 Engineer Thomas Byrdsong checks the Apollo/Saturn 1B Ground-wind-loads model in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Credit: NASA

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Solar System

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X-15 Rocket Plane. Artist: Wilf Hardy by Atomic Scout on Flickr.

Come fare pisolini nello spazio 😴