NASA Has Released More Than 8,000 Images Of The Apollo Missions. [flickr Archive]

1975 NASA concept art by Don Davis takes us to a future space colony in the form of a “Stanford torus” that can house tens of thousands of humans. It was first proposed in a 1975 NASA study at Stanford University where experts gathered to speculate on designs for future space habitats. Using centrifugal force, a doughnut-shaped torus structure that is 1.8 km in diameter could rotate once per minute to provide between 0.9g and 1.0g of artificial gravity on the inside of the outer ring. A system of mirrors would direct sunlight to the interior to make it the well-lit paradise you see here. (NASA)

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Check out this really great rare 1960s documentary (10-min) about @NASA engineers involvement in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 

(hat tip to OnePerfectShot for finding this)

You need people like me so you can point your fucking fingers and say "there's the bad guy."

Tony Montana

Crying xD <3 

The Apollo Soyuz Test project was the first docking of an American spacecraft to a Soviet one. With the historic docking occurring in July of 1975, the mission was the last flight of the Apollo Command and Service module, and the only flight of Mercury 7 astronaut Deke Slayton, who had been grounded from the Mercury and Gemini programs as a result of a heart murmur. American spacecraft would later dock with Russian spacecraft once more when Commander Hoot Gibson docked Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station in the mid 1990s as the beginning of the Shuttle-Mir program. The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA would later work together once more not too long afterwards to build the International Space Station, a merger project which originally was two separate space stations called Mir-2 and Freedom as well as the planned European and Japanese modules onboard Freedom, and Canadian hardware such as the Canadarm (no seriously, that's legitimately what it's called).

Rare double impact crater on Mars. Such features are thought only to from simultaneous impacts.

via reddit

I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this

requested

Me af

when the relatives are over

“so how are you going with your studies”

“have you found a job yet”

“got a special someone in your life? ;)”