Two Of My Favorite Movies.

The Husbands of River Song…Doctor Who 9X13

Play Doctor Who [S9E13]     : The Husbands of River Song Here!!!

This is the second series starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. Jenna Coleman will return as the Doctor’s companion Clara Oswald.

And More

>>Play [S9E12] : Hell Bent (2)

>>Play S9E11: Heaven Sent (1)

>>Play S9E10: Face the Raven

>>Play S9E9: Sleep No More

>>Play S9E8: The Zygon Inversion (2)

>>Play S9E7 : The Zygon Invasion (1)

>>Play S9E6: The Woman Who Lived (2)

>>Play S9E5 : The Girl Who Died (1)

>>Play S9E4: Before the Flood (2)

>>Play S9E3 : Under the Lake (1)

>>Play S9E2: The Witch’s Familiar (2)

>>Play S9E1: The Magician’s Apprentice (1)

“I could do so much more.”

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)

Cool stuff

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)

‘Space Station and Shuttle’ (1981) by Jack Olsen for Boeing Aerospace. From the book Visions of Space by David Hardy (1989)

I officially bow down to the artists working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Also, thanks to NASA for recognizing and celebrating the power of art like this. 

These STUNNING posters can all be downloaded directly from JPL (in hi-res). And their mere existence is reason enough for a new Wednesday theme: World Tour Wednesday. 

Stay tuned for some more awesome posters that are out of this world* and worth touring

- Summer

*too easy?

In memory of the crew of the Challenger on this sad anniversary.  Too many photos depict the moment of explosion and the destruction.  I like to think of her as in this photo, returning a crew safely to earth.  RIP to the crew and those who have sacrificed in the exploration of the final frontier. 

Francis R. Scobee Michael J. Smith Ellison S. Onizuka Judith A. Resnik Ronald E. McNair Gregory B. Jarvis S. Christa McAuliffe

Approaching Pluto Date: 13 Jul 2015

One of the final sequence of images before closest approach to Pluto.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI

Star Wars Travel Posters - Created by David Bennett

Prints available for sale at his Etsy Shop.