For all twick or tweeters, a photo of Nicole, who also tweets @Astro_Nicole. She will return from ISS on STS129 - (via @Astro_Bones http://twitpic.com/ns1bw )
Space Shuttle Columbia. via spaceflight.nasa.gov
Although seven souls perished, exploring space is worth the risk.
ISS020-E-036850 (30 Aug. 2009)
Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module is visible in Discovery’s cargo bay.
Observing the shuttle NASA emblem from Earth.
This is an observation of Space Shuttle Discovery at the end of the STS-119mission to the ISS, delivering the last series of big solar panels(S6). The image is taken one day after docking and one day before landing and shows one part of the shuttle lighted by sun.The other side,especially the wing is hidden behind shade.
The visible wing is the side were the NASA emblem is located and this can clearly be seen as the dark detail at the right location! See the comparing image of the shuttle taken from the the ISS at the right.
It was great luck to have this image at all,as the day was very cloudy and it broke just a few minutes before the pass.The shuttle was followed approximately 1 minute later by the ISS and both could be seen still as a wider tandem at onetime,an amaing sight.
I remember growing up being able to go down the street to the park on the river and see the shuttle launch. I recall walking down as a 5th grade class to this park one day to see it. This was in Jacksonville! We could see it that far away! Over 150 miles!
(photo via cheeseloaf)
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Lift off of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-128 viewed from spectator area. The photo was taken close to midnight! (image via FlyingJenny)
Discovery, on Launch Pad 39A, ready for liftoff on its STS-128 mission, scheduled for tomorrow morning. (Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls, via Flickr.)
Astronauts Megan McArthur, Mike Massimino (centre) and Andrew Feustel.
Having dinner in any direction you like is just another reason why space rules.
Image from the STS-125 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope via spaceflight.nasa.gov
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Astronauts Michael Good (left), Megan McArthur and Andrew Feustel on the middeck of Space Shuttle Atlantis via spaceflight.nasa.gov
Listen to a conversation with astronaut K. Megan McArthur about her role in the recent space shuttle Atlantis STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble space telescope. Megan was in control of the shuttle’s robotic arm that captured the Hubble satellite to enable the repairs.
Stream or download the interview from ABC Radio National.
Megan McArthur is also an oceanographer with a considerable number of underwater hours to her name, giving her the distinction of being both an astronaut and an aquanaut. Megan is in Australia as part of National Science Week activities.
