I love Chris Hadfield, he is a cool and charismatic man and astronaut, how went three times into space. On his last journey he lived for six months on ISS of which in the last three month he was the commander. Chris did some really cool stuff in space which he shared with the public. George Stroumboulopoulos […]
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On 1 may at about 1:00 EST SpaceX tweeted that the HDEV experiment was successfully transferred from Dragon’s trunk to ISS. This is a cool experiment with four High definition camera’s. These four camera’s are streaming real HD video footage of Earth.
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ISS is quite big. It’s by far the biggest structure, that orbits the earth and can be easily seen when it passes over and weather is clear. ISS started as an international cooperation project to build laboratory, observatory and factory in space. Many modules have been added in the more than the fifteen year it
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Chris Hadfield preformed David Bowie’s “Major Tom” from ISS. The video was published on 12 May 2013 the day Chris returned to earth and since got a whooping 20 million views! That’s a hard to beat video you might think. Well judge yourself and watch this great parody, from Glove and Boots.
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At Baikonur Cosmodrome a Russian Proton-M heavy lift rocket carrying three GLONASS navigation/positioning satellites dis spin out of control shortly after launch and exploded at Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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Chris Hadfield now former commander of IIS expedition 35, he just landed safely back on earth, is a big music lover. Aboard ISS he made a special performance. The song “Major Tom” is one of my favorites songs of one of my Favorite artists David Bowie. Chris really hit the nail by tweaking the song text
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy recommends that a hitch hiker should always have his towel with him. There even is a Towel Day But what happens when you wring your wet towel in space? Will the water come of in bubbles an float free in space? Will it
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Actually this is not entirely correct we don’t have one moon rock over here in Leiden, we have Five! Moon rocks. Real moon rock samples? Yep they are the real deal The Apollo project Back in the sixties America started a ambitious space exploration program, to get a man on the moon and bring him
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