The moon silhouette video was one of Mark Gee’s major breakthroughs. When I saw it the first time I was totally perplexed by it’s beauty and simpleness. As an engineer I immediately noticed that the video was shot with a big telephoto lens. This also implied that the shot was taken from a long distance […]
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I love the work of Mark Gee. He is a fantastic photographer, how has specialized on celestial photos and videos. His work is right out magnificent and stunning and captures the Oh!, we all feel when looking up on a cloudless night or at a magnificent sunrise. Watching the Byron Bay Sun and
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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.
Russian Proton rocket spins out of control short after launch and crashes Lees verder »
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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Thanks to my friends at SpaceX, I now have my own awesome Dragon T-Shirt! Thank you so very much! I promised that I would take some nice pics as soon as I got it and put them up on my blog. Well it came in this morning so, lets take some nice pics right away.
The Dragon T-Shirt has landed in Leiden The Netherlands! Lees verder »