A Selfie on the Edge of Space
By Glen Tickle from Laughing Squid: A recent episode of the series Seeker Stories explains how photographer Christopher Michel was able to take a selfie at the age of space. While on assignment, Michel was given the opportunity to fly in a Lockheed U-2 spy plane that provided him some impressive views of the Earth.
Inspiring and Intense Soviet Space Propaganda Posters
From io9.com: The twentieth century Soviet space program will always be remembered as one of the greatest in the world. And these posters reveal that it also came with one of the world’s most beautifully-designed propaganda campaigns, too. Above: Homeland, your mission is accomplished! Science and Communism Are Inseparable, 1959 (via LiveAuctioneers) Praise to the […]
Quantum Invisibility Cloak Hides Objects from Reality
By The Physics arXiv Blog from MITTechnologyReview.com: Physicists have worked out how to cloak a region of space from the quantum world, thereby shielding it from reality itself. Invisibility cloaks are all the rage these days. Over the last few years, this blog has followed various attempts to develop invisibility cloaks for earthquakes, acoustics and […]
Beloved ISS Commander Chris Hadfield Is Retiring
By Robert T. Gonzalez from io9.com: So long, Commander Hadfield – and thanks for all the awesome! Tonight at 7:08 ET, Commander Chris Hadfield – one of the most charismatic Commanders in the history of the International Space Station – will return … Read… Chris Hadfield – Canadian astronaut (the first to ever serve as […]
Astronauts articulate some of the life-changing feelings brought up by their experience of space
Apollo and Shuttle/International Space station astronauts, as well as philosophers, talk about the haunting “overview effect” of seeing the Earth from space.