Live and Direct

garethlynch:

Atlantis on [last] last approach to the ISS.

Amazing. To be there…

(source APOD)

Watching the launch of Atlantis, the last Space Shuttle mission ever!

@Astro_Ron:

Long Island to Nova Scotia #FromSpace Taken 6/27/11@ 8:12pm GMT from the #ISS

@NASAKennedy:

#STS134 Up close and personal: Endeavour soaring to orbit.

Sad face.

Another amazing view of Space Shuttle Endeavour’s launch this morning.

(via @TreyRatcliff)

Watching the launch of space shuttle Endeavour. This is Endeavour’s 25th and final launch, and the second to last shuttle launch ever.

The moon passing between the sun and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on October 7th, 2010. 

Today marks 41 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon.

Welcome home Atlantis!

Hubble IMAX 3D

Saw this trailer during the previews before Avatar. NASA streams live footage of the missions on their website and I watched a lot of what this movie is about live for days on end. I can say that I’ve never been more excited to see a movie then I am for this.

Snow storm buries the U.S. East Coast

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this view of the Chesapeake Bay region as the clouds were clearing on December 20.

(via NASA Earth Observatory)

adamgotterer:thedailywhat:

Space Photo of the Day: On Novermber 14, 1984, NASA astronaut Dale Gardner strapped on his Manned Maneuvering Unit, stepped off the Space Shuttle Discovery, and proceeded to float fifty meters away, untethered, through the vast emptiness of space, to retrieve a wayward satellite which needed to be hauled back to earth.

Like a space-boss.

[via.]

“Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends. The best meteor shower of 2009 is about to fall over North America on a long, cold December night.

A new Moon will keep skies dark for a display that Cooke and others say could top 140 meteors per hour. According to the International Meteor Organization, maximum activity should occur around 12:10 a.m. EST (0510 UT) on Dec. 14th. The peak is broad, however, and the night sky will be rich with Geminids for many hours and perhaps even days around the maximum.”

(via NASA)

YES!