MindFuck : an idea or concept that shakes one's previously held beliefs or assumptions about the nature of reality.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The Apollo flying turd incident.
Apollo 10 mission transcript, starring Mission Commander Thomas Stafford (CDR), Lunar Module Pilot Gene Cernan (LMP), and Command Module Pilot John Young (CMP), orbiting the moon 200,000-plus when then suddenly see a flying turd.
Have a laugh.
(Source: jsc.nasa.gov)
Ham was the first successful launch of a primate into sub-orbital spaceflight. In 1961 he was known as “Chimp #65” and after three weeks of training he was placed in a Mercury space capsule atop a Redstone rocket and launched from cape Canaveral Florida. His entire trip lasted less than 17 minutes.
The grave is located in New Mexico Museum of Space History and International Space Hall of Fame.
The Transit of Venus!!
Hubble Space Telescope - The Best Images From Over Two Decades In Orbit (by Best0fScience)
This video is absolutely breathtaking!
We choose to go to the moon
I am not a United States citizen, but people from all over the world was somehow affected by the acts of this outlier man.
This man pushed to get to the moon, pushed to gain knowledge , pushed to challenge, even though he recognized that this act was more of faith and vision, and he did not know the outcomes.
You cannot believe how many things have been developed thanks to the space program, and we use it in daily basis.
Things like: scratches resistant lenses, the shoe insoles, smoke detectors, water filters, cordless tools, satellites to predict the weather, GPS, were developed thanks to the space program.
If I know how to make my way to an unknown place, is thanks to the GPS developed thanks to the space program.
If I have clean water, is thanks for water filters developed thanks by the space program.
Please feel free to reblog and add something you use thanks to the space program.
Epic space adventures plant seeds of economic growth, because doing what’s never been done before is intellectually seductive (whether deemed practical or not), and innovation follows, just as day follows night.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
(Source: haydenplanetarium.org)
There is no such thing as luck. You need to be fit to cope and look for opportunities.
This is what happens, when you mix up a disaster, and something good.
It’s a strange mix of feelings.
I have watched this like three times.
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left) and Alexei Leonov during the holiday-dress in Star City (1965)
This picture is remarkable due to the fact that Yuri Gagarin was the first human being to be in the space on the ship named Vostok 1, in April 12th 1961, and is not usual to find photos of remarkable people on this situations.
