Commander Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut who has been living aboard the International Space Station since December, on Saturday tweeted another stunning photo of the Windy City from above.
Holy crap, it’s a beautiful night in Chicago!
(via yodelmachine)
Source: twitter.com
NASA buys $18M Inflatable Room For International Space Station
I hope it’s shaped like a castle.
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: The International Space Station is not really floating in space. It is, in reality, being held in place by a gigantic Russian guy in a Members Only jumpsuit, and the solar panels are powered by fluorescent lights.
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Twelve Years and Counting Aboard the Station
Twelve years ago, Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev made history by becoming the first crew to live and work on the International Space Station. On Nov. 2, 2000, Expedition 1 docked with the station. From the moment the hatch of their Soyuz spacecraft opened and they entered the fledgling space station, there have been people living and working in orbit, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
In this photo, Expedition 1 crew members (from left to right) Commander Bill Shepherd, and Flight Engineers Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev pose with a model of their home away from home.
Image Credit: NASA
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Crew Bonding
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 33 crew share a playful moment Oct. 10, 2012 during the first of two so-called “fit check” dress rehearsal sessions. The crew hoists their Russian Sokol launch-and-entry suits over their heads as they prepare for the scheduled Oct. 23 launch in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft. The crew will begin a five-month mission on the International Space Station.
From left to right are Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin and NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford.
Image Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
See zero G. Hear zero G. Speak zero G.
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Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank
Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank smiles as he rests outside the Soyuz TMA-02M Capsule just minutes after he and Expedition 30 Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin landed in a remote area outside of the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Friday, April 27, 2012.
NASA Astronaut Burbank, Russian Cosmonauts Shkaplerov and Ivanishin are returning from more than five months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 29 and 30 crews.
image Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi
The first Victorian man to return from space.
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Russian support personnel work to help get crew members out of the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft shortly after the capsule landed with Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum and flight engineers Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa in a remote area outside of the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 9:26 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 (8:26 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, Kazakhstan time). NASA astronaut Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Volkov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Furukawa are returning from more than five months aboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 28 and 29 crews.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
According to sources close to support personnel, Commander Mike Fossum was heard to say, “I’m just glad you’re not apes.”
To which Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa added, “Da!” and “Hai!”
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Return to Earth
”Mon, 23 May 2011 23:00:00 -0500”
The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Cady Coleman in a remote area southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. NASA Astronaut Coleman, Russian Cosmonaut Kondratyev and Italian Astronaut Nespoli are returning from more than five months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 26 and 27 crews.
Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
These guys have been in zero-gravity for five months, their bones wasting away, and they have to slam down onto solid ground like that? What the fuck?
Hey, did you like the zero-G freedom of space? Welcome back to the unrelenting gravity of Earth! Just to make sure you know what you’re in for, we’re just gonna slam you into the ground.
WHAM!
How was that? Fun, huh? Did you break anything? Oh well, maybe next time.
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Spacewalker
”Sun, 22 May 2011 23:00:00 -0500”
Astronaut Andrew Feustel reenters the space station after completing n 8-hour, 7-minute spacewalk at 10:12 a.m. EDT Sunday, May 22, 2011. He and fellow spacewalker Mike Fincke completed this, the second of the four STS-134 spacewalks, for a mission total of 14 hours 26 minutes. It was the 246th spacewalk conducted by U.S. astronauts, the 116th from space station airlocks, and the 157th in support of space station assembly and maintenance. It was Feustel’s fifth spacewalk and Fincke’s seventh spacewalk.
Image Credit: NASA
If he sees his shadow, there are eight more weeks until the Rapture.
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Another Day at Work
”Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:00:00 -0600”
Anchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint, astronaut Steve Bowen tackled a variety of tasks, including venting into space some remaining ammonia from a failed pump module they moved during the STS-133 mission’s first spacewalk. Fellow astronaut Alvin Drew worked in conjunction with Bowen to complete the day’s tasks during this the second spacewalk of the mission.
Image Credit: NASA
FUCK YOU! I’M AN ANTEATER IN SPACE!
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First
”Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:00:00 -0600”
NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew are shown performing the STS-133 mission’s first spacewalk as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Bowen and Drew installed the J612 power extension cable, move a failed ammonia pump module to the External Stowage Platform 2 on the Quest Airlock for return to Earth at a later date, installed a camera wedge on the right hand truss segment, installed extensions to the mobile transporter rail and exposed the Japanese “Message in a Bottle” experiment to space.
Image Credit: NASA
!!!!!1!!!ONE!!
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Expedition 25 Landing
”Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:00:00 -0600”
The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock and Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin touches down near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. Russian Cosmonaut Yurchikhin and NASA Astronauts Wheelock and Walker, are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 24 and 25 crews.
Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
I’m impressed by the cooperation between the Russian and American space public relations teams to make the dust cloud from the Expedition 25 team’s touchdown look like a cute poodle.
PUPPY!!
