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more about #internationalspacestation Bill-Lee: It reminds me of the opening shot of 2001: A Space Odyssey. All the more cool for being real. My girlfriend is playing some trippy New Age music and t... more » burlybax: Beautiful.. I was driving home from work the other day, and the sun was setting directly in front of me. It was beautiful, and I could actually look ... more » Michael Interbartolo III: speaking of spaceporn I sent this video link in but guess you haven't read it yet. cool video from the ascent imagery this mission. [www.vimeo.co... more » KaneBaker: I can look at space porn forever. more » Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: Bonus points for the Iain Banks reference, Charlie. more » siriusscaper001: 6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2 more » Belabras: There were lots of great shots from STS-129. This one is my favorite: here more » geesejuggler: Is anyone else panicking about how tiny it is? We're gonna die! more » morpheuse: thats just beautiful and frightening at the same time... more » SpammerOvTheGods: hopefully, we won't see the shuttle dragging its ass across the space station. #@! more » erzwatts: "Some time later, a colony of C. elegans that had been on board was found in the crashed wreckage, alive and well." Creepy more » theCrippleCricket: Wonder if these worms will duke it out with the juiced up monkeys from yesterdays post... Either way, apparently cripple will be fixed in some wicked... more » Bill-Lee: And you're absolutely sure this has nothing to do with turning watery worlds into deserts? more » Bill-Lee: No love for the zero-g toilet from 2001? more » Luziphir: I don't know what that sign at the top of the page is from, but ZZ is male and ZW is female. Unless they're trying to get some hot human on alien acti... more » Zapp Brannigan's Girdle: A slight correction, even though I really hate to sound like some sort of hyper-offended fanboy, but the brig toilet was seen in Star Trek V: The Fina... more » palmer45: Wonder where's the bathroom on the TARDIS, if it even has one! Though it has to since it has all those rooms we haven't seen in the new series...excep... more » jajbowler: What about Spaceballs? The toilets may not have been futuristic, but the video conference screens above them were pretty awesome... though it would b... more » ManchuCandidate: The Lexx licking toilet would kind of creep me out. Okay, replace kind of with totally. Starbuck staring/glaring at me while she pees is disturbing ... more » tetracycloide: he doesn't know what to do with the sea shells more » -
#spaceporn
Our Atmosphere: A Fragile Sliver Of Blue Against An Endless Black
Earth's atmosphere shimmers in the sunlight, against a dark background, in this amazing photo taken by the crew of the International Space Station during a docking with the Space Shuttle Atlantis. [NASA] -
#spaceshuttle
Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms
Space Shuttle Atlantis took to the skies this week, carrying thousands of microscopic worms to be used in muscle-degeneration research. We already know these worms can handle spaceflight, because in 2003, another group of them survived a fall from orbit. More » -
#triviagasm
Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
With the toilet on the International Space Station busted once again, we can't help but wonder whether humanity is doomed to a space-faring future without working facilities. Fortunately, there are plenty of fictional, functional space toilets to ease our minds. More » -
#rocketporn
An Experimental Rocket Soars Over The Coast, On Its Way To A Pre-Planned Disaster
A specially designed rocket soars over Wallops Island, VA, on its way to test a new astronaut escape system for NASA's Orion spacecraft, due to start launching in 2015. Want to see the fancy new escape system? There are parachutes... More » -
#madscience
Astronauts Drink Their Own Urine For The First Time
It's the moment that all astronauts knew that they'd have to face, but really didn't want to: The drinking of their own recycled urine. And, just to make the event more pleasurable, these astronauts are doing it on camera. More » -
#beyondcosmodrome
Kazakhstan's Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space
It's amazing how sleek and old-school the Soyuz rocket looks, preparing to blast off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. Especially surrounded by Soviet-looking guards. More Cosmodrome porn is below. More » -
#spacerace
Vote to Make Serenity Into a Real Space Vessel!
NASA is running a contest to name the new "Node 3" of the International Space Station, and Serenity is in the lead! Node 3 will allow several more people to live full-time in space. More » -
#crapperwatch2008
Toilet Triumph in Space!
At last the brave astronauts aboard the International Space Station have received their $19 million Russian toilet, and are ready to start using it to turn their urine into tasty drinking water.
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#auroras
Eye-To-Eye With A Storm Striking Earth's Atmosphere
Here's a picture of a geomagnetic storm causing crazy auroras to light up the sky over Newfoundland, as seen from the International Space Station. The ISS is actually at the same altitude as these auroras, and sometimes flies straight through the Northern Lights. Click through for another trippy picture of Earth's auroras as seen from space. More » -
#spaceshuttleporn
Space Shuttle Blastoff Looks Like Cotton Candy
We finally got the Space Shuttle Atlantis off the ground, after two months of delays and accidents, and it looks totally rich and creamy, streaming into the sky on the back of its big booster rocket. How can we be planning to retire the space shuttle program when it's such an awesome source of porn? Not to mention the advancement of science: the shuttle's mission is to deliver that tiny Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station. Click through for a gallery. More » -
#scienceart
Earth's Ecosystems Look Juicy When Seen From Space
Brazil's Sao Simao Reservoir looks like a painted scifi planetscape in this photo, taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. Astronaut photos from the ISS help with understanding and managing complex ecosystems like wetlands and coral reefs. But mostly they just look fucking cool. This is the 300,000th image NASA has downloaded from the ISS. Click through for a gallery of other recent images. More » -
#art
Accidental Space Station Art
Fragile little guys in their gym clothes dangle just above the curve of the Earth in this computer illustration of the Columbus laboratory module. Space Shuttle Atlantis will install this module on the International Space Station soon after tomorrow's launch. Image by ESA/AP.
