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22 May 12 505 notes lookhigh: A ‘Picture Perfect’ Launch Looking like a bright star streaking up into a black sky, a rocket took off before dawn today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying an unmanned capsule filled with food, clothes, and other supplies for astronauts on the international space station. But this robotic cargo ship doesn’t belong to NASA. Instead, it’s owned by a company called SpaceX, which made history by launching the first ever private spacecraft on a mission to the station. SpaceX has a $1.6 billion cargo-delivery contract with NASA, which is turning routine flights to the station over to industry so that the veteran space agency can start to focus on more ambitious exploration efforts. (NPR) Photo: Historic @SpaceX #DragonLaunch to ISS. @NASA on Twitpic

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A ‘Picture Perfect’ Launch

Looking like a bright star streaking up into a black sky, a rocket took off before dawn today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying an unmanned capsule filled with food, clothes, and other supplies for astronauts on the international space station.

But this robotic cargo ship doesn’t belong to NASA. Instead, it’s owned by a company called SpaceX, which made history by launching the first ever private spacecraft on a mission to the station.

SpaceX has a $1.6 billion cargo-delivery contract with NASA, which is turning routine flights to the station over to industry so that the veteran space agency can start to focus on more ambitious exploration efforts. (NPR)

Photo: Historic @SpaceX #DragonLaunch to ISS. @NASA on Twitpic

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12 May 12 1 note

theirish said:
"Have you read Packing for Mars?"

Yes, I have! I highly recommend it to anyone interested in space or NASA or science or astronauts or poop.

Mary Roach is a great author, really good at distilling the interesting points from what’s dry and boring in other hands. And she makes the esoteric or off-putting totally accessible. And she’s hilarious. BONK and SPOOK are worth picking up, too.

It’s not a great starting point for anyone interested in mission-specific NASA history kind of stuff though. For that I’d recommend This New Ocean and Apollo but they’re a bit dry (and suuuuuper dense). Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff and Jim Lovell’s Lost Moon (aka Apollo 13) are pretty obviously popular reads. I haven’t gotten through many astronaut bios yet but I like Mike Mullane and Gene Cernan’s books, and Buzz Aldrin “co-writes” some fun novels.

theirish answers! space nasa nerdery okay hopefully you can actually read the answer because in the queue it's blank :| queue

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06 May 12 238 notes ourpresidents: Watching lift-off from the White House President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others watch the lift-off of the first American in space, Astronaut Alan Shepard.  The television is in the Office of the President’s Secretary in White House. 5/5/61 -from the JFK Library

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Watching lift-off from the White House

President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others watch the lift-off of the first American in space, Astronaut Alan Shepard.  The television is in the Office of the President’s Secretary in White House. 5/5/61

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30 April 12 5,514 notes

smithsonianmag:

Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration

The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation.

Photos: NASA

Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission.

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