Hurricane Irene (from space)

The ISS really needs to hire some wondow cleaners...

Atlantis Leaves ISS

Like this didn't bring me to tears?

Shuttle Docked To ISS Video

Never to be filmed again. I wish it was HD, still cool though..

Retiring The Shuttle Is A Good Thing

A guy at work today asked me how close the ISS/Shuttle are to the Moon when in Orbit. So I made a graph showing the distance from earth of both (view full size).

So as the shuttle winds down, we start work on Orion:


When it's nearly ready, NASA will propose a mission. Something bigger, and much much farther than the moon.
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U2 Gets A Message From Space

Endeavour Docked With ISS (Pics)

Never happened before, and we will never see this on film again. A once in "forever" chance, for the departing Soyuz (Expedition 27) to catch it.

More pics below..

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/e27depart.html

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Chess On The ISS

Chess is good, play and send me a challenge..here: http://gameknot.com/ I am bozthx.

Space Station Manuvers

This scares me a bit, but NASA says it's no big deal...



Spinning around a big assed Space Station like that, for a photo opportunity, just seems a bit silly...

ISS 3D Pictures

 I love these...

The whole set is here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/magisstra/sets/72157625615844946/

Condolences To Paolo Nespoli

His mother passed, and he is up on the ISS.

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/magisstra/SEM9RJZ57NG_0.html

Thunder Storm As Seen From The ISS

The ISS In 3D

Do you have your old school red-blue glasses? These are beautiful.. Click eack to enlarge.