moonshot

Space education + aesthetic blog. Space history and planetary science focus. NACA - Artemis, US+International. Run by a former planetary sciences student and NASA visitor center employee. Header: @cherrysource

[vintagegeekculture]

[lunastation]

March 11, 2021: "The Canadarm2 robotic arm, with an external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries in its grip, is pictured as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above the Sahara in the African nation of Chad." (NASA)

[mpmountainworks]

details/March 13th 2021

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[clxudburst]

spacewalk outside the international space station - 3/13/20

[marswiggles]

Persverance, Sol 20, Navcam (left/right)

[rynscanvas]

Infinite Black Hole | Do not repost | RB Shop

[without-ado]

Pluto as seen from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ; Its heart-shaped sea is filled with poisonous ice.

[cosmos-kitty]

8-BA11 🎱

[just--space]

Carina in Perspective : You need to be in the south, looking south, to see such a sky. And only then if you’re lucky. Just above the picturesque tree is the impressive Carina Nebula, one of the few nebulas in the sky that is visible to the unaided eye. The featured image had to be taken from a very dark location to capture the Carina Nebula with such perspective and so near the horizon. The Great Nebula in Carina, cataloged as NGC 3372, is home to the wildly variable star Eta Carinae that sometimes flares to become one of the brightest stars in the sky. Above Carina is IC 2944, the Running Chicken Nebula, a nebula that not only looks like a chicken, but contains impressive dark knots of dust. Above these red-glowing emission nebulas are the bright stars of the Southern Cross, while on the upper left of the image is the dark Coalsack Nebula. This image was composed from six consecutive exposures taken last summer from Padre Bernardo, Goiás, Brazil. Even with careful planning, the astrophotographer felt lucky to get this shot because clouds – some still visible near the horizon – kept getting in the way. via NASA

[void-refraction]

Some astrophotography ✨ July 2020

[lmxmhr]

Interstellar (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan

[lunastation]

Eileen Collins listens to a parachute ejection briefing, 1990.

[astronotmovie]

Solitude. 4 months after Apollo 11 touched down on the moon, Apollo 12 followed, Nov 1969. Astronauts Pete Conrad & Alan Bean walked on the lunar surface while Richard Gordon orbited above in the Command Module. Bean & Conrad spent 31 hours on the moon; 7 hours & 45 minutes of that on 2 EVAs. Amazingly they landed within walking distance of Surveyor 3, a robotic probe which landed in Apr 1967.

[humanoidhistory]

Astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, appears on Sesame Street in 1984.

(MuppetWiki)

[astronotmovie]

The Shuttle has the definite right of way. Space Shuttle Endeavour on its final voyage, a 12-mile route meandering through the streets of Los Angeles, Oct 2012. It was moved on a 160-wheel carrier to the California Science Center. The highway treck cost a reported 10 million, but the sight of it all; priceless!

[galadrils]

16.07.2019 / full moon