26 month ago
joshua : MYBEDROOMVIEW.jpg - Anousheh Ansari is flickr'ing from space. how cool is that?
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26 month ago
joshua : Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature - rules for astrogeography names
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39 month ago
joshua : The Surface Of The Sun - the sun is made of iron!
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40 month ago
Andy Baio : A Rocket to Nowhere - Maciej Ceglowski's excellent article on the problems with NASA's manned space flight program
jimray : An unimpassioned look at the shuttle - With a great historical perspective I had never heard
joshua : rocket to nowhere - maciej versus the space shuttle: FIGHT
kayodeok : A Rocket To Nowhere - "Clearly this primitive space plane must have been a sacred artifact, used in religious rituals to deliver sacrifice to a sky god"
deusx : Idle Words: A Rocket to Nowhere - "As tempting as it is to picture a blood-spattered Canadarm flinging goat carcasses into the void, we know that the Shuttle is the fruit of what was supposed to be a rational decision making process."
jkottke : Fantastic must-read article slamming NASA with regard to the Space Shuttle program - I've been following Maciej's del.icio.us links about the Shuttle for weeks now and was wondering if he'd get around to writing it up. Worth the wait.
Milo Vermeulen : Idle Words - A Rocket To Nowhere [via]
Charles Miller : A Rocket To Nowhere - Maciej Ceglowski points out that the NASA shuttle program has no clothes.
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41 month ago
Andy Baio : Google Moon - try zooming all the way in
jkottke : Google Moon: explore the Apollo landing sites in the Google Maps interface
joshua : Google Moon - mmm, cheese
kayodeok : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - "In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we?ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor"
gleuschk : Google Moon - zoom all the way in
Rod Begbie : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - Lovely little Googletreat to celebrate the anniversary of the moon landings. Make sure and try zooming in to the maximum resolution to see what the moon is made of. #
jimray : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - Just a small slice of the moon, commemorating the original moon landing 36 years ago. Still cool, though.
erikbenson : Google Moon - Zoom in all the way to see the moon at a level of detail never experienced before.
Simon Willison : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - Be sure to zoom all the way in for a Wallace and Gromit like revelation. (via) [via]
Philippe Janvier : Google Moon - Un petit pas pour l'homme... [via] #
Linkorama : Google Moon - Honestly, if you are going to visit a fairly large moon, why would you keep going to the same place? What is this, Lunar Vegas?
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