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Video: What An Astronaut's Camera Sees
Full screen is a must for this 1080p tour of the Earth! Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASA's astronaut team describes the special places that spacemen focus on whenever they get a moment. (Via)
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Image: Thirty Five Hollywood Space Helmet Reflections
In case you didn’t know there are more space films than just Apollo 13 and 2001: A Space Odyssey, here’s an out of this world collection of 34 Hollywood astronauts and one odd musician out.
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Video: NASA's Moonbase Alpha Game is More Fun Than Intended
NASA's new freeware game, Moonbase Alpha, was meant to drum up interest in the space program. Unfortunately, the game was pretty boring. Luckily, these guys found a way to make it fun. Via The Nerdist. [Warning: NSFW robot language]
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Hotties in Space Suits
Style Buzz Why not? A choice selection of ladies in space suits. Some are real astronauts, others are actors - but they all show that really sexy people can still be sexy in an ugly orange suit.
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Image: Volcano Eruption from Space
Check out this super-cool photo of a Russian volcano eruption as seen from space. Those lucky duckies on the International Space Station took it, and scientists are excited because it shows the shock wave and top of the blast steam bubble. I'm excited because it looks like a marshmallow covered with that disease my goldfish always get.
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Tweeting From Space
Tech Buzz If a space shuttle goes down, you can now blame Twitter. Astronaut Mike Massimino (or Astro_Mike on Twitter) became the first person to tweet from space, while in orbit on a spaceship meant to service the Hubble Telescope. I was totally kidding about the space shuttle crash, but people really shouldn't fly and tweet.
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Link: Rejected Spacesuit Design
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That's one small step for man, one giant leap for astronauts not looking like mournful lighthouse droids. Good choice, NASA!
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Image: Teddy Bears in Space
A group of Cambridge University students sent four teddy bears into suborbital space last week. The “intrepid space teddies” made it back to Earth intact, but frozen solid. Most adorable astronauts ever!
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Image: Teddy Bears in Space
I don't know what crimes these teddy bears committed to deserve this treatment, but they were sent up into space in a homemade weather balloon by a group of schoolchildren in England who are a lot smarter than I am. More great images of the teddies' journey and the full story here.
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Video: Aurora Borealis From Space
Astronaut Donald Pettit created this video out of dozens of still photographs he took from the International Space Station. Kinda makes the eight months of training and many millions of dollars it takes to get up there as a private citizen seem worth it.
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Image: Launch Pig
The story, told in pictures, of an early Russia experiment of firing a pig into the air after first getting it drunk. It would appear the pig remained drunk for the duration of its flight.
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Space Wedding
Culture Buzz Virgin CEO Richard Branson conducts a wedding on a mid-flight airplane to outer space. Add this to the list of things you’ll never get to do. Perhaps the closest taste you’ll ever get is one of these zero-gravity sex chairs.
