There’s an asteroid in a retrograde orbit, traveling backwards relative to all the other Centaurs, so of course some smart-ass scientist named it “Doiretsa”.
There’s an asteroid in a retrograde orbit, traveling backwards relative to all the other Centaurs, so of course some smart-ass scientist named it “Doiretsa”.
NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years.
The space agency announced its newest astronaut class Monday. Among the lucky candidates: the first female fighter pilot to become an astronaut in nearly two decades. A female helicopter pilot also is in the group. In fact, four of the eight are women, the highest percentage of female astronaut candidates ever selected by NASA.
The eight were chosen from the second largest pool of applications ever received — over 6,100 — NASA said.
Among them are Nicole Aunapu Mann, 35, a Marine Corps major and F/A 18 pilot; and Anne McClain, 34, a major in the US Army and OH-58 helicopter pilot.
The others are Jessica Meir, 35, an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Christina Hammock, 34, who is National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Station Chief in American Samoa.
The male astronaut candidates are former naval aviator Josh Cassada, 39; Navy lieutenant commander and F/A 18 pilot Victor Glover, 37; Tyler Hague, 37, a US Air Force colonel working to tackle improvised explosive devices; and Andrew Morgan, 37, an army major and physician of emergency medicine.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/112206-nasa-picks-8-new-astronauts-4-of-them-women/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/17/new-u-s-astronaut-class-is-half-female/
Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 1954
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Mad Men 6x12: The Quality of Mercy
Not even the season finale, but this episode was gold. Reminded me how much I love so many of these characters.
That Don Draper baby, though. I can’t.
Not my gifs, duh.
Voyager - Space Show @1988
This needs to be posterized…
An astronaut’s view from station
A view of Earth as seen from the Cupola on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station. Visible in the top left foreground is a Russian Soyuz crew capsule. In the lower right corner, a solar array panel can be seen.
Image credit: NASA
Behind the Scenes: Prometheus
Noomi Rapace as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw
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Messing around with Orbiter 2010, I decided to fly to put a Dream Chaser on a Delta IV Heavy. The white halo around the spacecraft is the shockwave from maximum aerodynamic pressure, or max Q.
ATV Art.
