ARK1 International Space Station Mission Patch / Shepard Fairey
Artist Shepard Fairey may be best known for Obey Giant and his
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Orbital Laboratory Tour / Space Station Commander Sunita Williams (NASA)
November 19, 2012: In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz […]
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Superslice 100: Best of 2012
Behold, our curated collection of what we found to be some of the best cultural bids of the past year. We opened our virtual doors on May 2011 — 2012 was our first full calendar year. We have grown since then, so the list has also expanded. The previous group of the Best 30 has […]
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OVERVIEW (Documentary Short) / Planetary Collective
On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect. The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an […]
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Astronaut Mike Massimino, Kristen Schaal & John Hodgman / StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Live from The Bell House in Brooklyn, New York is the StarTalk Radio Show hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. The show is co-hosted by comedian Eugene Mirman; this premiere episode features guests astronaut Mike Massimino, comedic actress Kristen Schaal and satirist John Hodgman. This is the first video broadcast, on the Nerdist Channel, of Tyson’s largely popular astronomy,...
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ISS Startrails – TRONized / Christoph Malin
Christoph Malin: Do you remember 1982’s TRON movie? The plot: A computer programmer (epic: Jeff Bridges) is digitized inside the software world of a mainframe computer, where he interacts with various programs in his attempt to get back out. I loved the light cycle races and strange solar wind ships… Back in the real word […]
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Space Shuttle Endeavour LA Trek Time Lapse Video / Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times and Bryan Chan: Time-lapse video: Space shuttle Endeavour’s trek across L.A. The space shuttle Endeavour made its final journey last weekend, traveling 12-miles from Los Angeles International Airport, through Inglewood, to the California Science Center in Exposition Park. The retired orbiter was carried through city streets atop a special transporter. Throngs […]
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Neil Armstrong 1930-2012
One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind. There aren’t many strings of words which are more well known than what was uttered by the first human being to set foot upon the Moon. Less than three weeks after NASA landed its fourth unmanned surface rover on Mars (Curiosity), NASA astronaut, test pilot, aerospace […]
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International Space Station Time Lapse / Knate Myers + Fight For Space (Trailer) / Paul Hildebrandt
Your moment of zen. Albuquerque, New Mexico photographer Knate Myers grabbed these frames from the International Space Station (ISS), removed the noise, edited a few shots in Photoshop, compiled them and arranged them into this stunning reel. These unreal images are from the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Fuck...
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Outer Space / Sander van den Berg
Sander van den Berg, an editor, aspiring music video and documentary director based in the Netherlands, has collected image sequences from NASA‘s Cassini and Voyager missions and compiled them into this video. The footage is just short of amazing. A brilliant idea which was artfully executed. The effect is gorgeous and mysterious. –@teemunny
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The Most Astounding Fact (Neil deGrasse Tyson) / Max Schlickenmeyer
An inspiring supercut of the universe’s greatest delights set to astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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The Voyagers (short film) / Penny Lane
The Voyagers is a short film about the extraordinary journey of two spacecrafts, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched by NASA in 1977. The narrator beautifully illustrates the significance of the Voyager mission by weaving a narrative about taking risks and the metaphor of falling in love. The Voyagers was directed by Penny Lane and placed first at the FLEX Awards. –@ybaynes ABOUT THE...
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