Wanderers / Erik Wernquist
Wanderers is a vision of humanity’s expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. The locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available. […]
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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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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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Mission Accomplished: 128,100 ft Jump / Felix Baumgartner x Red Bull Stratos
After flying to an altitude of 39,045 meters (128,100 feet) in a helium-filled balloon, Felix Baumgartner completed a record breaking jump for the ages from the edge of space, exactly 65 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier flying in an experimental rocket-powered airplane. Felix reached a maximum of speed of 1,342.8 km/h […]
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Eclipse / Théo Guignard x Noé Lecombre x Hugo Moreno (Gobelins School of Image)
Check out this fantastic animated short by students Théo Guignard, Noé Lecombre and Hugo Moreno, from the Gobelins School of Image in Paris, France. The premise: on a distant planet, two scientists analyzing the field for its magnetic properties are faced with an extraordinary phenomenon linked to the lunar eclipse. It’s Neil Denari meets Future […]
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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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Supersonic Freefall (CGI) / Red Bull Stratos
Red Bull Stratos, a mission to the edge of space, will attempt to transcend human limits that have existed for 50 years. Supported by a team of experts Felix Baumgartner plans to ascend to 120,000 feet in a stratospheric balloon and make a freefall jump rushing toward earth at supersonic speeds before parachuting to the […]
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