I love this image of a Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft just one second from landing on the very hard soil of the tundra near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. A perfect peaceful still moment—the calm before the rocking rumpus. Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"It looks a bit uneventful to say the least. I can't get a sense of scale from the photo so it looks a bit toy like to me." More »
Like any other person, Don Pettit tweets, uploads YouTube videos, and maintains a blog. But unlike the rest of us, Don is doing it from the International Space Station. Blogging for Smithsonian's Air and Space magazine, Pettit tells us how to host dinner guests in Space.Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
""The image of an insect sucking the juices from some lower insect may come to mind"
Is this where my morbid fear of Capri Sun and Ribena comes from..." More »
Astronaut Don Pettit doesn't have the name recognition of Ansel Adams, but his work transcends cultures and borders around the globe -- literally. Pettit is the photographer behind the amazing timelapses coming from the ISS and here he is with his cameras. All 10 of them. Read More >>
Featured comment by AtomicFire:
"Unfortunately orbital mechanics doesn't work quite like that, it'd continue orbiting for quite a while until it's velocity decreased, and then it's a ..." More »
Astronaut Don Pettit has a knack for making life on the space station seem like more fun than you can ever have on Earth. And recently he used the station's Lego collection for some entertaining makeshift experiments with static electricity. Read More >>
Featured comment by TommyDonuts:
"LEGO don't actually approve of using it in the plural at all or even as a noun for that matter, so if you're being pedantic it's LEGO bricks, LEGO set..." More »
This image made at the International Space Station is not your usual ISS image. No firing auroras. No gleaming cities. No fuming catastrophes or crispy deserts or psychedelic rivers or turquoise seas. It looks as if the ISS was about to jump into hyperspace. Read More >>
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