NASA
Probably the coolest quote ever “I've been to space four times. And impressed the aliens by telling them I'd been to earth five times!” by astronaut Mark Kelly.
Yes the dud traveled with space missions: STS-108, STS-121, STS-134, STS-124 and he use to twitter daily from out of space.
Commander Kelly has provided us with fabulous pictures of the blue planet for years.
Thanks Mark
You don't need to travel far to understand how small we are.
In this rare image taken on 19 July, the wide-angle camera on the international Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and Moon in the same frame. Earth, 1.44 billion km away in this image, appears as a blue dot at center right; the Moon can be seen as a fainter protrusion off its right side. The other bright dots nearby are stars.
So have some respect next time you pass a an anthill :)
3 Android smartphones destined to become small satellites at low prices was sent on Sunday aboard the flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va.
The devices for this mission is built around the Nexus One smartphone made by HTC.
NASA's PhoneSat project will demonstrate the ability to launch the lowest-cost and easiest to build satellites ever flown in space – capabilities enabled by using off-the-shelf consumer smartphones to build spacecraft.
A cool thing is that all amateur radio and shortwave listeners around the world can participate in this mission by monitoring transmissions and retrieving images and data from the three satellites.
Well, next time a stewardess ask me to turn off my phone in the airplane, I know what to say :)
In less than two weeks I will participate in a live video-conference with the International Space Station. This is managed by Google and will also be broadcasts on the NASA Television YouTube channel.
This unique opportunity will connect me with the astronauts; Kevin Ford, Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn, living and working on the orbiting laboratory 240 miles above the Earth.
We will be 106 participants as it look for the moment from planet Earth! I know this is so geeky but I couldn't resist, we live in an amazing world.
