Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS (by Michael König)

Satellite Collections by Jenny Odell (via brynnshepherd)

“I’m Zac Manchester, a graduate student in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Over the last several years a few collaborators and I have designed, built, and tested a very tiny and inexpensive spacecraft called Sprite that can be built and launched into low Earth orbit for just a few hundred dollars each!”

In 1960 Joe Kitinger jumped from a specialised helium balloon at just over 100, 000 feet. (approx 20 miles), he fell to Earth at the speed of sound but had no sensation of his speed and felt like he was suspended above the Earth.”


(Source: youtube.com)

We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot (HD) (by TCBLSA)

Paris Apple

Paris Apple

(via meganstruble)

April 8th, 2011 | 528 notes