Touchdown of Soyuz TMA-07M with ISS Expedition 35. The plume seen immediately after is dust thrown up by the Soyuz descent module’s soft landing rockets firing just before impact.
With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.
Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.
It’s been a while and it’s time to come back. No better video to restart things than this. That’s Chris Hadfield’s actual space singing voice.
SeaLaunch Zenit 3SL launches Eutelsat 70B from 154ºW on the Equator.
Soyuz 2-1b launches two Galileo satellites from ESA Kourou Space Center in French Guiana.
(Source: spaceflightnow.com)
ATK GEM-60 Solid Rocket Motor Test.
Footage of a massive coronal mass ejection from the sun as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Neil Armstrong ejects moments before the crash of a Lunar Landing Research Vehicle. It was nerves of steel like this that got him picked to command Apollo 11.
(Source: brownpau)
