Wow. The Journey Home.
(Plus Peter Gabriel. Everything is better with Peter Gabriel)
Watch a time lapse video of our planet from space: The Journey Home From the International Space Station. It is absolutely breath taking. I love this so much I’m sharing it all over the place.
Ron Garan, the space-tweeting NASA astronaut who returned in September from five-and-a-half-months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), released a video on Monday that he says “is about as close as we can come to show what astronauts see in space”…
To make the video, Garan and [astronaut Mike] Fossum set DSLR cameras to take one picture about every three seconds. Garan says that even though the ISS is traveling at a speed of 17,500 mph, time-lapse photography gives the impression that the space station is traveling even faster.
Music by Peter Gabriel.
Via The Huffington Post.
reblogged from darylelockhart source: The Huffington Post
I know this has probably been posted to death already but damn, it’s beautiful. ISS time lapse of the earth.
(via Spaceflight Now)
HOUSTON — Astronauts may need to temporarily withdraw from the International Space Station before the end of this year if Russia is unable to resume manned flights of its Soyuz rocket after a failed cargo launch last week, according to the NASA official in charge of the outpost.
