A solidly researched book on the first American women in space, including some new stories you won’t find elsewhere. There were six women out of the 1978 astronaut class of thirty-five, and the women got all the attention, sometimes to the men’s disgruntlement. Although some of them must have been grateful when they saw the…
Read more Nowadays we don’t even blink when a woman astronaut flies to the ISS
From APOD: Explanation: Will either of these galaxies survive? In what might be dubbed as a semi-final round in a galactic elimination tournament, the two spirals of NGC 7318 are colliding. The featured picture was created from images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. When galaxies crash into each other, many things may happen including…
The Kenai Fjords National Park from space. More national parks as seen from space here. Effing amazing. I spent a lot of my childhood in the Kenai Fjords before it was a national park. I wrote about it in “The Gift,” an essay in Alaska Women Write.
The sky is calling us – NASA from Nickolaus Sugai on Vimeo.
http://www.360cities.net/javascripts/krpano/krpano.swfCuriosity rover: Martian solar day 2 in New Mexico Read all about it here. And this lovely tribute to the people who made it happen, by one of them.
Read more 360-degree view of Mars, courtesy of Mars Curiosity