Wheels In Space

Friday, February 18th, 2011 07:18 pm
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This is long for a YouTube vid but so totally worth watching, OMG it's so awesomely amazing. It's a series of vignettes of Expedition 24, with a particular focus on Doug Wheelock, who was a Flight Engineer on Expedition 24 and then Commander of Expedition 25.



Expedition 24 is special to me, because the final EVA (by Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson) took place on the day my niece was born. When I tell her about space and the ISS, I can tell her about what happened there on the day she was born.
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Poem: Blue

Thursday, November 18th, 2010 10:35 pm
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You may have seen this already on Twitter - a poem has been written to accompany a now-classic picture of Tracy Caldwell Dyson looking at the Earth from the cupola of the International Space Station.

View the full-size version here, thankfully not huge

If I were still of an age to have posters on my bedroom wall, I would totally want this. I can imagine, in years to come, astronauts saying they remember seeing this picture as children and thinking 'that could be me one day'. How awesome would that be? And I want to nominate the photo as the iconic image of 2010.
  • Current Mood: enthralled
  • Current Music: Room 101: Stephen Fry
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