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canadian-space-agency:

Happy Sweet 16, ISS!

November 20th marked the launch anniversary of the first module of the International Space Station (ISS), Zarya. On that day in 1998 began the construction in space of this unique scientific and exploration outpost that enables researchers from all over the world to put their talents to work with innovative experiments that could not be done anywhere else.

We thank our partners from the United States, Russia, Europe and Japan for 16 years of outstanding collaboration. Here’s to many more!

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jtotheizzoe:

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft is set to release  its Philae probe in preparation for touchdown on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko tomorrow, November 12. 

In case that didn’t sink in, tomorrow some human beings are going to try and land a spaceship on a comet. Here’s what you need to know, thanks to the folks at Nature (click here to explore a bigger version of the infographic).

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#space #the power of science #(there are *so* many things that could go wrong) #(here’s hoping this works)

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canadian-space-agency:

Yesterday, November 2nd 2014, marked the 14th anniversary of continuous human presence aboard the ISS! What an amazing accomplishment!

In the first picture : (from left to right) Expedition 1 crew members Sergei Krikalev, William Shepherd and Yuri Gidzenko

In the 2nd picture : (from left to right) Expedition 41 crew members Reid Wiseman, Alexander Gerst, Maxim Suraev, Barry Wilmore, Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova

Credit: ISS Research/NASA

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sci-universe:

This is how a close-up of lightning beneath a cumulonimbus cloud looks like from space. An astronaut on International Space Station (ISS) captured this image while orbiting over Bolivia in 2011.

There’s also a more recent image of lightning’s white flash amidst the yellow city lights of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from 2013:

Hopefully, we are going to see more and more of these amazing images since there is a new instrument on ISS, called the Firestation,  which is specifically designed to study lightning.

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jtotheizzoe:

skunkbear:

Can you survive in space without a spacesuit?

Guardians of the Galaxy has re-ignited the age-old question. Or this slightly different question, asked by Adam Frank, how do you die in space? Here’s some answers.

You know the answer to the question “what happens in space if you aren’t wearing a spacesuit” is going to be “very bad things”, but just what those bad things are is the interesting part.

Also, hi Eric! 

(that’s my friend Eric in the video)

I think we’ve learned a valuable lesson today: if you are about to be exposed to vacuum, expel as much of the air in your lungs as possible.

(“Don’t be exposed to vacuum at all” is also a valuable lesson, but I feel confident we all knew that one already.)

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