Showing posts with label Cosmonaut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cosmonaut. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

How NASA Prepare Space Shuttle For Launching

As a kid, I really want to be an astronaut or cosmonaut. Not because I want to be in outer-space but because I have something inside me that really into heavy machinery. So, as today I already become an engineer, I think it is not really bad at all. 

These pictures shown the amount of thought and engineering that goes into every launch which is hugely immense. In each successful take-off, it represents the Mankind's finest effort, and is a wonder to behold. 

Too bad NASA already terminate the Space Shuttle program. NASA Space Shuttle Pre-Launch Activities.


External tank arrives by barge from Louisiana


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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Incredible Space Photos From ISS

These are amazing photographs with views of the Earth from space. They were taken by Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin who spent 163 days in space in 2010 staying aboard the ISS.

I wonder what kind of camera he used.



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