Neil deGrasse Tyson: What NASA Means to America’s Future.
He also recently got his frequent guest card punched on Colbert.
Satellites orbiting Earth, by nation.
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Inflatable heat shield.
“The temperature the shield can withstand depends on how wide it is, says chief engineer Robert Dillman of Langley. A wider shield slows the craft down more and spreads the heat over a greater surface area.”
The eye of the storm.
Hurricane Ivan as it approached the Gulf Coast, 2004.
The Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog has a bunch of photos of hurricanes as seen from space. Most of them from either the ISS or the Space Shuttle.
Here’s another impressive picture of Ivan from the ISS, with solar panels in the foreground.
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Dead Space “Garden” trailer.
So much alien exploding.