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The Last Shuttle, Dan Winters

Milky Way Over Mt. Bachelor - Mitch Darby

2,000 light years from hone, Ceres

Curiosity descends

Ode to Apollo 11 and the joy of discovery

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Father and son oberve Apollo 11 Launch © Ralph Crane 

NASA concept art from the Apollo era.

International Space Station flyover

Stunning, trippy 1970s NASA concept art for future space colony designs. Available (plus many more) in super hi-res here (and copyright free), for all your desktop wallpaper and/or prog-rock album cover needs. (via io9)

A vintage NASA-commissioned Rick Guidice painting gives a cutaway view of the inside of a space colony design known as the Stanford torus, a proposed habitat that would house 10,000 to 140,000 permanent residents. The rotating, doughnut-shaped ring could have a diameter of around 2 kilometers, revolving once per minute to give about 1.0g of artificial gravity on the inside of the ring through centripetal force. A massive system of mirrors would provide the sunlight needed for daily activity, agriculture, and so forth. (NASA Ames Research Center)

NASA concept art from the Apollo era.

What Neil Armstrong knew is what we never will

The Sirens of Titan

Europe - André Kuipers 

I - ISS Over Europe

II - Wolgograd

III - London

IV - Amsterdam

V - Naples

VI - Paris

(Original Photo credit to NASA)

Fly by, The moons of Mars

Curiosity’s Marsian panoramas.

The Sirens of Titan