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Expedition 31 Soyuz Launch
The Soyuz TMA-04M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 11:01 p.m. EDT on Monday (9:01 a.m. Tuesday, Kazakhstan time) carrying Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin to the International Space Station.
The trio will dock to the station’s Poisk Mini-Research Module at 12:38 a.m. Thursday, bringing the Expedition 31 crew to its full six-member complement. Acaba, Revin and Padalka will join the current station residents, Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers, and begin a four-month tour of duty aboard the orbiting complex.
Watch the launch video: http://youtu.be/k64UY0vRPIE
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Japan at night, overall view, taken by @Astro_Aggie, @PC0101@vruz
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Moon Over Earth
Photographed by an Expedition 28 crew member onboard the International Space Station, this image shows the moon at center, with the limb of Earth near the bottom transitioning into the orange-colored troposphere, the lowest and most dense portion of the Earth’s atmosphere.
The troposphere ends abruptly at the tropopause, which appears in the image as the sharp boundary between the orange- and blue- colored atmosphere. The silvery-blue noctilucent clouds extend far above the Earth’s troposphere.
That’s no moon! That’s a… oh, wait, nope, i’m wrong again. That is a moon. Sorry I keep getting those two confused, folks.
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Artist Concept of SLS on Launchpad
The Space Launch System, or SLS, will be designed to carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, as well as important cargo, equipment and science experiments to Earth’s orbit and destinations beyond. Additionally, the SLS will serve as a back up for commercial and international partner transportation services to the International Space Station.
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When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
When all you have is an iPhone 3G, every picture of outer space from the ground looks pretty crappy.
But look! It’s not just a dot! It’s more like a blob or something.
The most awesome. Blob. Ever.
Because it’s a space blob. That people live in!
Yeah, I’m a little excited.
