Recently, everyone has been looking at the night sky, looking for a meteor. Astronaut Ron Caran, currently on board the International Space Station, had a unique view; he saw and captured a meteor burning up in our atmosphere, from space!
© Ron Garan/NASA
The picture was taken during the annual Perseid meteor …
Posted on August 15, 2011 by Ashley Corbion .
Posted on June 9, 2011 by Ashley Corbion .
A few days ago, Expedition 27 came back from the ISS on board the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft. One of the crew members, flight engineer Paolo Nespoli (the others were Commander Dmitri Kondratyev and flight engineer Cady Coleman) had the occasion to take unique pictures of Endeavour docked to the ISS. …
Posted on March 11, 2011 by Ashley Corbion .
Remember this amazing sequence the ISS and Discovery from the ground? Well, Thierry Legault has done it again, this time with a picture showing NASA astronaut Steve Bowen doing a spacewalk during Discovery’s last mission! And this is the first ever of this kind.
Posted on March 1, 2011 by Ashley Corbion .
In the previous post dedicated to the Moon, I mentioned the fact that a pair of binoculars or a simple telescope can reveal beautiful details on the surface of our satellite. On some special occasions, you can get astonishing views through the eye of a telescope… As you probably all …
