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- vroom101, on 07/27/2008, -2/+60Larger: http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2005012 ... (1600 x 1600 pixels), http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2005012 ... (2800 x 2800 pixels), http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2005012 ... (3000 x 3000 pixels) via photo 20 at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20050129.htm
#1. Untethered NASA Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-41B), February 1984
(a) 3072 x 3072 pixels, bandwidth-friendly: http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1sts41bbr ... (img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1sts41bbrucemccandlessfk2.jpg) via http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001156. ...
(b) 3000 x 3000 pixels, bandwidth-friendly: http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2sts41bbr ... (img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2sts41bbrucemccandlesslt4.jpg) via http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001087. ...
#2. Untethered NASA Astronaut Robert L. Stewart, Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-41B), February 1984
http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2006102 ... (medium), http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-2006102 ... (large) via 21 at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm
#3. "Walking in the Void": http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/ev ... (www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/eva_stats.html) - SonnyJoeFoxx, on 07/28/2008, -2/+52"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
- inputname, on 07/28/2008, -23/+68Dude not cool, two of my friends died having their pictures taken while untethered.
- DeadpoolSA, on 07/28/2008, -0/+30Untethered? No no no. ***** that.
- CityzenInsane, on 07/27/2008, -26/+49Ground control to major [Mark]
Ground control to major [Mark]
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground control to major [Mark]
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may gods love be with you
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five,
Four, three, two, one, liftoff
This is ground control to major [Mark]
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now its time to leave the capsule if you dare
This is major [Mark] to ground control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell me wife I love her very much she knows
Ground control to major [Mark]
Your circuits dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, major [Mark]
Can you hear me, major [Mark]
Can you hear me, major [Mark]
Can you....
Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the moon
Planet earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do. - duddy, on 07/28/2008, -0/+22Gives a new meaning to "Space Balls".
- P1um, on 07/28/2008, -0/+19I love big bridges
I love when great whites fly
god i'm lonely - inactive, on 07/28/2008, -4/+23That's the Earth. It's round.
- DeathJux, on 07/28/2008, -1/+20Could you imagine being in outer space, untethered... on LSD? I think little could potentially be as soul-rending.
- cyrix, on 07/28/2008, -2/+21I love the mountains
I love the clear blue skies
... - angryfirelord, on 07/28/2008, -0/+17Simply awesome. It's pictures like these that always remind me of continuing to support NASA and space exploration.
- Battlecry, on 07/28/2008, -0/+15Why always with the fish eye camera lenses? Or is everything naturally extra curvy in space?
- DeadpoolSA, on 07/28/2008, -4/+19Will Crysis run on the Shuttle?
- mcool119, on 07/28/2008, -0/+14boom de yada boom de yada boom de yada boom de yada
- LunaticFringe, on 07/28/2008, -0/+12That atmosphere is one mean bitch, eh?
- cyrix, on 07/28/2008, -0/+11I love the whole world.
And all it's sights and sounds. - bjdowns, on 07/28/2008, -1/+12I'm convinced you can't take a bad picture in space.
- crazzy88ss, on 07/28/2008, -1/+8I literally just watched that movie for the first time today... weird as hell ending.
- mytruehero, on 07/28/2008, -0/+7Anywhere, technically. It's the acceleration that gets ya.
- Computer_Kid, on 07/28/2008, -0/+7seeing how the shuttle still uses 486's, no
- inactive, on 07/28/2008, -0/+7They used this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Aid_for_EV ...
The picture in the Wikipedia article is a different one of the same astronaut on the same mission as in the Digg submission. - inactive, on 07/28/2008, -2/+9for every $1000 Americans spend NASA gets $.03
this photo makes that worth it. - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+7http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zV4pJ8MwM
because everyone likes flight of the conchords - TroubledFish, on 07/28/2008, -0/+6HA looks like Hans Gruber at the end of Die Hard.
- morphinapg, on 07/28/2008, -0/+5yeah but not in a place without any density
- listrophy, on 07/28/2008, -0/+5Agreed. We need to fund both NASA and the private space industry. Let's get the word out... it starts out as simply talking about space stuff during your lunch break. Just talk about how cool some of this stuff is.
On a side note, Mark Lee is pretty cool guy. He was my boss for awhile; very soft spoken and easy to talk to. Then again, I *may* be biased. =) - murphy11211, on 07/28/2008, -1/+5Anyone know why they measure it in nautical miles? I would have thought just regular Kms would suffice.
- takameyer, on 07/28/2008, -0/+4Tetherless? Must have got that tractor beam thing figured out.
- shampoozleberry, on 07/28/2008, -0/+4albert hofmann submerged himself in a container of water with a breathing tube and had closed-eye hallucinations. that might compare.
- Prismatic, on 07/28/2008, -0/+4I love the oceans
I love really dirty things - perfectrapture, on 07/28/2008, -0/+4Yeah. Stars don't really exist, they're just fireflies that got stuck in the sky. Those other planets, Mercury, Venus, etc? Yeah. They don't actually exist.
- DarkFusion, on 07/28/2008, -0/+4So what did you do today? Oh nothing, just did some floating around in space.
- mrsammercer, on 07/28/2008, -0/+4Well, once we're up there it won't be empty anymore. And it's not actually "empty", just not very accommodating to humans.
- 4rp4n3t, on 07/28/2008, -1/+4You think? I think it's sad this wasn't buried. Copying and pasting the lyrics from a Bowie tune, and replacing 'Tom' with 'Mark', so that none of it rhymes...? Fail.
- snotrokit, on 07/28/2008, -0/+3all you got is 5 diggs? Damn, that is just sad.
- zplot, on 07/27/2008, -2/+5Beautiful. It looks like a cloudy day over whatever time zone this photo was taken.
- dupems, on 07/28/2008, -2/+5***** you.
- latrosicarius, on 07/28/2008, -0/+3reentry ftw
- crepuscular, on 07/28/2008, -0/+3what positioning is this? all i can see are clouds, where are the lands? The shot covered around 2/3 from a side of the earth judging from the spherical of the edge, yet there's not land, all water and clouds...
- xz9925, on 07/28/2008, -0/+3what the hell is up with this joke?
- Erythroxylum, on 07/28/2008, -0/+3Well for me and my four co-family members, it was worth it to go without our liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen-powered homes, cars and heating in order to get these pictures.
- ThaDRD, on 07/28/2008, -2/+5Photoshopped.
- Chainheart, on 07/28/2008, -0/+3You're right, he only came all that way to have fun and take some photos
- jbarket, on 07/28/2008, -0/+3Hopefully one day you'll realize that sustainable existence requires leaving our pretty blue marble, and that as a species we have and will continue to be well beyond your tiny scope of vision.
- evilregis, on 07/28/2008, -1/+4There is gravity up there.
- h3lx, on 07/28/2008, -0/+2Most impressive... 10/10.
"I can see everything." - chezidom, on 07/28/2008, -0/+2Simply amazing.
- vroom101, on 07/27/2008, -1/+4According to the updated(!) photo caption at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20050129.htm, it's photo 20, NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery was orbiting over the South Pacific Ocean when the picture was taken...
Date and time: 16 September 1994 at 15:19:42 GMT
Latitude: -55.0
Longitude: -99.4
Altitude: 129 nautical miles = 148.450549 miles = 238.90800 kilometers
Sun azimuth: 53°
Sun Elevation Angle: 20°
Both the photo caption and credit cite this link for those details: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mis ... (STS064-217-8, eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS064&roll=217&frame=8)
On the map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=- ... - skobert, on 07/28/2008, -1/+3http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF097-Astronaut_Fa ...
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