apollo 15 commander testing gravity vs. weight

today marked the end of the shuttle; and gizmodo remembers the people who didn’t come home.

thedailywhat:

Animated Short of the (Earth) Day: Just in time for Earth Day, an animated illustration of Carl Sagan’s stirring reflection on Voyager 1’s iconic photo of our home planet, the “Pale Blue Dot.”

[ehdubya / dyt.]

thedailywhat:

Animated GIF of the (Catur)Day: Bio: “PopTartCat, the legendary pastry Pokémon. It spends all day on the Internet and all night being breakfast, spewing rainbows.”

No, wait. That’s my bio.

[prguitarman.]

sesame street - i don’t want to live on the moon(sung by ernie)

XKCD’s Abusive astronomy

thedailywhat:

Space Unicorn Song of the Day: Parry Gripp’s Space Unicorn song is by far the best Space Unicorn song of all the Space Unicorn songs.

[parrygripp.]

the lonely astronaut

thedailywhat:

Wolf Parade Music Video of the Day: “Yulia”

Off the band’s third studio album, Expo 86. Director Scott Coffey provides context:

During the Cold War at the beginning of the Space Age, the Soviet Union was rumored to have two space programs – one a public program, the other a secret ‘black’ one, in which dangerous and sometimes downright suicidal missions were attempted. Cosmonauts would be shot into orbit without the means or resources to get them home, stranded in an expanding orbit around earth, slowly pulling away, frozen in space for eternity.

[bravelydone.]

craterface

apollo 11 from the ground