Saw these pics by Vincent Fournier when I was checking out the Las Vegas photographs on Iconology. They appear to be of Russian astronaut training facilities and they’re gorgeous. There’s more – of astronauts in forbidding landscapes here. Vincent’s website is here.
Mars Sunset taken by Spirit Rover
I just have to acknowledge the amazing job that the Mars Exploration Rover project has done. Launched January 25, 2004, the Opportunity rover has operated for 2332 days – over 20 times its planned 90 day lifespan. It is still operating and sending back photos & data. Even the Spirit rover (launched June 3, 2003) which has been stuck in soft soil since May 2009 is still operational.
It’s hard enough to make things work on this planet – hats off to the design team!
Really cool photos of the LDEF satellite exterior.
Here’s the story From The Nonist: “This cylindrical object is a roughly school-bus sized structure which was deployed into space in 1984. It orbited the Earth for five and a half years with nothing expected of it other than to float there, getting battered about by whatever the great black yonder saw fit to throw at it. The images … are each of individual sections of the LDEF’s exterior.”
