Wednesday, April 18, 2012

APOD

Today's Astronomy Photo Of the Day is amazing.


It shows the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, and follows on nicely from this post about the interior of the Space X Dragon crew vehicle. 

This 360° panorama of the interior of the Discovery is also worth a look. 

It's just incredible to look at them next to something like the Gemini space capsules, which were so tiny and cramped in comparison.


This pic is from the Gemini 8 mission, which is an incredible story in itself. It stars Neil Armstrong in pre-Apollo badassery!

The rest of the photos in that series are also pretty amazing.

Manned spaceflight is endlessly fascinating to me...

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