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Independent Filmmaker Wants to Kickstart America’s Space Program

July 20, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter “If Kennedy said ‘we will go to the Moon…some time before the century ends,’ what is… what is that? That’s not ambition. That’s pandering.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson, Fight for Space Here we are on the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo [...]

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ISS Night Flight in “Real Time”

February 7, 2012

We’ve featured wonderful time-lapse videos taken from the Space Station many times and each one is amazing to watch, but here’s something a little different: by taking photos at the rate of one per second and assembling them into a time-lapse, we can get a sense of what it’s like to orbit the planet at [...]

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Las Vegas from Space

August 31, 2010

Here are some views of Las Vegas from space. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. This is a nice view of Las Vegas taken during the STS-90 mission in April 1998. Lake Mead is [...]

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America from Space

August 27, 2010

Here are some America pictures from space. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. Here’s an image of the United States from space during the winter season. This image was taken by the Moderate Resolution [...]

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