NOT ON REX MANNING DAY!

Oooooooh! I need!

It’s unfortunate that I’d have to fork out $90 for you though.

Obviously I’m talking about the model.

Buzz Aldrin
He walkin’ on mah face

I wouldn’t stop singing that for the entire time it was on my body. I sing it often enough without it on my body.

alessiaporcaro:

I must dash soon, and I’ll post more photos later, but first I will post this for Bre. Because I know how much she loves the Dish.

This is not just any replica, though! It’s a LEGO replica!

My heart is jumping with delight! Why oh why can’t this be mine?!

Ed Harris and his piercing gaze as Gene Kranz in Apollo 13.

Be still, my throbbing … heart.

On board Apollo 13, Jack Swigert and Jim Lovell photographed working on the carbon dioxide solution by Fred Haise.

Jack totally looks like Jason Isaacs here. Strange considering he truly looked nothing like him.

(Source: apolloarchive.com)

Scientists have found the biggest and oldest reservoir of water ever—so large and so old, it’s almost impossible to describe.

The water is out in space, a place we used to think of as desolate and desert dry, but it’s turning out to be pretty lush.

Researchers found a lake of water so large that it could provide each person on Earth an entire planet’s worth of water—20,000 times over. Yes, so much water out there in space that it could supply each one of us all the water on Earth—Niagara Falls, the Pacific Ocean, the polar ice caps, the puddle in the bottom of the canoe you forgot to flip over—20,000 times over.

The water is in a cloud around a huge black hole that is in the process of sucking in matter and spraying out energy (such an active black hole is called a quasar), and the waves of energy the black hole releases make water by literally knocking hydrogen and oxygen atoms together.

The official NASA news release describes the amount of water as “140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans,” which isn’t particularly helpful, except if you think about it like this.

That one cloud of newly discovered space water vapor could supply 140 trillion planets that are just as wet as Earth is.

Mind you, our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has about 400 billion stars, so if every one of those stars has 10 planets, each as wet as Earth, that’s only 4 trillion planets worth of water.

The new cloud of water is enough to supply 28 galaxies with water.

Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolvling, revolving at 900 miles an hour.

ohscience:

An ultraviolet picture of the sun reveals strands of plasma being pushed and pulled above the star’s surface.

The strands are superheated helium being tugged by competing magnetic forces within the sun, according to NASA, and were observed from May 23 through May 25.

THIS IS PORN!

“Guests view space shuttle Endeavour (STS-134) as it launches skyward from the balcony of the Operations Support Building II (OSB-II), Monday, May 16, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. During the 16-day mission, Endeavour, with Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Gregory H. Johnson, Mission Specialists Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency astronaut Robert Vittori will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for Dextre. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)”

It’s the opposite side of this photo!

Endeavour’s external tank after jettison 8 minutes into the expedition filmed by Mike Fincke.

I need to give the computer a rest but I’m too busy keeping an eye on live footage from Mission Control in Houston and hanging out for videos like this from Endeavour’s last mission.

An epic picture of space shuttle Endeavour breaking the clouds today by Stefanie Gordon on twitpic.