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Mediterranean Sea by 27MM Via Flickr: www.27MM.net

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iss047e061131 by NASA Johnson Via Flickr: iss047e061131 (04/16/2016) --- Tim Kopra photographed his breakfast floating inside of the Unity module aboard the International Space Station. In a Tweet, he remarked "#Breakfast taco on #ISS: refried beans, shredded pork, pepperjack cheese, eggs, and salsa on a torilla. Awesome..." twitter.com/astro_tim/status/721301334406926336

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Pegasus Carried by B-52 by NASA on The Commons Via Flickr: This image shows a Pegasus being carried to altitude by B-52. An air-launched, three stage, all solid-propellant, three-axis stabilized vehicle, the Pegasus was designed to put a 400-1,000 pound payload into low-Earth orbit. For more information about Pegasus, please see Chapter 5 in Roger Launius and Dennis Jenkins' book To Reach the High Frontier. Image # : PegasusAir

Date: April 5, 1990

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Liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe by NASA on The Commons Via Flickr: Description: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe. This spectacular streak shot was taken from Hangar AF on Cape Canaveral Air Station, with a solid rocket booster retrieval ship in the foreground. Launch occurred at 4:43 a.m. EDT, October 15, from Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Station. After a 2.2-billion mile journey that will include two swingbys of Venus and one of Earth to gain additional velocity, the two-story tall spacecraft will arrive at Saturn in July 2004. The orbiter will circle the planet for four years, its complement of 12 scientific instruments gathering data about Saturn's atmosphere, rings and magnetosphere and conducting closeup observations of the Saturnian moons. Huygens, with a separate suite of six science instruments, will separate from Cassini to fly on a ballistic trajectory toward Titan, the only celestial body besides Earth to have an atmosphere rich in nitrogen. Scientists are eager to study further this chemical similarity in hopes of learning more about the origins of our own planet Earth. Huygens will provide the first direct sampling of Titan's atmospheric chemistry and the first detailed photographs of its surface. The Cassini mission is an international effort involving NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI). The Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the U.S. contribution to the mission for NASA's Office of Space Science. The major U.S. contractor is Lockheed Martin, which provided the launch vehicle and upper stage, spacecraft propulsion module and radioisotope thermoelectric generators that will provide power for the spacecraft. The Titan IV/Centaur is a U.S. Air Force launch vehicle, and launch operations were managed by the 45th Space Wing.

Date: October 15, 1997

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Salt camels caravan in danakil Ethiopia by Eric Lafforgue Via Flickr: Salt camels caravan. Those Afar men still work on the salted lake near the eritrean border in Ethiopia, at 120 meters below sea level, one of the hottest place on earth. Every day apart friday, day off, thousands of camels bring salt to the markets. Taken with Sony A7R2 www.ericlafforgue.com

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Space Shuttle Challenger by NASA on The Commons Via Flickr: In this image, Space Shuttle Challenger waits on Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center before its first mission, STS-6, launched on April 4, 1983. Originally built as a test vehicle, in 1979 NASA issued a contract to convert it to a fully space-rated orbiter. It became the second operational Shuttle, delivered to Kennedy Space Center in July 1982. Challenger was destroyed shortly after lift off on her 10th mission, STS-51L, on January 28, 1986. Image # : KSC-83PC-0028 Date: January 26, 1983

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Clear the area for launch by skamalas Via Flickr: Shot at the Mojave desert, during the Rocketmen 2015 event. Good times. Shot with a Canon Rebel 2000 and Kodak TMAX ISO400 film

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F-100 and George Cooper by NASA on The Commons Via Flickr: Description North American F-100 Airplane (NACA 709), with Pilot George Cooper at Ames Research Center.. Image #: Date: March 27, 1957

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Lonely lunch by European Space Agency Via Flickr: Human Spaceflight Image of the Week: Lonely Lunch ESA-sponsored medical doctor Floris van den Berg scans the horizon and contemplates life at Concordia research station in Antarctica during a freezing picnic. No arrivals will appear on the horizon for nine months – the winter months in Antarctica are too extreme for supplies or people to travel to the remote base, and the closest neighbour is 560 km away.

This outside picnic allows Floris to soak in some last rays of Sun and get some much-needed Vitamin D. Concordia’s location almost 2000 km from the South Pole means that its inhabitants do not see the Sun for four months during the winter.

Twelve people will do scientific research and keep the station running in one of the coldest places on Earth – temperatures regularly drop to –80°C. The extreme isolation, cold and location make Concordia an ideal place to perform research in many scientific domains, from glaciology and seismology to astronomy and climate research.

Floris’ task is to investigate the crew themselves – spending a year in Concordia has parallels to spending months in a spacecraft and ESA is interested to see how body and mind adapts to the extremes. From testing spacecraft-piloting skills to assessing mood and running CT-scans to chart bone loss, Floris will be running experiments for researchers elsewhere, just like an astronaut on the International Space Station.

Credit: ESA/IPEV/PNRA–F. van den Berg Read more about the Floris and the crew on the Chronicles of Concordia blog.

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Exp 47 Soyuz Rollout (NHQ201603160002) by NASA HQ PHOTO Via Flickr: The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train in the early hours of Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for March 19 and will carry Expedition 47 Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA, and Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

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Space Station 360: Unity (Node 1) by European Space Agency Via Flickr: This 360° video allows you to explore the International Space Station’s second module, Unity. Launched on 4 December 1998 inside Space Shuttle Endeavour, it was joined to the Russian Zarya module two days later, forming the basis of the International Space Station. Also known as Node-1, the cylindrical module has six docking ports to connect visiting spacecraft and other modules.

Explore Unity in Flickr, Facebook or YouTube format with your mobile phone and virtual-reality headset, or take the full tour including all Space Station modules with videos and extra information below. We will release a new Space Station module in 360° every week on Thursday.

Previous releases: Explore Zarya module via Flickr, Facebook or YouTube.

Credit: ESA/NASA

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ExoMars 2016 liftoff by European Space Agency Via Flickr: ExoMars 2016 lifted off on a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan at 09:31 GMT on 14 March 2016. More about the mission: www.esa.int/exomars Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2016

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Space Station 360: Zarya by European Space Agency Via Flickr: Explore the Space Station’s first module with your mobile phone or virtual-reality headset This 360° video allows you to explore the International Space Station’s first module, Zarya. Launched on 20 November 1998, it was joined three weeks later by the US Unity module. Also known as the Functional Cargo Block, the module is now mainly used for storage. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took the pictures to form these images in June 2015 at the end of her 199-day Futura mission. Explore this module in Facebook format with your mobile phone or take the full International Space Station tour on the ESA website with videos and extra information. Credit: ESA/NASA

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SES-9 launch by SpaceX Photos

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Tour De Trump ´89 by Anders

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Expedition 46 Landing (NHQ201603020018) by NASA HQ PHOTO Via Flickr: An all terrain vehicle (ATV) brings Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA to a waiting helicopter at the soyuz landing site near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (Kazakh time). Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko completed an International Space Station record year-long mission to collect valuable data on the effect of long duration weightlessness on the human body that will be used to formulate a human mission to Mars. Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov returned after spending six months on the station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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Snowmageddon by Reginald Van de Velde Via Flickr: “WE ARE BAILING OUT!”, I promptly shouted. And so I halted the car on the top of a snowy mountain range and made a U-turn. It was the tipping point of the mental state I was in - the result of a nerve wrecking drive on icy roads with dozens of hairpin turns, no-grip ascends and slippery descends. I failed to rent a 4x4 earlier that day, and the standard transportation vehicle they gave me didn’t come with snow chains. With the hills getting steeper and steeper my ambition dropped drastically. This was proper rural exploration: no barrier between us and the deep. Stall and you lose. We both agreed on calling off this suicide mission, and headed back towards civilisation. Upon doing so I could spot a small car coming towards our direction. The sole car we saw since we left a small village half an hour ago. I was baffled someone took their chances up-hill. A worn-out 80s Fiat passed us and an old man in his late seventies was behind the steering wheel. His face was all wrinkled and grooved - he’d seen more winters than us, foolish youngsters. This old fella was oozing confidence and persistence, he was going to nail that mountain top. While passing our snow-stranded car he greeted us with the biggest smile ever. And this, my friends, was a sign. Maybe not an act of God, or a supernatural occurrence that science can’t explain. But it was a sign nevertheless. Telling us one thing: there’s nothing to it but doing it. We returned to Snowmageddon. With Mirna, 2015.