The Space Shuttle Endeavor is being decommissioned, and prepared for her final resting place at the California Space Center. Here she is docked at the International Space Station on May 28th, 2011, during her final mission. For extra poignancy, listen to The Last Watch by Stan Rogers while viewing this picture full-sized, or reading about Endeavor's 19 years of service.
What does it say about me that I am far more interested in where this shot was taken, than I am in the subject matter?*
*and no, "I'm gay" is too obvious.
What does it say about me that I am far more interested in where this shot was taken, than I am in the subject matter?
A quick post before bed. This picture was taken in my backyard one lovely summer's eve, back in August.
Astronaut Soichi Noguchi is currently stationed on the International Space Station, and Twitters pictures from his abode on high with great regularity. One my favorite is below, though the picture of the ISS, the moon, and aurora is a close second.
I will probably never make it into space, but at least I can look at pictures like this and pretend that that is me, flying at 17,000 mph toward the aurora.
via Astronomy Picture of the Day, where I find many of these.
I've asked it before, and I will keep asking it until I die...
...What have we lost now that we cannot gaze upon the Night Sky?
via Los Cielos de Chile.
This is a true embodiment of One Moment of Perfect Beauty. A Geminid Meteor is captured as it blazes past the Orion constellation. More details over at Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Taken this evening while at work.
I love a stormy sunset.
STS-128 lifts off
Queenstown, NZ via my friend, Julia Voye.
In case you were wondering what a mauzy morning might look like, Flickr user Greg from Maine captured this beautiful shot of a scallop dragger at mooring as the sun rises.
Taken on July 13t,h at 9:54 pm MDT.
Another one by Stuck In Customs. Dear god, this man is a genius with a camera.
My new desktop wallpaper. Found in Stuck In Customs' Flickr stream. Click for full effect.
Looking down into Little Cottonwood Canyon.
Taken outside the apartment in Alta where I was staying last summer.
Ah, the wonders of post scheduling. I can now have posts go up at any point in the future, and you will never know when it was originally written! Maniacal laughter should go here, but this isn't a mad science moment.
Onward! This week's moment is titled "Maestro", and is from Zofia Szeretlek's Flickr stream.
Found via Ectomo.
