Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Up They Go to the International Space Station!

Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
A Soyuz rocket launches up to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan yesterday.  Aboard were Expedition 36/37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Flight Engineers Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Karen Nyberg of NASA.

See the arrival of the Soyuz at the Space Station during orbital
sunset on the video below:

Video Credit: NASA (Posted 5/28/2013)

"Overview" - A Great Video about Viewing the Earth from Space

"Overview" is about the change in human perception of the Earth once it's seen directly from space by astronauts or seen indirectly by humanity in general from photographs & videos taken in space.