Felix Baumgartner is set to break the sound barrier unaided by a vehicle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19860249

See live Internet stream of this accomplishment delayed by 20 seconds just in case of an accident at: http://www.foxnews.com/science/index.html
Launch has been cancelled due to technical difficulties.

Update:  On Sunday October 14, 2012 Felix Baumgartner jumped from the stratosphere.   Read more about his achievements below.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/jump-from-space-s-edge-provides-collective-moment-279883

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Magnifient Desolation: The Apollo 11 Moonwalk Pictures

RIP Neil Armstrong (Photo credit: Martinliao)

See all 122  pictures taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during their moonwalk in 1969.

‘”Magnificent desolation” was how Buzz Aldrin described the lunar landscape moments before he stepped onto the surface.”

Click below to see the pictures.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11_eva_thumbs.html

See also:

http://www.americanphotomag.com/photo-gallery/2012/08/neil-armstrongs-photo-duds?cmpid=enews083112&spPodID=020&spMailingID=4736460&spUserID=MjcyMzI4NjI1NDQS1&spJobID=284751077&spReportId=Mjg0NzUxMDc3S0

Related articles

• Astronauts, family mourn humble hero Armstrong (cnsnews.com)

Curiosity has landed! Amazing feat by NASA.

watch?v=9oLaC1VYoTM

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mars-curiosity-rover-lands-successfully-mars/t/story?id=16934302

How NASA Moves Space Shuttles: The Ultimate Piggyback Ride – Yahoo! News

The Space Shuttle Atlantis atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) returns to the Kennedy Space Center after a ten month refurbishment. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)   How NASA Moves Space Shuttles: The Ultimate Piggyback Ride – Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-moves-space-shuttles-ultimate-piggyback-ride-132802597.html NASA’s space shuttles are gearing up to make their final voyages — this time flying piggyback a special Boeing 747 jet on the way to museum retire… More

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Today is Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s Birthday…

Who is

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen?

Do not click on the next page to see the picture that Wilhem Conrad Röntgen “made possible when he was the first scientist to observe and record X-rays,  on November 8, 1895.

NASA Image of the Day

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/617319main_616818main_pia14590-full_full_full.jpg

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Closest Dione Flyby

Closest Dione Flyby
Flying past Saturn’s moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet’s rings.

The image was taken in visible light with Cassini’s narrow-angle camera during the spacecraft’s flyby of Dione on Dec. 12, 2011. This encounter was the spacecraft’s closest pass of the moon’s surface, but, because this flyby was intended primarily for other Cassini instruments, it did not yield Cassini’s best images of the moon. Higher resolution images were obtained during earlier flybys (see PIA07638).

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/617319main_616818main_pia14590-full_full_full.jpg

Great Pictures of the Transit of the Moon by the ISS

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The State of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration

 

NASA questions Apollo 13 commander’s sale of list

BY CURT ANDERSON

AP LEGAL AFFAIRS WRITER

MIAMI – NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations that were crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth.

The document was sold by Heritage Auctions in November for more than $388,000, some 15 times its initial list price. The checklist gained great fame as part of a key dramatic scene in the 1995 film “Apollo 13″ in which actor Tom Hanks plays Lovell making the calculations.