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The Ultimate Photo Shoot Location

Photographers often go to exotic locations to get that one perfect shot. It’s a constant search of trying to outdo yourself to capture something new. But you can go to the ends of the world and not outdo NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy. This shot from space is beautiful.

17 May 2013

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This Great Chris Hadfield At Home Parody Reminds Us Why We Love Space

What makes Chris Hadfield’s space videos so great is how mundane they are. He does the same kind of things you do right in your kitchen, as you can see in this fantastic “Hadfield at Home” parody.

14 May 2013

Science

How Chris Hadfield Made Us Care About Astronauts Again

It was a simple 31-second clip, uploaded to YouTube in early January — a watch flopping weightlessly around its owner’s wrist, the first such video from Commander Chris Hadfield aboard the International Space Station. No explanation, no context, just metal links and a watch face swishing around a hairy Canadian arm like a tangled length of seaweed. This, and the dozens like it that would follow, is how Chris Hadfield, who returns to Earth today, became the most important astronaut in decades.

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Live Stream: Chris Hadfield And His Team Landed Safely On Earth

After five months on the International Space Station, Commander Chris Hadfield and his team have arrived safely back on Earth. Check out the live stream of them coming out of the capsule right here.

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A Supercut Of All Of Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s Best Moments In Space

Commander Chris Hadfield and the rest of the Expedition 35 team are headed home today. We’ve got a special place in our hearts for Hadfield and his silly and sublime dispatches from space, so we put together a supercut of all the best times to remember him by.

10 April 2013

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The Stories Of Poop Hidden In NASA’s Apollo 10 Mission Transcripts

During NASA’s Apollo 10 moon mission in 1969, not quite everything went to plan. But we’re not talking Apollo 13-style disasters here — instead, we’re talking about some toilet-based issues.

3 April 2013

Science

All The Tools Used To Workout In Space

Chris Hadfield — CSA Astronaut, ISS Commander and the human explainer for all things space-related — answers another question with his latest video: how do astronauts exercise with that zero gravity and all? Turns out, they do a lot of the same stuff we do: running on a treadmill, deadlifts, squats and more.

16 March 2013

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25 Famous Toys We Blasted Into Space

NASA recently released a few photos of the Expedition 34 crew aboard the International Space Station. Sitting inconspicuously in the corner of one of the pictures was Gort, the Earth-murdering robot from the 1951 classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. So we decided to sift through the vast archives of space exploration looking for other toys we took with us to the heavens.

9 March 2013

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Cartier Gifted Apollo 11 Astronauts These Solid Gold Lunar Landers

It probably can’t quite compete with all the memories they have of landing on the moon, but the second best souvenir the Apollo 11 astronauts have of their adventure has to be this solid gold model of the Lunar Module given to them by Cartier on their return.

8 March 2013

Science

Monster Machines: NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab Can Fill Nine Olympic Pools

One does not simply build an International Space Station. It takes years of planning, and, for the astronauts charged with its assembly, months of training and Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) practice in a simulated micro-gravity environment that also happens to be the world’s largest indoor body of water.

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