Are you looking for a gift with a difference? How about art by a mad scientist?
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The International Space Station: A football field sized orbiting laboratory - also home away from home, a port for spaceships from many nations, and even a tourist destination.... |
Although it does a lot of pure science experiments, the ISS is also a test bed for new technologies, and new in space construction methods. In this shot one of the crew floats in the middle of the BEAM habitat, an experimental kind of room for space stations that is flown up folded, and inflated to full size in space. |
If you're going to play the guitar in a space station you'd better be able to play a selection everyone likes, or you may see it go floating past your bedroom window one day |
In the background a Dragon supply ship is being brought into dock using the space station's crane like robotic arm. In the foreground... what can I say apart from: If you've got a dream.... |
This picture is emblematic of the perils the crew face: This innocuous mark is a crack in one of the stations quadruple glazed windows. It was probably caused by something smaller than a fleck of paint, but travelling many times faster than a bullet. |
A space shuttle moves in to dock with the station, as both a silhouetted against the Sun in this amazing photograph by Thierry Legault. |
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