Bowie was a great artist and an inspiration to so many, including those of us in the science and science fiction communities. A lot will be written about him in the next while so I’ll just leave you with one small sign of his influence, on and off the planet.
Posts Tagged ‘Chris Hadfield’
The Best Sort of Oddity
Posted in Entertainment, tagged artists, arts, Chris Hadfield, creativity, David Bowie, death, inspiration, Motivation, NASA, science, science fiction, space, Thoughts on January 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Live Streaming Planet Earth
Posted in Likes, Science!, tagged 92 minutes, awesome, Chris Hadfield, Earth, home, inspiration, ISS, NASA, orbital sunrise, orbital sunset, space, space exploration, yay on May 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »
ISS HD Live Streaming Earth
Sometimes the cameras are off, but when they aren’t… wow.
Black Image = International Space Station (ISS) is on the night side of the Earth.
Gray Image = Switching between cameras, or communications with the ISS is not available.
No Audio = Normal. There is no audio on purpose. Add your own soundtrack.
For a display of the real time ISS location plus the HDEV imagery, visit here: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ForFun/HDEV/
On watching orbital sunrise, from NPR:
Circling Earth at 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour) every 92 minutes, the crew members aboard the International Space Station “experience 15 or 16 sunrises and sunsets every day,” NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) Project Office describes.
“The whole station glows with the light of dawn,” Canadian astronaut and former ISS commander Chris Hadfield told NPR in a recent interview. “You can see the dawn come across the world towards you.”
“Then you go back to work and wait another 92 minutes, and it happens again. It’s not to be missed, and I tried to watch as many sunrises and sunsets as the work would allow,” he said.
Today’s Great Thing of the Day…
Posted in Likes, Science!, tagged awesome, beauty, Chris Hadfield, creativity, home, inspiration, ISS, space, wonder on May 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »
David Bowie’s Space Oddity, as sung by Commander Chris Hadfield on the International Space Station.
Hadfield is returning to Earth today after five months of service in space. Thank you, Commander.
May 13, 2013 Update: Permission to post this version of Bowie’s song was granted for one year. Sadly, that year ends today, but it was great to see.
November 4, 2014 Update: After some legal finagling a new agreement has been reached. It’s back!
J.R. Johnson 