📅 October 10, 2016

Inside NASA: Past and Present Dreams of the Future

photographer Benedict Redgrove takes us behind the scenes of NASA‘s stunning technology

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Collaborating with WIRED, photographer Benedict Redgrove takes us behind the scenes of NASA‘s stunning technology and presents us with the ‘Past and Present Dreams of the Future.”

For Redgrove, the project started seven years ago and will continue until the launch of SLS and Orion in 2018. When completed, the project will turn into an exhibition and book.

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📅 November 16, 2012

100,000 Stars: Google Begins Mapping the Stars [video]

Having the best digital maps of the planet isn’t enough for Google. After updating Google Mars, the company today unveiled a new project that intends to map our galaxy’s stars.

Having the best digital maps of the planet isn’t enough for Google. After updating Google Mars, the company today unveiled a new project that intends to map our galaxy’s stars.

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📅 September 7, 2011

Man in Space: Celebrate 50 Years of Mankind’s Adventure in Space [video]

Man In Space celebrates 50 years of mankind’s adventure in space, from Yuri Gagarin’s epic spaceflight on 12 April 1961 to the International Space Station and beyond.

Man In Space celebrates 50 years of mankind’s adventure in space, from Yuri Gagarin’s epic spaceflight on 12 April 1961 to the International Space Station and beyond. This is more than an electronic book – it’s a complete multimedia experience. Tap the screen to play videos, rotate spacecraft views and bring interactive elements into play. You’ll never feel closer to being in space.

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📅 December 7, 2010

Industrial Machine Cuts A Perfect Hole Out Of The Center Of The iPad [video]

The guy who destroys the iPad (presumably the brains behind Say Hi to Space!) is clearly frustrated that Steve Jobs hasn’t included a camera on Apple’s iOS tablet.

There’s a little bit of a narrative element to this video, which is clearly a product promotion for whatever Say Hi to Space! is going to be (the website just has one of those infuriating countdown clocks at the moment). Judging by what little we do see of the product in the video, it allows you to record a photo or video message which appears in the faceplate of a space suit… which is then sent to space? The guy who destroys the iPad (presumably the brains behind Say Hi to Space!) is clearly frustrated that Steve Jobs hasn’t included a camera on Apple’s iOS tablet.

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