Simon Griffee

What: Nasa

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• 7 Planets Identified Orbiting Nearby Star #

  The Elite computer game simulation becomes more prescient and more fun to play every time I read a NASA press release.

• Visions of the Future Free Posters from NASA #

  Wonderful:

  Imagination is our window into the future. At NASA/JPL we strive to be bold in advancing the edge of possibility so that someday, with the help of new generations of innovators and explorers, these visions of the future can become a reality. As you look through these images of imaginative travel destinations, remember that you can be an architect of the future.

• Margaret Hamilton During the Apollo Program #

  

  Taken by the Draper Lab photographer in 1969 (during Apollo 11). Here, Margaret is shown standing beside listings of the software developed by the team she was in charge of, the LM and CM on-board flight software team

  What a great photograph!

• Realtime View of Earth from ISS #

  We live in an amazing time and place. Here’s a live view of our planet from the International Space Station from the High Definition Earth Viewing experiment: While the HDEV collects beautiful images of the Earth from the ISS, the primary purpose of the experiment is an engineering one: monitoring the rate at which HD video camera image quality degrades when exposed to the space environment (mainly from cosmic ray damage) and verify the effectiveness of the design of the HDEV housing for thermal control. …continue

• Milky Way from International Space Station #

  Beautiful.

• Interactive Visualization of 950+ Planets Discovered by NASA’s Kepler Mission #

  NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered more than 950 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars. Planets with a known size and orbit are shown below, including Kepler 186f, an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone.

  Great visualization work by Jonathan Corum in the New York Times’s Space & Cosmos section. See more of Jonathan’s work here.

• International Space Apps Challenge #

  Found while browsing NASA’s GitHub repositories:

  The International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass collaboration focused on space exploration that takes place over 48-hours in cities around the world. The event embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in space.

  Here are the 2013 hackathon results.

• Vintage Covers from NASA Space Program #