Two blasts hit Boston Marathon finish line, at least 2 killed
Two explosions hit the Boston Marathon as runners crossed the finish line, killing at least two people and injuring 23 on a day when tens of thousands of people pack the streets to watch one of the world’s best known marathons. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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Hidden deep in Obama’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget is this item: “Begins work on a mission to rendezvous with—and then move—a small asteroid.”
See what else you can find that’s particularly noteworthy, and tell us.
(via itsfullofstars & newsweek)
Our daily Shuttle magnificence! (Tilted 90 degrees)
STS-99 rotated 90º
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(via n-a-s-a & space-pics)
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.Isaac Asimov on curiosity, taking risk and the value of space exploration – priceless 1983 Muppets Magazine interview
(via itsfullofstars & explore-blog)
Wernher von Braun Strolling on the Moon
It seems in the fall of 1969 there was fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, the Southeastern Fair. Coming on the heels of Apollo 11 successful lunar landing, it’s unsurprising that one of the exhibits was a mockup of Tranquility Base, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s landing site. As one of the key players in Apollo’s success – at the time he was the director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and widely known as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle – he was on hand when the exhibit was opened. This picture, along with a second where he’s seen in the foreground looking at the lunar scene, were transferred by United Press International on September 25, 1969.
(via itsfullofstars & crookedindifference)
so my nan was spouting some crap about how gay people aren’t really people because of what it says in the bible so I said “you think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you but if you walked the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew” and she shut the fuck up
she had no idea I was quoting a song from Pocahontas
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE WOLF CRY TO THE BLUE CORN MOON?
(via dystopiamachine & superwholocks-bitch)
