fuckyeahspaceexploration:

I love the idea that these gold records are onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 crafts sailing out into deep space.

The first is a record containing sounds of Earth including humans speaking in different languages, bird song and music from different cultures. When Carl Sagan was asked if they should put a recording of Bach on it, he replied “That would just be showing off.”

The second is a pictorial instruction of how to play the record. It is meant to be interpretable to any intelligent life-form that may come across it in the far future. So if you can’t work out the instructions, I guess that means you’re not intelligent… Awkward…

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auresco: Shuttle Discovery Night Launch (by J David Allen)

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Shuttle Discovery Night Launch (by J David Allen)

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howtotalktogirlsatparties:

The shirt that dressed Yale.

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fuckyeahspaceexploration: Saturn V rocket on the launchpad.

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Saturn V rocket on the launchpad.

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fuckyeahspaceexploration: Badly composed photograph on the moon. You’d have thought they’d have had some lessons in photography before travelling all that way…

fuckyeahspaceexploration:

Badly composed photograph on the moon. You’d have thought they’d have had some lessons in photography before travelling all that way…

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germanyrevisited: TODAY IN HISTORY 23rd March, 1912 - Today is the Centenary of the Birth of Wernher von Braun, German born Rocket Engineer. ‘For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.’ Born into the German aristocracy, a former member of the Nazi party, commissioned Sturmbannfuehrer of the SS and decorated Nazi war hero, he was also imprisoned for some weeks by the Gestapo. He was one of the most important developers of rockets during WW II and led the development of the V–2 ballistic missile for the Nazis, which travelled at 3,000 miles an hour and caused havoc on areas of London. After WWII he was employed to use his knowledge to produce rockets for the U.S. Army, and was transferred to the newly formed ‘NASA’ in 1960, becoming director of Marshall Space Flight Center and chief architect of the ‘Saturn V’ launch vehicle used to put men on the moon. He was involved in the development of the ‘Explorer satellites’; ‘Jupiter’, ‘Pershing’, ‘Redstone’ and ‘Saturn’ rockets, and ‘Skylab’.Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun Born March 23, 1912, Wirsitz, German Empire - Died June 16, 1977 Alexandria, Virginia, USA

germanyrevisited:

TODAY IN HISTORY 23rd March, 1912 - Today is the Centenary of the Birth of Wernher von Braun, German born Rocket Engineer.

‘For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.’

Born into the German aristocracy, a former member of the Nazi party, commissioned Sturmbannfuehrer of the SS and decorated Nazi war hero, he was also imprisoned for some weeks by the Gestapo.

He was one of the most important developers of rockets during WW II and led the development of the V–2 ballistic missile for the Nazis, which travelled at 3,000 miles an hour and caused havoc on areas of London.

After WWII he was employed to use his knowledge to produce rockets for the U.S. Army, and was transferred to the newly formed ‘NASA’ in 1960, becoming director of Marshall Space Flight Center and chief architect of the ‘Saturn V’ launch vehicle used to put men on the moon.

He was involved in the development of the ‘Explorer satellites’; ‘Jupiter’, ‘Pershing’, ‘Redstone’ and ‘Saturn’ rockets, and ‘Skylab’.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
Born March 23, 1912, Wirsitz, German Empire - Died June 16, 1977 Alexandria, Virginia, USA

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