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Check out NASA’s new searchable database of space pics and video!

NASA just made my day! The U.S. space agency launched a new web-based search engine for much of its catalog of images, video and audio files, browsable by keyword and metadata. All the content on the site is embeddable, and there are multiple resolutions to choose from for downloads. The site also shows image metadata, […]

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Project Apollo Archive

All 12,588 photos taken during the Apollo missions are up on Flickr in high-res. Wow, endless hours of fascination if you’re a space geek! The Project Apollo Archive was created in 1999 as a companion to my “Contact Light” web site…a personal retrospective of the era of the space race. A subsequent collaboration between the […]

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How NASA reinvented the tortilla, and other tales of food in space

“Houston, we have a tortilla problem.” CNET’s Daniel Terdiman visited the food lab at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, and wrote a fascinating piece with a related photo gallery. In the old days, NASA fed its astronauts plenty of military-grade MREs, or meals ready to eat. But over time, the agency determined that the […]

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