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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon spacecraft on the launch pad.

On Saturday, May 19th, SpaceX will become the first commercial company in history to attempt to visit the International Space Station.

Liftoff: Saturday at 4:55 a.m. EDT (08:55 GMT)

[UPDATE] Launch aborted and delayed to May 22.

Source: Spaceflight Now

Naples, Italy, taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the International Space Station with NightPod. The black circle is the volcano Vesuvius.

Cameras mounted on NightPod track the movement of Earth as it flies under the Space Station. Night-time photographs are less blurred and captured in higher detail. 

Credits: ESA/NASA

Space Shuttle Launch Audio - play LOUD (no music) HD 1080p (by indiegun)

Tonight’s Sky: March 2012 (by HubbleSiteChannel)

Il Cielo di Marzo 2012, guida agli eventi celesti, costellazioni e pianeti del mese. (by nowmultimedia)

Launch Replay: Vega qualification flight (by ESA)

Earth from Gemini XI

S66-54706_G11-S Australia, western half looking west, coastline seen from Perth to Port Darwin, Record high Apogee of 740

Source: March to the Moon

The Dark Side Of The Moon

NASA’s GRAIL mission has beamed back its first video of the far side of the moon. The imagery was taken on Jan. 19 by the MoonKAM aboard the mission’s “Ebb” spacecraft.

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Inner Space

Inner Space is a lovely series of photos by London-based Owen Silverwood that depicts miniaturized spacecraft blasting through confined aquatic landscapes.

(via theskysfalling)

In this Envisat image, a phytoplankton bloom swirls a figure-of-8 in the South Atlantic Ocean about 600 km east of the Falkland Islands.

Source: ESA