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Astronaut Snaps Solar Eclipse's Moon Shadow From Space
msnbc.com 5 days, 22 hours agoAs millions of skywatchers gazed up at a dazzling solar eclipse on Sunday, one astronaut was amazed by looking down at the eclipse's shadow moving across the Earth. NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured spectacular photos of the moon's shadow cast by an annular solar eclipse on Sunday. The images show a huge, black blemish on otherwise pristine white clouds over the Western Pacific Ocean.
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Shuttle With Aft Cargo Carrier
wired.com 2 weeks, 3 days agoBefore the January 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, NASA and its contractors studied many ways that the Shuttle system could be augmented to perform new tasks. After Challenger, NASA abandoned many planned Shuttle missions as unsafe and augmentation planning all but ended. Space historian David S. F. Portree looks at a pre-Challenger proposal which could have more than doubled the shuttle's cargo space.










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