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Photo - isn't that outfit a bit more revealing than what's normally worn? :hmm: Might be fun to nitpick all the errors that are bound to be in the movie! First nitpick: stinky bare (and cold) feet! In the NASA photo galleries they're always wearing socks.

Article and a YouTube video.

A "minivan-sized" meteor exploded over northern California and Nevada early Sunday morning, apparently not related to the current Lyrid meteor shower.

He's away! Currently over 4 km down. (Website and Twitter feed)

I came across this page at Orion's Arm describing how an extrasolar planet's star of a different spectrum might appear to human eyesight. Would a hotter star that had more light in the UV appear dimmer, as stated in the article?

"Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas" - "The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years." See also...

"Blurred vision plagues astronauts who spend months in space" - recent article about changed vision that some astronauts have experienced after stays in orbit, with implications for long-term missions. (via)

I was reading this old thread and wondering if it would be hypothetically possible to send the ISS - or part of it - to Mars! I am doing a story where an "interesting" (i.e. alien) artifact is discovered orbiting Mars, and Russia decides to get there first by whatever means possible. The...

Space tourist Nik Halik (backup to Richard Garriott on Soyuz TMA-13) said on his Facebook page: "Hard to believe that my Space Suit [Sokol pressure suit] was stolen in Kazakhstan in 2008 and resurfaced later in New York in early 2010...about to be sold off at an exclusive Auction House..."...

Mosfilm YouTube channel. Some films are subtitled in English (at least the one I looked at). Which are worth watching?

Big earthquake in Japan - around 8.8. Spectacular footage on TV from a helicopter of a tsunami sweeping across fields from the ocean in slow motion, filled with debris (including people, buildings and cars).

Blog entry and a later report - a Czech physician on a Russian Antarctic base in 1964 had to perform this himself! Not for the squeamish...:blink: (via) Imagine having to do that on the way to Mars in zero-g!

A world map showing literal translations of country names. Useful for worldbuilders! (via)

Cool video - , 14 minutes

(don't watch if you have vertigo :blink: ) (via)

"Space Cadets" - great blog entry by sci-fi writer Charles Stross on how unrealistic the typical image of "pioneering space" is (namely that it will be a repeat of the settlement of the American West, but with spaceships!).

"US youngsters are too fat to fight, warn generals" - Rising rates of obesity among young Americans could undermine the future of the US military, two retired generals have warned. More than a quarter of young Americans are now too fat to fight, they said. Well, that's one way to defeat a rival...

Satellite photo of UK. Minus −45°C in parts of USA. In Melbourne it will get to +41°C on Monday. Where would you rather be? :hmm:

The Russian Federal Space Agency site has been redesigned - and now all my blog links to it are broken! I hate it when that happens :thumbsdown: Also will the English-translated pages return?

Would it be possible for a government to launch a manned space mission in secret (i.e. not informing the public, though other governments would know)? Just curious (for a story idea).