discovery launch from a plane

still the coolest thing i’ve seen this week.

awesome. particularly, the uber-gay steward declaring drinks on the house.

the dish

awesome astronomical site

seriously … go here … learn about retrograde orbits … blow your mind a little.

go on.

want to know how many people are in space right now?

then go here.

awesome photo of the day … crescent nebula

found at APOD.

kate mulgrew on janeway and chakotay

ah mulgrew. bit of an oddball, but the hottest captain to pull on the red, in my humble opinion. this is from this year’s Dragoncon, and she’s talking about how she talked the powers that be out of having janeway and chakotay do the nasty. thank god. pity she didn’t try to get them to agree to janeway and seven.

now that would have pulled in the demographic.

the 21 greatest space photos ever taken

Life is running a gallery of the most awesome space photographs ever. gorgeous, inspirational and downright terrifying.

you have to go take a look.