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This Snowy Soyuz Launch Looks Like A Space-Themed Christmas Card
Image Cache: On Sunday, a Soyuz-2.1b rocket was successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia’s northern space port, carrying a 1415kg Glonass navigation satellite into orbit. And boy was it snowy.
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This Is How NASA Transports Spacecraft In An Aircraft
Image Cache: One of our favourite weird cargo aeroplanes, NASA’s Super Guppy, was caught in action again last week. The Megamind impersonator carried the Orion crew module pressure vessel from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, in New Orleans, to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Inside An Abandoned Socialist Textile Factory
Image Cache: There’s always a very special thrill in visiting silent and deteriorating industrial places where hundreds of men and women worked amidst loud machines decades ago. It was not a different feeling taking these photos in the abandoned power plant building of a long gone fabric factory.
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Look At This Beautiful Reentry Of A Chinese Rocket Over Hawaii
Image Cache: Steve Cullen from Starscape Gallery was 3,350m up the dormant volcano Mauna Kea taking nightscapes on Saturday when he decided to take a last pre-dawn panorama before heading home. It was a great decision, because he captured this stunning image.