April 17, 2009

Friday Science: All space, all the time

• Wanderingspace has created 19 fetching Planetary iPhone Wallpapers.
• An old chart illustrates the “Unbelievable Time Required to Cover Immense Distances of Space.” [Via]
• 40 hours of exposure time were required to create this composite of the night sky. [Via]
• Ministry of Type highlights some great science and technology ads from the 50s and 60s, found in a much larger Flickr set of the same.
• In a short & interesting slideshow/audio piece on the NYT, “The Hubble Repairman” John Grunsfeld talks about his arduous missions to the space telescope.
• Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 looks like a groovy kids book.