NASA's Real "Gravity" Photos

[PermanentSelfBan]

Hours before the ceremony, NASA tweeted out a couple of its #RealGravity images from life in space, as a way of helping the public connect its real work with the fictional images portrayed in the Oscar-nominated film, Gravity.

The International Space Station:

Hubble Space Telescope:

Working On The Hubble Space Telescope:

Repairing the Station in Orbit:

Reconfiguring the Station:

The Final Shuttle Mission:

Barcelona From Space:

Sideway View of Australia:

Egypt At Night:

Extravehicular Activity:

Astronaut Mike Fossum:

Spacewalking Astronaut John Grunsfeld:

Sun Over Earth:

Free Flying:

 

[Intellivision]

The funny thing about Space stuff is that some of it is run on archaic systems. That Canadarm pic reminds me as I know a guy who worked at the company that makes it.

You'd think all this stuff would be run on the latest PCs, but in fact many things are run on the most basic OS and low powered gadgets. No Windows, no fancy schmancy cpus or gpus. The code has to be run on reliable tried and true components limiting crashes as much as possible.

I don't know if he was exaggerating or not, but he's tell me the Canadarm would be run on DOS-like OS with old cpus from the 90s.

 

[Videodrome]

Keep it simple. Less stuff to break or crash.

Anyway I wouldn't be surprised if they're still on UNIX.

 

[Z A C K]

The pic of Egypt at night is pretty amazing.

 

[Andy]

Yeah, the one of Barcelo is great, and so is the last one.

 

[BraddersTheDog]

Some of those pics are awesome.

 

[Mercylack]

Magnificent

 

[Kassen]

Notice how Egypt's occupation is only at the river. Sounds logical. Anyways, we need sex in space.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/feb/24/spaceexploration.internationalnews1

 

[BDaddyK]

North Korea at night:

 

[Videodrome]

The one big light in N. Korea is Kim Jon-Un's big screen TV.

 

[Viktor]

I downloaded one to use as an avatar but too lazy to switch it. My christmas themed one is due for a change.

Edit: found it again.

 

[Tequila Shot]

Dope pics. The earth and universe are a beauty.

 

[DriedMangoes]

Space is a dangerous and beautiful place to be.