Fly Us to the Moon! 🎶
@NASA’s Orion spacecraft has completed its trans-lunar injection burn and humanity is on its way into deep space for a lunar flyby!
An image which inspired George Orwell?
'How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to.'
The Amazon at dawn — a view from orbit.
NASA shared a photo of the Amazon taken from the International Space Station during sunrise.
The river looks like a thin golden line cutting through the endless green ocean of the tropical forest. Clouds float above the trees, like soft waves. The territories of Peru, Colombia and Brazil are visible in the photo
Fun fact.
Sharks are older than the North Star.
Sharks have been around for about 450 million years, while the North Star is estimated to be around 70 million years old.