Spectacular Photo from Space

I hope that the picture that I see hear will be in Time's next "Images of the Year" issue. This is as cool as our pictures from space The World In Junk and The Hubble Array shots. I'm not a professional photographer, but this is one of those shots that you really want to capture. ...

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Captain’s Vlog: International Space Station Gets A Webcam

The word is out, folks, and we've even got a link back to it that says that the international space station has officially set up its own webcam feed. For those of you out there who are space buffs and righteously torqued that the Obama Administration's entire plan for NASA appears to be "watch global warming", ...

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Hasselblad Went To the Moon, But Nikon’s Taking the New Millennium

Yes, it's true--Hasselblad was the camera that went to the moon, but when the time came for NASA to place a new order of camera gear, where did they turn?  Not back to Hasselblad, but to Nikon. NASA just ordered eleven new Nikon D3s DSLRs, along with AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses.  They plan ...

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QImaging’s Rolera MGi Scientific Camera Launched in Space

Qimaging has announced that its Rolera-MGi scientific camera will be launched into space today and is tasked to take pictures of the earth’s coasts and oceans. The company has been known to deliver high-performance yet easy to use digital cameras for scientific and industrial applications and now, a lot rest on what their actual imaging ...

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