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Chris Hadfield’s Snapshots from Space

Throughout his ISS mission, CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield has been taking some of the most incredible photos of Earth ever seen. In this video, the Station Commander takes us to the best seat in the house to gaze at the visual splendour of the Earth. He shares his techniques and his passion for capturing the Read MoreRead More

A Tour of the International Space Station

In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for Read MoreRead More

Overview – How Seeing the Earth from Space Affects Us All

On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect. The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an Read MoreRead More

Who is the Photographer behind Mars Rover Photos?

Robots don’t take photos by themselves (or at least not yet). Somebody has to director the remote cameras to snap a shot. But who makes these decisions? Who are the Ansel Adams of the space program? Technically, you could say that the Payload Uplink Lead who writes the command sequence is the photographer. In that Read MoreRead More

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