I might even have a chance to fly like that. Seemed to be a bit of a challenge getting it aligned with the runway, but turned out OK.

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Time to cover the moon with yogurt!

Title says it all. This video does a pretty good job of dumbing down, err, explaining how you change the attitude of an object in space. HINT: it's not how you probably imagine

And holy shit is it cool. I hadn't seen the original 70s anime before (heard of it but haven't had the time), but this remake is awesome! I love how they took the whole "space is an ocean" thing in sci-fi and turned it up to 11.

Our favorite singing and tweeting astronaut and ISS commander, Chirs Hadfield, will be making his way home via Soyuz capsule tonight. While the Soyuz isn't as sexy as the museum piece space shuttle, it does have a long and mostly successful history...and it is available.

have some Red Vines

Expedition 35 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy (pictured) and Tom Marshburn (out of frame) completed a spacewalk at 2:14 p.m. EDT May 11, 2013 to inspect and replace a pump controller box on the International Space Station’s far port truss (P6) leaking ammonia coolant. The two NASA astronauts began the 5-hour, 30-minute…

Sometimes Twitter is stupid. But other times, Commander Hadfield converses with Lt. Commander La Forge.

Lotta free time to spare, up there...:-)