Added 1 new A* page:I was noticing that now that there are bright images below the comics rather than blank black space, Selenis' (and Mother's) gray subtitles are a little harder to read. So from now on I'm going to do them in white like everyone else's subtitles, and in order for Selenis' subtitles to stand out, I'll just put colons around them like I've already been doing with Mother's computery font text. Of course it's confusing as heck to do this in midstream, particularly in the middle of a chapter, but hopefully it won't be too tough to figure out after stumbling through a page or two in semi confusion. :o
On May 23rd, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli was leaving the International Space Station in his Soyuz capsule, and captured some really striking footage of the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked at the station; it's just fascinating to me visually how you can see the sunlight gleaming off the station and shuttle as they rotate relative to the capsule. NASA posted the video here, and there's a gallery of his still photos here; here are a couple of my favorites:
image by NASA/ESA (source)
image by NASA/ESA (source)
Nespoli, who is Italian, flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery back in 2007; this Soyuz mission, which launched for the ISS on December 15th of last year, was his second space flight--he had been in training with the ESA and NASA since 1991! And very unfortunately, his mother passed away on May 4th, while he was in space. Here he is playing with that silly robot spaceman, Robonaut 2, on the station in March:
image by NASA (source)
Here's a version of his video with some nice classical music. And here's the latest Soyuz mission taking off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier today, taking three astronauts--a Russian, American, and Japanese--up to the ISS:
image by NASA/Carla Cioffi (source)
<3 those angled rocket boosters. :D
And really, Shuttle nostalgia must be hitting fever pitch here with just one mission left; today I was *also* linked to this nifty compilation of astronaut footage of Earth from orbit:
video on Youtube
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