Putting things into perspective: a photo of earth taken from one of the Mars rovers. I hope you all waved.
Pictures of Buran (site doesn’t work in Safari), the Russian space shuttle of which there was only a single test flight. More info at wikipedia.
The Nakagin capsule tower in Tokyo is to [be demolished][1]. That’s a serious loss for architectural history.
[1]: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/icon_of_modern.php (Icon of Modern Prefab to be Demolished (TreeHugger) [site language: English])
I’d never heard of car vaulting before but I’ve certainly felt like engaging in it many a time.
Uranium found on the moon. Get ready for the space mining outposts we were promised in movies as kids.
