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El Paisaje Dual Iceland Miguel Ángel García

Fifty years of space exploration. Well, American space exploration at least. Originally published by National Geographic back in 2008, a few things have changed:

Several new missions have embarked to our Moon since 2008, including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GRAIL (mission complete, RIP) and LADEE, just launched last week.

The Mars Curiosity rover, duh!

Juno, launched in 2011, is only halfway to Jupiter today. That big planet is far away.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory has given us beautiful solar spectra to stare at.

New Horizons is set to be the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto and its moons in 2015. It rode on the fastest launch vehicle ever in order to begin its epic journey.

And Voyager has left the building …

Embigginate this beautiful piece of work here.

Top Gear is one of the best things BBC has ever produced 

four-bar linkages, and how changing the length of the bars affects the motion in one particular case

P-61 Black Widow cockpit.

@libertymints The Gee Bee was the perfect example of sticking the biggest motor you could on a brick.