For everyone who has spent hours zipping around the globe with Google Earth, you can now cruise through space as well with the new Sky feature. Here’s their promo video, with Sally Ride:
Archive for August, 2007
October 4th, 2007, will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Sputnik 1, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. A new documentary, The Fever of ‘57, examines, through archival footage and interviews, the impact that Russia’s success in launching the first satellite had on American consciousness and science. The space race, […]