Monday, September 10, 2012

NASA's Flickr sample

NASA has quite literally put a huge amount of photos on their flickr

account. Here is one of the very fine examples!
As an example, here are one of several taken Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide on Expedition 32.

Hoshide was a flight engineer who participated in the mission’s third session of extravehicular activity. During the six-hour, 28-minute spacewalk, Hoshide and NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, flight engineer, completed the installation of a Main Bus Switching Unit that was hampered by a possible misalignment and damaged threads where a bolt must be placed. They also installed a camera on the International Space Station’s robotic arm, Canadarm2. The bright sun is visible at left.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

You have a typo: its spelled "flickr"

Beam Me Up said...

Hey Anon
Thanks for the heads up! I was half asleep when I write that!

Glad you folks are on your toes.

Anonymous said...

By the way, the ESA Flickr stream is much more impressive:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/

Don't miss the "Best of ESA" set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/sets/72157620250669721/

Beam Me Up said...

Nice
Thanks Anon