This amazing image looks like it is out of a SF movie, but it's real

[n2doc]

Earth, Moon and Soyuz. Credit: NASA/Kevin Ford.


This one might have to be added to the group of iconic images from space. On December 21, a Soyuz spacecraft carrying new crewmembers approached the International Space Station. Commander Kevin Ford, already on the ISS, took this image showing the Moon above, bright blue Earth below and the Soyuz coming into view. “Science fiction into fact,” said Canadian Chris Hadfield, who was on board the Soyuz, along with Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn.

Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/99205/lovely-image-from-space-earth-moon-and-approaching-spacecraft/

[DollarBillHines]

1. Words fail me.

Back in the 50's I had a one-eyed cur dog that I named Sputnik.

Damn, we have come a long, long way.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That is so beautiful.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. Yes, it is...

But 45 years after we put men on the moon, we are still just dinking around in orbit.

[WinstonSmith4740]

4. Fantastic.

It's amazing what we can accomplish when we're not spending our national treasure finding new ways to kill each other.

[longship]

5. This amazing image looks like it is out of a SF movie, and it is!

Just tweaking you a bit, n2doc.

Love your posts.


BTW: Monster from the ID, from Forbidden Planet, a 1956 space opera based on Shakespeare's The Tempest.

The only way real space photos can be put into perspective is to contrast them with fiction. That's what makes the universe so wonderful, and so awesome.

Again, thanks, n2doc.

[montana_hazeleyes]

6. Okay, I admit it. Old age is surely getting to me.

I looked at this and thought " what does this have to do with San Francisco?"

[jerseyjack]

7. When I was a kid, Captain Video and Tom Corbett (Not the asshole) space cadet were on tv.

I wanted to go into space. That ended for me when one of the astronauts commented on how lonely things appeared when in space.

That finished the desire for me.

I couldn't do the lonely.

[littlemissmartypants]

8. I will grid and paint

bedroom ceiling now, thank you. Fiscal what?

[friendly_iconoclast]

9. More science fiction into fact (dialup warning)

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Love your space pics, n2doc...

What always amazes me in earth photos from near space, is the whispy, gossamer layer of atmosphere--the beautiful biosphere keeping us alive.

[MannyGoldstein]

11. I can hear The Blue Danube playing in my mind

(2001 docking scene)