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NASA releases free PDF of 1970s design manual in response to reissue campaign
“We can’t say the move is directly responding to our project, but it’s safe to suspect they are related. It’s great that they’re making the guidelines available to the public, we think they should be. That said, we don’t think that having an online PDF is the easiest way to engage with the information.”
Why American astronauts drink Russian urine
“We collect it in bags, and then the crew hauls it over to the U.S. side,” Layne Carter, who manages the ISS water system for NASA, told Bloomberg. “We don’t do 100 percent of the Russian urine. It depends on our time availability.”
California wildfires – from space
The #ValleyFire burned brightly this morning. Easily detectable from space, even through cloud layer. #cawx H/T @NASA pic.twitter.com/7AO7HmyRT8
— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) September 13, 2015
The [Female] Soviet Architect Who Drafted the Space Race
During the space race in the 1950s and 1960s, the task of designing the look of the Soviet Union’s booster rockets, orbital laboratories, space shuttles, and other masterworks of engineering fell to one woman: Galina Balashova. For the budding architect in the midst of a militarized rush into space, the work was also a chance to bring the principles of architecture into places it had never been before.
Via Motherboard