#Outer Space

What NASA plans to do if an astronaut dies in space – 3tags

Since the body would need to be isolated within 24 hours to avoid contamination, it would be immediately placed into a GoreTex bag that would be inflated into a type of sarcophagus. Funeral rites would be performed very quickly, in

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beautiful ISS timelapse photography with only somewhat annoying soundtrack

http://vimeo.com/michaelkoenig/earth-timelapse-iss

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