Moon Shot

Magical Moon

Explained: How SpaceX's Starship Will Build A City On The Moon

Explained: How SpaceX's Starship Will Build A City On The Moon
What about it!?

Very cool.

Fly to the Sun

Fall of Icarus - Andrew McCarthy

When you blowup the image the detail is amazing. McCarthy's website. Short YouTube video that got me started.

More Moon shot pics.

Fly me to the Moon

Airbus A320 over Istanbul

You have to be Johnny on the spot to get a shot like this.

Pic of the Day

ISS transits the moon
ISS is the black splotch in the lower left quadrant

Some people caught sight of the ISS transiting the sun during the recent solar eclipse.

Via Reddit

You can run, but you can't hide, Mal.

Total Solar Eclipse 2017 - International Space Station transits the Sun

The International Space Station transits the Sun during the Total Solar Eclipse, on 21 August 2017. The images were taken from Banner, Wyoming, by NASA’s photographer Joel Kowsky.

Space Station Transiting 2017 ECLIPSE, My Brain Stopped Working - Smarter Every Day 175 Transit starts at 3:26
Stu got me started with a photo. YouTube turned up several videos and I'm watching them, looking for one to post here and I realize that the ISS is taking two different paths, and then I realize that at least two groups had made the same observation from two different spots in Wyoming.

The ISS is traveling at about 5 miles-per-second at an altitude of about 250 miles. The moon is 250,000 miles away and has a diameter of about 1,000 miles. So the moon is about 1,000 times farther away than the space station (250,000 divided by 250). We take the diameter of the moon and divide by 1,000 and we get the distance that the ISS will travel while it is front of the sun (since the sun and the moon are the same apparent diameter), which is one mile. At five miles per second, it is only going to take one fifth of a second to complete this transit, so you better be ready.

What's really amazing is that both of these groups were able to capture this event on video.

Mal, of course, wouldn't make the mistake of flying between a local star and his enemies.

The Dark Side of the Moon

EPIC View of Moon Transiting the Earth
Composed from images taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory which is sitting about a million miles to the sunward side of the Earth. It is in a Lissajous orbit about the Lagrange point L1. This video is a little over a year old.

Drones on the Moon

Gaza City, Aug. 3, 2014. An Israeli drone circles over the city. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Starship Troopers

Shades of Iron Sky. German paratroops landing on the moon. Or Tennessee.