[kj] OT - Space Odditti

[Paul]

Pictures taken by Cmdr Hatfield mapped:

https://cogsnscc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=0d1b3909ad9944dab7e29354f465ade7

He has sent back some stunning pictures from the ISS. He was also the first
man to use Irish (Gaelic) from space, his daughter is in college in Dublin,
but he will be given a warm welcome in Ireland, for his use of our language
alone. I too follow him on twitter and will miss his pictures now he is
safely back on earth.


On 14 May 2013 09:25, Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:


> Commander Hadfield is a true star... been following him on twitter for

> months (about the only person

> I ever follow on twitter). He's been sending stunning photos of earth with

> poetic descriptions and

> putting up some very entertaining vids on youtube about life on the space

> station. If Nasa had

> worked out they needed someone like him in the space program years ago the

> public

> perception and interest may have been very different.

>

> N (closet space nerd)

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> On 13 May 2013 22:00, sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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>> David could only write about it through his lyrics & voice, Peter could

>> only sing it through his heart,  but this guy lived it.

>> The art is like Kubrick but better, like Picasso but in real life..

>> Not Dali's atomic photography nor Jaz's screaming exorcisms from within

>> the hold of the Great Pyramid can match this,

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>> http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/floating-most-peculiar-way-astronaut-chris-hadfield-sings-david-bowie-1C9898083

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>> Blessed are the Cracked for

>>   they let in the Light,

>>     others all are just a..

>>       'nother brick in the Wall

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