I have a science experiment of great value for you. Rocket me, Cheyenne, up to the ISS so I can attempt to swoon teh hawtest space babe ever- Karen Nyberg. What is the value of this experiment? Well, to be honest, we’re just not going to know until the experiment is conducted. As you know, in cutting edge science, you don’t always know what you are going to find. Take the World Wide Web- who would have thunk up that? I can’t promise that me hitting on Karen Nyberg will create the next iteration of the World Wide Web, but I’ve run some calculations on my home built Cray and I’m 99% sure that it will.

Now, am I saying that sending me to space just to simply hit on Karen Nyberg (who is, by the way, quite officially and undoubteldy 10,000,000,000 times hotter than the Crab Nebula if you were to gaze at her with your telescopes) is justifiable from a financial or scientific standpoint? Well, yes. Yes I am.

It’s time to go boldly Nasa. I’m your guy. I’ve even bought my Rugby shirt and have begun to grow my mustache in anticipation.

“Oops, that isn’t the washing machine is it?”

Karen Nyberg: Uh… did I leave the stove on?

*crickets*

In internet years I think I’m about a jillion. And yes I know what “hope” is in Japanese.

http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-98/html/iss01e5392.html

And perhaps even better (at least to me) was this one:

http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-98/html/iss01e5390.html

And I couldn’t help wishing they had identified the background terrain on a few of those.

Pleased to note Phil’s choice of photo for this entry was my favourite from the whole collection (the water droplet was a close second). I just love the fact that you can see mountains and shorelines, and there’s something about seeing the shuttle partly in darkness that makes it more real, in an odd way.

Cheyenne…in orbit you can tell her you love the way the earth hits her eyes. I bet she’s never heard that one before!

Womanned space exploration is a must!

LOL! The whole ISS runs on DELL laptops?

Yes the pictures are incredible.

Trebuchet – the lighting looks fine to me. Shadows on both the mountains and the shuttle indicate that the sun is at the bottom left and the light is just reflected off the door as you said. Although, I must admit I did a double take too.. I suppose it is because our eyes don’t normally see shadows at such an awesome angle hitting two features like that. It truly is a great shot.

I also love the torso picture and I’m glad a lot of work is being put into the effects of radiation on the human body in space. One step closer to figuring out how we can shield ourselves for long distance manned travel!