Space – Bi·lak

Akatsuki Origami

The Japanese have successfully inserted a probe into orbit around Venus.

The cool thing is their press material has origami models. ?

NROL-39: Release the Kraken

A kraken devouring the earth captioned “Nothing is beyond our reach” is an official NRO spy satellite mission patch … you can’t make this shit up.

NROL-39 Payload Container (Source: United Launch Alliance via ODNI)

NROL-39 Mission Patch (Source: NASA Space Flight Forum)

Update:

Arstechnica has something about this as well. 🙂

NROL-39 - Know Your Enemy — NROL-39 – Know Your Enemy 😛 (Source: Arstechnica Forum)

ADN: Maneuvering Things In Space

https://alpha.app.net/riyad/post/13416584

ADN: How the Soviet Buran Shuttle Pragramme Came to Be

https://alpha.app.net/riyad/post/12201710

Earth as seen from Saturn and Mercury

NASA has put together awesome pictures of Earth from opposing sides of our solar system shot from Saturn (by Cassini) and from Mercury (by MESSENGER).