Issue #2(2) 2014 Lounge

The vanity of machines

I was here – Rosetta’s self-portrait as it passes Mars, one of four planetary gravity assists needed to boost the spacecraft onto the trajectory to meet its target, comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

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Project MOONWALK

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Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time

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Portrait of astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center, Ellen Ochoa who in 1993 became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Lounge

Art, imagination and the human spirit

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Robotics is the future of space labour