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Meanwhile, in the Void

Got to ‘smell’ outer space today when we opened the ISS hatch to the #Cygnus outer hatch. Smelled like wet clothes after rolling in snow.
— Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) July 16, 2014

As the Earth prepared for one more round of chaos, an astronaut stopped to smell the hydrocarbons.


The Sun is Trying “Space Katrina” Us

Sure, we hate the moon, but the sun is what’s really out to get us, as we just survived a G3 coronal mass ejection. The next one could DESTROY US ALL, apparently: “A ‘Space Katrina’ could be inevitable — at the very least we should be able to see it coming.” Mmm hmm, he said “Space Katrina.”