where does the atmosphere end?: a space(y) thread

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also in faq: will this be the most incredible experience of my life? (answer? don't get your hopes up.)



Imagine your most graceful and pleasant journey. Imagine you are flying near space through the ozone layer and beyond till the edge of our atmosphere, bluish and thin - a delicate protection from the harshness of the Cosmos, but all caring for it. The most amazing views of our planet in her true glory from the edge of our world. Imagine the change to see how the stars and Sun blaze day and night. Now stop imagining; It is going to happen and you can be in it. It is calm, it is quiet, it is private, it is bloon. Discover it!

In terms of sustainable near-space experiences we are probably the first.

[Hayduke]

Note the 22 Mile High Club option:

Several different arrangements are on offer: the standard 4 places, or, so as to enjoy this unique trip in a small group, the 2+2 isolated arrangement to share these magic moments in privacy.

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denali national park (and others) as seen from space:

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a once-massive star that’s been transformed into a small planet made of diamond

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As a star falls toward a black hole, it is ripped apart by intense tides. The gas is corralled into a disk that swirls around the black hole and becomes rapidly heated to temperatures of millions of degrees.

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late on this, but explore a 360-degree image of the flight deck of Space Shuttle Discovery. dramamine not unhelpful.

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[jfm]

This kind of galaxy-confetti stuff always blows my mind to tiny pieces

[Lee G]

Right proud of this story on the Hubble, the James Webb, and Maryland as the center of the space-science universe.

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^^^
that's pretty all right.

and while i don't know about my mind, exactly, this always blows my hair back a little. having a large-ish monitor and putting it in full-screen mode helps.