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News + Features
This is what sunrise looks like from the International Space Station

Morning sunrise from the International Space Station, taken with the 800mm lens Posted by Tim Peake on Monday, 22 February 2016 Have you ever wondered what sunrise looks like from low Earth orbit? Tim Peake has you covered.

News + Features
Virgin Galactic will unveil SpaceShipTwo ‘very soon’

Virgin Galactic will unveil its imaginatively named SpaceShipTwo craft “very soon.”

Photography
Winter solstice sky – overlooking the Latrobe Valley from Warragul (2014)

I shot this photo from a hill south east of Warragul in June 2014. It’s not quite as sharp as I would like it to be, but this was the first time I got my white balance right for a […]

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Adidas’ space suit may look cool, but it doesn’t have to do much

YOU can’t expect the wealthy to rough it, no matter how much you want them to, so it comes as no surprise that Virgin Galactic commissioned award winning fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto to design a space suit.

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Nearly 200 floppy disks owned by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry restored – Ars Technica

This article about the restoration of data from floppy disks once owned by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry comes with plenty of interesting facts about the man behind the franchise.

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How Elon Musk plans on reinventing the world (and Mars) – GQ

This is a fascinating account of the man behind SpaceX (the company which recently made history by landing a spent rocket booster upright, safely) and Tesla (the pioneering electric car and energy storage company), Elon Musk.

Music releases
Listen to Targeted Drifting ⁄ Mother Crater

I recorded and mixed most of this song in 2010 before shelving it. After leaving it unfinished for exactly one month and four years (not an intentional period of time, just how it worked out), I suddenly realised I could […]