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NASA Streaming Video Screenshot

Originally uploaded by Eamon Ford.

I thought this was a cool view looking down the payload bay of the space shuttle with the Earth in the background (especially since it was live), so I took a screenshot.

Here are some pictures of the fireworks last night:

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Also, I watched the space shuttle Discovery launch in realtime yesterday. You can get live streaming video from the shuttle on NASA’s site.

The asteroid 2004 XP14 will be passing within the moon’s distance of Earth in one hour and 33 minutes!

Edit: I saw the asteroid. It’s visible with the naked eye, but I could see some details using binoculars (I had more luck than with a telescope).