Jump Box: July 2009

- Metropolis (1927) Poster (via hugo-strikes-back)

- 56 Leonard Street by Herzog and de Meuron

- MOTOrepublic Beta - Electric Motorcycle

- Fly to space in a rocket ship, er, make that a rocket...

- Gary McKinnon, the British hacker accused of accessing U.S. military networks illegally, is fighting extradition to the United States from the UK.

[Text] Space travel affects immune system

U.S. researchers said prolonged time in space apparently lowers the natural immunity system of the human body.The NASA-sponsored research revealed the immune system appears to weaken in space, leaving astronauts more susceptible to bacteria and viruses, Th...

[Video] Shuttle Discovery lands successfully

[Video] Shuttle Discovery lands successfully
US Space Shuttle Discovery lands in Cape Canaveral, Florida after a 15-day mission to the International Space Station.

[Video] Soyuz docks with ISS

Going into space? Better bring some quid

Asian spacefarers race for the moon

Mercury Control

Mercury Control
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Project Mercury: Public Domain Images from Wikipedia

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury

New Spacesuit Tested in China

From Discovery News (via Set Up Us The Bomb):

New Spacesuit Tested in China
AFP
March 5, 2007 — China is on schedule to have a man walk in space for the first time next year after engineers finished the design of a home-grown suit for the mission, Chinese state press reported Monday.

The launch of Shenzhou VII, China's third manned space flight, will take place in 2008 with two of the three astronauts likely to take the nation's first-ever spacewalk, rocket engineer Huang Chunping was quoted as saying.

China had previously announced that the flight of Shenzhou VII had been pushed back from 2007 to 2008 so engineers could perfect a homemade space suit to be used in the walk.
(Discovery News)