NASA's image of the day...

The historic final landing of the space-shuttle Atlantis, marked by this gorgeous photo from NASA

Atlantis, the fourth orbiter built, launched on its first mission on Oct. 3, 1985.   Overall, Atlantis spent 307 days in space and traveled nearly 126 million miles during its 33 flights.  Atlantis touched down yesterday at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the Shuttle Landing Facility's Runway 15 at 5:57 a.m. EDT, bringing to a close 30 years of space shuttle flights.

"Although we got to take the ride," said Commander Chris Ferguson on behalf of his crew, "we sure hope that everybody who has ever worked on, or touched, or looked at, or envied or admired a space shuttle was able to take just a little part of the journey with us."

Quite a poignant day for all the folks at NASA today, as they held the decomissioning ceremony for the last flight of the Space Shuttle Program...

On a lighter note, we are delighted to discover - in an unashamedly geeky way :0) - that we can now download a range of NASA android & iPhone apps - check them out here.

NASA's image of the day...

A rocket-launch captured on film in Norway... AWESOME!!!!! 

The rocket was launched from Andøya Rocket Range near Andenes, Norway, and carried instruments about 200 miles (320 kilometers) into the atmosphere to observe the aurora and the associated flow of heat, particles, and electromagnetic energy.  The rocket eventually landed in the ocean about 900 miles (1450 km) from the launch site.

Welcome to 2011 everyone!

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Nasa's Image of the Day...

These are soooooo cool!!!  Is it a bit spoddy to get excited by these?  Well we don't care!! :0)

We love that Nasa take the time to share these amazing images with Jo Public.  This is the Expedition 25 Landing...

The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock and Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin touches down near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. Russian Cosmonaut Yurchikhin and NASA Astronauts Wheelock and Walker, are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 24 and 25 crews. 

 Welcome home peeps & happy Friday to all :0)

Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA have an 'image of the day' on Twitter!

And here it is...

"Discovery's Latest Ride" - Nasa 'image of the day' 1st November 2010

How awesome is that?!  I think it is also pretty amazing that you can check out lots of cool stuff at their website http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html - you can even watch NASA TV , but I am simply delighted that one of those busy peeps at NASA has time for a daily photo sesh & subsequent tweet!!!!