What is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to reach earth just before Election Day? Well if you're thinking Superman, you're off base
This is a pretty amazing story regarding 3 female students, namley: Toriana Cornwell, Gabrielle Melendez, and Shaniylah Welch, who embarked upon a mission to do research using potatoes including launching them into space. The girls presented their idea to the SSEP (Student Spaceflight Experiment Program) Competition and won, earning them a trip to Cape Canaveral in Florida to watch the launching
Here's another cool find from the International Space Station from the NASA website of Letchworth State Park from last winter.
If you follow this link, you can actually zoom-in to pieces of the photo, or just go to the NASA page and kill countless hours (but it will LOOK like you're working)
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This is fantastic! If you need to kill some time, the NASA website is where you can find pictures from the International Space Station!
Naturally, I wanted to see if I could find my house from space, so I looked up Buffalo on the search and boom...