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Just another day in the city I guess.

Apparently, this image was taken by Jack Crossing/Graphics Designed for an American Band that ended up passing on it. Maybe it was too Abbey Road/Spike Jonze/NASA cliché for them.

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Okay, so it’s not a TIE fighter—it’s the International Space Station. But that makes this photo shot by astrophotographer Thierry Legault during a recent partial solar eclipse pretty damn cool anyway.

(Discover Magazine via TSWB)

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This time-lapse video of the Earth was taken by Oregon State University alum and NASA astronaut Don Pettit during his time on the International Space Station.

Kinda makes the $20 million price tag to fly up as a tourist seem worth it. Watch the video on CubicleBot

The latest zinc alloy space shuttle model from Bandai features the Endeavour—the craft that will fly the final mission off the space shuttle program in 2011.

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Not on the moon mind you—at the bar. This ceramic and pewter space stein commemorates the Apollo 11 mission to the moon with highly detailed reliefs. I’m sure it would be a pleasure to drink out of, but I would hesitate to buy anything from a website that still looks like it was made in the early ’90s.

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From Fashionably Geek: A t-shirt with a schematic of the Hubble Space Telescope printed on the front? Only mega space geeks need apply.

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