Today, the Mars tracker, Curiosity landed on Mars. 

Live feed - standing ovation.

Twitter:

 @MarsCuriosity

@marsroverdriver

Facebook:

 https://www.facebook.com/NASA

Photos: NASA

Time lapse video of Earth by NASA Satellites/Spacestation

Absolutely Beautiful.

Twitter Chatter

NASA - International Space Station tracking

Lots of folks asking where we are, what we see right now.

Go here to find us -

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html

Roll your mouse over the Space Station on map 

and it will show you who is currently aboard SS.
This is FUN
This NASA site enables you to see the ISS 
as it zooms across the sky.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html

International Space Station flight sightings for Sydney
from 30 January through to Sat Feb 13 are located here -
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=Australia&region=New_South_Wales&city=Sydney.

Trivia: On a clear day/night it should be see-able! ...lol
or you may need a telescope for a clearer view.

Absolutely amazing.

Currently watching NasaTV on my computer and it is televising LIVE the arrival of Atlantis from the International Space Station. The Atlantis will touch down in 7 minutes at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida time of Friday 8.44am. The time in Sydney is now Saturday
 1.40am Aust EST.

 Touchdown.

(Nasa Photo)

Atlantis and Crew Prepare for Flight

The STS-129 mission will be commanded by Charles O. Hobaugh and piloted by Barry E. Wilmore. Mission Specialists are Robert L. Satcher Jr., Mike Foreman, Randy Bresnik and Leland Melvin. Wilmore, Satcher and Bresnik will be making their first trips to space.

Atlantis and its crew will deliver two control moment gyroscopes, equipment and EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 1 and 2 to the International Space Station. The mission will feature three spacewalks. The mission also will return station crew member Nicole Stott to Earth and is slated to be the final space shuttle crew rotation flight.

Atlantis will launch on the STS-129 mission

Monday at 2:28 p.m. EST Nov. 16, 2009.

You can watch the launch live on nasatv -link

NASA's satellite image of Australia

More Blue Marble images here

Mark E Kelly (Captain, USN)
NASA Astronaut
posted this photo of the dashboard! of Space Shuttle.

Twitter Pic from Nasa.
Dust cloud from southeastern Australia heads toward New Zealand earlier this week.

Click here for  Hubble pics --->   Stars of Omega Centauri

This is one of the first images taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), installed aboard Hubble in May 2009, during Servicing Mission 4. The camera can snap sharp images over a broad range of wavelengths.

These images are so clear.