The View From Gemini 12 On This Day In 1966.

What were astronauts like when they first returned from outer space? Nurse Dee O'Hara: ‘They have something, a sort of wild look, I would say, as if they had fallen in love with a mystery up there, sort of as if they haven’t got their feet back on the ground, as if they regret having come back to us… a rage at having come back to earth. As if up there they’re not only freed from weight, from the force of gravity, but from desires, affections, passions, ambitions, from the body. Did you know that for months John [Glenn] and Wally [Schirra] and Scott [Carpenter] went around looking at the sky? You could speak to them and they didn’t answer, you could touch them on the shoulder and they didn’t notice; their only contact with the world was a dazed, absent, happy smile. They smiled at everything and everybody, and they were always tripping over things. They kept tripping over things because they never had their eyes on the ground.’

Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (via m-l-rio)

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Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission:

A Trail of Night Lights from the International Space Station

An ordinary day on Mars. by cosmicdatabase

★☆★ SPACE ★☆★

My final grade in number theory should be the score of my last two exams combined. 

A processional statue of the Blessed Mother in the sanctuary of St. Stanislaus Kostka in Pulaski Park, Chicago.

Kościół w Górznie - Górzno Church

Trial between 22 women and San Diego-based porn website begins

Attorneys gave opening statements Tuesday in the civil trial pitting 22 women against San Diego-based pornographic website GirlsDoPorn.com.

“If the women tried to back out of taking part in the scenes, they allege they were told they could be sued or forced to reimburse defendants for the cost of the flight to San Diego, return flight home, and hotel room booked for filming. In some cases, the women were plied with alcohol or drugs to ensure their cooperation, according to the plaintiffs’ complaint.

Some of the women also allege that after their video was distributed over the internet, the website’s owners then posted the womens’ real names and contact information on other websites, opening the victims up for harassment and abuse from anonymous online users, as well as humiliation when the videos were discovered by family members, friends, classmates or employers.

Some of the women allege in court documents that the ensuing shame has driven them to depression, suicidal thoughts, or in at least one case, to move entirely out of the country.”