#TheKeyIsWe This is Huge!  The largest global hackathon in history. The future of government-citizen engagement is here. I highly recommend watching all the short videos. Congratulations to all the +International Space Apps Challenge 2013 Global Award Winners!
+NASA 

http://1.usa.gov/1a5y9R7  

The thin blue line of Earth's atmosphere frames this quarter million mile view from the 'porch' of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

"If every Mom in the world knew how awesome they were, every problem in the world would be fixed"
Kid President

http://ow.ly/kT1Ig

Is that Batman? Or Lake Nemrut, Turkey? Either way, why not *be a real life superhero today* - make a difference!  Lake Nemrut partially fills a caldera in the dormant Nemrut volcano along the shores of Lake Van in Turkey, photographed by a human living and working on the International Space Station 2 May 2013. Credit: NASA

For one brief shining moment on the morning of 5 May 2013 - the star at the center of our solar system. Photograph by a human living and working on the International Space Station as ship and crew traveled east over the southern Pacific Ocean into the rising sun.  Credit: NASA

Looking due north from the International Space Station towards the North Pole from east of Fryeburg, Maine where Robert E. Peary, born 157 years ago today, worked as a surveyor after graduating from Bowdoin College in 1877. What do you suppose the legendary discoverer of the North Pole had in mind when he wrote at the age of 21, “as I think of what the world is and that I have my life before me, nothing seems impossible.”  Image credit: NASA

Newfoundland sits for a portrait from the International Space Station. Good lighting hides age. (Counted in the millions and millions).

Dawn breaking. Moon setting. People hitting the snooze. Astronauts thinking about lunch. Credit: NASA

Morning glory. The day begins for Earth's ambassadors on board the International Space Station. Photograph by +Ron Garan as he was looking out a window toward the Philippines and Taiwan during his six month mission. 

Drowsy after a long day, not yet asleep. Earth's sun setting. Photographed by a human living and working on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

It was an honor sharing the stage at +LAUNCH.org 2020 yesterday w/ Joan Benoit Samuelson the 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal in the marathon. #NoLimits

 http://instagram.com/p/YgDwOROt-d/ 

International Space Apps Challenge is hanging out with 7 people right now in a live Hangout On Air! #hangoutsonair

Google boss +Eric Schmidt says the whole world will be online in seven years. Far-fetched? Maybe ... but there are a couple of factors that may be nudging things that way.

+Fragile Oasis's +Google+ page makes Best of the Week April 8, 2013 Everywhere -  via +DailyCandy  

http://bit.ly/17au4d8 

Great hangout yesterday talking about the perspective of seeing our Earth #FromSpace from some who have (one from the surface of the Moon), scientists, astronomers, film makers, and philosophers.

A showing of the film followed by a panel discussion
of astronauts and Overview Effect commentators
Sponsored by The Overview Institute, Astronomers Without Borders,
and Yuri’s Night. 

Since its premiere on December 7, 2012, “Overview,” a film by Planetary Collective, has garnered 1.7 million plays on Vimeo. This extraordinary work brings home the power of the Overview Effect, its impact on those who experience it, and implications for the future of our planet.

“Overview” will be featured in a two-hour online event on April 12 as part of AWB’s “Global Astronomy Month” from 14:30 am to 16:30 UT, and recorded for playback during Yuri’s Night festivities.

Translate Universal Time (UT) to your time

Confirmed participants as of April 4, 2013 include:

Frank White, author, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution: Moderator
Guy Reid, director, “Overview”: Speaker

Panelists:
Edgar Mitchell: Apollo 14 astronaut
Byron Lichtenberg: STS-9, STS-45 astronaut
David Beaver: Co-founder, the Overview Institute

Other panelists may be added prior to the showing.

+NASA's view of our +Fragile Oasis  - 2012 in 138 seconds #FromSpace

http://bit.ly/14a8bP8

Looking forward to speaking today at #SEAD at 1:00 in +Duke University Fuqua School of Business.  Stop by if you're in the area.

http://www.seaatduke.org

2 years ago today, Sasha Samokutyaev, Andrei Borisenko, and I launched on a 1/2 year adventure. Almost seems like a dream now.
Here's a video of the launch: http://goo.gl/YwLPY 

Here's the dress rehearsal for the launch http://bit.ly/13VUD9T

A "slice" of pizza history!

Good Easter morning. Sunrise from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

Every now and then I need to watch this.

What if Prize is hanging out with 7 people right now in a live Hangout On Air! #hangoutsonair

Apollo 11 in 100 Seconds

Here's a look at Apollo 11 for those with short attention spans!

We've also got a reaaally slooowwww look at the 4th launch of Saturn I rocket, which took place 50 years ago today:

http://www.universetoday.com/101060/apollo-11-in-100-seconds/

NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn has been living and working on the International Space Station since December 2012, snapping wonderful pictures of our home planet and neighbors as his busy schedule permits. This is one of them, taken as Earth's moon was waxing 22 March 2013. Credit: NASA

Three men and a moon. Cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, and astronauts Tom Marshburn and +Chris Hadfield  on their way to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spaceship last December. They returned to Earth Monday in the same ship, while the moon continues its journey around the home planet.

Welcome Home +Chris Hadfield,  Tom Marshburn + Roman Romanenko! After a 1/2 year in space "Home" = Earth

http://bit.ly/19o7XAM  +NASA 

International Space Station Expedition 35 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn of NASA switched their spacesuits to battery power at 8:44 a.m. EDT, signifying the start of today's planned six hour, 30 minute excursion.

Cassidy will be performing his fourth spacewalk. He has spent a total of 18 hours, 5 minutes outside during three spacewalks in support of the International Space Station. Cassidy will don a spacesuit with red stripes. His helmet camera displays the number 20.

Marshburn also will be conducting his fourth spacewalk. He has spent a total of 18 hours, 59 minutes outside during three spacewalks in support of the International Space Station. Marshburn will wear a spacesuit with no stripes. His helmet camera displays the number 18.

This is the 168th spacewalk in support of space station assembly and maintenance and is designated U.S. Spacewalk #21.

The spacewalkers will inspect and possibly replace a pump controller box on the station's far port-side truss, designated P6, suspected of leaking ammonia coolant.

For more information the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station

If the dinosaurs had a space program they'd still be here (and we would have bigger rockets)

http://bit.ly/12hxuLc 

Time-Lapse | Earth

52 years ago today, Alan Shepard became the first American to fly in space. Our expedition 28 mission patch honors both the first American, Alan Shepard and the first human Yuri Gagarin. It was an honor to be aboard the International Space Station during the 50th anniversary of both of those milestones.

#TheKeyIsWe

May the fourth be with you! International Space Station and crew head east above their home planet toward the rising sun. Happy Star Wars Day!  Credit: NASA #StarWars  

Thanks to everyone who has been with me on this journey (all 3 million of you) Just went over 3,000,000 on +Google+!

Short video about the #Launch2020 summit at +Nike HQ

+LAUNCH.org 

#TheKeyIsWe

The sights & sounds of (almost) space!

Did you think that your feet had been bound
By what gravity brings to the ground? Not this astronaut. Enjoy this with huge thanks to Peter Gabriel, especially on Earth Day (and our thanks for this community).

"Did you know that #FromSpace +New York Yankees   + +Boston Red Sox fans are next door neighbors?" #UnitedWeStand http://twitpic.com/56iehk 

The river snaking through this picture taken by a human living and working on the International Space Station is a fence made of wire, wood and floodlights just inside India at its border with Pakistan. The light on Earth's horizon is airglow made of atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, which protects all life on our planet.

Pamela Gay is hanging out with 7 people right now in a live Hangout On Air! #hangoutsonair

The Key is We!

Great video "Dare to Imagine"  from the  +Skoll World Forum  about the need and ability to collaborate to solve the grand challenges facing the inhabitants of our +Fragile Oasis 

Thanks +Shaifali Puri +Elon Musk Sarah Chaddick, Geoffrey West, +Joichi Ito  +Premal Shah  +Arianna Huffington  Tanishq Abraham, and Sakena Yakoobi

 La Florida was spotted 2 April 1513 by the seafaring explorer Ponce de León as he sailed the Bahama archipelago. Spacefaring explorers on board the International Space Station provide the view back in time. Credit: NASA

Good morning. Sunglint on the east North Korea coast at the Sea of Japan photographed by a human living and working on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

Want to see something neat? Here's a million+ photos of Earth taken by NASA's Astronauts on the International Space Station on a map: http://go.nasa.gov/13PGGKu

#Pizza #FromSpace http://bit.ly/10iweWN  I'm doing a +Reddit  #AMA right now http://bit.ly/16fIRTl  #AprilFools

"We Are The Explorers" may be shown as a trailer before the new "Star Trek Into Darkness". What do u think about that?

http://bit.ly/10pHn6X

Looking forward to a hangout on air with +What if Prize at 6:00 Eastern (25 minutes from now). I'll send a link!

"Some day, when I'm awfully low, When the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you... And the way you look tonight." -- Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern
Officially, a panoramic view across central South America at sunset, photographed by a human living and working on the International Space Station, with credit to NASA. 

Today is #WorldWaterDay with nearly 1 billion people still lacking access to clean, safe drinking water we still have a long way to go. Seeing this picture of Lake Kivu in Rwanda #FromSpace reminds me of where one effort to provide clean water got it's start. Here's http://bit.ly/10kSyjp the story of how the +Manna Energy Foundation starting with our first trip to Rwanda in 2006 (all the pictures in this album are from that trip) led to 4.5 million people who now have access to clean water, with an additional 3 million who will have clean water by the end of this year. This was all made possible through Manna Energy Ltd. and our partner organizations use of innovative funding.

Note: My efforts with the Manna Energy Foundation and Manna Energy Ltd. are in no way connected with my employment with NASA and are conducted in my off-duty time.