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Major Tom: Thanks for the Web

I am sure many of you have heard of this, but have you seen this? I don’t think that when the space station was built that we thought that this sort of thing would happen. Watching Commander Chris Hadfield performs a reworking of the David Bowie classic Space Oddity on his last day in charge of the International Space Station,
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Kodachroming Maps with Twitter and the ISS

As a Canadian Astronaut and current Commander of the International Space Station, Chris Hadfield has taken hundreds of images from space and tweeted them. To Dave MacLean of the Nova Scotia Community College in Lawrencetown, N.S., the images were more than just a cool perspective from the International Space Station. MacLean teaches a class on advanced geographic sciences (geographic information
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