The Big Picture Moments This Winter

Exposing New Heights

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A false colour infrared exposure shows the SpaceX Flacon 9 rocket carrying its Crew Dragon spacecraft, with astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on board on 30 May, 2020. The flight is the first launch as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and demostrates SpaceX’s crew transportation system.

No Dead Ends

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Egor Posokhin performs at Chegem Valley in Caucasus, Russia on June 29, 2020. The beautiful day is offset by the ancient necropolis known as the Eltyubyu “City of the Dead”. This burial practice was common until the locals converted to Islam.

Down The Wire

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Jaan Roose performs during the longest slackline walk in Tartu, Estonia on June 28, 2020. A Major challenge of this project was rigging the rope over the Emajõgi River, and making sure it stayed tight enough to be safe to use.
Set 60 metres above the ground, if the line snapped at either end, there would have been nothing to save him, but that didn’t stop Roose from walking the 300 metres from Paju tänav’s office building to the roof of Tigutorn to set the record.