fall asleep, phone in hand

Launched under the direction of the General Electric Company, the Bumper 2 was used primarily for testing rocket systems and for research on the upper atmosphere. Bumper 2 rockets carried small payloads that allowed them to measure attributes including air temperature and cosmic ray impacts. Seven years later, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I and II, the Earth's first artificial satellites.

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yesterday he was no one, today he was a star.

Abandoned Roadside general store, Alabama

Poland, 1987: Zbigniew Religa monitors his patient's vitals while his assistant rests in the corner after a heart transplant operation. The operation, performed with outdated equipment, took 23 hours and was the first heart transplant done in Poland to be successful. The patient would go on to outlive Mr. Religa.

Fresh snowfall looks like space.