Space Shuttle Discovery - Flown Payload Bay Liner iceage "We need to start thinking

"We need to start thinking of dinosaurs as not just brutes and not just monsters

This gem-quality material is agatized sauropod bone from the Morrison Formation of Utah

father of modern crystallography who first classified the emerald as a beryl in 1797 We often hold up purity as the chief virtue of the rare and beautiful

~ Oral myth of Toba cosmology as recorded by Alfred Métraux

" Science (2015): aac4315

Space Shuttle Discovery - Flown Payload Bay Liner iceage "We need to start thinkingAbove: Front of the Specimen Card With a career that spanned nearly three decades from 1984 to 2011, the Space Shuttle Discovery (OV 103) accrued more space flights than any other craft in the program. Discovery orbited the Earth 5,830 times, traveling approximately 150 million miles. This specimen is a fragment from a mission flown payload liner of the Discovery. Made of fire resistant beta cloth, this material covered insulation and kept the payload