I know it’s dangerous and even smelly , but when I see these images of astronauts smiling and singing by the new ISS window , I can’t stop daydreaming about going up there one day. He’s probably singing Bob Dylan. I will sing Bowie . [ Twitpic ]

I don’t have a Valentine, so instead I woke up to this image of the Endeavour on approach to the ISS, courtesy a Facebook friend’s Wall. Bad Valentine? Nah, just a great image. Now wake up and get busy. [ NASA ]

The Russian Space Agency has released this speeded up video of a Soyuz spacecraft approaching and docking in the International Space Station. It’s like Battlestar Galactica, but without phasers. Or Cylons. Or Vipers. Or Starbuck.

In today’s Remainders: progress. Sort of. Openmoko’s WikiReader takes baby steps towards usability; a new sculpture series offers busts of the Darth Vader that could’ve been; an MSNBC slideshow sheds light on the photographic pursuits of ISS astronauts, and more. Wiki Wiki We first saw Openmoko’s single-purpose WikiReader back in October , and we weren’t exactly blown away with what it had to offer. (What it has to offer, by the way, is Wikipedia on a tiny monochrome screen)

If you’re a huge space buff, you might not be surprised by anything in this video tour of the International Space Station . But it’s still great to just get a simple walkthrough of this incredible project and all its corners. Anyone else get a bit bit light-headed watching all those twists and turns? [ CrunchGear ]

In 1869, Atlantic Monthly writer E. Everett Hale imagined what a primitive space station might look like. It involved a lot of brick. Given NASA’s looming cuts, it may very well be all they can afford in the present! Ha! NASA budget jokes! So topical, yet so sad. Anyway, there are a number of space station concepts from the past century, and while none saw the light of day, some of their features did, and could even help astronauts on missions to the Moon and Mars, if they ever happen. There’s artificial gravity, for instance, which many scientists agree will be important if we’re to travel to Mars and beyond.

If you live anywhere on the East Coast and are at all interested in cool stuff that happens in the sky, you’d be remiss not to stay up late tonight to watch for the last ever nighttime shuttle launch. Or you could wake up early, that works too. Either way, at 4:39 A.M. early tomorrow morning NASA will launch the Endeavor space shuttle, and it will be the last time it does so at night. On its way up to the International Space Station, the shuttle will fly parallel to America’s eastern seaboard and the shuttle’s rockets will thus be visible to a surprisingly huge area, weather permitting. Here’s a map of where the rocket will be in the first ten minutes after launch and what areas of the country will be able to see it: I told you it was a surprisingly huge area! To find out more about what you’re looking for and where exactly you should be looking for it, check out Space.com’s comprehensive rundown of the late night launch

If you live anywhere on the East Coast, watch for the last ever nighttime shuttle launch. [Update: Launch has been delayed till tomorrow] Or you could wake up early, that works too. Either way, at 4:39 A.M. early tomorrow morning NASA will launch the Endeavor space shuttle, and it will be the last time it does so at night.

The astronauts on the ISS sent their first tweet from space just a short time ago. Now they’ve upped their game, using Twitpic to send us breathtaking shots of significant locations all around the world. That picture up top? Mount Fuji, in Japan.

ISS Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer has sent the first tweet from space. Did he use his pointy nipple antennas to transmit data back to Earth? No.