A customer in Santa Monica, California, purchases the popular digital currency, bitcoins, using one of two new ATM’s that were put into operation on June 21, 2014. (Reuters)
An ESA ATV-5 spacecraft is prepared for integration on an Ariane 5 rocket on June 24, 2014. This is ESA’s fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) and was named for the father of the “Big Bang”, Georges Lemaître, a Belgian physicist. The spacecraft, which will deliver more than 2600 kg of goods to the International Space Station, is scheduled for launch sometime in July 2014 from Kourou, French Guiana. (© ESA-S. Corvaja)
Harley Davidson’s new electric motorcycle prototype, Project LiveWire, on display at the motorcycle company’s New York store on June 23, 2014. The LiveWire isn’t on sale yet because it is still in development. (Reuters)
NASA successfully tested the parachute system of its Orion spacecraft at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Arizona on June 25, 2014. The U.S. space agency said this was the most difficult test of the spacecraft’s parachute system as it gets set for Orion’s first trip into space in December 2014. (NASA)
Here’s a shot of the constellation Orion (little bright blue objects in center) that was taken from the International Space Station on June 24, 2014 by ISS Engineer Reid Wiseman. (NASA)
Representatives from the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at the University Of North Dakota, Grand Forks, demonstrate a Draganflyer X4ES drone on June 24, 2014. They were demonstrating the drone’s possible use in various law enforcement applications. (AP)
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover celebrates its first Mars year on the red planet by sending back a selfie taken at a Martian sandstone target called Windjana, June 24, 2014. The selfie was actually composed with dozens of individual images taken between April and May 2014. (NASA)
A Google employee demonstrates the Android auto interface at the Google I/O developer’s conference in San Francisco June 26, 2014. An Android-powered device will interface with the auto’s dashboard touchscreen system to provide drivers with a safe way to access and operate Android’s built-in navigation, communication and entertainment applications by using voice commands. (Reuters)
NASA released this new composite image of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster on June 24, 2014. The composite was made from a number of observational images taken over a decade by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. According to NASA, the Perseus Cluster is one of the most massive objects in the Universe, containing thousands of galaxies surrounded by a huge cloud of superheated gas. (NASA)
Otonaroid, a female-announcer robot, is shown here addressing a crowd during a press event at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation Miraikan in Tokyo on June 24, 2014. Android expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, who created Otonaroid, also demonstrated others that included another girl robot called Kodomoroid and a bald-headed mannequin robot with pointed arms called Telenoid. (AP)
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