Nasa's Ultimate Photo Stream: Space the Final Frontier . . .

Humans have been fascinated with the Heavens going back thousands of years to the ancient myths. Nasa's official Flickr stream offers a visual feast, here are some of our top picks.

Voyage to the edge of space . . . for $75,000

World View Enterprises is offering a 'World View Experience' for those willing to pony up $75,000 to journey 19 miles (30 kilometers) up into earth's atmosphere using a pressurized luxury capsule via a balloon.

The flight up would take approximately 90 minutes, for a duration of two hours with a descent of 40 minutes. They are looking at 2016 to begin the journeys.

Space Shuttle Illustrations

With the recent historic jump by Felix Baumgartner & the Space Shuttle Endeavour making it way through the streets of California this week, time to reflect on the early concepts by Nasa.