Space station skipper beams down beautiful views (Photo: Chris Hadfield via Twitter) Astronaut Chris Hadfield has made a name for himself as the International Space Station’s first Canadian commander, the“Singing Spaceman” and Star Trek skipper William Shatner’s Twitter buddy — but he’s also one heck of a photographer. Read the complete story.
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Space station skipper beams down beautiful views

(Photo: Chris Hadfield via Twitter)

Astronaut Chris Hadfield has made a name for himself as the International Space Station’s first Canadian commander, the“Singing Spaceman” and Star Trek skipper William Shatner’s Twitter buddy — but he’s also one heck of a photographer.

Source: photoblog.nbcnews.com

Pot smokers gather under Seattle’s Space Needle to celebrate legalization of marijuana (Photo: Jim Seida / NBC News) About a hundred pot smokers gathered in the cold at Seattle’s City Center on Wednesday night to celebrate the legalization of the possession of marijuana in Washington state.  The law, which took effect at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 6, does not allow marijuana to be smoked in public, but you wouldn’t know it by watching the crowd.  As the clock stuck midnight, cheers erupted, followed by lighters igniting pipes and joints. See more photos here.
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Pot smokers gather under Seattle’s Space Needle to celebrate legalization of marijuana

(Photo: Jim Seida / NBC News)

About a hundred pot smokers gathered in the cold at Seattle’s City Center on Wednesday night to celebrate the legalization of the possession of marijuana in Washington state.  The law, which took effect at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 6, does not allow marijuana to be smoked in public, but you wouldn’t know it by watching the crowd.  As the clock stuck midnight, cheers erupted, followed by lighters igniting pipes and joints.

See more photos here.

Source: photoblog.nbcnews.com

Veterans Day surprise: Soldier reunited with family before NFL game in Seattle (Photo: Elaine Thompson / AP) United States Army Sgt. Zach Ames, center, who has been on a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, surprises his wife, Bri Ames, left, and their daughter Emersyn, right, with a reunion prior to an NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Seattle Seahawks on Veterans Day, Sunday, Nov. 11, in Seattle, Wash. See more Veteran’s Day photos.
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Veterans Day surprise: Soldier reunited with family before NFL game in Seattle

(Photo: Elaine Thompson / AP)

United States Army Sgt. Zach Ames, center, who has been on a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, surprises his wife, Bri Ames, left, and their daughter Emersyn, right, with a reunion prior to an NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Seattle Seahawks on Veterans Day, Sunday, Nov. 11, in Seattle, Wash.

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Gamers don costumes to take their icons to the street (Photo: Kyle Bruggeman / NBC News) Every year, video game enthusiasts of all sorts converge in Seattle to attend the Penny Arcade Expo. Among the crowd are a special type in costume. These cosplayers, a portmanteau of costume and play, walk the convention floor as onlookers gawk and photograph their elaborate attire. But there are times, collected here in PhotoBlog, when cosplayers pause from strutting the exhibition hall and return to every-day life. See more photos.
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Gamers don costumes to take their icons to the street

(Photo: Kyle Bruggeman / NBC News)

Every year, video game enthusiasts of all sorts converge in Seattle to attend the Penny Arcade Expo. Among the crowd are a special type in costume. These cosplayers, a portmanteau of costume and play, walk the convention floor as onlookers gawk and photograph their elaborate attire. But there are times, collected here in PhotoBlog, when cosplayers pause from strutting the exhibition hall and return to every-day life.

Source: photoblog.nbcnews.com

Boeing 767’s landing gear door falls into neighborhood near Seattle (Photo: Leah Dermody / AP) The landing gear door of a Boeing 767 fell from the sky and narrowly missed a car parked a couple of feet away in Kent, Wash., NBC station KING 5 of Seattle reported. Roughly the size of a refrigerator door, the Boeing part is made of carbon fiber, Federal Aviation Administration officials told KING. Bits of carbon fiber remained embedded deep in the pavement of Southeast 231st Way, about 15 miles east of Seattle, after FAA officials toted the part away as part of an investigation, KING reported. Read the complete story.
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Boeing 767’s landing gear door falls into neighborhood near Seattle

(Photo: Leah Dermody / AP)

The landing gear door of a Boeing 767 fell from the sky and narrowly missed a car parked a couple of feet away in Kent, Wash., NBC station KING 5 of Seattle reported.

Roughly the size of a refrigerator door, the Boeing part is made of carbon fiber, Federal Aviation Administration officials told KING. Bits of carbon fiber remained embedded deep in the pavement of Southeast 231st Way, about 15 miles east of Seattle, after FAA officials toted the part away as part of an investigation, KING reported.

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Royal perfection: King Felix tosses perfect game (Photo: Ted S. Warren / AP) SEATTLE - Seattle Mariners ace Felix Hernandez pitched the 23rd perfect game in major-league history on Wednesday, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 1-0 at Safeco Field. Hernandez struck out 11 batters on 112 pitches. Sean Rodriguez was the 27th and final out of the game. Read the complete story.
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Royal perfection: King Felix tosses perfect game

(Photo: Ted S. Warren / AP)

SEATTLE - Seattle Mariners ace Felix Hernandez pitched the 23rd perfect game in major-league history on Wednesday, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 1-0 at Safeco Field.

Hernandez struck out 11 batters on 112 pitches. Sean Rodriguez was the 27th and final out of the game.

Read the complete story.

Source: nbcsports.msnbc.com

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