Virgin Galactic – June 2013
Here is the latest version of Virgin Galactic’s “‘Your Journey To Space Starts Here’ – June 2013”. Virgin Galactic aims to be the first commercial service into space. For the first time ordinary rich...
Here is the latest version of Virgin Galactic’s “‘Your Journey To Space Starts Here’ – June 2013”. Virgin Galactic aims to be the first commercial service into space. For the first time ordinary rich...
Concepts that were just science fiction a few decades ago are now turning into reality. What does the future have in store? What science fiction concepts of today will be the reality of tomorrow.
After yesterdays post regarding wars in space. Professor Michio Kaku asks whether Mankind will destroy itself.
Humans will be humans! Does anyone believe that as Space becomes more and more accessible that Space will not be used for warfare?? Conventional missiles from Space can deliver blows as large as nuclear...
A lecture given by Stephen Hawking in 2008 at the George Washington University on the future of space travel, its scientific, educational and s0cial benefits. Stephen is accompanied by his daughter, Lucy Hawking.
A look at two projects being design spacecraft to take will allow humans to colonise planets outside our solar System. These two projects have been called the ‘100 Year Starship’ and Project ‘Icarus’. They...
Brief information on the Supermoon. The term supermoon denotes a full moon that occurs at roughly the same time the moon is nearest Earth in its monthly orbit. An astrologer, not an astronomer, coined the...
Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping gives space lecture on micro gravity and also performs various experiments. A great look inside this Chinese space capsule and also a view of Mission Control.
After yesterdays post there were some comments on our Facebook page (facebook.com/bestouterspacevideos) which suggested that if time travel was ever going to be a reality we would have had time travellers from the future...
If we can control time we can control our destiny. Many scientists have been conducting research in their own laboratories and maybe in the 21st century present theories will become reality. Scientists are looking...
Curiosity has no less than 17 cameras. A Curiosity Engineer gives an update on what the cameras are and what each one is specifically used for. Curiosity is currently at Point Lake on Mars.
Rocket technology that has been used to put payloads into space is getting obsolete. For next generation space travel governments and private companies are looking at new forms of propulsion and reusable modules. Conventional...
Steve Jurvetson, MD of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, discusses the future of the Space industry with Jon Erlichman from Bloomberg. In ten years time we will see the cost of putting a man into space plummett...
After yesterdays posting on the outer planets we take a look at the inner planets of our Solar System, Mercury and Venus. Venus being one of the most beautiful visions in the Sky and...
How Pluto was discovered after it was postulated that there was a planet beyond Uranus and Neptune and the reason why Pluto lost its status a ‘planet’. With information on the New Horizons mission...
In part 6 of the Shores of the Cosmic Ocean we progress to the Middle Ages when astronomy was resurrected by people such as Kepler and Copernicus. Also a look at the history of...