America challenged private industry to develop new economical space transportation systems. It rose to the challenge and NASA now has two space transportation systems. SpaceX’s Falcon rocket and Dragon spacecraft and Orbital’s Antares rocket and...
A look from space at the typhoon that recently devastated parts of the Phillipines with a force equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane.
Space tourism is becoming a reality and a number of private companies are gearing up for this niche business. Here is an interview with one of the entrepreneurs exploiting this new market. httpv://youtu.be/9t1WhvhaJWo
How does ‘fire’ burn in outer space and how do you put it out since you can’t spray water. httpv://youtu.be/9zdD7lfB0Fs
Russian cosmonauts take the winter olympic torch for the Sochi 1914 games on a space walk. httpv://youtu.be/W_4kuLvORk8
An exclusive view of the highly-secure ISRO facility where Mangalyaan — India’s satellite to Mars – was born. The spacecraft has since successfully launched, please see our yesterdays post and the video at the...
India has launched a spacecraft to Mars orbit and hopes to become the fourth space agency to reach the red planet after the US, Russia ans Europe. The unmanned spacecraft will travel for 300 days...
Here is the last part of the early history of space. This time looking at a 1970s view of how the colonisation of Mars may occur.
A video made my one of our members, Lukas Hegi Irsak. Thank you Lukas!
An academic training lecture on Dark Matter given by an expert from CERN. Dark matter and dark energy cannot be explained within the standard model of particle physics. In this lecture the evidence for dark...
String Field Physicist Professor Michio Kaku will try and answer the question that many scientists, philosophers and free thinkers have asked and can never seem to answer: “What is time?” ”
We continue looking at the early history of spaceflight, this time looking at Skylab, the first joint US Soviet mission and the reusable space shuttle.
A video that looks at the theory of dark matter and dark energy — dark matter, this undetectable mass is thought to make up ninety six percent of the universe, and dark energy —...
A look at some revolutionary ideas about travel in space, from ship designs to innovative methods of propulsion such as solar sails and laser beams. Also a look at antimatter as a power source...
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