A video capturing the farewells exchanged on the International Space Station between the departing Expedition 39 crew and the Expedition 40 crew remaining onboard. Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA Flight Engineer...
The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a Solar Terrestrial Probes mission comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth’s magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics of three fundamental plasma processes: magnetic...
Over ten years ago, on 14 January 2004, Mars Express took its very first images of Mars in colour and in 3D. To mark the occasion, the team produced a fly-through movie of the ancient...
A look at how gyroscopes were used in the German V2 rockets and how this technology was then used in the Saturn 5 rocket that was used for putting man on the moon.
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope helps solve a mystery. The fading light of a flaring young star has shed light on a puzzle involving crystals and comets.
In this introductory video we share some tips and insight into the steps you need to take to get into stargazing. We cover: establishing a location, useful beginner accessories, observing tips, using binoculars, and...
This video shows some great tips to help you get the best from your telescope and enhance your enjoyment of the night sky.
The USA’s reliance on Russia to put astronauts into space after the retirement of the Shuttle has made the issue a political pawn in the wake of the current east west crisis.
Boeing is known for making airplanes, both commercial and fighter, but they actually have a long history in space. They’ve been a contractor for NASA on every manned space mission ever flown. A new...
Movies recorded by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal that hot spots are not just local weather phenomena, but are in fact linked to much larger-scale atmospheric structures called Rossby waves.
In space no one can hear you scream. Mabe not strictly true. NASA Space Sounds – Information about the recordings and sample sounds of the planets, moons and rings of planets in our Solar...
NASA Physicist Tom Campbell says that more feasible theory than string theory and other theories of the Universe is that we live in a virtual reality Universe. A great video on a new theory...
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is a planned beyond-low-Earth-orbit manned spacecraft that is being built by Lockheed Martin for NASA and Astrium for European Space Agency for crewed missions to the Moon, asteroids and...
The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, will study how the sun and the Earth’s magnetic fields connect and disconnect, an explosive process that can accelerate particles through space to nearly the speed of light. This...
This video gives you an inside look at NASA’s next steps in deep space exploration — from the space station, to an asteroid and on to the human exploration of Mars.
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