Highlights of 2013 from the Ames Research Center. A look back at the space-related missions, research and technology demonstrations completed during 2013 by scientists, researchers and staff at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
Here is part 2 of a basic introduction to lunar and interplanetary navigation for manned spaceflight. The film was made in 1968 and the footage shows, through animation and live photography, the use of computers and...
This video details planetary motion or orbital mechanics. It explains Kepler’s and Newton’s Laws plus terminology including perigee, apogee, eccentricity, orbital inclination, launch window, etc.
Here is part 2 of this amazing documentary. The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary about renowned aerospace scientist and visionary, Dr. Robert Zubrin, and his struggle to get the first human mission to Mars...
The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary about renowned aerospace scientist and visionary, Dr. Robert Zubrin, and his struggle to get the first human mission to Mars off the ground. Here is part 1...
NASA is to start vegetable growing experiments on the ISS. If humans are ever to colonise other planets then there has to be a system of local food production.
The Sun is getting hotter and one day life on Earth will become impossible. In this episode of ‘Space’ Sam Neil looks at new planets that will one day have to house human beings.
Sam Neil continues his look at ‘Space’. This time exploring the possibility of Alien Life. The search for life on other worlds has been compared to identifying a single grain of sand on the Moon,...
In the second part of ‘Space’ Sam Neill takes us on a rollercoaster ride through the galaxy to discover how disasters in space regularly threaten our entire world.
A series on ‘space’ hosted by sam Neil. This episode covers the origins of life and how everything is produced by the process in which stars burn their fuel.
A look at how pressure waves can propogate through. Sound can travel through space as space is not a complete vacuum as is explained in this video.
Could it be that the universe is infinite? Is there any way to find out what the shape of the universe really is? Can we find the edge, discover what might lie beyond it,...
Scientists search for black holes, white holes and worm holes. A worn hole may be a short cut between different points in the Universe. Worm holes could be the next big discovery in space...
The Vostochny Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport currently under construction, located at 51 degrees north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East. It is intended to become the main centre for Russia’s...
China’s first moon rover, Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, separated from the lander early on Sunday, several hours after the Chang’e-3 probe soft-landed on the lunar surface. Here is video footage of the Jade Rabbit...
Infra red telescopes are able to give us a glimpse, for the first time of what lies in the centre of our Galaxy. Astonishingly conclusions are that it is a massive black hole. The...
A look at the future of space travel including the concept of the ‘space elevator’. While the elevator would be safer than a rocket there are other hazards that could be lethal to astronauts.
