Space Travel and the Technology of Interstellar Exploration
A look at the new technologies that will be required for interstellar space travel.
Category: General
Our Solar System – Music (Voyager) By Steve Henry
“This is my new music called Voyager. As a musician, I have always been intrigued by outer space. I wrote this during the past summer months and chose to feature a very basic tour...
What’s A Supernova and Where Can I See One?
The galaxy M82 is filled with stars being created and dying. At present a star is exploding and you can see it.
The Most Deadliest Planets
This video examines the extreme surface conditions of the planets within our solar system, as well as some that lie beyond. Which of these could one day become inhabited by humans?
Investigating “Genius Materials” On ISS
Space Station Live commentator Pat Ryan talks to Dr. Eric Furst, Principal Investigator for the InSPACE experiment, from the University of Delaware. InSpace, or Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions, studies...
NASA – Planet Hunter
A new NASA-sponsored website, DiskDetective.org, lets the public discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission.
Highlights of NASA Ames Space Operations in 2013
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.
Space Navigation (2) – 1967 NASA
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...
Orbital Mechanics
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.
The Mars Underground – 2
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 – 1
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 to Grow Vegetables In Space
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.
Space (New Worlds) – Sam Neil
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.
Space (Are We Alone?) – Sam Neil
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,...
Space (Staying Alive) – Sam Neil
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.
Space (Star Stuff) – Sam Neil
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.
Deadly Secrets Of Our Universe
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.
Is There an Edge to the Universe?
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,...
