Category: Manned Space Flight
Orion And Space Launch System Animation
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A superb animation of the Exploration Mission-1 in 2017 which will be the first mission to incorporate both the Orion vehicle and NASA’s new...
Update From NASA – 11th January 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is the latest update from Nasa which includes an introduction to the ‘Commercial Crew Programme’, which is a series of joint ventures between...
Volunteers Wanted For One Way Trip To Mars
– For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is information on The Netherlands-based nonprofit Mars One, which hopes to put the first boots on the Red Planet in 2023, has just released its...
NASA Update – 5th January 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The latest update from NASA with information on the development and testing of the new Space Launch System and other development programmes. Also some...
The Colonisation Of Space – Vision of the 70s
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The mid seventies was a time of great optimism for space exploration as this video from the time demonstrates. It envisages massive space colonies...
Early Russian Space Triumphs – (1)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” The Russian space industry is undergoing a revival with ambitious plans to go to the Moon and Mars. Here we look at how the Russians...
The Russian Space Shuttle – Buran
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here are some short clips of the Soviet Space Shuttle Buran which completed only one unmanned flight into space on November 15th 1988. Later...
Russia Plans Moon Base
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – We have not heard much from The Russian Space Programme for a while. But it appears that plans are under way for a...
Johnson Space Center – Highlights 2012
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Another great year for the Johnson Space Centre. Here are just some of its achievements during 2012. Despite the budget cuts we believe that...
Packing and Preparing Space Food (Part 2)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” Here is part 2 of the video looking at the preparation of space food. This time looking at the food packaging laboratory. This laboratory filters...
China’s First Manned Space Mission
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A look at China’s first manned space mission. Since then China has carried out multiple manned missions including the launch of a space station...
Packing and Preparing Space Food (Part 1)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – With the US Thanksgiving holiday approaching NASA Food Scientist Vickie Kloeris at Johnson Space Center’s Space Food Laboratory talks about preparing a Thanksgiving dinner...
ISS Astronauts Spacewalk to Fix Ammonia Leak
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – ISS expedition 33 astronauts Suni Williams and Akihiko Hoshide completed a 6-hour, 38-minute spacewalk to repair an leak of ammonia in one of the...
Endeavour in Los Angeles
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Great footage of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on its two day trip from the two-day trip from Los Angeles International Airport through the streets of...
New Trio To Join The ISS
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” The launch of the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the three crew members who will join expedition 33 aboard the International Space...
Soyuz Joins Booster For Expedition 33/34
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft was mated to its booster rocket on Oct. 20. Here is great back room...
Space Shuttle Atlantis’s Boosters Fall Back To Earth
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Spectacular footage of the space shuttle Atlantis blasting off into space and the dramatic return of the solid rocket boosters back down to Earth....
