Reaching the Andromeda Galaxy in Just a Minute! Brian Cox discusses the concept of time and distance contraction at speeds close to the speed of light. He explains that for objects moving near light... continue reading
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Precious samples collected from an asteroid are to be moved to a specialist laboratory in Texas. Material taken from what has been described as “the most dangerous rock in our Solar System” came... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month ago • 123 views • 2:48Artemis 1: Which will consist of an uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion spacecraft around the Moon, where the next generation of spacecraft that will take humans to the... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 59 views • 12:48The multiverse hypothesis or theory holds that a group of multiple universes (possibly infinite universes) comprise everything that exists: The entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and... continue reading
posted by BSR 3 years 5 months ago • 143 views • 10:03YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 70 views • 2:46NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft has discovered “layers” and “rifts” in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of Mars. The phenomenon... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 349 views • 2:19"Behavior of mice aboard the International Space Station 20 female mice were transported to the International Space Station by SpaceX CRS-4 Dragon spacecraft. On NASA’s Rodent Habitat, the mice engaged... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 3:42This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 516 views • 4:57YouTube description: The moon is looking more full than ever. The director Todd Douglas Miller assembles beautifully restored archival footage, blends that with audio from the astronauts and a vibrant... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 311 views • 2:41YouTube description: In the last 20 years it's been surprisingly common for space probes to end missions early because reaction wheels have failed, moreover there's been a large number of failures associated... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 566 views • 7:10The European Space Agency (ESA) is part of an international effort to monitor and – ultimately – tackle space debris. This junk – accumulated in orbit since the dawn of the space age sixty years... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 136 views • 3:37YouTube: This video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 582 views • 2:02The Voyager 1 space probe is the furthest man-made object from Earth, and the fastest. But right now, it's moving towards us. Relatively speaking. At Mission Control for the Deep Space Network, inside... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 656 views • 3:26YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 812 views • 14:23NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th,... continue reading
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