This 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
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"NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover has already descended from Vera Rubin Ridge, a region of Mount Sharp that it has been exploring for more than a year. But before it left, the rover took a 360-degree panorama... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 10 views • 1:31YouTube description: The Multi Axis Trainer, or MAT, is an icon of space exploration and astronaut training. But other than spinning round kids at Space Camp: what's it actually used for? Thanks... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 1,017 views • 3:13YouTube description: 50 years ago, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 526 views • 5:47"Elevator. It’s a fascination and a fear for many. Countless action movies and TV shows feature stuck elevators, fights in elevators, and, of course falling elevators. How many times when an elevator... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 219 views • 7:36YouTube description: Live long and prosper? Nichelle Nichols sure has. At the height of the American civil rights movement, she played “Star Trek’s” Lieutenant Uhura—then one of television’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 350 views • 2:58Real Engineering talks about a new wheel developed by NASA.
posted by w1ndex 5 years 7 months ago • 487 views • 9:23YouTube description: More Detailed Interviews here: Dr. Angela Olinto https://youtu.be/8S9iKtI_DGQ Felipe Ruiz https://youtu.be/JtLi6tZzsgA Dr. Tony Case https://youtu.be/m3GKfvPc2ns... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months ago • 571 views • 13:50YouTube 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) 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 565 views • 7:10In which Brian McManus discusses the loss of the Mercury 1 mission after a component failure exposed an error in the error recovery code. (H/T @eric3579)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,402 views • 6:53YouTube description: Ferrofluid is a bizarre, NASA-engineered material that was created for spaceships but never used. In this “lab practical” video, we’ll put ferrofluid through its paces, and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 674 views • 4:26Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield helps debunk (and confirm!) some common myths about space. Is there any sound in space? Does space smell like burnt steak? Is NASA working on warp speed?
posted by Mordhaus 6 years ago • 32 views • 11:33From YT: 2014Footage of the rare event when the Space Station crosses the face of the Moon. The station flies at a speed of 30000km/h, meaning it takes about half a second to traverse the Lunar face.... continue reading
posted by Nephelimdream 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 734 views • 1:12This is very much not how I remember it being reported around the time of the repair mission. I'm sure that at the time it was incorrectly reported as being due to the effect of grinding the mirror under... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,190 views • 7:52Turns out even the tiniest of screw-ups can result in major problems. From metric math mistakes at NASA to impatient generals dooming their own men. -yt
posted by eric3579 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 440 views • 10:56The 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 ago • 656 views • 3:26SAD! YouTube: I don't really know what this budget is meant to do aside from raise military spending dramatically while keeping spending almost exactly the same as it is now. It's remarkable how close... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 338 views • 5:03"This animation starts with an overview of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. As the camera slowly pushes in, Hurricane Matthew begins to form. By the morning of October 2nd, 2016 Matthew... continue reading
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 9 views • 1:29Are you? From YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqN_2jDVbOU "Geordie Rose, Founder of D-Wave (recent clients are Google and NASA) believes that the power of quantum computing is that we can... continue reading
posted by chicchorea 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 850 views • 19:38