This is the TEDx talk of an extraordinary man Story Musgrave. In high pass he leads you through hi slive and live philosophy. Yes Story Musgrave is one of the astronauts how repaired the Huble space telescope, but he is so much more. After watching his TEDx talk, you will be left with some really deep questions […]
Nasa
Basic of space flight
Basic space flight is a nice tutorial course designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to give a basic understanding the relationship between the concepts that cover deep space missions. You can find the tutorial at: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics/index.php
NASA selected the Fantastic Four!
Nasa announced that they have selected four veteran astronauts for the first commercial crew flights with Boeing’s Orion and SpaceX’s Dragon V2. As Spacex is developing Dragon V in an aggressive pace and Boeing seam to take a lot of more time for there next flight, the first commercial crew flights will most likely default […]
Dragon grappled by ISS
Grapple of Dragon by the ISS crew has been successful. Watch the full video of the event. The coupling maneuver has also been completed successful. Hatch opening will be done over the next day.
Apollo animated space patches
More space patches, this time the Apollo space patches accompanied with sound clips of communication with the capsules and lander of those historic flights. Read the story on: Memories of Apollo Moon missions inspire new animations
About transfer orbits or how to fly to ISS
Watch Destin Sandlin from Smarter every Day Interview with Scott Kelly about is upcoming one year stay on ISS and Reid Wiseman about orbital mechanics and how the Soyuz, uses some sophisticated maneuvers to catch up with the International Space Station. Particular interesting, is the part where Destin and Reid explain the “Homann Transfer” and […]
Dragon V2 flight animation analysis
Lets take a look at the Dragon V2 flight animation. Despite that it is just a first animation, it’s fun to have a look at it and make some analysis, by comparing it with what we already know from Dragon V1. The first thing that springs to attention is the trunk. It is much longer […]
Earth timelaps with Dragon and and Cygnus
This video is a timelapse produced from 12.500 images taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, during the Blue dot ISS mission. Watch the amazing timelapses of aurora, night skies and the stars clearly showing through Earth’s atmosphere. There aso some really cool shots from the berthing of Dragon and the departure of Cygnus the Orbital science […]