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 …
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
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
Some exiting findings where presented by, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who built the project and and manages it. Read the background article on how water helped shape Mount Sharp on the JPL website
I really like Chris Hadfield, he is one of the rare astronauts that is really good in sharing his thoughts and experiences from his space flights and is able to take you with him on his journeys. In this Ted Talk Chris Hadfield talks about how primal fear works and what astronauts do to change …
Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space Lees verder »
I love Chris Hadfield, he is a cool and charismatic man and astronaut, how went three times into space. On his last journey he lived for six months on ISS of which in the last three month he was the commander. Chris did some really cool stuff in space which he shared with the public. George Stroumboulopoulos …
Chris Hadfield interview, about his life in space Lees verder »
On 1 may at about 1:00 EST SpaceX tweeted that the HDEV experiment was successfully transferred from Dragon’s trunk to ISS. This is a cool experiment with four High definition camera’s. These four camera’s are streaming real HD video footage of Earth.
ISS is quite big. It’s by far the biggest structure, that orbits the earth and can be easily seen when it passes over and weather is clear. ISS started as an international cooperation project to build laboratory, observatory and factory in space. Many modules have been added in the more than the fifteen year it …