Earth from the ISS
A wonderful video showing the Earth from the International Space Station… awesome! Makes me homesick!
Riding The Booster!
From an upcoming DVD/Blueray movie by NASA and astronaut John Glenn, some amazing footage of a Space Shuttle launch from the viewpoint of cameras mounted on one of the Solid Rocket Booster. You’ll see the launch, the Earth receding below, then a tumbling view after the boosters separate from the Shuttle and return on their own to Earth, initially in free-fall then below parachutes for a touchdown in the sea. When the Shuttle...
STS-134 Shuttle Reentry & Landing
Shuttle mission STS-134 is alomost over, with reentry and landing planned for the next few hours. Landing is planned for 2.35am EDT (1 June 2011 – Kennedy time), but the fun viewing starts a couple of hours before that, with reentry preparations and the reentry process. You can watch the whole thing on NASA’s fabulous “NASA Live TV” service, and it is usually very interesting watching. I’m showing this on...
Shuttle Launch: It’s On Again!
After a two week delay to fix the faulty auxiliary power unit that caused the STS-134 May-3rd launch to be scrubbed, NASA is ready for another launch attempt. You can watch the whole thing on NASA’s fabulous “NASA Live TV” service (full live coverage usually starts a few hours before the planned launch time). I’m showing this on my big screen at Ivan’s SkyRocket Cafe, so don’t miss it. You can have...
1961: Yuri Gagarin & Alan Shepard – First Men in Space
In 1961 mankind first rode rockets into space. The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union (Russia), orbiting the earth in a flight lasting 108 minutes. Eager to show that they too could put a man into space, the United States launched astronaut Alan Shepard shortly after Gagarin’s flight. The US was not quite ready to conduct a manned orbital flight, instead settling for a sub-orbital ballistic...
The Moon Speech – John F. Kennedy 1962
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard.” Words chosen and delivered well can propel man across the heavens. In 1962 US President John F. Kennedy gave a speech in which he explained his commitment to America putting a man on the moon, at a time when they had not even put a monkey into space. The cold war conflict with the Soviet Union was a...
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