Guest Post: Tempurpedic mattress – Mattress Used in Space
The rigorous demands of space travel have made it necessary for scientists and technologists to invent… [more]
Mad Scientist: Has This Engineer Developed the Deadliest Rollercoaster in the World?
A ride on a really great rollercoaster has often resulted in something close to a near-death experience,… [more]
Top 10 Amazing Rocket Explosions – Videos – Coolest Launch Disasters
We've scoured YouTube for the 10 coolest rocket launch explosion videos we could find - and this is the… [more]
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Guest Post: Tempurpedic mattress – Mattress Used in Space
The rigorous demands of space travel have made it necessary for scientists and technologists to invent special materials and gadgets that will allow astronauts to perform various tasks when outside the Earth’s boundaries. Over time, some of these NASA-developed innovations have been made available to manufacturers and the public. One of these innovations is the [...]
Mad Scientist: Has This Engineer Developed the Deadliest Rollercoaster in the World?
A ride on a really great rollercoaster has often resulted in something close to a near-death experience, with riders’ bodies pushed close to the limits of their physical endurance and at least producing the illusion that they may not survive. Now one designer has taken this principle to the extreme and developed a concept for [...]
Elon Musk on the Business Case for Mars
Elon Musk of SpaceX recently spoke at a symposium on space travel and outlined his vision for the colonization of Mars. I think he’s right on the money.
Video: Amazing timelapse video of the ISS Orbit
A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. [...]
Video: Nasa unveils rocket to carry man to Mars
Nasa has unveiled a new rocket design which it says will put humans on Mars by 2030.
Space Miami – Aerojet-Dade Rocket Site Documentary
Space Miami – Aerojet-Dade Rocket Site Documentary from Coffee and Celluloid on Vimeo. In 1963 Aerojet-General built a rocket manufacturing plant in the middle of the Everglades. They were hoping to build rockets for the Apollo moon mission. The rockets were built and tested in a 150 ft. deep silo, the deepest hole ever dug [...]
Sexy Space: Amazing PIcture of the Shuttle Docked to the ISS
For the first time – the Space Shuttle has been pictured docked to the ISS, taken by Italian Astronaut Paolo Nespoli as he left the ISS on a Soyuz. Amazing!
Video: Amazing Clip – What an Astronaut’s Camera Sees
An intimate tour… in 1080p… of Earth’s most impressive landscapes… as captured by astronauts with their digital cameras. Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASA’s astronaut team describes the special places that spacemen focus on whenever they get a moment. We start with the coast of Namibia in southwestern Africa, the very dry desert coast of the [...]
Video: STS-134 Ascent Imagery Highlights
Space shuttle Endeavour and the STS-134 crew begin the journey to the International Space Station on May 16, 2011.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two Has it’s first ‘feathered’ flight
It seems like either Virgin Galactic or SpaceX is in the news every day now. This is a good thing. The latest milestone for Virgin Galactic is that SpaceShip Two has had its first ‘feathered’ controlled flight. Here’s a video: Awesome.
Space Shuttle Endeavor Launch from an Airplane
Stefanie Gordon took this from her airplane seat and tweeted it. Beautiful and incredible.
Video: Space Shuttle Endeavour Lifts off
The space shuttle Endeavour has blasted off on Nasa’s penultimate shuttle flight, thundering through cloudy Florida skies and into orbit.
What is the Ideal Space Career For You? Infographic
This is a fun flowchart from the folks at GOOD Magazine. Source.
Video: AIr Force Atlas 5 Blasts Off
US Defense Department launches first satellite of new missile-warning system
Cool Website: How Many People Are in Space Right Now?
This website is dead simple and awesome. It answers simply: how many people are in space right now? Today the answer is 6 – that will change in a few weeks with the shuttle arrives. Check it out here.
Video: Amazing Time Lapse Video of the Milky Way Taken in Spain
This video has left me speechless. From the description: This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide. Spain´s highest mountain @(3715m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one [...]
Virgin Galactic Looking for a Few Good Men
In what has to be the coolest job posting ever posted in internet history, Virgin Galactic has put up a call out for potential astronauts for it’s upcoming SpaceShipTwo program. From their website: Virgin Galactic has launched its search for Pilot-Astronauts. This unique opportunity initially involves working as part of the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo spaceflight [...]
Top 10 Amazing Rocket Explosions – Videos – Coolest Launch Disasters
We’ve scoured YouTube for the 10 coolest rocket launch explosion videos we could find – and this is the result. We’ve deliberately avoided using launches involving people – that wouldn’t be entertaining now, would it? Indian Rocket Explodes Carrying Comms Satellite A rocket carrying an Indian communication satellite exploded just after liftoff on Saturday in [...]
Fun Space Shuttle Infographic from NASA
Check out this fun infographic put together by NASA all about the Space Shuttle.
Richard Branson Sends out Message about Gagarin Night
I thought this was worth sharing – here’s a special message from Richard Branson – someone on the forefront of humanity’s next space revolution – on the magnitude of today, the 50th anniversary of Gagarin’s first flight. “I was one of those lucky kids that spent his most impressionable years in a truly unique decade [...]
Video: A Look at the Future of Manned Space Flight over the Next 50 Years
Tom Clarke, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Uri Gagarin’s inaugural man-powered space flight, looks at the legacy of the space race and what we can expect ahead in the next 50 years.
Russia Marks the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s Flight
April 12 marks 50 years since Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to fly in space.
Video: A Peek Inside Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo
The BBC got the first ever inside look at the still under construction SpaceShipTwo. I think the most interesting bit of news from the video is that launches are planned for 2013 now – I remember they were planned for the end of 2011 or early 2012. I wonder why the delay.
Space tourism flights could take off from Scotland
Science Minister David Willetts: ”It would be nice to see Virgin Galactic launch from Lossiemouth.”
NASA Orbits Mercury for the first Time – Video Inside
NASA’s Messenger spacecraft’s first photos of Mercury have revealed a pock-marked planet full of craters from pieces of asteroids.
