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...
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...
Smithsonian: Robert Goddard and the “Hoopskirt” Rocket
From the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum / YouTube page: Dr. Michael Neufeld, curator in the Space History Division at the National Air and Space Museum, discusses Robert Goddard and his “hoopskirt” rocket. This informal gallery talk was recorded on October 27, 2010 as part of the National Air and Space Museum’s “Ask an Expert” lecture...
Smithsonian: The Roswell Incident
From the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum / YouTube page: Dr. Roger Launius, senior curator in the Space History Division of the National Air and Space Museum, discusses the 1947 Roswell Incident — UFOs, the Cold War and Chicanery in the desert. This informal gallery talk was recorded on March 20, 2011 as part of the National Air and Space Museum’s “Ask an Expert” lecture...
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