The Space Race

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ISS Timelapse - Super Typhoon Nepartak

Highlights mid-2016

 

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Crew members on the ISS re-installed the first 3D printer in orbit. The goal of having the printer on the orbiting laboratory is to demonstrate that additive manufacturing can be used to make a variety of parts and tools in space, reducing the need to send replacements from Earth.

In this view looking up from the floor of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 4 levels of new work platforms are now installed on the north and south sides of High Bay 3. The G-level work platforms were most recently installed, at about the 14th floor level.

Astronauts Talk about Research on the ISS

 

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Nostalgic video:

NASA's Juno spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter after being launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on August 5, 2011

July 14, 2016: Baikonur cosmodrome engineers are assembling Союз-У carrier rocket and Прогресс МС-03 cargo spacecraft.

Rollout is on July 15 and launch is on July 17.

 

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Earth from Space: Sundarbans web

Space-to-Ground: A New Crew Arrives: 07/15/2016

SpaceX | First-stage landing | Onboard camera

Alien Enthusiasts Say NASA Covers Up UFO Sightings

edit: new image from ISS. St. Petersburg and Tampa, US

 

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Союз-У carrier rocket rollout. Yay!

 

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Progress cargo spacecraft successfully launched and headed to ISS Just finished watching live stream.

full coverage

 

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SpaceX Launches Resupply Mission to the ISS

 

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SpaceX nails its FIFTH rocket landing: Falcon 9 returns to launch pad after sending new-style docking port to the ISS

 

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Awww maaaaan, what a bummer, I totally forgot about this:

United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket has completed the US Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) constellation. The launch occurred at Friday, June 24, 2016, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

full broadcast:

highlights:

rocket cam:

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New image by ESA:

Sentinel-2B being prepared for testing in the Large Space Simulator at ESA's technical heart in the Netherlands. The 15 m-diameter simulator mimics the cold and heat of space. The satellite was shipped from Airbus Defence and Space's Friedrichshafen facility in Germany to ESA's test centre in June 2016. Here, it's being put through a stringent environmental test campaign to make sure it's ready for its life in space. In 2017, Sentinel-2B will join its identical twin, Sentinel-2A, in orbit around Earth to provide multispectral imagery for a multitude of applications, from monitoring the health of the world's vegetation to mapping regions struck by natural disaster.

 

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Digging up some old stuff:

The final of four MMS spacecraft being released from its Centaur upper stage (March 12, 2015)

A short video showing the August 3, 2004 launch of NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury

 

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part 2:

Two views of launch of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket on January 19, 2006, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
New Horizons was the fastest spacecraft ever launched, leaving Earth at ~ 36000 mph.

Space Shuttle flight 35 (STS-31), narrated by the astronauts, launched on 24 April 1990. This mission launched the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

On Oct. 15, 1997, a seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn began with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe.

 

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Russian Resupply Ship Arrives at Space Station

Two days after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 64 cargo ship automatically docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment on the Russian segment of the ISS July 18. The new Progress is delivering three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the six crewmembers comprising the Expedition 48 crew. The Progress will remain attached to the station until late January, when it will undock and commanded to deorbit so it can burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.

 

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Edited raw footage compilation of the launches of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Shot with HD cameras on a tracker at Kennedy Space Center. | NASA | Date: 07.21.2009

3D-video of the launch of Soyuz-U carrier rocket with Progress MS-03 cargo spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome | Roscosmos | Date: 07.17.2016

 

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SpaceX has applied for permission to build new landing pads at the Cape Canaveral HQ it leases from Nasa.

It would allow all three main rockets of the firm's upcoming Falcon Heavy to land back at base before being prepared for reuse.

The space launch company is now seeking federal permission for two new areas for landing spent rockets, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

The company told the Sentinel that the new landing areas are needed to prepare for the possibility of landing three rockets – all within minutes of each other.

'SpaceX expects to fly Falcon Heavy for the first time later this year,' the company said in a statement responding to questions.

'We are also seeking regulatory approval to build two additional landing pads at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

'We hope to recover all three Falcon Heavy rockets, though initially we may attempt drone ship landings' at sea.

Exactly how the rocket will take flight and return to Earth has been detailed in a new promotional video.

It is estimated that each flight of the rocket will eventually cost about £56 million ($85 million).

For comparison, Nasa's comparable Space Launch System, which admittedly is more powerful, will cost about £330 million ($500 million) per launch.

To do this, SpaceX plans to return most of the rocket back to the launchpad, enabling its boosters to be used on multiple flights.

The rocket is designed with a central core booster that is derived from the smaller Falcon 9 rocket - which has already completed many successful flights.

Strapped to either side are two additional Falcon 9 rocket cores.

Once they have exhausted most of their fuel, the two side boosters are released.

The video shows how they will then spin around in Earth's atmosphere and descend in a controlled manner back to Earth.

 

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New image from ISS:

Some old stuff:

Venus Express is ESA's first spacecraft to voyage to our nearest planet; it was built around the design of Mars Express, making it quicker and cheaper to develop. In particular, Venus Express is observing the Venusian atmosphere and clouds in unprecedented detail and accuracy. Venus Express was launched on 9 November 2005.

Watch the replay of the launch of MetOp-B from Baikonur cosmodrome on-board a Soyuz launcher on 17 September 2012.
MetOp-B is the second in the series of 3 identical polar-orbiting weather satellites to provide data for weather forecasting and climate monitoring. MetOp-A was launched in 2006, MetOp-B will be followed by MetOp-C, which is scheduled for launch in 2016.

 

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Latest videos by NASA/ESA

 

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Inside Apollo 11's command module: Stunning new Smithsonian 3D scan

To mark the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission, the Smithsonian has revealed a stunning high resolution 3D model of the command module 'Columbia,' the spacecraft that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon.

The digital model is accessible through the Smithsonian X 3D website, which includes a free browser and the ability to download the data for use in modeling programs and to print using a 3D printer. The model will also be featured in the museum's upcoming "Destination Moon" exhibition.

 

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Atlas V Lifts Off: Launch sends the Solar Dynamics Observatory toward space (Feb. 11, 2010)

India's 'Mars Orbiter Mission' blasts off (Nov. 5 , 2013)

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying the Jason-3 spacecraft. (Jan. 17, 2016). NASA launched Jason-3 into orbit for NOAA

NASA Kepler Mission Launch (March 6, 2009)

 

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Is Our @RCoon oft to space or is he just blagging NASA publicity

 

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Rocket Science in 2 minutes: Orbital Mechanics by UnitedLaunchAlliance

SpaceX Dragon CRS-9 chasing the ISS

Tale of Two Ships

Dawn Launch

Dawn spacecraft thundered off the launch pad aboard a Delta II rocket on the first part of its journey to the asteroid belt. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., 27th September 2007

 

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Herschel and Planck spacecraft launched on May 14, 2009, from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.
Herschel will explore, with unprecedented clarity, the earliest stages of star and galaxy birth in the Universe. Planck will look back to almost the beginning of time itself, gathering new details to help explain how our Universe came to be.

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XMM-Newton is an orbiting X-ray observatory. It was launched by the ESA from Kourou on 10 December 1999 by an Ariane 5 rocket.


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When Spitzer launched (25 August 2003) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, members of the Spitzer team were poised two miles away with an infrared camera. At that distance, the Delta II Heavy rocket carrying Spitzer was barely a speck, but in the infrared, the heat in the rocket's plume is extremely bright.

This clip shows the launch of Spitzer in the infrared, including the cooling of the plume after the rocket flies out of frame. The reason it looks like the clouds light up and come down to meet the rocket is because the clouds are reflecting/scattering the bright infrared light of the hot rocket engines below.

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During the test, force is increasingly applied to the top of a composite barrel to evaluate the structural integrity of the test article.

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on a mission explore to near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich body that may contain clues to the origins of life.

 

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mega thanks....infra red rocket launches !!!!!

i just had an eyegasm............

 

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Pioneer 1 Explosion & Blowup (1959)

Pioneer 4 Launch (1959)

IBEX launch (October 19, 2008)

Themis Spacecraft aboard a Delta Rocket, Feb 17, 2007

 

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Launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia (July 23, 2009) with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

STS-93 was the first mission in space shuttle history to be commanded by a woman, Eileen Collins.

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NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft (Dec 14, 2009) lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on a mission to map the entire sky at four infrared wavelengths, cataloging hundreds of millions of objects.

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Space shuttle Atlantis and its 6-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the ISS on Nov 16, 2009.

 

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Just for fun another episode with Nye:

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Flying Down to Hadley Rille, Apollo 15 Moon Landing, 1971

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