China’s Space Disasters
The Long March launch vehicle has become the backbone of the Chinese Space Industry and the latest versions nowadays are very reliable, however it was a cruel learning curve and many innocent people paid...
Monthly Archive: November 2012
Early US Rocket Failures
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends”- All the space fearing nations have had some spectacular rocket failures. Although space travel appears to be becoming more safer this video of some old...
Russia Plans Moon Base
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – We have not heard much from The Russian Space Programme for a while. But it appears that plans are under way for a...
Johnson Space Center – Highlights 2012
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Another great year for the Johnson Space Centre. Here are just some of its achievements during 2012. Despite the budget cuts we believe that...
New ‘Super Jupiter’ Discovered
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is an artists impression of a new ‘Super Jupiter’ planet recently discovered by astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii...
Packing and Preparing Space Food (Part 2)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” Here is part 2 of the video looking at the preparation of space food. This time looking at the food packaging laboratory. This laboratory filters...
China’s First Manned Space Mission
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A look at China’s first manned space mission. Since then China has carried out multiple manned missions including the launch of a space station...
Mars Rover Secret Discovery
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Has Curiosity found the building blocks of life? NASA says they’ve made a discovery for the history books, but won’t tell anyone what it is...
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover UPDATE – November 15, 2012
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A Nasa scientist gives us an update on the Curiosity mission and explains a bit about what the RAD (Radiation Assessment Detector) and REMS...
Packing and Preparing Space Food (Part 1)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – With the US Thanksgiving holiday approaching NASA Food Scientist Vickie Kloeris at Johnson Space Center’s Space Food Laboratory talks about preparing a Thanksgiving dinner...
The Fabric Of Space -Time
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has thrown new light onto space-time and found evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted. With...
Islamic Contributions to Astronomy and Navigation
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Until recently the Islamic contributions to astronomy were by enlarge ignored. However the great European Scientists such as Copernicus, Kepler, Newton and Galileo frequently...
Robotic Exploration Of Venus
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” An old Nasa film showing how Venus could be explored with a group of Robots. The question is that Venus is so inhospitable, are their...
The Day Galileo Changed The Universe
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – An introduction to Galileo and his re-invention of the telescope that changed the way humans looked at the Cosmos forever and gave him...
Earth Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri
– ” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A planet about the mass of the Earth has been found orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri System, the nearest star system...
The Death Of Venus
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Why did Earth thrive and our sister planet, Venus, die? Twin planets emerged from the fires of the Sun’s birth but then their paths diverged....
