Category: Manned Space Flight
A video capturing the farewells exchanged on the International Space Station between the departing Expedition 39 crew and the Expedition 40 crew remaining onboard. Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA Flight Engineer...
Boeing is known for making airplanes, both commercial and fighter, but they actually have a long history in space. They’ve been a contractor for NASA on every manned space mission ever flown. A new...
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is a planned beyond-low-Earth-orbit manned spacecraft that is being built by Lockheed Martin for NASA and Astrium for European Space Agency for crewed missions to the Moon, asteroids and...
This video gives you an inside look at NASA’s next steps in deep space exploration — from the space station, to an asteroid and on to the human exploration of Mars.
In this video we look back at the past 50 years of space in Europe; five decades of discovery, drama and innovation that have had a profound impact on how we see ourselves and our...
A look at the future of space travel and the prospects of discovering Alien life. The belief now is that Earth like planets are as common as dust and many planets have been discovered...
Ond day, if the human race survives that long, we will have to leave Planet Earth and find another home. We are already searching for Earth like planets but finding such planets is not...
The fourth SpaceX Falcon 9v1.1 rocket to launch successfully lifted off of Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida on April 18th 2014 at 19:25 UTC. The rocket carried the fourth ISS-bound Dragon Spacecraft...
Conventional propulsion systems will never allow humans to colonise space. Antimatter propulsion rockets however, would be using the propellant thousands of times more powerful than nuclear fuel and billions of times more efficient than the...
A great documentary on the future of space travel. From space tourism to colonies on Mars, what does the future hold for mankind?
The Progress 55 cargo craft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan April 9 on a four-orbit, six-hour journey to deliver almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the six-man Expedition 39...
Get your very own piece of space history as rare memorabilia goes up for auction. httpv://youtu.be/VY_TrPZXnrI
The USA is cutting ties with Russia over UKraine and NASA is following suit. However the US is dependent on Russia to get astronauts into space. httpv://youtu.be/saPCecYRKXY
Professor Charles Cockell describes the British Interplanetary Society’s project to establish a base at the Martian North Pole. The British Interplanetary Society (BIS) is Britain’s leading think tank on space development. Founded in 1933, it is...
Former occupant of the ISS, Sunita Williams explains how to sleep and washup aboard the ISS. She also explains how to use the toilet and the types of wipes used and why.
A look back at one of the least glamorous of the Apollo missions and a contingency plan that did not have to be used but involved an astronaut in orbit!
Nasa is giving you the opportunity to help choose what the people who are going to space get to wear. A look at some of the new suits designed by NASA.
What are the parts of the Soyuz rocket? What are the stages into orbit? What is the launch sequence? Watch and find out. This video has been produced from an actual lesson delivered to...