Category: Manned Space Flight
This video is based on an actual lesson delivered to the ESA astronaut class of 2009 (also known as the #Shenanigans09) during their ESA Basic Training. It features interviews with astronauts who have flown...
Put on your 3D glasses to get a idea of what it would feel like to see the ISS on a spacewalk.
Traditional space suits are quite bulky and expensive. An MIT Professor together with an Italian motorcycle gear company are developing a skin tight suit that will be cheaper and could be more practical.
A look at missions from the European Space Centre that are due to progress in 2014.
A short video showing the return of expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov of the Russian Federal Space Agency, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos landed safely in Kazakhstan...
On the 80th birthday of the birth of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, we hear from some of his friends and relatives.
A look at how humans may one day make Mars habitable.
Ten very interesting facts about Space Travel.
The urge to explore will eventually save the human race from extinction. This means that space travel will eventually become then norm. Here is a great video featuring new technologies that will be needed...
A look at the new technologies that will be required for interstellar space travel.
Cosmonaut Elena Serova salutes her female predecessors that paved her way to becoming a cosmonaut. She will become the first Russian woman in space since Yelena Kondakova’s STS-84 mission in May 1997.
Heidi Beemer is one of 250 finalists to participate in the Mars One project to establish a human colony on Mars. Over 200, 000 applied for the one way trip to Mars.
This video examines the extreme surface conditions of the planets within our solar system, as well as some that lie beyond. Which of these could one day become inhabited by humans?
A look at how one team is looking to revolutionize space travel and exploration by harnessing the energy contained in the dynamic fourth state of matter: plasma.
New research shows that zero gravity environments could affect human immune systems. Trace and Anthony take a look at what the negative effects of fruit flies born into space could mean for humans.
Last year Russia leaked details of its 18 year plan to go to the Moon and set up ground stations on Mars. Is the plan too ambitious, will they be able to pull it...
A newly released video based on several stunning snapshots taken by astronauts reveals the beauty and power of the erupting volcano that occurred on June 12, 2009, as the International Space Station happened to...
Virgin Galactic’s private reusable space plane reached new heights on January 10th setting a company altitude record in its third-ever supersonic flight test. The successful flight keeps Virgin Galactic on course to start commercial service...