Nasa’s LDSD Programme
The heavier planetary landers of tomorrow will require much larger drag devices than any now in use to slow them down — and those next-generation drag devices will need to be deployed at higher...
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The Birth of a New Planetary System
ALMA radio telescope in Chile has captured the young cosmic body in the moment of its birth. This new image shows the young star, HL Tau, wrapped in the clouds of gas and dust,...
What Can We Expect from Interstellar Flights?
Our longstanding quest to expand our horizons will send us one day on a long voyage out of our known world. What changes it could make? What will be the future of interstellar flights?
Three Months of Science Experiments Conducted in Space
Alexander Gerst, an ESA astronaut, has spent three months on the International Space Station, working on a Blue Dot mission. This video shows what is the Blue Dot mission all about and how his...
New Era of Spaceflights – NASA
After the Apollo program, the Space Shuttle program has dominated through the last 30 years and performed the space research, launched satellites and installed the international space stations. Now, when the Space Shuttle era...
How We Can Live On Mars Without A Spacesuit
One day, it might be possible to live on Mars without a spacesuit! How could this be possible? Here an explanation on how this could be possible and the process of terraforming Mars in order...
Future Space Travel Technologies Documentary
Future Space Travel Technologies Documentary Check out the video down below to learn more information about the current technology that is now being used in order to explore space.
New Info on NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
This is a recorded live transmission from the Kennedy Space Center. Click on the video down below if you’d like to know more about the latest achievements in the Orion Spacecraft.
The Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble space telescope was launched in 1990 and remains fully functional even today. The name of the telescope comes from the famous astronomer Edward Hubble. Hubble was constructed by NASA with some help...
NASA’s New Concept Spaceship For Warp Drive
If we are ever to truly escape our solar system we will need to develop transport technologies that are effectively faster than the speed of light. NASA is already researching ‘warp’ drives. Here is...
Optical Communication From Space
Matt Abrahamson, the OPALS mission manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. is interviewed about the forthcoming laser communications trial. OPALS (Optical PAyload for Lasercomm Science) is a demonstration of optical communication by transferring a...
Future Space Travel Technologies
A look at new technologies that could revolutionise our methods for exploring space and the space travel.
The History of Space Suits
Learn about the hundred-year history of the pressurized suit, and see what the future of space garments might look like. Space suits are one of the often-overlooked technologies that humans need to live in, and...
How Gyroscopes Guide Rockets
A look at how gyroscopes were used in the German V2 rockets and how this technology was then used in the Saturn 5 rocket that was used for putting man on the moon.
The Orion Spacecraft & SLS
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...
Finding And Travelling To Exoplanets
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...
Antimatter Propulsion
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...
The Soyuz Launch Sequence
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...
