Best Outer Space Videos Blog
Why Spacesuits Are So Expensive | So Expensive
This spacesuit, built in 1974, was reported to cost between $15 million and $22 million. Today, that would be about $150 million. Having not delivered any new mission-ready extravehicular suits since then, NASA is...
How NASA Reinvented the Rocket Engine
This is no ordinary rocket engine. Limited by the technology of their times engineers and physicists have theorized this propulsion method for centuries, but the constraints of time may have just lifted with NASA’s...
What’s the Most Realistic Artificial Gravity in Sci-Fi?
[MUSIC PLAYING] Artificial gravity, it’s an essential plot element in most science fiction stories. But do any of those stories actually get artificial gravity right? [MUSIC PLAYING] Whether you realize it or not, artificial...
Rockets 101 | National Geographic
– [Narrator] The ground begins to tremble. – [Announcer] Three. – [Narrator] Massive engines roar to life. – [Announcer] Two. – [Narrator] Billowing clouds of exhaust. – [Announcer] One. – [Narrator] And then a...
How Does A Spacesuit Work?
Consider how you dress when you go outside on a frigid winter day. You have got your shirt, pants, sweater, possibly long underwear, jacket, gloves, helmet or hood, scarf, and boots on. You dressed...
Can we REALLY build on Mars? [SPACE ARCHITECTURE]
Mars. I always wonder what it would be like to live there And to build there. What would it feel like to look out the window and see an alien landscape millions and millions...
Artificial Gravity
Gravity. It’s what keeps us held to the surface of the Earth and provides a sense of up and down. When we venture into space and orbit the Earth, or some other world, the...
Rocket engine cycles: How do you power a rocket engine?
Hi, it’s me, Tim Dodd. The Everyday Astronaut. Rocket engines are incredibly complex machines pushing the boundaries of material science and human ingenuity. And there’s a wide range of ways. You can actually power...
Inside NASA’s Mars-like habitat where 4 astronaut-like volunteers will live for a year
Have you heard about this? Four volunteers will suspend soon spend an entire year inside a small habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston. It is all part of a program to better prepare...
How a Rocket works?
The term rocket science is often used to describe a concept that is quite difficult to understand but in this video we are going to explain The technology behind rockets and rocket engines in...
Orbital Dynamics Part 01 First Discoveries
Welcome to orbital dynamics. This is a multi-part course on the basics of orbital dynamics. The orbital dynamics or orbital mechanics textbooks assume familiarity with calculus and all the algebra and trig that goes...
The artificial gravity lab
– Last video, I was at the Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab at Brandeis University, and while I was there one of the team just casually mentioned that they have an artificial gravity laboratory....
Lec 22: Kepler’s Laws, Elliptical Orbits, and Maneuvers | 8.01 Classical Mechanics (Walter Lewin)
Today, I will talk to you about elliptical orbits and Kepler’s famous laws. I first want to review with you briefly what we know about circular orbits, so I wrote on the blackboard everything...
Wearing space suit no easy task
FA CT OR Y W HE RE S PA CE S UI TS H AV E FACTORY WHERE SPACE SUITS HAVE FACTORY WHERE SPACE SUITS HAVE BE EN M AD E E VE R...
Easy Orbital Mechanics I – Getting to the Moon
So, contrary to what you see in movies spacecraft can’t just sit around in space near a planet because they’d fall right into it. To stay in space we need to get into orbit....
NASA’s Next-Generation Spacesuits — A Behind-The-Scenes Look
This may look like an astronaut training for the Olympics, but that’s not what’s really happening here. For the ISS, you want a rigid lower half with the ability to rotate around the waist...
