Category Archives: space
Ascent – Commemorating Shuttle
45 minutes of beautiful slow motion videos taken during the first couple of seconds of space shuttle launches. Most clips are from STS-124, a few from STS-114 and STS-117. These videos were taken mainly for documentation and evaluation purposes, for example to identify debris that could have hit the shuttle. via slashdot.
There’s no place like home.
There’s no place like home. Peering out of the windows of the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson takes in the planet on which we were all born, and to which she would soon return. About 350 kilometers up, the ISS is high enough so that the Earth’s horizon appears clearly curved. [Astronomy …
Space Shuttle launch canceled due to giant spider attack
The launch was already canceled because of false readings from the engine cutoff sensor system that measures liquid hydrogen in the external tank when a spider decided to walk over the camera. read more | digg story
Virgin Galactic + NASA = Spaceplane
By Evan Ackerman
Virgin Galactic, the company that successfully launched SpaceShipOne (with Scaled Composites) and is working on SpaceShipTwo (for which you can now book a 2009 flight at $200,000 a person, round trip of course), has entered into a joint venture of sorts with NASA to develop hypersonic commercial transport technology. Hypersonic generally refers to …
