A video released a couple of days ago is a brilliant short film about a group of friends who went in to the Nevada desert and built a scale model of the solar system to give us a perspective on how large space actually is. Filmmakers Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet led the project, which featured footage of the production of the model as well as some interesting results. Watch right to the end, where some fabulous footage of the Apollo program is shown, along with some inspiring words from the few men who have seen the Earth from beyond...
One of the most difficult maneuvers I can imagine is the rendezvous and docking connection of two spacecraft in orbit. They’ve launched at different times, they are travelling several thousand kilometers per hour, and they are orbiting the Earth 400 Km above the surface. And yet human ingenuity has prevailed and allowed us to not just perform this procedure, but to experience it as humans trapped on the surface. This NASA video shows a real time docking procedure. I can’t help but think of the video game Kerbal Space Program, an excellent space program simulator for anyone who loves the...
A lovely photo of the soyuz capsule was snapped over Kazakhstan at sunrise this past Thursday. On board were Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA and Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency, returning to Earth after a 6 months stay on the International Space Station.
