Today's space video of the day returns us to a very special mission 39 years ago today, the landing of the Eagle module on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. related: "good luck, Mr. Gorsky!"
Today's space video of the day is a TED talk by George Dyson on Project Orion - no, not NASA's future space capsule, the original Orion, a proposed nuclear-bomb-powered rocket.
Today's space video of the day is part 10 of the 12-part HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, hosted by Tom Hanks; this episode is entitled Galileo Was Right.
On March 13,2008, at the Space Center Lecture Series, Apollo 17 astronaut Dr. Jack Schmitt gave this lecture entitled "Return to the moon: what it was like, and what it will be like".
Today's space video of the day is the ninth part of the 12-part HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, hosted by Tom Hanks. The video is in two parts, so scroll down for the second half.
Today's space video of the day is the sixth part of the 12-part HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Mare Tranquilitatus, hosted by Tom Hanks. The video is in two parts, so scroll down for the second half.
Tonight is Yuri's Night, a celebration of the first manned spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin, and also the anniversary of the first Shuttle launch. Today's space video of the day is thus two videos: the first shows the launch of Gagarin, and the second is the first launch of the space shuttle on STS-1.
Today's space video of the day is the second part of the 12-part HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, hosted by Tom Hanks. The video is in two parts, so scroll down for the second half.
The recent trend of full movies as the space video of the day continues today with the highly entertaining 1997 Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones movie, Men In Black. Whoops. Embedding of that video is disabled, so I can't post it here. If you want to see Men In Black, it is available on YouTube here. So, since I can't bring you that movie, instead today's space video of the day is going to be part one of HBO's excellent 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, hosted by Tom Hanks.
Today's space video is a dramatized documentary of the race for the moon, combining archival footage and actors. It shows the early years of the space race as being largely a struggle between two men who had never met, Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev.
Five years ago today the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry. This documentary (featuring MSNBC's Jim Oberg) looks at what happened - and what could have been done to save the astronauts, had the extent of the damage to the left wing been known.
