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!"
Recently the Discovery Channel aired a miniseries that looked back on the first 50 years of space travel, in particular the "Golden Years" of the 1960s, entitled When We Left Earth. This is the first part of the miniseries; subsequent episodes will follow in the days ahead.
Today's space video of the day is a Google Tech Talk entitled The Lunar Database: Supporting Lunar Landing Site Selection for NASA's Return to the Moon.
Today's space video of the day is a BBC Horizon documentary which looks at current efforts for manned missions to the moon, the black market in moon rocks, the possibilities of using Helium-3 from the moon for nuclear fusion, in-situ resource utilization, and lunar land sales.
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.
Today's space vido of the day is a collection of animations produced by the European Space Agency showing some of the elements of their Aurora Space Exploration Programme. The first animation is of the ExoMars rover landing on the planet and using the Pasteur payload, which will drill up to two meters below the surface. This is followed by animations of the Mars Sample Return mission, a manned mission to Mars (which would happen between 2025 and 2030) and a manned Moon mission (to occur between 2020 and 2025).
In today's space video of the day, Bill Stone talks about the DepthX robot and a possible mission to explore the ocean under the icy surface of Europa. At the end of this TED talk, he also throws down the gauntlet, in a challenge not only to NASA but also to the rest of the space community.
NASA is facing a big problem with the Ares-1 lifting body, which is to replace the space shuttle as the primary NASA crew launch vehicle. Weight issues have forced the elimination of redundancy in safety features, and the craft faces huge oscillation problems due to the use of a single solid rocket booster attached at only one point between the first and second stage (mitigation of this problem will also result in increased weight). So great are NASA's problems with Ares-1, they have decided to abandon plans to return men to the moon at the end of the next decade. Since a success by private industry or China to beat NASA to the moon would be a public relations disaster, NASA has decided to remove that threat to the primacy of the space agency, by blowing up the moon.
