30-03-2012 03:16 André took this video of Aurora Australis from the European Cupola module in the Space Station. The beautiful phenomenon is caused by bursts of particles from the Sun pouring down Earth's magnetic field into the atmosphere.
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04-04-2012 10:05 Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) serves as both cargo ship and booster for the ISS. The altitude of Space Station has to be re-adjusted from time to time to compensate for atmospheric drag and to maneuver away from space debris.
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Station Crew Discusses Life in Space with the News Media – Video
11-04-2012 12:00 Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank of NASA, Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers discussed the progress of their mission on the International Space Station, their research, the upcoming landing of half of the residents on the outpost and next month's scheduled arrival of the first commercially launched cargo ship to the complex in a crew news conference conducted on April 11.
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Shatner Messages The International Space Station Crew – Video
22-04-2012 11:11 William Shatner, known to millions around the world as Capt. James T. Kirk from the original Star Trek series, sent this message to ESA's André Kuipers and the members of the Expedition 30 crew. In October 2011, shortly before the launch of André, Oleg Kononenko and Don Pettit on Soyuz TMA-03M, Mr Shatner recorded an album of space-related songs called 'Seeking Major Tom'. By pure coincidence, this album features covers of many of the crew's favourites. When Mr Shatner found out that his songs were being played on the International Space Station, he recorded this greeting and sent his best wishes.
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Russian Cargo Ship Docks to Space Station – Video
22-04-2012 11:59 On April 22 at 10:39 am EDT, the ISS Progress 47 cargo craft docked to the Pirs docking compartment of the International Space Station. Progress 47 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 20, loaded with 2.5 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the six crew members aboard the orbiting laboratory.
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Expedition 30 Hands Over the Space Station to Expedition 3 – Video
25-04-2012 16:22 The reins of the International Space Station were passed from Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank of NASA to cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko during a ceremony on April 25. Kononenko and Flight Engineers Don Pettit of NASA and Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency arrived at the station on Dec. 23, 2011, and will remain in orbit until July. They will be joined on May 17 by oncoming Expedition 31 crew members Joe Acaba of NASA and Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin of the Russian Federal Space Agency. Burbank and Russian Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin returned to Earth in their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft on April 30, making a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan.
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Expedition 30 prepares to leave Space Station – Video
27-04-2012 01:48 Moments after bidding farewell to the Expedition 31 crew onboard the International Space Station, Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank of NASA, Russian Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov and Flight Engineer Anatoly Ivanishin closed the hatch on their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft in preparation for their return trip to Earth. The trio completed almost six months in space following a launch in November.
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Change of Command aboard Space Station On This Week @NASA – Video
27-04-2012 18:55 NASA astronaut and Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank officially transferred the helm of the orbiting outpost to Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Kononenko who, along with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency, has now begun Expedition 31. Two days later, Burbank and his Expedition 30 crewmates, Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, said their farewells, climbed into their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft and departed the station for the trip back to Earth. After a five-and-a-half month stay onboard the ISS, Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin landed safely in Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, the other three members of Expedition 31, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, and his Russian crewmates, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, participated in pre-launch activities at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. The trio is scheduled to launch to the ISS on a Soyuz spacecraft on May 15 to join Pettit, Kuipers and Kononenko. Also, Space Shuttle Enterprise is flown to The Big Apple, the next-generation J-2X Engine is ready for more tests, Snowballs make waves in Saturn's outer ring and more!
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Minecraft SPACE STATION Map ! Escape Pod Exit ! – Video
30-04-2012 15:04 GameChap and Bertie inspect the splendid International Space Station map; a 1:1 scale recreation of the ISS by vilimus! Jolly good show! TO DOWNLOAD:
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IMAX Hubble 3D / Space Flight – Video
26-11-2011 14:17 3D space flight simulations constructed from Hubble images as seen in 'IMAX Hubble 3D' set to Arvo Part's "Tabula Rasa - Silentium". Original Footage: IMAX Hubble 3D Original Music: Arvo Part "Tabula Rasa - Silentium"
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Minecraft – SPACE FLIGHT MISSION! – Video
02-02-2012 23:01 CLICK LIKE / FAV! GOOGLE PLUS: TWITTER: FACEBOOK: Minecraft Space Mission, Will Be A Challenge, BTW Sorry This Video Isn't Fancy I Have Had CAMTASIA For LITERALLY 2 MINUTES D: Minecraft By The67go Ep 12 Thanks For Watching, Please Comment Rate & Subscribe © The67go Productions Ltd, February 2012
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Solar Storms
25-01-2012 01:23 We take a look at the recent solar flare, SpaceX's plans for reaching the space station, dolphin speech, exoplanets, getting energy from seaweed, crowd sourcing earthquake data, spacecraft updates, and as always take a peek back into history and up in the sky this week. Show Notes & Download:
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Glenn Flight Thrills World (1962) – Video
18-02-2012 16:59 Universal Newsreel Friendship 7 Mercury space flight of John Glenn; Glenn getting ready, puts on space suit, walks to launch pad, 6 am EST, 10 months after Gagarin, gets into his capsule on top Atlas missile, rocket blastoff, animation of capsule turning around, go for 7 orbits, "actual pictures of Glenn in the capsule" and animations of Glenn's orbit around earth, destroyer Noah lifts capsule aboard, Glenn rests and then lifted aboard helicopter for flight to carrier USS Randolph (complete newsreel)
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Evolution of the Moon – NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center / SunsFlare – Video
17-03-2012 05:49 Video Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this. Thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon's history. Learn more in this video! This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: "Still Images, Audio Recordings, Video, and Related Computer Files NASA still images; audio files; video; and computer files used in the rendition of 3-dimensional models, such as texture maps and polygon data in any format, generally are not copyrighted. You may use NASA imagery, video, audio, and data files used for the rendition of 3-dimensional models for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits, computer graphical simulations and Internet Web pages. This general permission extends to personal Web pages. This general permission does not extend to use of the NASA insignia logo (the blue "meatball" insignia), the retired NASA logotype (the red "worm" logo) and the NASA seal. These images may not be used by persons who are not NASA employees or on products (including Web pages) that are not NASA-sponsored. NASA should be acknowledged as the source of the material except in cases of advertising. See NASA Advertising Guidelines. If the NASA material is to be used for commercial purposes, especially including advertisements, it ...
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Voyage to Pandora: First Interstellar Space Flight – Video
25-03-2012 14:10 Pandora is the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar. Its location is a real place: Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun and the most likely destination for our first journey beyond the solar system. Remarkably, it's anti-matter, the science fiction fuel of choice that could take us there. Normally, it's only created in powerful jets that roar out of black holes. We can now produce small quantities in Earth-bound particle colliders. Will we journey out only to plunder other worlds? Or will we come in peace? The answer may depend on how we see Earth at that time in the distant future. The year is 2154. Our planet has been ruined by environmental catastrophe. In the movie Avatar, greedy prospectors from Earth descend on the world of an innocent hunter-gatherer people called the Na'vi. Their home is a lush moon far beyond our solar system called Pandora. Could such a place exist? And could our technology... and our appetite for exploration... one day send us hurtling out to reach it? In fact, the supposed site of this fictional solar system is one of our most likely interstellar targets, until a better destination turns up. Pandora orbits a fictional gas planet called Polyphemus. Its home is a real place... Alpha Centauri... the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. At 4.37 light years away, it's part of the closest star system to our sun. Alpha Centauri is actually two stars, A and B, one slightly larger and more luminous than our own ...
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J-2X Engine Ready For Second Test Series – Video
24-04-2012 16:23 Time-lapse video of the installation of J-2X engine 10001 in the A-2 test-stand at Stennis, complete with clamshell assembly and nozzle extension. With these enhancements test engineers will measure the flight-configured engine performance at flight-like conditions. This video covers three months of activity to prepare for hot-fire testing
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Peter Thiel Answers Student Questions at the ISFLC 2012 – Video
26-02-2012 18:24 Peter Thiel answers questions at ISFLC 2012. Produced by Terra Strong
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Michael Keenan (Seasteading Institute) Interview on Freethought Radio – Video
27-03-2012 13:56 Michael Keenan, president of The Seasteading Institute, joins the program to discuss the possibilities of free cities and the engineering difficulties of it. Freethought Radio airs every Monday from 6PM-9PM PST on KKSM AM 1320 Palomar College Radio in San Diego county. Hosted & produced by Alex Fidel. KKSM is comprised of student staff from Palomar College, and has a wide variety of different music & talk shows. Freethought offers a wide selection of innovative heavy metal & rock music that tends to get ignored by mainstream radio stations. Download the full podcast here:
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Dan Dascalescu – Social innovation through seasteading and Blueseed – Video
15-04-2012 21:49 Blueseed CIO Dan Dascalescu speaking at the Advancing Humanity Symposium, Stanford, March 3, 2012. Many thanks to Monica Anderson from Syntience, Inc. for filming and post-processing.
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Building a New Frontier: How Ocean Cities Can Revolutionize Politics – Video
19-04-2012 02:32 This is a recording of a webinar that I gave for Students For Liberty. The topic was about how seasteading is the answer to libertarian activist woes.
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Building a New Frontier: How Ocean Cities Can Revolutionize Politics - Video