Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
A team of NASA-funded researchers find there may be different criteria by which we search for life elsewhere in the universe. Also, shuttle Discovery gets a new target launch date; SOFIA flies its first science mission; NASA’s Small Business Awards, and an alternative fuels pilot program. Plus, Scott Kelly’s geography trivia from space, and the anniversary of Gemini 7.
Tags: ISS, Life, astronauts, arsenic
International Year of Astronomy 2009, IAU and UNESCO Visual design: Martin Kornmesser & Luis Calçada Music and Sound Effects: MoveTwo (Axel Kornmesser & Markus Löffler) Footage and photos: Gemini Observatory (Kirk Puuohau-Pummill/Peter Michaud), CFHT (Jean-Charles Cuillandre), TWAN (Babak Tafreshi, Laurent Laveder), Martin Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble), NASA, NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Mars Express, Kevin Govender, NASA/Spitzer Space Telescope, ESO/VLT/ALMA, & Akira Fujii Project lead: Lars Lindberg Christensen (ESA/Hubble) Note: This trailer may be shown in its entirety without limitation. The trailer must not be edited and or shown in anything but its entirety.
Tags: Sagan, newton, International, Quasars
pale blue dot – carl sagan part 8 of 9 Earth is just a small ordinary blue dot, compared to other blue planets it is puny. There many billions of blue planets , and most are better then this trash planet, how ever carl sagan is nice. carl sagan- ” Look again at that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion …
Tags: science, BLUE, solar, milkway
Alien Planet – Part 10 of 10 Alien Planet Official Website: dsc.discovery.com Alien Planet is a 94 minute special on Discovery Channel about two internationally built robot probes investigating for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also executive producer on the special. It premiered on May 14, 2005. The show uses sophisticated computer-generated imagery, which is interspersed with interviews from such notables as Stephen Hawking, George Lucas, Michio Kaku, and Jack Horner. The show was filmed in Iceland and Mono Lake in California. en.wikipedia.org
Tags: Life, spacecraft, astrobiology, ike
Alien Planet – Part 9 of 10 Alien Planet Official Website: dsc.discovery.com Alien Planet is a 94 minute special on Discovery Channel about two internationally built robot probes investigating for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also executive producer on the special. It premiered on May 14, 2005. The show uses sophisticated computer-generated imagery, which is interspersed with interviews from such notables as Stephen Hawking, George Lucas, Michio Kaku, and Jack Horner. The show was filmed in Iceland and Mono Lake in California. en.wikipedia.org
Tags: Interstellar, universe, planet, expedition
Rocco L. Mancinelli, a Senior Research Scientist with the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, discusses organisms’ potential for survival, adaptation and biological evolution in the atmosphere and beyond to outer space. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Full Course Available on Stanford on iTunes U [iTunes Link]: deimos3.apple.com Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
Tags: Aliens, science, atmosphere, Adaptation
Examination of the history of comets, why we study comets and the contributions of NASA Ames Research Center’s scientists to cometary research.
Tags: system, astrobiology, NASA, deep impact
Alien Planet – Part 8 of 10 Alien Planet Official Website: dsc.discovery.com Alien Planet is a 94 minute special on Discovery Channel about two internationally built robot probes investigating for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also executive producer on the special. It premiered on May 14, 2005. The show uses sophisticated computer-generated imagery, which is interspersed with interviews from such notables as Stephen Hawking, George Lucas, Michio Kaku, and Jack Horner. The show was filmed in Iceland and Mono Lake in California. en.wikipedia.org
Tags: astrobiology, Fact, fiction, wars
Alien Planet – Part 7 of 10 Alien Planet Official Website: dsc.discovery.com Alien Planet is a 94 minute special on Discovery Channel about two internationally built robot probes investigating for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also executive producer on the special. It premiered on May 14, 2005. The show uses sophisticated computer-generated imagery, which is interspersed with interviews from such notables as Stephen Hawking, George Lucas, Michio Kaku, and Jack Horner. The show was filmed in Iceland and Mono Lake in California. en.wikipedia.org
Tags: species, balboa, wars, contact
Alien Planet – Part 6 of 10 Alien Planet Official Website: dsc.discovery.com Alien Planet is a 94 minute special on Discovery Channel about two internationally built robot probes investigating for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also executive producer on the special. It premiered on May 14, 2005. The show uses sophisticated computer-generated imagery, which is interspersed with interviews from such notables as Stephen Hawking, George Lucas, Michio Kaku, and Jack Horner. The show was filmed in Iceland and Mono Lake in California. en.wikipedia.org
Tags: speed, spacecraft, satellite, wars