Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
June 3 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu reports on the Mars 500 experiment in Russia, in which an international team of six researchers will spend 520 days in a windowless steel enclosure to simulate a flight to Mars. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Synopsis: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson examines the outrage that many people felt when Pluto was stripped of its status as a planet. The doc features appearances by Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, Jon Stewart and noted Pluto booster Stephen Colbert, plus astrophysicists and science historians on both sides of the issue. NOVA documentary PBS science scientists engineering knowledge technology discovery history historical topics interviews US Public Broadcasting Service United States Peabody Awards Emmy Season Episode part premiere full tv show reality television broadcast series watch Online free last new Tuesday 37th e14 37 14 se37 ep14 se ep 37×14 3714 37.14 s37 se37 se37ep14 s37e14
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www.youtube.com British ufologist and cryptozoologist Nick Redfern talked about his new book Science Fiction Secrets which probes the intertwining connections between works of fiction, and governmental secrecy & experiments, conspiracies, and the paranormal. Among the items he covered: * Pres. Ronald Reagan, upon viewing Steven Spielberg’s movie ET at the White House in 1982, was said to have whispered to the director that a handful of people in the room know how true this movie really was. * Soviet leader Josef Stalin may have been inspired by reading the HG Wells’ science-fiction novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, when he created a project that attempted (unsuccessfully) to breed humans with apes, in order to create an invincible soldier. * Another Wells novel, The Invisible Man, may have influenced the US military’s secretive attempts to perfect invisibility for its warships in WWII, in what became known as the Philadelphia Experiment. * Government documents at Fort Dietrich mention lethal alien viruses and plans of action, which are similar to the scenarios written about by Michael Crichton in his book The Andromeda Strain. * The pilot episode of The X-Files spin-off, The Lone Gunmen, featured a plot line similar to the 9-11 attacks, though the program aired seven months before the event (video clip). * The FBI secretly spied on a number of science-fiction authors, including Philip K. Dick, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell. The US Air Force spied on 1950s filmmaker Mike …
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Bill Nye, television’s “The Science Guy” answers questions and gives his thoughts on NASA’s new mission and President Obama’s space policy shortly before the President spoke at NASA’s space conference which was held at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 15, 2010. President Obama unveiled a new mission and goals for NASA that include visits to asteroids by 2925 and missions to the planet Mars in the early 2030′s. The space shuttle, however, will be retired in 2010 after completing assembly of the International Space Station. www.spaceflightnews.net
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April 15 (Bloomberg) — Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies, talks with Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan about the cancellation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Constellation program and the benefits of contracting space travel to private companies. President Obama announced a plan in February to end NASA’s Constellation program, developed under former President George W. Bushs administration, which would have built rockets and spacecraft for a return to the moon by 2020. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Mystery of Time – Time Lapse & Stop Motion Photography Video. The ideas of Time & Space are explored. Scientists use a “time microscope” or a camera running at 3000 frames per second to help explain time. This film is worth it just for the fact that they film drops of milk splashing in slow motion and put dramatic music over it. 27 Minutes. Gives a glimpse of what lies beyond our own space-time continuum. The elemental concepts of the theory of relativity are demonstrated. A science film about time and space. The marvels of science provide the visible evidence of a Divine plan of creation. Production Company: Moody Institute of Science. Creative Commons license: Public Domain
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BBC News Space European spacecraft Comets and Water 13/11/09
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Kennedy Space Center Photos Part 2, Taken June 2009
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Part 1 of my Kennedy Space Center Photos Taken June 2009, The Shuttle on the Launch pad is Endeavour STS-127
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