Tagged: Space Films
The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beautiful, lonely aberration? If things dont work out on this planet Or if our itch to explore becomes unbearable at some point in [...]
Here’s a group of engineers/designers from San Francisco and their second balloon launch on 6/5/2010. Shot with 2 HD Hero cameras from GoPro. Launched from the California coast near Davenport, landed in Crows Landing 70 miles away. Peak altitude 80,000 feet. Acquired GPS, pressure, accelerometer, and temperature data with a Shadowbox (www.shadowboxlive.com). The payload was [...]
There are places where gravity is so powerful nothing can escape, where time and space literally crash into the abyss. Can you feel the pull? Narrated by Liam Neeson.
In the 1960′s they launched satellites to survey the earth and the moon. Early scientific experiments only carried instruments into space. Later missions included experiments carrying plant and animal life. Nasa also sent deep space probes to examine the outer planets and Mars. As important as the data they recorded was the [...]
Space Rip presents Cosmic Journeys: When Will Time End? Time is flying by on this busy, crowded planet as life changes and evolves from second to second. And yet, even the life span of the human species is just a blip compared to the age of the universe, at 13.7 billion years and counting. It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time. How long it can survive in any form depends on whether Stephen Hawking’s theory checks out.
Space Rip presents Cosmic Journeys: Voyage to Pandora: Humanity’s first interstellar flight. 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 [...]
Space Rip Presents: Cosmic Journeys: The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12. Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. The mission was commanded by Charles “Pete” Conrad. It was launched on November 14, 1969, four months after Apollo 11. Conrad and Lunar [...]
Here’s a couple of newsreels about where the race for space all started. On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik and amateur radio operators all over the world received the signal.
Not to be outdone by the Soviets, the American space program Atlas about a year later broadcast a message from Dwight D. [...]
Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns, and parades as the U.S. raced the USSR to the moon in the 1960s. But few know that both countries also ran parallel space programs, whose covert goal was to launch military astronauts on spying missions. In this program, NOVA delves into the untold story of this top-secret space [...]
An educational film made by General Electric in the 1950′s. I think the first time I saw this film must have been in grade school. It has all the longwinded narration and silly animations that make it great. This is why you got in trouble for taking apart the toaster.
I remember [...]
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