hiatus

Things are just crazy busy here right now, so I'm going to take a short break from blogging. Blogging will resume on Saturday.

Space Video of the Day - 070826

Stars on the Brink

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Space Video of the Day - 070825

Moon World Resorts is an ambitious resort project that may one day grace the outskirts of Las Vegas.


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Space Video of the Day - 070824

Today's space video is a montage of video clips and still shots of the preparations and launch of the Phoenix Mars mission, set to Thomas Dolby's She Blinded Me With Science.


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Space Video of the Day - 070823

Today's space video is a parody of both the TV show COPS and Star Wars.


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Space Video of the Day - 070822

Today's video shows yesterday's landing of the space shuttle Endeavour at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.


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Space Video of the Day - 070821

Today's space video is a behind-the-scenes tour of NASA's space launch services program.


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Space Video of the Day - 070820

Today's space video is about the Chandra X-Ray Obervatory, seeing the universe in a whole different light.


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Space Video of the Day - 070819

Today's space video is a hilarious look at "america's other space program".


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Space Video of the Day - 070818

Today's space video of the day is a Discovery channel segment on a proposed space elevator.


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Space Video of the Day - 070817

The mention of Bugs Bunny yesterday inspired me to search for today's space video, the classic (1953) Merrie Melodies cartoon Duck Dodgers in the 24-1/2th century. More of these classic Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons - as well as some brand new ones - are available here.


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Space Video of the Day - 070816

Today's video shows the first man in space. No, not Yuri Gagarin; 47 years ago today, on August 16, 1960, USAF Captain Joe Kittinger rode a balloon up to 102800 feet, and then took a flying leap from the edge of space. As Bugs Bunny would say, "watch that first step - it's a lulu!"

Kittinger reached a speed of 714 mph (1149 km/h) during his 4 minute 36 second freefall, thus becoming the only man to break the speed of sound (the speed of sound is lower at the edge of space due to the much lower pressure) without being inside a vehicle, before activating his parachute at 18 thousand feet. This jump is still the world record skydive today.


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Space Video of the Day - 070815

Today's space video of the day shows the launch of a Delta II rocket carrying the Phoenix Mars mission, destined to land in the north polar region of Mars on May 25, 2008.


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Space Video of the Day - 070814

Today's space video takes a look at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory - the world's largest indoor swimming pool - which is used as a training area for EVAs and for practice with assembling the international space station.


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Space Video of the Day - 070813

Today's space video is entitled Gaia Selene - Saving the Earth by Colonizing the Moon.


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Space Video of the Day - 070812

Today's space video is a lighthearted look at the success rate of Mars probes entitled Mars: 2020: Springtime.


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Space Video of the Day - 070811

Today's space video is the epic space battle from the movie Serenity.


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Space Video of the Day - 070810

Today's space video of the day is two videos because i missed yesterday. First up is the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-118.



Next is a NASA press conference regarding tile damage on Endeavour (STS-118).



This looks like a fairly serious hit, and I'm sure that there will be some heavy scrutiny by Damaris B. Sarria's team.

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Space Video of the Day - 070808

Today's video reveals the mystery of quasars.


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Space Video of the Day - 070807

Today's Space Video of the Day is a tour of the present configuration of, and future additions to, the international space station.


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Space Video of the Day - 070805

Today's Space Video of the Day shows the launch of space tourist Charles Simonyi aboard a Soyuz TMA-10. Note Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov operating the controls by using a stick to push buttons.


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Space Video of the Day - 070804

Today's Space Video of the Day is the "Blue Danube" scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey.


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Space Carnival

I forgot to mention yesterday that the 14th edition of the Carnival of Space is up at Universe Today. Check it out.

Space Video of the Day - 070803

Asteroids hitting the earth can ruin your whole day, so astronomers are watching some very closely and trying to come up with deflection strategies.


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Space Video of the Day - 070802

Today's video has appeared on this blog before, just not as a part of the Space Video of the Day series. This is a 3-D video, so grab your red/blue glasses if you have them. The video was produced by JAXA, the Japanese space agency, from data acquired by the Hayabusa probe as it orbited the asteroid Itokawa.


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Space Video of the Day - 070801

Today's Space Video of the Day is a complete shuttle mission to the international space station, as simulated using the fantastic freeware program Orbiter. The special thing about Orbiter is the collection of add-ons that have been developed by enthusiasts all over the world, allowing simulated launch, space operations, and landing of a multitude of spacecraft, both manned and unmanned, on the Earth, Moon, Mars, and destinations beyond.


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