Space Stuff

**wiltzei** · April 6th, 2011, 09:28

A collection thread for Space related thingies.

Feel free to contribute.

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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/4366695" width="601" height="338" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/4366695">Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1634425">Mark Gray</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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Incredible Space Pics from ISS by NASA astronaut Wheelock
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Ten things you don’t know about black holes

**demorier** · April 7th, 2011, 02:07

Good find W...man that thing is roasting....interesting to find out how they converted the old 16mm film !?

**demorier** · April 7th, 2011, 16:22

Don't know if you have seen this site before W.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

**wiltzei** · April 8th, 2011, 03:53

Nope, nice pics there.

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Old articles: blog.modernmechanix.com/category/space
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**wiltzei** · April 11th, 2011, 09:06

Air & Space: Shuttle Home Movies
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Spacewalks – the blue sky below us

**wiltzei** · April 20th, 2011, 05:49

Apollo 14 Mission To Fra Mauro (1971)
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First Orbit - the movie
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**wiltzei** · May 17th, 2011, 11:52

Sonic Boom Meets Sun Dog 720p

Solar Dynamics Observatory Launch, Feb 11, 2010 HD VERSION A sun dog is a prismatic bright spot in the sky caused by sun shining through ice crystals. The Atlas V rocket exceeded the speed of sound in this layer of ice crystals, making the shock wave visible from the ground.

**demorier** · May 17th, 2011, 23:33

Bit disappointed with the last shuttle blast off the other day. As a bit of a milestone I would have liked to see more cockpit and control room stuff before ignition rather than a static shot of a shuttle just standing there doing nothing.

**wiltzei** · July 9th, 2011, 11:14

New Views of Endeavour's Launch from Booster Cameras
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**Wing_Z** · July 9th, 2011, 13:09

Fantastic...loved the Inter-tank clip at the end, the SRB's are very well behaved as they pirouette down.
Amazing that the cameras are sound-enabled too, real space-sounds (or, like blowing over a beer bottle!)

**David_L6** · July 10th, 2011, 15:49

Some classic stuff in this thread!

**wiltzei** · August 8th, 2011, 02:24

http://www.launchphotography.com/Del...vy_DSP-23.html

**ThinkingManNeil** · August 8th, 2011, 14:21

Test of the Apollo/Little Joe 2 LES Abort system
Sometimes even failures are successes...

N.

**CybrSlydr** · August 8th, 2011, 18:30

You know, I can never think of the Voyager probes without a feeling of sadness. Just imagine how lonely it would be to be where they are. An almost incomprehensible distance away from home.

Giving us chilling, startling, contemplative and humbling images such as the aptly named, "Pale Blue Dot". I can't look at that photo without a profound sense of awe and inconsequentiality as to who we are and to what we have thusly amounted.

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From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. 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 that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.-Carl Sagan

**wiltzei** · August 16th, 2011, 09:42

Astronaut Photographs Perseid Meteor... From Space

http://news.discovery.com/space/astr...ce-110814.html

**Toastmaker** · August 16th, 2011, 15:14

Sometimes, Carl Sagan knows just the right thing to say, eh Cyber ?

**CybrSlydr** · August 16th, 2011, 17:40

so right Toast, so right

**wiltzei** · October 11th, 2011, 09:47

Saturn V cut-though.
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**ThinkingManNeil** · October 12th, 2011, 03:41

Now THAT was a ROCKET!!!

Here's a great source of Apollo Program stuff

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**jrocky** · October 12th, 2011, 04:06

NASA has released a interactive game Network King: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/oct/HQ_11-341_SCaN_Video_Game.html Also can run the program on your PC. Read the entire write up.