Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts

Monday, February 20, 2012

flight of Friendship 7 - First American in Obit


The above video is a NASA documentary about America’s first manned orbital flight. John Glenn was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule which was launched on top of an Atlas rocket. This flight occurred 50 years ago to day (2/20/2012) on February 20 1962.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Alka-Seltzer and water in zeroG

Here is an interesting little side experiment from the International Space Station where and Alka-Seltzer tablet is put in to a sphere of water in zeroG. The results are actually some what surprising. The bubbles collect in the water sphere even coalescing into untimely two big ones.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Comet Harpoon under NASA Development


This video is about the development by NASA of a comet harpoon to retrieve samples from comets and asteroids.