Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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.
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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.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity video
This is a video about the Mars Science Laboratory Rover called Curiosity
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.
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