NASA
NASA | SDO Engineers Create What Never Was
Engineers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center talk about what it is like to build, assemble, integrate, and test a custom-made spacecraft like the soon to be launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
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NASA | Goddard Space Flight Center (1976)
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2009, Goddard Space Flight Center has seen a lot of changes over its first five decades. Yet despite the time that has passed, the core values and mission of the center has changed little. This vintage...
NASA
NASA | Goddard Interns 2013
Every year, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. recruits hundreds of interns to spend the summer working on revolutionary missions featuring state-of-the-art technology. This orientation video introduces interns to NASA...
NASA
NASA | Building the Nation's Newest Weather Satellite
Say you need a new weather satellite. Is it as simple as selecting options and clicking to order? Not quite. Building a vital national asset like the GOES-R spacecraft takes teams of meteorologists and engineers working together to...
NASA
NASA | GROVER Heads to Greenland
NASA is ready to test a new student-designed rover at the Summit Camp in Greenland, a research station sitting on a two-mile thick sheet of ice. The Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, or GROVER, carries...
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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Prepares for Trip to Asteroid by Testing Solar Arrays
NASA’s Psyche mission is preparing for a 1.5 billion-mile (2.4 billion-kilometer) solar-powered trip to the metal-rich asteroid of the same name. In a cleanroom at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in February 2022, twin solar arrays were...
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Virtual Tour of the Hubble Control Center: Operations Support Room
Step into the Operations Support Room, where the Hubble flight team investigates spacecraft anomalies and verifies new procedures. This is part 3 of 5 of a 360-degree, virtual tour of the Hubble Space Telescope’s home for mission...
Science360
Brain-Computer Interface - Mysteries of the Brain
Neuroengineer Rajesh Rao of the University of Washington is developing brain-computer interfaces, devices that can monitor and extract brain activity to enable a machine or computer to accomplish tasks, from playing video games to...
NASA
NASA | Repeatability
Why do engineers need to test things over and over and over again? Find out in this video made for students by BEST (Beginning Engineering, Science, and Technology). Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | NPP: Final Steps to Countdown
NPP is nearly ready to be launched! This video describes the final steps for this Earth-observing climate and weather satellite before it launches, currently scheduled for the morning of Oct. 28, 2011.
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NASA | A New Dimension to Learning
The Space Operations Institute (SOI) was established at Capitol College, Laurel, MD in 2002 with a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This partnership combines the infrastructure necessary to manage satellite...
Professor Dave Explains
Alien: Covenant - How Did David Create the Neomorphs?
By now we've hopefully all seen Alien: Covenant. If you haven't, go see it right away! It's awesome, and this has spoilers. After you've seen it, you'll probably have a few questions, just as I did. The main thing that left me wondering,...
Zach Star
What is Materials Engineering?
Materials engineering (or materials science and engineering) is about the design, testing, processing, and discovery of new materials. Materials engineers will cover the 4 main classes of materials in college including metals, ceramics,...
Science360
Helping nanotechnology work for everyone - Science Nation
When you think of researchers working on nanotechnology, you probably picture scientists and engineers manipulating incredibly small structures in a state-of-the-art lab. But there are many others who are also interested in the future of...
Zach Star
Is Studying Engineering Really Worth It
Most people will tell you that engineering is definitely worth the hard work. I would agree with this but there are people who may not see it as "worth it" depending on their situation. This usually comes down to not truly wanting to go...
Makematic
Blend Ideas to Make Them Better
Scientists, tech experts, engineers, artists and mathematicians get excited when they think of good ideas and blend them with other ideas. In this activity, children will create a board game and work together to make it better.
Zach Star
Civil Vs Mechanical Engineering - How to Pick the Right Major
In this video I discuss "Civil Vs Mechanical Engineering." These two majors start off very similar in college but then become very different. Civil engineers branch off into their subfields including structural engineering, geotechnical,...
TMW Media
Transforming Lives With Prosthetics: Creating a better interface
By copying the body, how can future prosthetics help people? How have prosthetic designs improved? How do myoelectric signals work with prosthetics? How can more young people become interested in this field?
Transforming Lives With...
After Skool
The Dunning-Kruger Effect - Cognitive Bias - Why Incompetent People Think They Are Competent
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the...
Weird History
Facts About the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Every American who lived through the '80s remembers the Challenger explosion. But what happened to cause the famous national tragedy? How could such a catastrophe happen when NASA so meticulously checks and double checks all the...
Science360
Antarctic glacier melt! NSF Science Now 16.
This week's episode highlights wireless monitors, Antarctic glacier melt, S&E employment and finally a volcano discovery.
NASA
Pioneers to New Frontiers: NASA Women Through the Decades
Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth with us as we pay tribute to scientists, engineers, astronauts, and leaders who continue to pave the way for future generations of explorers. Get to know some of their stories: nasa.gov/women Featured women:...
Science360
Fuel Cell Efficiency - Science of Innovation
To operate and function efficiently, machines of all shapes and sizes need a source of energy. A series of innovations is helping to make energy conversion within fuel cells as efficient as possible. Provided by the National Science...
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NASA's Curious Universe: Webb Space Telescope: Building the Next Discovery Machine
Webb is preparing for a million-mile journey to its lookout point over the universe. Engineers have been hard at work designing, installing, and testing the world’s next discovery machine that will change astronomy for years to come....