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Exploring Saturn's Moon Titan: The Huygens Probe Mission
The Huygens probe has separated from the Cassini mothership and is descending towards Saturn's moon Titan. Equipped with various instruments, it will analyze the dense atmosphere of nitrogen and organic compounds, aiming to gather data...
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: Exploring the Red Planet in Unprecedented Detail
NASA is planning a new mission to Mars with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the largest spacecraft sent to the Red Planet since the 1970s. Equipped with a powerful telescopic camera, the orbiter will provide high-resolution images of...
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Exploring Mercury: NASA's Messenger Mission
The MESSENGER probe, launched by NASA, is on a mission to explore Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. Equipped with advanced technology and scientific instruments, MESSENGER aims to gather data on Mercury's surface, core, magnetic...
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Preparation and Future Missions of Europe's Ariane 5 Rocket
The video discusses the preparations and importance of the recent successful launch of the Anik F2A telecommunications satellite from the Europe Spaceport in French Guiana. The satellite, owned by Canada, is the world's heaviest...
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Exploring the Depths of Space: The Hubble Space Telescope's Final Mission
The video describes the Hubble Space Telescope and its importance in capturing images from deep space. It highlights the challenges faced during servicing missions and the valuable scientific insights gained from the telescope's...
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Using Video Games to Combat World Hunger: Introducing Food Force
The United Nations World Food Programme has developed an engaging video game called Food Force to educate young people about the global issue of world hunger. Players embark on a mission to deliver emergency food aid to the fictional...
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The Hubble Space Telescope: Revolutionizing Astronomy
The Hubble Space Telescope, a joint project between the European Space Agency and NASA, revolutionized astronomy by providing high-resolution images free from atmospheric distortions. Despite initial challenges with its primary mirror,...
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The Nose of NASA: Meet George Aldrich, the Smell Tester for Space Missions
Meet George Aldrich, the man with the unique job of smelling everything that goes into the space shuttle to ensure it's not noxious. With 30 years of experience at NASA, George has never failed their calibration test, where he identifies...
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Exploring the International Space Station: A Global Collaboration in Space Exploration
This video provides an overview of the International Space Station (ISS), highlighting its status as one of the largest research projects ever undertaken through international cooperation. It mentions the upcoming mission of Italian...
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European Space Agency's Exciting Missions and Future Plans in 2005
In 2005, the European Space Agency achieved significant milestones in space exploration and technology. From landing on Titan and sampling its atmosphere to launching the heaviest commercial launcher, the Arian 510 ton, Europe made great...
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How to Set a Clear Vision and Mission for your Team
A clear vision and mission for your project is a basis for both: - clarity of purpose, and - team motivation Mission and vision address the importance of answering the question 'Why?' They provide your project team with a connection to...
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What is MOST and What is GOSPA?
I often find simple, hierarchical frameworks to be good thinking tools and mental models to help me understand and describe a situation. So, what is MOST and what is GOSPA? What is MOST? MOST Analysis is a business tool for setting...
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What is Program Management?
Program Management... For some it's a wholly new discipline: for others, it's a natural growth from Project Management - maybe even 'grown-up' project management. So, what is Program Management? In this video, I'll answer that question....
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Landmarks - Hofbrauhaus
HOFBR UHAUS NORMALLY DRINKING BEER WOULDN T BE CONSIDERED A LANDMARK ACTIVITY BUT IN THIS CASE IT S WHERE YOU ARE DRINKING IT THAT MAKES IT NOTEWORTHY. THE HOFBR UHAUS BEER CELLAR IN MUNICH RECENTLY CELEBRATED ITS 400TH ANNIVERSARY WITH,...
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Get Hired: Teamwork
The dynamic of teamwork is often analogous to sports in which the mission is unanimous and each teammate offers support by utilizing their clearly defined attributes and entrusting their other teammates to do the same. This video...
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Place Like Home: Cassini
The enormous challenge of building a probe capable of travelling over 1 billion kilometres to reach Saturn's moon, Titan. Physics - Universe - Learning Points. Huygens probe was designed by the European Space Agency at a cost of £400...
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Kittinger: First Man in Space?
Before Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth, one man made an extraordinary trip beyond Earth's atmosphere. Can he claim to be the first man in space? Physics - Universe - Learning Points. Project Excelsior III was the American Air Force’s mission...
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Binary: The Alien Language
In the 1970s, launched aboard a space probe was what is considered one of the most important scientific diagrams ever created. If found by extraterrestrial life, the plaque explains details about the human race and where we are in the...
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Hubble Space Telescope
How scientists working on the Hubble Telescope, orbiting 400 miles above the Earth, fixed a fault by giving the telescope a pair of specs. Physics - Universe - Learning Points. The Hubble Telescope took eight years to build, from over...
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Dark Side of the Moon
The dark side of the Moon remained a mystery until space travel allowed for circumnavigation. What did the astronauts find? Physics - Our Solar System - Learning Points. The Moon orbits around the Earth and spins on its axis. These...
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Man On the Moon: Part 1
The challenges overcome by scientists to put man on the Moon, and the story of the extraordinary moments before "one giant leap". Physics - Our Solar System - Learning Points. In 1962, President John F Kennedy announced the US's...
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Mission to Mars
Joining the Curiosity robot as it explores the planet Mars. Our universe - Space adventure - Rocky planets Learning Points The Curiosity robot was sent to explore the rocky planet Mars. A Twig Junior Film - Core science concepts...
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Neil Armstrong Story for Kids | Bedtime History
Learn about Neil Armstrong, from his childhood in Ohio and his interest in airplanes to his missions in the Korean War and his time as a test pilot, to the Gemini and Apollo 11 missions.
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The Rosetta Comet Mission for Kids | Bedtime History
The Rosetta Comet Mission, spearheaded by the European Space Agency (ESA), was a groundbreaking space mission designed to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Launched in March 2004, Rosetta traveled over 6 billion kilometers,...