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2 Weird Experiments in Human Space Flight
SciShow Space News reveals two weird experiments in human spaceflight: one showed us what it really feels like to walk on the moon, the other put ordinary people through space flight simulation to see how they did. Find out inside!
NASA
NASA | What Do They Do at Goddard Space Flight Center?
Come visit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Putting ideas in space.... bringing knowledge home.
NASA
Take a Spin With NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
On schedule to launch no later than May 2027, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on the Roman spacecraft will play a significant...
Curated Video
The Legacy of Yuri Gagarin: First Human in Space
This video provides a detailed account of the historic space flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into space and orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961. The video covers Gagarin's background, training, the significance of his...
NASA
The Rocket Ranch: Episode 8: Commercial Crew - Space Flight's Next Chapter
On this episode of Rocket Ranch we catch up with several members of Commercial Crew to talk about the past, present and future of the program.
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Plants in Space
Botany experts Gioia Massa and Anna-Lisa Paul discuss how plants in space and the research being conducted on the International Space Station are key to the future of sustainable human space exploration. HWHAP Episode 172.
SciShow
5 More Strange Flying Machines
In our last list of strange aircraft, we stuck to covering the weirdest jets to take to the sky, but there are plenty of other types of bizarre flying machines out there! In this episode, Hank will tell you about five other unlikely...
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5 More Strange Flying Machines
In our last list of strange aircraft, we stuck to covering the weirdest jets to take to the sky, but there are plenty of other types of bizarre flying machines out there! In this episode, Hank will tell you about five other unlikely...
SciShow Kids
The Clues Glaciers Left Behind! | Winter Science | SciShow Kids
Mister Brown and Squeaks learn all about glaciers, and the clues they leave behind when they melt! Science and Engineering Practices: Developing and Using Models Disciplinary Core Ideas: ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth - Some events...
NASA
The Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument
In order to know how the universe will end, we must know what has happened to it so far. This is just one mystery NASA's forthcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission will tackle as it explores the distant cosmos. The...
Curated Video
Animals in Space: Pioneers and Research Contributors
This video provides a fascinating timeline of animals in space exploration, highlighting the significant role they have played in advancing scientific knowledge. From fruit flies to monkeys, cats, and even a turtle, these brave creatures...
NASA
Take a Spin With NASA’s WFIRST Spacecraft
On schedule to launch in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on the WFIRST spacecraft will play a...
NASA
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Clears Critical Sunshield Deployment Testing
In October 2019, technicians and engineers successfully performed a critical test on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope by fully deploying and properly tensioning each of its five uniquely sized sunshield layers, putting them into the...
NASA
Lyman Spitzer: Making Space For Hubble
Seventy-five years ago, astronomer Lyman Spitzer envisioned a future for space exploration that deepened humanity’s curiosity about the cosmos. A visionary behind the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer was among the earliest astronomers...
NASA
Hubble: Humanity's Quest for Knowledge
Launched on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided more than a million observations, advancing studies of the solar system, nebulae, exoplanets, stars, black holes, galaxies, dark matter, and dark energy. The culmination...
NASA
500th Anniversary of Humanity's First Circumnavigation of Earth
Five hundred years ago the first “orbit” of planet Earth, achieved in the spirit of the first human voyages to the Moon fifty years ago, was undertaken by the Portuguese explorer Magellan, using mission design and exploration guiding...
NASA
NASA Satellite Measures Human Impact in Water Storage
To investigate humans’ impact on freshwater resources, scientists have now conducted the first global accounting of fluctuating water levels in Earth’s lakes and reservoirs – including ones previously too small to measure from space....
NASA
Goddard's Support of Artemis and Humanity's Return to the Moon
At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, we’re leveraging our scientific and technical expertise across multiple capacities, including lunar and planetary science, sun science and space weather, space communications...
NASA
NASA’s Incredible Discovery Machine: The Story of the Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble's launch and deployment in April 1990 marked the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo's telescope. Thanks to five servicing missions and more than 30 years of operation, our view of the universe and our place within...
NASA
NASA | Spacecraft Chamber of Horrors
To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This feature explores test facilities at Goddard like: launch phase simulator centrifuge, the acoustic test chamber,...
NASA
Human Activity Impacted Space Weather
Our Cold War history is now offering scientists a chance to better understand the complex space system that surrounds us. Space weather -- which can include changes in Earth's magnetic environment -- are usually triggered by the sun's...
NASA
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 47, ISS 20 – Space Station Complexity Small Steps, Giant Leaps
International Space Station Flight Director Royce Renfrew discusses the complexity of the orbiting laboratory as NASA counts up to 20 years of continuous human presence in space.
SciShow
Why We Send Animals to Space
What happens when you send a duck, a rooster and a sheep with monkeys and dogs into space? Scientists had to find out -- and for decades, they've been studying life in space with the help of some crawly, wiggly, fluttery, furry friends.
Big Think
Space toilets: How astronauts boldly go where few have gone before | Michelle Thaller
A NASA astronomer explains how astronauts dispose of their, uh, dark matter. - When nature calls in micro-gravity, astronauts must answer. Space agencies have developed suction-based toilets – with a camera built in to ensure all the...