Category: Science

  • Infographic: End of the Space Shuttle program

    Infographic: End of the Space Shuttle program

    In honor of the Space Shuttle’s last flight, here’s an interesting infographic from the Washington Post.

  • Launching Apollo 11 at 500fps

    Launching Apollo 11 at 500fps

    Spacecraftfilms.com presents an ultra slow-motion HD video of Apollo 11’s Saturn V launch from 1969, transferred from 16mm film. The footage shows intense heat effects from the launch, captured at 500 fps and providing a detailed 8-minute clip. The video, narrated by executive producer Mark Gray, encapsulates a mere 30 seconds of the actual event.

  • First Orbit: Commemmorating 50 Years of Spaceflight

    First Orbit: Commemmorating 50 Years of Spaceflight

    In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s first orbit around the earth, documentarian Christopher Riley gives us this film: First Orbit. A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new footage with Gagarin’s original…

  • 50 Years of Spaceflight, 30 Years of the Space Shuttle

    50 Years of Spaceflight, 30 Years of the Space Shuttle

    Today, in commemoration of the Space Shuttle, NASA published this interesting infographic, and launched an interactive Space Shuttle site. Since 1981, NASA space shuttles have been rocketing from the Florida coast into Earth orbit. The five orbiters — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour — have flown more than 130 times, carrying over 350 people…

  • Infographic: 50 Years of Human Spaceflight

    Infographic: 50 Years of Human Spaceflight

    Another interesting infographic, this time from Space.com:

  • Tainted Red Hook Honey

    This past weekend I stumbled upon a test tube of cherry red Brooklyn Honey. Last fall, there was a major issue that developed with bees in Brooklyn, where the bees were getting into red syrup supplies at a local Marachino Cherry factory, and brining the chemicals back to their hives, turning their honey red.

  • “Ascent – Commemorating Shuttle” Launch Documentary

    “Ascent – Commemorating Shuttle” Launch Documentary

    Ascent – Commemorating Shuttle is a new video from the NASA Glenn Research Center, and shows off incredible, slow motion footage from launching the Space Shuttle. This is possibly the most interesting collection of launch footage I’ve seen yet. Most of the footage is captured from “engineering cameras”, which site at strategic points on and…

  • Visual Magnetic Fields – Magnetic Movie

    Coolest video/cg I’ve seen this week. With a combination of science and 3d Animation, Scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory made this nifty movie which brings to life complex magnetic fields. Take a look and read the back story. Finally, make sure to turn the sound up. In addition to the trippy visuals, the crackle and pop…

  • News from the Moon – Lunar Ark and the Mythbusters

    News from the Moon – Lunar Ark and the Mythbusters

    Two interesting pieces of “News from the Moon” lately. First, European Space Agency scientists, at a conference in Strasbourg last week, discussed the possibilities of building a “Lunar Doomsday Ark” on the moon. The concept is to have a repository of all the necessary information needed to rebuild civilization on earth, should a catastrophic event…

  • No aliens yet for SETI…

    Darn, not this time. Just when I thought we were making some progress with the SETI@home project, it comes out that the whole story of SETI finding a valuable signal was just twisted around by some reporter. Here’s how it went down: Dan Wertheimer, an astronomer, told a reporter from KTVU that he may have…