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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Moon Face
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Sol
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
sol#2
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
sun rise 1/3/08
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Week 12: International Space Archives
Monday, March 30th, 2009A lot has been happening at NASA: Yesterday (Saturday March 28), STS-119 landed safely in Florida and Expedition 19 docked with the International Space Station.
Meanwhile here on Earth, we’ve continued to add more videos to our archives.
President Obama Calls the Space Station Credit: NASA
Mission Specialists Steve Swanson (right) and Richard Arnold in their Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuits Credit: NASA
41 Years Ago This Week
Apollo 6 launched on April 4, 1968. Apollo 6 was the Apollo program’s second and final unmanned qualification test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle before its first manned flight. The first manned flight using the Saturn V was Apollo 8 because Apollo 7 (the first Apollo manned mission) used the smaller Saturn IB rocket. Apollo 6 received little press coverage because it launched the day Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and Killed.
Apollo 6 Launch Credit: NASA
How to Help
- If you have home videos of NASA launches or space-related subjects, we would love to post them on the International Space Archives! Please write to video@internationalspacearchives.com to contribute videos.
- As always, we’d love to hear your ideas and feedback, please email us at feedback@internationalspacearchives.com.
moon
Friday, March 6th, 2009
Moon Face
Friday, March 6th, 2009
Sol
Friday, March 6th, 2009
sol#2
Friday, March 6th, 2009
sun rise 1/3/08
Friday, March 6th, 2009
Week 8: International Space Archives Blog
Friday, March 6th, 2009Welcome back! We have added a lot of new videos and will be creating metadata for them in the coming weeks. You can use our Advance Search to easily search for videos only.
37 Years Ago This Week
Pioneer 10, the first space probe to travel to an outer planet from Earth, was launched on March 2, 1972. Pioneer 10 accomplished many firsts: it was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt; the first to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter; and the first man-made object to leave the solar system and travel on a flight path into interstellar space.
Episode 9 of the video series “Journey Through the Solar System” focuses on Jupiter. The video uses findings from Pioneer 10 to examine the largest planet.
Journey Through the Solar System, Episode 9: Jupiter Odyssey Credit: NASA
40 Years Ago This Week
Apollo 9 launched on March 3, 1969. Apollo 9 was the first manned flight of the Command/Service Module (CSM) along with the Lunar Module (LM). The crew (Commander James A. McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David R. Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Russell L. Schweickart) named the LM “Spider” and the CSM “Gumdrop”. The crew tested several systems that would be critical for landing on the moon including the LM engines, the backpack life support systems for EVA, navigation systems, and docking maneuvers. The crew spent 10 days in low earth orbit before splashing down on March 13.
Apollo 9 Prime Crew from left to right: James McDivitt, David Scott, and Russell Schweickart Credit: NASA
This Week at NASA
The Kepler Mission to search for Earth-size planets will launch no earlier than March 6th. So it’s possible it may launch this week. Check it out at the Kepler Mission Web site.
How to Help
- If you have home videos of NASA launches or space-related subjects, we would love to post them on the International Space Archives! Please write to video@internationalspacearchives.com to contribute videos.
- As always, we’d love to hear your ideas and feedback, please email us at feedback@internationalspacearchives.com.
Week 7: International Space Archives Blog
Friday, March 6th, 2009Welcome back! This past week we continued to build the archive adding numerous new images from multiple NASA sites. We are also developing social networking capabilities which we hope to have up and running soon.
New This Week
Seeing Double! Perhaps it’s the after effect of Valentine’s Day, but suddenly everywhere you look, there are doubles. A few examples:
- Double tropical storms
- Double spiral galaxies
- Double Gemini astronauts
- Double moons of Saturn
- Double suns setting (an artist’s concept)
- Double Mars rovers
- The “Double Planet” (or more recently the ‘Double Non-Planet’)
- Double Star Pismis 24
This Week at NASA
- Monday’s (February 22nd) scheduled launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-119 has been postponed once again to allow time for further testing of the control valves. A new launch date may be determined on Wednesday (February 25th).
- Liftoff of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) is scheduled for Tuesday, February 24th, at 1:51:30 a.m. Pacific time (or 4:51:30 a.m. Eastern time). The OCO is the first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide. Because carbon dioxide is a major contributor to global warming, the data gathered by the spacecraft will help scientists and policy makers more accurately forecast climate change and make better informed decisions.
Update Tuesday February 24th: The OCO launched this morning but failed to make orbit. It fell into the ocean near Antarctica. For more information visit Nasa.gov.
Artist’s Concept of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory Credit: NASA/JPL
How to Help
- If you have home videos of NASA launches or space-related subjects, we would love to post them on the International Space Archives! Please write to video@internationalspacearchives.com to contribute videos.
- As always, we’d love to hear your ideas and feedback, please email us at feedback@internationalspacearchives.com.
Week 6: International Space Archives Blog
Friday, March 6th, 2009Welcome back! We’ve had a busy week adding images and videos to the archive. Be sure and take a look around.
What’s New
In honor of President’s Day, we added a gallery of presidential images related to the space program. Check these out:
- President Kennedy rides with John Glenn in a Cocoa Beach parade.
- President Johnson visits Kennedy Space Center.
- President Nixon visits Apollo 11 crew in quarantine.
- President Ford (in a plaid suit) meets with crew of Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
- President Carter and family visit Kennedy Space Center.
- President Reagan with wife Nancy are saluted by astronauts.
- President George H. W. Bush (as Vice President) prepares to welcomes STS-26 crew home.
- President Clinton samples space food with John Glenn.
- President George W. Bush speaks at STS-107 memorial.
- President Obama and wife Michelle observe astronaut at inauguration parade.
47 Years Ago This Week
On February 20, 1962 John Glen climbed into the Friendship 7 spacecraft and after a successful launch became the first American to orbit the earth. In just under five hours, Glenn orbited the earth three times. Glenn’s orbit was the sixth mission of the Mercury Project.
John Glenn Entering Friendship 7 Credit: NASA
This hour-long movie depicts the events on the day Glenn orbited the earth. It was released as a motion picture in 1962:
Friendship 7 Credit: NASA
How to Help
- If you have home videos of NASA launches or space-related subjects, we would love to post them on the International Space Archives! Please write to video@internationalspacearchives.com to contribute videos.
- As always, we’d love to hear your ideas and feedback, please email us at feedback@internationalspacearchives.com.
Week 5: International Space Archives Blog
Friday, March 6th, 2009Welcome back! This week we have continued to add videos and images to the site and we are also developoing new features.
What’s New
We are excited to announce that we will soon have an astronaut blogging for us! Bruce Melnick, Former Astronaut, STS-41, STS-49, CDR USCG (Ret) will share his experiences as an astronaut on Discovery Mission STS-41 (1990) and Endeavour Mission STS-49 (1992). He’s generously offered to share many of the stories, photographs, and videos he collected while working for NASA.
Melnick Displays US Coast Guard Decal on OV-103’s Middeck Credit: NASA
Commander Melnick was the first active US Coast Guardsman to fly in space. He carried this honor proudly as you can see from the above photograph. He graduated with honors from the United States Coast Guard Academy and went on to earn both a graduate degree and an honorary doctorate from the University of West Florida. In June 1987, he was selected by NASA and became an astronaut in August 1988. Commander Melnick retired from the Coast Guard and left NASA in 1992 and entered the Aerospace industry. He is currently the Vice President for Boeing Florida Operations at the John F. Kennedy Space Center.
You can see and hear Commander Melnick in the Postflight Press Conferences for his shuttle missions. The press conferences contain excellent footage for each mission narrated by the crew members.
STS-41: Postflight Press Conference Credit: NASA
STS-49: Postflight Press Conference Credit: NASA
How to Help
- If you have home videos of NASA launches or space-related subjects, we would love to post them on the International Space Archives! Please write to video@internationalspacearchives.com to contribute videos.
- As always, we’d love to hear your ideas and feedback, please email us at feedback@internationalspacearchives.com.
Week 4: International Space Archives Blog
Friday, March 6th, 2009Welcome back! We’ve added lots of new videos this week. Check them out here: Historical Videos (These are mostly older science and public relations videos) or here: Educational Videos (These are mostly newer science and curriculum videos made for use in K-12 classrooms).
What’s New
- See an astronaut’s eye view of what happens during a shuttle ascent. This 18 minutes of footage is from STS-65 in 1994:
Ascent Edit for Jim Halsell Credit: NASA
- Check out this image of a shuttle cockpit:
STS-101 Mission Image Credit: NASA
51 Years Ago This Week
- America’s first earth satellite, Explorer 1, was launched on January 31, 1958.
Explorer 1 Launch Credit: NASA
How to Help
- If you have home videos of NASA launches or space-related subjects, we would love to post them on the International Space Archives! Please write to video@internationalspacearchives.com to contribute videos.
- As always, we’d love to hear your ideas and feedback, please email us at feedback@internationalspacearchives.com.
Week 8: International Space Archives Blog
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Welcome back! We have added a lot of new videos and will be creating metadata for them in the coming weeks. You can use our Advance Search to easily search for videos only.
37 Years Ago This Week
Pioneer 10, the first space probe to travel to an outer planet from Earth, was launched on March 2, 1972. Pioneer 10 accomplished many firsts: it was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt; the first to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter; and the first man-made object to leave the solar system and travel on a flight path into interstellar space.
Episode 9 of the video series “Journey Through the Solar System” focuses on Jupiter. The video uses findings from Pioneer 10 to examine the largest planet.
Journey Through the Solar System, Episode 9: Jupiter Odyssey Credit: NASA
40 Years Ago This Week
Apollo 9 launched on March 3, 1969. Apollo 9 was the first manned flight of the Command/Service Module (CSM) along with the Lunar Module (LM). The crew (Commander James A. McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David R. Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Russell L. Schweickart) named the LM “Spider” and the CSM “Gumdrop”. The crew tested several systems that would be critical for landing on the moon including the LM engines, the backpack life support systems for EVA, navigation systems, and docking maneuvers. The crew spent 10 days in low earth orbit before splashing down on March 13.
Apollo 9 Prime Crew from left to right: James McDivitt, David Scott, and Russell Schweickart Credit: NASA
This Week at NASA
The Kepler Mission to search for Earth-size planets will launch no earlier than March 6th. So it’s possible it may launch this week. Check it out at the Kepler Mission Web site.
How to Help
- If you have home videos of NASA launches or space-related subjects, we would love to post them on the International Space Archives! Please write to video@internationalspacearchives.com to contribute videos.
- As always, we’d love to hear your ideas and feedback, please email us at feedback@internationalspacearchives.com.
Week 7: International Space Archives Blog
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Welcome back! This past week we continued to build the archive adding numerous new images from multiple NASA sites. We are also developing social networking capabilities which we hope to have up and running soon.
New This Week
Seeing Double! Perhaps it’s the after effect of Valentine’s Day, but suddenly everywhere you look, there are doubles. A few examples:
- Double tropical storms
- Double spiral galaxies
- Double Gemini astronauts
- Double moons of Saturn
- Double suns setting (an artist’s concept)
- Double Mars rovers
- The “Double Planet” (or more recently the ‘Double Non-Planet’)
- Double Star Pismis 24
This Week at NASA
- Monday’s (February 22nd) scheduled launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-119 has been postponed once again to allow time for further testing of the control valves. A new launch date may be determined on Wednesday (February 25th).
- Liftoff of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) is scheduled for Tuesday, February 24th, at 1:51:30 a.m. Pacific time (or 4:51:30 a.m. Eastern time). The OCO is the first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide. Because carbon dioxide is a major contributor to global warming, the data gathered by the spacecraft will help scientists and policy makers more accurately forecast climate change and make better informed decisions.
How to Help
- If you have home videos of NASA launches or space-related subjects, we would love to post them on the International Space Archives! Please write to video@internationalspacearchives.com to contribute videos.
- As always, we’d love to hear your ideas and feedback, please email us at feedback@internationalspacearchives.com.
Week 6: International Space Archives Blog
Friday, February 20th, 2009Welcome back! We’ve had a busy week adding images and videos to the archive. Be sure and take a look around.
What’s New
In honor of President’s Day, we added a gallery of presidential images related to the space program. Check these out:
- President Kennedy rides with John Glenn in a Cocoa Beach parade.
- President Johnson visits Kennedy Space Center.
- President Nixon visits Apollo 11 crew in quarantine.
- President Ford (in a plaid suit) meets with crew of Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
- President Carter and family visit Kennedy Space Center.
- President Reagan with wife Nancy are saluted by astronauts.
- President George H. W. Bush (as Vice President) prepares to welcomes STS-26 crew home.
- President Clinton samples space food with John Glenn.
- President George W. Bush speaks at STS-107 memorial.
- President Obama and wife Michelle observe astronaut at inauguration parade.
47 Years Ago This Week
On February 20, 1962 John Glen climbed into the Friendship 7 spacecraft and after a successful launch became the first American to orbit the earth. In just under five hours, Glenn orbited the earth three times. Glenn’s orbit was the sixth mission of the Mercury Project.
John Glenn Entering Friendship 7 Credit: NASA
This hour-long movie depicts the events on the day Glenn orbited the earth. It was released as a motion picture in 1962:
Friendship 7 Credit: NASA
How to Help
- If you have home videos of NASA launches or space-related subjects, we would love to post them on the International Space Archives! Please write to video@internationalspacearchives.com to contribute videos.
- As always, we’d love to hear your ideas and feedback, please email us at feedback@internationalspacearchives.com.
Week 5: International Space Archives Blog
Friday, February 20th, 2009Welcome back! This week we have continued to add videos and images to the site and we are also developoing new features.
What’s New
We are excited to announce that we will soon have an astronaut blogging for us! Bruce Melnick, Former Astronaut, STS-41, STS-49, CDR USCG (Ret) will share his experiences as an astronaut on Discovery Mission STS-41 (1990) and Endeavour Mission STS-49 (1992). He’s generously offered to share many of the stories, photographs, and videos he collected while working for NASA.
Melnick Displays US Coast Guard Decal on OV-103’s Middeck Credit: NASA
Commander Melnick was the first active US Coast Guardsman to fly in space. He carried this honor proudly as you can see from the above photograph. He graduated with honors from the United States Coast Guard Academy and went on to earn both a graduate degree and an honorary doctorate from the University of West Florida. In June 1987, he was selected by NASA and became an astronaut in August 1988. Commander Melnick retired from the Coast Guard and left NASA in 1992 and entered the Aerospace industry. He is currently the Vice President for Boeing Florida Operations at the John F. Kennedy Space Center.
You can see and hear Commander Melnick in the Postflight Press Conferences for his shuttle missions. The press conferences contain excellent footage for each mission narrated by the crew members.
STS-41: Postflight Press Conference Credit: NASA
STS-49: Postflight Press Conference Credit: NASA
How to Help
- If you have home videos of NASA launches or space-related subjects, we would love to post them on the International Space Archives! Please write to video@internationalspacearchives.com to contribute videos.
- As always, we’d love to hear your ideas and feedback, please email us at feedback@internationalspacearchives.com.