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VIDEO – Expedition 30 Crew Returns to Earth Safely

Robert Brand — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:31:05 +0000

Welcome back home to the Expedition 30 crew of the International Space Station! The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin landed in Kazakhstan on Friday, April 27 at 11:45 UTC (7:45 a.m. EDT). They undocked earlier from the International Space Station at 8:18 UTC (4:18 a.m. EDT). Take a look at the video of how painstaking it is to extract the crew from the Soyuz capsule! [...]

Ash Activity From Mexico’s Popocatepetl Volcano

Robert Brand — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:12:26 +0000

Satellites continue to provide a look at the ash and gas clouds being emitted from Mexico’s Popocatepetl Volcano. NASA has animated imagery from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite to provide a week long look at the volcano’s activity. “Most of the time, the prevailing westerly winds carry the debris (ash and smoke) far to the east in the mornings, while the daily rains bring down the ash before it can go far in the afternoon,” said Dennis Chesters, of the NASA GOES Project at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. [...]

Is the ISS a Waste of Money?

Robert Brand — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:50:26 +0000

In a recent Post on Facebook a number of people piped in over the science vs the cost of the ISS. This followed a post of a video that toured the ISS. The video that spawned the debate can be seen here. VIDEO: Expedition 27/28 Astronaut Flight Engineer Ron Garan conducts a fantastic on board tour of your fully assembled International Space Station's laboratory module.Adrian: This is a great report about the scientific work on the ISS. There are people who still call the ISS a waste of money. Just look at the research in medicine and helping people with water supply. [...]

Solar Coronal Cells as Seen by STEREO

Robert Brand — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:33:30 +0000

VIDEO - The changes of a coronal cell region as solar rotation carries it across the solar disk as seen with NASA’s STEREO-B spacecraft. The camera is fixed on the region (panning with it) and shows the plumes changing to cells and back to plumes again — based on the observatory’s perspective — during the interval June 7-14, 2011. credit: NASA [...]

Earth from Space: Where Worlds Collide

Robert Brand — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:11:39 +0000

VIDEO - Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the sixteenth edition we look at an image of the Indonesian islands of Bali, Lombok and Sumbawa. credit: ESA [...]

Riding a Booster Rocket

Robert Brand — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:42:44 +0000

Riding a Booster. From the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle DVD/BluRay a movie from the point of view of the Solid Rocket Booster with sound mixing and enhancement done by the folks at Skywalker Sound. [...]

STS-135 Atlantis in Video

Robert Brand — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:43:10 +0000

Atlantis and Crew in Video. The videos below detail the preparations and flight to orbit of Atlantis and her crew. Atlantis is the final shuttle flight of the 30 year shuttle program. Her crew of 4 is small in numbers, but the flight packs a punch in the science and payload. [...]

Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

Robert Brand — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:38:35 +0000

On board the new Curiosity rover are a number of instruments for research. One of these is Chem Cam. It is a suite of remote sensing instruments, including the first laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) system to be used for planetary science. Also there is a remote micro-imager (RMI). So long as Curiosity can get within 7m (25ft) , the LIBS instrument can target a rock or soil sample and vaporize a small amount of it. The instrument detects the spectrum of the light emitted by the vaporized rock. [...]

Videos of our Universe

Robert Brand — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:35:29 +0000

Explore the Universe. Here are four videos I found on Youtube of the universe. It is hard to get your head around how really big the universe is or even how really small we are in the scheme of things. Enjoy [...]

Apollo 18 SciFi Movie

Robert Brand — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:31 +0000

Apollo 18 SciFi Movie True or False? Straight away I personally would have to say FALSE - Let me say that again - FALSE, FALSE, FALSE. Already I am tired of answering questions about this movie. It is SciFi and little else. So why do I believe this?.... [...]

Surfing the Sun

Robert Brand — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:46:29 +0000

Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. This makes for more than just a nice photo-op: the waves hold clues as to how energy moves through that atmosphere, known as the corona. This is thought to be caused by Kelvin–Helmholtz instability [...]

Sun Rains Moon Drops

Robert Brand — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:59:35 +0000

On on June 7, 2011 the Sun unleashed one of the most spectacular prominence eruptions ever observed. It started around 06:41 UT and this "explosion" blasted material expanding 75 times the size of Earth into Space. Enjoy these various views of this truly amazing event. [...]

Buran – The Storm that Never Came

Robert Brand — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:24:33 +0000

An article in Time Magazine about the NASA space shuttle program mentions the Buran, which up until a few days ago I didn't know existed. It had a much shorter life and a sad ending but that doesn't change the fact, that the Russians had a space shuttle. Not only that, but arguably it was better than the NASA one. The resemblance between the American and Soviet space shuttles is undeniable and either validates the design or may hint on espionage. [...]

NASA TV

Robert Brand — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:53:02 +0000

NASA TV Available on EOA Website

Echoes of Apollo has expanded its services by providing access to NASA TV directly from its website. Simply “click” on Resources on the menu bar and select NASA TV.

This will make the range of services offered by Echoes of Apollo (EOA) a one stop shop for space enthusiasts [...]

Stan Lebar Tribute

Robert Brand — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:29:24 +0000

Stan Lebar and Apollo camera

Stan Lebar Tribute Video from the Honeysuckle Creek Team

Stan Lebar, 1925 – 2009, served as Program Manager for the Westinghouse Apollo TV Camera Program.

His team built the first colour TV camera to be used in space, on Apollo 10. Cameras were also [...]

Tidbinbilla Apollo 11 Celebrations

Robert Brand — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:31:40 +0000

Tidbinbilla 40 years after Apollo 11

Speech at Tidbinbilla (Australia) on the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 by Mike Dinn – Tidbinbilla could track both spacecraft (as could Honeysuckle Creek). The Honeysuckle Creek antenna that brought us the first lunar steps from Neil Armstrong is now located at Tidbinbilla but has just been retired in [...]

NASA DSCC – Madrid

Robert Brand — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:31:49 +0000

Video Honoring Madrid Achievements. Madrid was an essential part of the Apollo missions along with centres in Australia and the USA. It remains a cornerstone of the deep space communications network. It was one of the Apollo MSFN stations. This video honors the Madrid Apollo and the Deep Space Network (DSN) tracking stations. It is [...]

Saturn V Cutaway Poster.

Robert Brand — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:06:30 +0000

What are Ullage Rockets?

This is by far the best cutaway model of the Saturn V rocket and the Command, Service and Lunar modules combined that I have ever seen. It is a poster for both adults and kids. It’s detail is so good that it even shows the ullage rockets.