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Rocket Landing on a Drone Ship!
Falcon 9 has successfully landed and NASA redirects the Kepler telescope out of emergency mode!
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NASA's Plan to Capture an Asteroid
Caitlin Hofmeister walks you through NASA's planned Asteroid Retrieval Mission, which aims to capture a space-rock and put it in lunar orbit for study -- all by 2025!
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The Brightest, Biggest Space News of 2019!
This has been another really good year for exploring the universe. This is our annual superlatives episode, so let’s take a look at the some of the coolest breakthroughs of 2019.
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Two Tragic Crashes
SciShow Space News looks into two recent rocket failures over U.S. soil, exploring possible causes and sizing up the risks of spaceflight since humans first started reaching for the stars.
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Future Space News of 2018
Here's a sneak peek at three missions coming up in 2018. We have rockets launching, spacecraft arriving at their destinations, and missions coming to an end.
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Get Ready for Orion
On Thursday, December 4th 2014, NASA will conduct the first test flight of its new deep space crew vehicle, going farther than any passenger vehicle has in over 40 years. Get ready to meet Orion!
TED Talks
Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she describes some of the extraordinary projects -- a...
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3 Space Missions to Look for in 2021
2021 is expected to bring some very exciting missions: We're putting more cool tech on Mars, going back around the Moon, and testing some sweet planetary defense from asteroids!
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Great Minds: Robert Goddard, Original Rocket Scientist
Get to know Robert Goddard, one of the original rocket scientists!
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Space Guns Don't Work (But We Built One Anyway)
Before we had rockets like the Falcon 9, we had other ideas of how we might shoot for the moon: space guns!
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Take a Ride on the Interplanetary Superhighway
Normal interplanetary travel uses lots of fuel, but taking advantage of some quirks of gravity can let us travel between planets using hardly any fuel at all.
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The SpaceX Explosion
What went wrong with SpaceX's Falcon 9 on September 1st? And an update on our old friend Philae!
TED Talks
Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time
Satellite imaging has revolutionized our knowledge of the Earth, with detailed images of nearly every street corner readily available online. But Planet Labs' Will Marshall says we can do better and go faster -- by getting smaller. He...
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SpaceX Is Sending People to the Moon!
SpaceX is spearheading space travel for consumers and one day hopes to take people to the moon!
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Big Idea: Gunpowder
Chinese alchemists searching for an elixir of eternal life discovered the world's first chemical explosive. Hank has the full story on gunpowder in this SciShow about a big idea of science.
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How SpaceX Launched the World's Most Powerful Rocket
We've found the first evidence of planets outside of the Milky Way, and SpaceX has finally launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into space!
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3 Space Mission Problems in a Week - SciShow News
It's been a tough week for space missions, from a failed Soyuz launch to two emergency shutdowns of space-based telescopes.
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Are Aliens Signaling Us?
I'm not saying it's aliens....and it's probably not aliens. Also, an update about the most recent SpaceX explosion!
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Using Galaxy Clusters to Look Into the Past
Gravitational lensing has given us a look at a galaxy in the very, very distant cosmic past using x-ray light, and NASA finally got its ICON mission off the ground!
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What's Next for the James Webb Space Telescope
It finally happened! The James Webb Space Telescope is on its way to capturing never-before-seen images of the universe! But now that it’s airborne and unfurled, what are its next steps before it can deliver the goods?
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What We Learned from the Apollo 1 Fire
The Apollo 1 fire was a tragedy and a huge wake-up call for NASA, causing them to get much more serious about their safety procedures and technology, and also changed their attitude towards spaceflight in general.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: A trip through space to calculate distance - Heather Tunnell
Imagine two aliens racing across outer space to their moon. Who can we deem the fastest alien? With DIRT -- or the equation Distance = Rate x Time -- we can calculate their rates, using the distance they traveled and the time they took....
Bozeman Science
Interaction Forces
In this video Paul Andersen explains how forces on an object always require another object. An object cannot exert a force on itself. If net forces on an object are balanced the object will remain at rest or move with a constant...
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The Future of Air Travel
It used to be that you could get on a Concorde jet and fly across the Atlantic ocean faster than the speed of sound, but what does the future hold for supersonic flight?