Curated Video
USA: MARS LAUNCH
English/Nat
NASA continued its foray into space on Friday with the launch of the Mars Climate Orbiter on board a Delta II rocket.
The Mars Climate Orbiter is now in orbit around the Red Planet and is preparing to gather scientific data...
Curated Video
Launch of NASA probe to study Pluto delayed
1. Various of rocket on launch pad
2. Various of mission members in control room
3. Wide of rocket on launch pad
4. Wide shot showing whole launch area (NATURAL SOUND UP: Mission Control speaking to launch team regarding weather...
Curated Video
NASA launches robotic explorer to Mars to study planet's upper atmosphere
NASA's newest robotic explorer, Maven, rocketed toward Mars on Monday on a quest to unravel the ancient mystery of the red planet's radical climate change.
The Maven spacecraft is due at Mars next Autumn following a journey of more than...
Curated Video
Atlantis lifts off for Hubble repair mission
1. Wide of Space shuttle Atlantis on launching pad
2. Mid of shuttle as it prepares to lift off
3. Wide of Atlantis as it lifts off
4. Mid of Atlantis shooting upwards
5. Various of Atlantis as it flies into space
6. Wide of post-launch...
Curated Video
Latest NASA briefing on Discovery space shuttle
1. Wide shot of mission control
2. Mid shot of person in mission control
3. Mid shot of press briefing
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) LeRoy Cain, Flight Director:
"It's great to be here. We've looked forward to this for a long time, we've...
Curated Video
USA: 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST SUPERSONIC FLIGHT
English/Nat
13 October, Washington, D-C, U-S-A - October 13, 1996 and black and white archive film
NASA-TV - October 14, 1997
1. Mid shot of B-29 carrying Bell X-1 rocket plane for record breaking
flight
2. Wide shot of Bell X-1 being...
Curated Video
News conference on preparations for launch of space shuttle
Johnson Space Center - Houston, Texas 16 November, 2007
1. Wide of news conference
2. NASA animation of Columbus module stowed in cargo bay
3. NASA animation of Columbus module
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniele Laurini, European Space...
Curated Video
WRAP NASA briefings on shuttle disaster
1. Wideshot of NASA briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ron Dittemore, Space Shuttle Programme Manager:
"The first indications of a potential problem occurred minutes before 8 o'clock Central Standard Time. The first indications were of...
Curated Video
Atlantis crew prepares for Sunday's launch
Kennedy Space Flight Centre, Cape Canaveral, Florida - 2 August 2006
1. Early morning roll out of shuttle Atlantis with rockets
2. Silhouette of Atlantis in the morning sun
Kennedy Space Flight Centre, Cape Canaveral, Florida - 6...
Curated Video
Overview of Discovery mission ahead of descent
Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral, Florida 26 July 2005
1. Shuttle Discovery on launch pad
2. Discovery's engines
3. Discovery lifts off launch pad
4. Foam chunk falling off external fuel tank
Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas 27...
Curated Video
Mission status briefing on International Space Station repairs
Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas - 1 November 2007
1. Wide of NASA officials for Mission Status Briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Derek Hassmann, STS-120 Lead ISS Flight Director:
"You know, we're working towards what I think is a...
Curated Video
The countdown reached all the way to practically zero Saturday morning for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. A NASA spokesman said the engine ignition sequence started, but there was an automatic shutdown by on-board computers
HEADLINE: Raw Video: SpaceX rocket launch aborted in Fla.
CAPTION: The countdown reached all the way to practically zero Saturday morning for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. A NASA spokesman said the engine ignition sequence started, but...
Curated Video
USA: SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR PREPARES FOR TAKE OFF ONCE MORE
Natural Sound
The space shuttle Endeavour is getting ready, once again, for lift-off on NASA's first space station construction flight.
Rains and heavy skies are threatening to put the flight off again, but NASA was confident on Friday...
Curated Video
WRAP Astronauts on the ISS and Endeavour space walk ADDS presser
Space
1. NASA astronaut Rick Linnehan coming out of the air lock waving
Houston
2. Wide of officials at the control centre
Space
3. Head-cam shot of astronaut assembling a robot outside the international space station
4. Back shot of...
Curated Video
NASA says there appears to be plenty of water on the moon, according to data from a spacecraft intentionally crashed into the surface. Significant amounts of water could make it easier to set up a base camp for astronauts.
HEADLINE: NASA: Water found in moon crater
CAPTION: NASA says there appears to be plenty of water on the moon, according to data from a spacecraft intentionally crashed into the surface. Significant amounts of water could make it easier...
Curated Video
WRAP Spacewalk to install equipment and repair Hubble telescope ADDS more
1. Wide of astronaut John Grunsfeld coming out of air lock into cargo bay of Atlantis
2. Various of Grunsfeld working to release robotic arm on shuttle
3. Top wide of Grunsfeld and astronaut Drew Feustel at air lock door
4. Feustel...
Curated Video
USA: NASA - SOFTBALL-SIZED ROBOT
English/Nat
NASA is testing its latest space gadget, a softball-sized robot that can serve as another set of eyes, ears, and nose on space missions.
The Personal Satellite Assistant is helping make science fiction into science fact as...
Curated Video
4:3 NASA unveils new giant rocket design, to be most powerful ever built
Washington, DC - 14 September 2011
1. Wide shot of beginning of NASA - Congressional news conference
2. Wide overview shot from back of news conference
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Charlie Bolden, NASA...
Curated Video
USA: SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA NEARS END OF 16 DAY LABORATORY MISSION
English/Nat
The space shuttle Columbia neared the end of its 16-day laboratory mission on Monday, with scientists exhausted but thrilled with their results.
Columbia is due to land at the Kennedy Space Centre on Thursday morning.
The...
Curated Video
USA: SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS LAUNCHED
English/Nat
The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Wednesday, carrying the most expensive and pivotal piece of the international space station, a 1.4 (b) billion (U-S) dollar science laboratory.
The...
Curated Video
SPACE: SOYUZ SPACESHIP DOCKS WITH MIR SPACE STATION
French/Nat
A Russian Soyuz spaceship with three cosmonauts on board has docked with the Mir space station, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) above Western Europe.
The new crew, including a Frenchman, joins the three men already aboard...
Curated Video
USA: NASA CELEBRATES ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY
English/Nat
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
The head of the U-S space agency, Daniel Goldin, held a meeting with agency staff on Thursday to congratulate them...
Curated Video
NASA: FAILED DATA PROCESSOR FORCES DELAY OF SHUTTLE LAUNCH
English/Nat
A failed data processor forced NASA to delay Thursday's launch of the space shuttle Columbia on a two-week mission to study the brain and nervous system.
Perfect weather had been forecast, and it has been a year since a...
Curated Video
NASA is set to release results of an internal investigation into whether a couple of astronauts were drinking heavily just before launch, but no one expects new details to emerge.
HEADLINE: NASA: No proof astronauts drank before launch
CAPTION: A NASA safety review released Wednesday found no evidence to support claims that astronauts were impaired by alcohol when they flew in space. (Aug. 29) 2007
Sound Bite...