Curated Video
OTD In Space - June 18: America’s First Woman In Space
On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off on the space shuttle Challenger for the STS-7 mission. The astronauts spent 6 days in space deployed two...
Curated Video
Houston We Have a Podcast: Robotic Arms in Space
Tim Braithwaite, Liaison Manager for the Canadian Space Agency, talks about robotic arms in space: how they were conceived and developed, how they work today, and how the technology is useful on Earth. HWHAP Episode 14.
NASA
NASA | RROxiTT: Another Step Toward Servicing Satellites in Space
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Kennedy Space Center in Florida are joining teams and efforts to test new robotic refueling technologies that could help satellites live longer in space. During the test, a robotic arm...
Curated Video
DART: Advancing Autonomous Rendezvous Technology in Space
The Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous technology (DART) is a groundbreaking mission by NASA to test a fully robotic system capable of autonomously navigating and docking with a target satellite in space. This mission aims to...
NASA
NASA | Maryland's Place in Space
What a spectacular day for the Goddard Space Flight Center. During the day the Marylands Place in Space Expo was held at the Baltimore Convention Center. It was like exploring the universe in your own back yard. There was over 100...
NASA
The Challenges of Servicing in Space
On December 7, 2018, a panel of astronauts from the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment and five servicing missions celebrated 25 years of servicing with a live discussion from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center about the challenges of...
Curated Video
OTD In Space - September 20 2024: Luna 16 Lands On The Moon
On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. Four days later, it became the first robotic spacecraft to return a sample of lunar soil to Earth. Luna 16 was the first robotic...
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OTD In Space - July 13: Luna 15 Heads To The Moon
On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched its Luna 15 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Luna 15 was a robotic sample return mission sent to retrieve some lunar soil and bring it back to Earth. It launched just three days before...
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OTD In Space - September 1: Pioneer 11 Becomes 1st Spacecraft To Visit Saturn
On Sept. 1, 1979, NASA's robotic space probe Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to fly by Saturn. Pioneer 11 launched in 1973 on a mission to explore the Asteroid Belt, Jupiter and Saturn. It launched directly toward Jupiter, then...
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OTD In Space - April 25: STS-31 Deploys Hubble Space Telescope
On April 25, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed! Hubble is famous for taking some of the most amazing deep-space photos ever. It hitched a ride to space on the space shuttle Discovery with mission STS-31. Also on board were...
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OTD In Space - May 23: NASA Astronauts Take Impromptu Spacewalk
On May 23, 2017, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer took an urgent and unplanned spacewalk to replace a broken data relay box outside of the International Space Station. The problematic device, known as a...
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OTD In Space – March 30: SpaceX Launches And Lands Used Rocket In Historic 1st Re-Flight
On March 30, 2017, SpaceX launched and landed a used rocket for the first time. This was a huge step forward in SpaceX's plight to develop fully reusable rockets and reduce launch costs. The Falcon 9 rocket had completed a previous...
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OTD In Space - May 9: Japan Launches Hayabusa Mission To Asteroid
On May 9, 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the first-ever asteroid sample return mission, Hayabusa. This was also the first mission to land on an asteroid. Hayabusa would spend about two years chasing down a...
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OTD In Space - August 9: Luna 24 Sample Return Mission Launches To The Moon
New ReviewOn Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic sample return mission and the third of its kind. It lifted off on a Proton-K rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and safety...
Cerebellum
Space Facts II - Virtual Reality In Space Research
Space Facts II puts viewers on the forefront of space exploration, examining its role on Earth in fighting forest fires, controlling diseases (such as diabetes), combating air pollution and mapping solar and lunar cycles. This video...
SciShow
3 Medical Breakthroughs from the International Space Station
Since November of 2000, there have always been people on board the International Space Station. That’s nearly 20 straight years of humans living in space! But the ISS isn’t just the world’s coolest playground, it’s also a...
TED Talks
Jamie Paik: Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves
Taking design cues from origami, robotician Jamie Paik and her team created "robogamis": folding robots made out super-thin materials that can reshape and transform themselves. In this talk and tech demo, Paik shows how robogamis could...
SciShow
SPACE MINING
Hank summarizes the exciting news about Planetary Resources, a company with plans to mine near-earth asteroids for precious metals and water, and what these plans might mean for humanity's future in space.
SciShow Kids
Take a Tour of the Space Station
Did you know some astronauts live in space for months at a time? Join Jessi and Squeaks for a tour of the International Space Station and learn what life is like in low gravity!
NASA
NICER in Space
Several cameras on the International Space Station (ISS) have eyes on NICER. Since arriving to the space station on June 5 – aboard SpaceX’s eleventh cargo resupply mission – NICER underwent robotic installation on ExPRESS Logistics...
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Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Exploring the Possible Actions of Your CartPole Robot in OpenAI Gym
From the section: Lights, Camera, Action – Building Blocks of Reinforcement Learning. In this section, we learn about the main building blocks of reinforcement learning, including the action space, the environment, and the rewards. To...
SciShow
5 Robots You Can Hug
Developers are working to make softer, squishier robots that are flexible enough to maneuver in extreme environments, including inside the human body!
NASA
Servicing in Space: 25 Years of Challenges and Achievements
On December 6, 2018, Hubble astronauts spoke to online audiences live from the Goddard Space Flight Center’s innovative Robotic Operations Center (ROC) to discuss the history of Hubble servicing and how the future of satellite servicing...
NASA
Testing Robotic Satellite Servicing Capabilities
This six-legged, 10 by 16-foot robot mimics how satellites move in space. NASA uses the hexapod robot to conduct precise tests of robotic satellite servicing operations. Sitting on top of the six-legged hexapod is a partial model of a...