The Daily Croissant - Filed under 'Space Flight'

The Growth of the ISS
- 7 Jan 2012
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- Animation ISS January 07 2012 Space Flight
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via i.usatoday.net
Missions to Mars...
- 6 Dec 2011
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- 05December11 Infographic Mars Missions Space Flight
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Infographic via Brian Crystie Design

"You can enjoy looking back through history at all the missions we've launched to the Red Planet — and where they are now....When you look at something like this, you realize that humans really aren't going to give up on the dream of going to space any time soon. Look how many times we've already hurled our spacecraft at Mars ! And we've only been launching missions to space for a little over half a century."

via io9.com
Symphony of Science - Onward to the Edge !
- 17 Nov 2011
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- 16November11 Astronomy Exploration Film Shorts Space Flight
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A musical celebration of the importance and inspirational qualities of space exploration (human and robotic), as well as a look at some of the amazing worlds in our solar system.

"Onward to the Edge" is the 12th installment in the Symphony of Science series.

via youtube.com
U-2 can enjoy the ride...!
- 6 Oct 2011
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- 05October11 Aircraft Film Shorts Space Flight U-2
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"You can see why the U-2 is considered the most difficult plane in the world to fly. Each pilot has a co-pilot, who chases the plane on the runway in a sports car. Most of the cars are either Pontiac GTOs or Chevrolet Camaros — the Air Force buys American. The chase cars talk the pilot down as he lands on bicycle-style landing gear.

In that spacesuit, the pilot in the plane simply cannot get a good view of the runway. Upon takeoff, the wings on this plane, which extend 103 feet from tip to tip, literally flap. To stabilize the wings on the runway, two pogo sticks on wheels prop up the ends of the wings.

As the plane flies away, the pogo sticks drop off. The plane climbs at an amazing rate of nearly 10,000 feet a minute. Within about four minutes, I was at 40,000 feet, higher than any commercial airplane. We kept going up to 13 miles above Earth's surface.

You get an incredible sensation up there. As you look out the windows, it feels like you're floating, it feels like you're not moving, but you're actually going 500 mph.. The U-2 was built to go higher than any other aircraft. In fact today, more than 50 years since it went into production, the U-2 flies higher than any aircraft in the world with the exception of the space shuttle.

It is flying more missions and longer missions than ever before — nearly 70 missions a month over Iraq and Afghanistan , an operational tempo that is unequaled in history. The pilots fly for 11 hours at a time, sometimes more than 11 hours up there alone. By flying so high, the U-2 has the capability of doing reconnaissance over a country without actually violating its airspace. It can look off to the side, peering 300 miles or more inside a country without actually flying over it. It can "see" in the dark and through clouds.

It can also "hear," intercepting conversations 14 miles below. The U-2, an incredible piece of history and also a current piece of high technology, is at the center of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Enjoy the ride!

via wimp.com

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Imagine a place...at the edge of our world
- 26 Aug 2011
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- 25August11 Adventure Balloons Space Flight
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"We live in a globalized world. How often do we have the chance to see it as a globe? Imagine a place where creation becomes real. Imagine a place where our atmosphere begins to end. Imagine a place where you can see the black starry sky in daylight. Imagine a place where borders do not really exist. zero2infinity's bloon will take you there."

via inbloon.com
Apollo 10 - To Sort Out The Unknowns
- 6 Jul 2011
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- 05July11 Apollo 10 Space Flight
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As I was a part of the recovery team for Apollo 10, I include this here for a nostalgic look at what America can be...

"This film absolutely rocks even without the Moon landing. The awesome expanse of space & our tiny machines comes through. This was space adventure in the finest sense and comprised by one of Apollo's elite crews: Tom Stafford, who literally wrote the book on how to get out of Earth orbit and to the Moon. Eugene Cernan, the taciturn professional astronaut who would later be the last human to walk on the Moon in Apollo 17. And NASA legend Tom Young, the only astronaut to have flown Gemini, Apollo and the Space Shuttle, who would himself later command the Apollo 16 mission. The science is fascinating but the humanity of the endeavor also shines through, most notably in a fascinating sequence where man learns to shave in space. One of the coolest half hours you can spend with an experimental music score that works marvels in juxtaposing human imagination against the expanse of the Cosmos. Check it out !"

via archive.org
Space Shuttle Rising
- 26 May 2011
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- 25May11 Space Flight
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"What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle. If you looked out the window of an airplane at just the right place and time last week, you could have seen something very unusual -- the space shuttle Endeavour launching to orbit. Images of the rising shuttle and its plume became widely circulated over the web shortly after Endeavour's final launch. The above image was taken from a shuttle training aircraft and is not copyrighted. Taken well above the clouds, the image can be matched with similar images of the same shuttle plume taken below the clouds. Hot glowing gasses expelled by the engines are visible near the rising shuttle, as well as a long smoke plume. A shadow of the plume appears on the cloud deck, indicating the direction of the Sun. The shuttle Endeavour remains docked with the International Space Station and is currently scheduled to return to Earth next week."

via apod.nasa.gov
The First Space-Earth Duet by Ian Anderson and Cady Coleman
- 16 Apr 2011
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- 16Apr11 Earth Film Shorts ISS Space Flight music
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"NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman, circling Earth aboard the International Space Station, and musician Ian Anderson, founder of the rock band Jethro Tull, joined together for the first space-Earth duet."

via youtube.com
Fun Facts About the Space Shuttle Orbiters
- 13 Apr 2011
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- 13Apr11 Infographic Space Flight
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Click on the infographic for a larger version and link to a NASA webpage. There’s more info at the NASA Space Shuttle information page.

via universetoday.com
The Voyages of Robo Trek have begun !
- 20 Mar 2011
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One of his kind has finally made it to the High Frontier. The voyages of Robo Trek have begun !

”Robonaut is now onboard as the newest member of our crew. We are happy to have him onboard. It’s a real good opportunity to help understand the interface of humans and robotics here in space.” said Coleman. “We want to see what Robonaut can do.

via universetoday.com
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