A selection of space videos:
* * Cygnus Arrives at Station After Four-Day Journey – Highlights of the Cygnus cargo spacecraft’s launch and arrival at the ISS:
** Tianzhou-1 Cargo Spacecraft Docks with Tiangong-2 Space Lab – Nice view of the docking of the Chinese cargo craft to the Tiangong-2 space station
** Earth Day 2017 – 4K Earth Views From Space – High resolution ISS images of earth with a funky sound track
This week’s Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station:
Here is a video of a Russian Soyuz blasting off on Thursday to take a Russian cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut to the station:
Just six hours later the Soyuz spacecraft docked to the ISS:
China also has a space station. On Thursday launched a Long March 7 rocket with the Tianzhou-1 cargo vehicle at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan Province. The spacecraft will dock with the unoccupied Tiangong-2 space station. It will transfer fuel to the station so that it can maintain its orbit.
Here is this week’s Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station
A video about STEM on Station:
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Here is the latest Space to Ground report from NASA on recent activities related to the International Space Station:
NASA’s Launch Services Program contracts with commercial launch vehicle companies such as United Launch Alliance and SpaceX for rides to space for NASA’s science spacecraft. Here is a brief video showing highlights of recent and upcoming LSP missions:
The Sally Ride EarthKAM is a camera set up on the International Space Station (ISS) to image the surface of the earth through a station window. What images the camera captures is controlled by students at middle schools in many different countries.
Last week, astronauts on the ISS installed and activated the camera: ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/30/2017 | ISS On-Orbit Status Report –
Sally Ride Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle Schools (EarthKAM): This morning the crew successfully installed and activated the EarthKAM payload in the Node 2 nadir hatch window. Science operations using the EarthKAM setup will begin next week, marking the beginning of the 57th EarthKAM mission.
This session includes over 200 schools in more than 50 countries around the world and is scheduled to last through April 9. This is a NASA education program that enables thousands of students to photograph and examine Earth from a space crew’s perspective.
Using the Internet, the students control a special digital camera mounted on-board the ISS. This enables them to photograph the Earth’s coastlines, mountain ranges and other geographic items of interest from the unique vantage point of space.
The team at Sally Ride EarthKAM then posts these photographs on the Internet for the public and participating classrooms around the world to view.
Check out the image gallery for the latest Mission. Some samples:
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