The Saturn V first stage engines recovered from ocean bottom by the Jeff Bezos F-1 Engine Recovery project will go on display this Friday at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center this week. Visitors will be able to watch restorers taking apart the engines for cleaning and coating with protective sealants. They will eventually be reassembled for exhibit.

Grand Opening of the Apollo F-1 Conservation Project Observation Gallery – The Cosmosphere
Cosmosphere Launches Apollo F-1 Conservation Project With Grand Opening Of Spaceworks Observation Gallery: Cosmosphere commissioned by the Bezos Expeditions F-1 Recovery Project to conserve F-1 engines recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic – Cosmosphere

More about the project and lots of pictures of the engines:

Solar Sci-Fi, Space films and videos

Video: “Europa Report” trailer

May 22, 2013 TopSpacer

The first trailer for the upcoming “hard sci-fi” film Europa Report , about a human mission to the Jupiter moon Europa, has been released:

Phil Plait has seen the whole film and likes it: Europa Report trailer: Sci-fi movie with a lot of sci – Wired.

Activism, Education

The Society for International Space Cooperation

May 22, 2013 TopSpacer

Here’s a message from The Society for International Space Cooperation :

The Society for International Space Cooperation (SISC) is an educational nonprofit organization whose board includes astronauts, cosmonauts, and luminaries like director James Cameron. We invite you to join the Space Explorers Club or Junior Space Explorers Club and be sent a different box every month with space goodies and space and science info from the past, present, and future of spaceflight.

The Junior Space Explorers Club is geared towards kids 6-12 years old and has many fun and educational activities. The Space Explorers Club is for Space Lovers aged 13-113.

The Society for International Space Cooperation is a 501(c)(3) so all donations are 100% tax deductible and all proceeds help support the educational programs of the society.

More info is available at http://www.spacesociety.org

General, Space Collecting

A grand gallery of space debris found on the ground

May 22, 2013 TopSpacer

Paul Maley provides an interesting and extensive page with lots of info about, and many pictures of, space junk that has reached the ground over the years: SPACE DEBRIS – Eclipse Tours.