Activism, General, SpaceCasts

Video: TMRO Orbit 10.12 – The World Space Party (Yuri’s Night)

The latest TMRO.tv program is now available in the archive: The World Space Party – Orbit 10.12 – TMRO

Cariann talks to Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, Co-founder of Yuri’s Night, and host of Yuri’s Night L.A.

Space news topics:

* Launches from Krorou suspended by social unrest
* SpaceX to reuse CRS-8 booster this week
* China wants to reuse rockets too
* Laser Communication Relay Demonstration
* Changes on 67P observed by Rosetta
* Spacewalks on ISS

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Solar Sci-Fi, Space films and videos

Videos: Four Sci-Fi short films

A selection of sci-fi short films:

** Caleb by Amanda Mesaikos & Susanne Aichele

To contend with the bullies at school, 9-year-old Caleb decides to 3D print himself. Back home there’s confusion, discord and reshuffled schedules…But maybe this is just what his family needs? With humor at its heart, CALEB is a fundamentally human story about family dynamics and the inevitability of moral dilemmas in the face of advancing technology.

** World War by Vincent Chai

A war between 2 robots fight for the fate of the world while a bomb ticks away ready to explode.

** 43,000 Feet by Campbell Hooper

When statistician John Wilkins is sucked out of a plane at 43000 feet, he calculates that he has exactly 3 minutes and 48 seconds before he hits the ground.

** The Narrow World by Brent Bonacorso

THE NARROW WORLD is the story of a gigantic alien that crashes to Earth and takes up residence in Los Angeles. Contrary to expectations, when the alien is neither hostile towards the tiny humans around it, nor communicative in any way, it falls on the populace to decipher what, exactly, this visitor wants and what it means for them. One man sees more to it- a message, perhaps, that may tell us less about the alien, and more about our deepest inner selves, about the mysteries of the soul.

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Video: “Space to Ground” ISS report – Mar.24.2017

Here is this week’s Space to Ground update from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station:

Exoplanets, SETI

Video: “NASA’s search for habitable planets and life beyond the solar system”

Here is a SETI Institute talk by Dr. Gary H. Blackwood of NASA JPL on NASA’s search for habitable planets and life beyond the solar system –

Dr. Gary H. Blackwood earned his BS, MS and PHD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from MIT. He has been an employee at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA since 1988 and has worked on technology development for precision astronomical instruments and astrophysics missions including the Hubble Wide/Field Planetary Camera-2, the StarLight formation-flying interferometer, the Space Interferometry Mission and the Terrestrial Planet Finder. Since 2012 he has served as the Program Manager for the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, managed by JPL for the Astrophysics Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate.

Living in Space, Space Systems, SpaceCasts

Videos: Watch astronauts on a spacewalk outside the ISS

Two astronauts are conducting an EVA (Extravehicular Activity) , i.e. a spacewalk, outside the International Space Station (ISS) this morning: NASA Updates Schedule for International Space Station Spacewalks | NASA.

NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and ESA’s Thomas Pesquet will be outside the station for about six hours helping to prepare the ISS for the future arrival of U.S. commercial crew spacecraft and upgrade station hardware. In this video, Sarah Korona, U.S. EVA # 40 Spacewalk Officer, narrates an animation of the tasks for the spacewalkers.

And here is a live webcast of the EVA:

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