Jonás Cuarón created this poignant short film titled Aningaaq to accompany his movie Gravity: Watch the Gravity Short About the Stranger Sandra Bullock Called From Space – Underwire/Wired.com
More and more opportunities for student projects to reach space
Opportunities are opening up rapidly for students from high school to grad school to see their own space science and satellite projects reach space.
For example, NanoRacks offers access to the International Space Station for both science experiments on the station and to launch Cubesats from the station : Right This Way to the Space Station – Air & Space Magazine
Here is a video of 3 satellites released from the ISS this week:
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And on Tuesday evening, an Orbital Sciences rocket orbited 28 Cubesats, many of which were built by students groups including one in high school:
- Satellites controlled by a smart phone? Tiny CubeSats reach space: A rocket launch from Virginia Tuesday lofted 28 tiny CubeSats into space. Among them: the first satellite built by high schoolers and one that uses a smart phone as its control system. – CSMonitor.com
- Minotaur Launch Report | Student-built satellites, military payloads put in orbit – SpaceflightNow
- Minotaur Launch Report | Minotaur 1/ORS 3 payloads – Spaceflight Now – list of the payloads
Here’s a video of the launch of the Minotaur rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia:
Video: “Blade Runner The Aquarelle Edition”
Swedish artist Anders Ramsell has created a handmade watercolor version of the movie Blade Runner: Blade Runner, as recreated in 12,597 gorgeous watercolor paintings – io9 –
From the caption:
This animation consists of 12 597 handmade aquarelle paintings, each painting is approximately 1,5*3cm in size. Together they form my 35 minute long paraphrase on the motion picture Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott.
To see original paintings check:
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http://www.twitter.com/AndersRamsell“Blade Runner – The Aquarelle Edition” follows the original movie´s storyline but I have taken the liberty to change a lot of things. It was never my intent to make an exact version of the movie, that would fill no purpose. Instead I wanted to create a something different and never before seen — “The Aquarelle Edition”.
…So this one is dedicated to everybody with any kind of heart. Enjoy!
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Video: NASA workshop on proposals for asteroid program
Here is the initial session of a recent workshop on proposals submitted for NASA’s asteroid initiative:
NASA TV coverage of the plenary session of the NASA-hosted public workshop at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston to examine 96 of the ideas submitted to the recent Request For Information on ways to accomplish the agency’s asteroid initiative
SciTech: Zee.Aero developing personal VTOL
Zee.Aero is a secretive Bay Area startup that is apparently designing a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle with (perhaps0 some support from Google:
- This stealth company nestled against (inside?) Google is building flying cars – The Technology Chronicles
- Personal VTOL – The Unwanted Blog
- Patent apps
