Star Chronicles
DVD animated video producedby Charlie Case in collaboration
with space music artist Jonn
Serrie.
Space Story
Astronaut Story Musgrave's multimedia show about his
life and his experiences in space.
Space Documentary
Production
Spacecraft
Films
This company provides an on line store of DVDs with
a wide range of space documentaries, historical footage,
and other space related video. In addition, some productions
are enhanced with "high-quality computer generated
images matched to actual mission audio to provide
stunning realizations where video or film footage
doesn't exist."
PBS
- Shop
The US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has broadcast
many space related programs over the years.
Video Cosmos
"VideoCosmos is one of the worlds largest repositories
of archived film, video and still images, documenting
Soviet and Russian space history. The VideoCosmos
professional video library archive is the largest
in Russia specializing in Space exploration. The library
contains more than 2,500 hours of footage on Russian
Space and rocketry. Clients have included The BBC,
Discovery, PBS, Disney and a host of others."
Media
Archives -DVDs of various space advocacy conferences
such as the annual NSS, Mars Society, and Space Frontier
Foundation meetings.
The
Good Earth
" It's a view of Earth from space - seen
from a range of satellites, the space shuttle,
and the International Space Station."
DEEP
SPACE
A multimedia trip in photographs and music which
begins millions of light years into deep space
and travels back past galaxies and nebula, radio
sources and supernova remnants to our own small
planet Earth. The full download version runs for
12 minutes at 1280px by 1024px resolution and
also comes with high-quality MP3s, a screensaver
and 12 high-resolution wallpapers.
The
Futures Channel
Offers math & science movies and other educational
webcasts.
Maas
Digital
Has produced high res space animation films for NASA.
YouTube
- ReelNASA's Channel a big and interesting
collection of NASA videos that includes, for example,
astronauts describing aspects of life on the ISS
"Where forward thinking terrestrials exchange
ideas and information about the state of the species,
their planet and the universe, living the lives
of science fiction today."
ActiveWorld
An online virtual reality universe that has grown to involve hundreds
of thousands of users with over 1000 unique worlds.
Included in this VR universe is a whole Mars world with spaceports and
colonies.
"Originally designed in 1997 as a demo project for NASA, the virtual
world Mars has been open for colonization by Active Worlds' residents
since 1998; and is one of the more popular hang outs for adventurous
humans and extra-terrestrials alike." - Mars tour homepage.
AstroArts - Online
Simulators AstroArts is a Japanese site with
lots of astronomy related information, links and resources. This page
includes several astronomy programs including sunrise/sunset calculator,
Moon calendar, Planisphere and Orbit viewers for comets & asteroids.
BBC
- Solar System
The BBC Online offers a large and sophisticated space
site concerning the planets and general space exploration related
topics.
Earth
Observatory - NASA
Very nice educational site about earth observation. The Observation Deck
section allows you to build animations showing changes on the earth
as since from space over long periods. For example, look at the changes
in Vegetation
since 1981.
MSNBC
Space Interactivity
MSNBC, which offers a daily spacenews
page, provides several space online interaction programs such as:
The space shuttle’s transporter, International
Space Station Model and the Space Gallery, which opens a special viewer
with several interactive productions.
New
York Times - Exploring the Solar System
These pages at the NYT (free registration to NYT site required) provide
lots of info about the planets, the Sun and other components of our solar
system. Including are some interactive programs (download of a plug-in
needed) that display:
National Geographic Interactive Space
Virtual Solar System - 3-D views in a "fly-by tour of the
sun and each planet in its orbit, observe close-up views of the planets,
extraterrestrial weather patterns, and more."
Return
to Mars : Numerous 3-D panorama simulations of the Mars Pathfinder
mission to Mars.
Solar
System Simulator
Great simulator available from JPL that will display all sorts of info about
the solar system and the probes sent out to explore it.
Time/Life
Space
History, images, and VR simulations such as the
Johnson Space Center QTVR. Use Quicktime VR to explore the JSC
mission control rooms, Space Station module, shuttle flight deck and more.
Virtual
Space Museum
The VSM provides VR models of various Russian and Soviet spacecraft.
Microsoft Windows 95/98 comes with a standard scheme
of colors, sounds, wallpaper, fonts, icons, etc. However,
one can modify and replace these with new colors, fonts,
icons, etc. that, one esthetically hopes, follow some
coherent theme.
There are now numerous themes for just about every
topic, including space, available for download off the
web, often for free.
A theme manager will be needed to install the themes
for Win 95 & NT (Win98includes it already). Otherwise all
the sounds, colors, etc. would have to be setup individually
by hand. The Plus! packages include a theme manager
or you can get a third party manager such as XTheme.
Given below are some links to specific space desktop
themes plus some sites that hold large archives of themes.
One can search on these sites for "space"
to find other choices.
We also include some space related screensavers and
links to sites with large archives of screensavers where
you can search for more space related selections.
DEEP
SPACE A multimedia trip in photographs and music
which begins millions of light years into deep space
and travels back past galaxies and nebula, radio sources
and supernova remnants to our own small planet Earth.
The full download version runs for 12 minutes at 1280px
by 1024px resolution and also comes with high-quality
MP3s, a screensaver and 12 high-resolution wallpapers.
Rad3D
offers several space related screensavers. Some Rad3D
screensavers are available for a free trial period,
some are free completely but with reduced image set.
In Windows, you can right click on an image and get
a menu with the item "Set as Wallpaper". This
will cause the image to be tiled across your desktop.
Some images look better than others as wallpaper. Here
are some sites offer various selections.
Universe
(Image Creator) - This shareware program from
Jess Diard allows you to "[c]reate photo-realistic-looking
images of deep space with Universe. Add star fields,
suns, nebulas, gas clouds, and global clusters over
the background color of your choice.." For Windows
platforms.
MediaGrab!
- "media files from the web, Usenet and more".
... "use MediaGrab! to locate files by subject,
author, song name, band name, "..etc
LiveWire!
Broadcast! -" locates all types of streaming
multimedia on the Internet. The number of Internet
radio and TV stations increases every day. You
can now access them all in one convenient application."
RocketCams
& Other Launch Videos
It is becoming common to attach a camera to the top
of a rocket and have it look backwards to record the
launching. This is used primarily as a diagnostic tool
to determine if the launch events occur as expected.
However, they also provide a very exciting way to view
a launch. Here are some sites that provide such videos.
Note: model rocketeers have long been attaching
still cameras to look back, and have recently been attaching
video cameras.
SpaceCasts
- links to sites that will broadcast upcoming launches
A lamented fact of life in today's space business is
that rockets still blow up far too often. Until we develop
reusable vehicles
that exhibit the reliability of modern jetliners, we
can expect to see many more such fireworks displays.
Here are some online video clips of rockets that met
sad but spectacular ends.
Ariane 501 June 4, 1996 the maiden flight of the
Ariane 501 "does not result in validation". You
can say that again! - Video
at V88
ARIANE 501-capcomespace.net
