Nathaniel Shepherd (played by Gary Oldman) is the founder of Genesis Space Technologies, the private aerospace company building a colony on Mars. Scenes at the company’s headquarters were filmed at Spaceport America , a space tourism launch site for Virgin Galactic and other commercial spaceflight companies. To source
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NASA Highlights Facilities During Super Bowl Week | Video
Recommended videos for you NASA Highlights Facilities During Super Bowl… Football Pass ‘Travels’ 564,664 Yards On Spac… Bus-Sized Asteroid Spotted by Slooh During Cl… Footballs Put Through Spacecraft Testing – Fo… Bus-Sized Asteroid’s Earth Fly-By Is 3rd Near… Skywatching Planets, Comets and Zodiacal Ligh… Tailgating In Space – What’s On The ISS Menu?… NASA’s Robonaut […]
Hubble Captures Brilliant Star Death in “Rotten Egg” Nebula
The Calabash Nebula, pictured here is a spectacular example of the death of a low-mass star like the sun. To source
Football Pass 'Travels' 564,664 Yards On Space Station | Video
Recommended videos for you NASA Highlights Facilities During Super Bowl… Football Pass ‘Travels’ 564,664 Yards On Spac… Bus-Sized Asteroid Spotted by Slooh During Cl… Footballs Put Through Spacecraft Testing – Fo… Bus-Sized Asteroid’s Earth Fly-By Is 3rd Near… Skywatching Planets, Comets and Zodiacal Ligh… Tailgating In Space – What’s On The ISS Menu?… NASA’s Robonaut […]
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 30 January – 3 February 2017 To source
Yuksek + Thomas Pesquet
A musical video collaboration between Yuksek and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet To source
NASA Spacecraft to Hunt for Earth's Asteroid 'Ghosts'
A robotic spacecraft launched in September to return samples from an asteroid will spend about 10 days this month on a side job hunting for asteroids that may be accompanying Earth as it orbits the sun. So far, scientists know of only one so-called Earth Trojan asteroid, which was discovered in 2010 by NASA’s infrared […]
Real Spaceships and Mushy Love: 'The Space Between Us' Delivers
A new science fiction film, “The Space Between Us ,” hits theaters today (Feb. 3), and it just might be the most spaced-out teenage love story yet. The PG-13 film is clearly geared toward younger audiences, but if you’re fond of Mars, astronauts and cool spaceships, this movie is well worth the watch — even […]
Super Bowl 2017: How to Tailgate Like a NASA Astronaut
When you’re making munchies for Sunday’s Super Bowl party, consider the challenge astronauts face in space: In a zero-gravity environment where much of the food is freeze-dried, how can you make good football-watching food? NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Megan McArthur demonstrate some recipe ideas in a new NASA video , including both main courses […]
Space Football Fail! NASA Gives Pigskin a Beating Ahead of Super Bowl 2017
Can a football stand up to a space telescope’s intense testing regimen? In honor of Sunday’s Super Bowl, NASA put a football through tests similar to those undergone by its next big space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope. Turns out, withstanding those telescope tests is no easy feat. A new NASA video shows the […]
Mixed Reactions in Space Community to Immigration Executive Order
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, left, attending a Jan. 23 meeting with President Donald Trump, says he is seeking input on ways to amend, but not overturn, an executive order restricting travel by people from several nations. WASHINGTON — As scientists and others protest a White House executive order restricting immigration from several nations, many in […]
Musa Bay
Earth observation image of the week: Iran’s Musa Bay on the northern end of the Persian Gulf, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source
New Quantum-Computer Design Could Lead to Practical Hardware
Winfried Hensinger (right) and Bjoern Lekitsch (left) with a quantum computing blueprint model behind a quantum computer prototype. Quantum computers promise the ability to tackle complex problems, such as decoding encrypted communications and developing new pharmaceutical drugs, much faster than conventional machines can. But to date, quantum computers have only been used to tackle specific […]