All Posts Tagged With: "NASA"
Space Shuttle Launch Experience Video
While in Florida, John Chow too a tour of NASA and the new Space Shuttle Launch Experience that’s designed to simulate are real shuttle launch. John managed to defy NASA security and sneak a cam inside to get some pretty cool video.
Wickedly Cool Shuttle Launch Footage
Some dude named Seth Gadsden was apparently in Florida back in March during an early morning shuttle launch. Not sure if that was the reason for being in the sunshine state but regardless he managed to grab the quite wickedly awesome video of the launch.
Shuttle Launch: Cape Canaveral, March 11 from Seth Gadsden on Vimeo.
via: UniqueDaily
NASA Lunar Prototypes
NASA’s been talking up a return trip to the moon lately. Apollo astronauts have long said the mobile lunar buggies were the best thing NASA ever sent up with them. If we do manage to make it back to that gray piece of rock, today’s astronauts will have some pretty cool new lunar toys to play with. Check them out.
TechEBlog via Boston.com
LEGO Kennedy Space Center
Here’s the mother of all LEGO creations. Using 750,000 bricks, 2500 hours and taking up 1,506 square feet someone created a replica of the Kennedy Space Center. It’s complete with a 6.13ft tall Space Shuttle, 9ft long Saturn 1B rocket and the Vehicle Assembly Building. One word. AWESOME! Check out the video at Gizmodo.
A Google logo on the moon.
Given a bit more time and that just might become a reality. At the very least they can super-impose the big G logo as you take a virtual tour of the moon. In a further attempt to bring services to the end-user desktop, Google setup an arrangement with NASA providing for additional imagery and information related to weather forecasting, three-dimensional maps of the moon and Mars, and real-time tracking of the space shuttle and International Space Station.
“This agreement between NASA and Google will soon allow every American to experience a virtual flight over the surface of the moon or through the canyons of Mars,” NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a statement.
