01 March 2019
Crew Dragon gets ready for first liftoff
...only life-sized object on board is a mannequin called "Ripley," named after Sigourney Weaver's character in the "Alien" films. Ripley is an anthropomorphic test device, so is not there simply for show or for promotional purposes. Instead this "smarty...
25 February 2018
Skylab 3 – The NASA Mission Reports
... guided tour of the station with astronaut Jack Lousma and a ‘digital animation’ of the station. The archive film is fairly low definition in today’s terms but the animation reel provides a clear impression of the station’s interior...
29 March 2018
North American X-15 Owners’ Workshop Manual
... to read any book on the X-15 without thinking of the Right Stuff, whether this means the book and film of the same name or the general impression that the test pilots and astronauts of the early Space...
29 March 2018
Radio Astronomer
... in the US and another in New South Wales, Australia (the Parkes radio telescope which featured in the movie film ‘The Dish’). The author traces Bolton’s story from his birth in Sheffield, UK, via education at Trinity College...
19 July 2018
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: The NASA Mission Reports
... makes this series unique is the ‘exclusive bonus DVD’ bound inside the back cover, which includes film material from suit-up to splashdown, the handshake, inflight press conference, Soyuz landing and so on. Grouped together with...
08 February 2019
Mars MarCO CubeSats go quiet
... a class of mini-spacecraft called CubeSats. The MarCOs - nicknamed EVE and WALL-E, after characters from a Pixar film - served as communications relays during InSight's landing, beaming back data at each stage of its descent to the Martian...
