RAW Elon Musk Interview from Air Warfare Symposium 2020 The Space Archive 2020-03-02 | 2020 Air Warfare Symposium Fireside Chat with Elon Musk, Chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX).AFA's Air Warfare Symposium is a premier event for the aerospace and defense industry geared toward the professional development of Air Force officers, enlisted members, civilians, retirees, and veterans. The symposium harnesses the Air Force's innovative spirit through sessions focussed on innovation and exhibits that highlight the next generation of air, space, and cyber power. The symposium brings together the top leadership of the Air Force as well as leaders in industry, academia, and government officials to discuss the issues and challenges facing our Air Force today and in the future.
1978 Astronaut Candidate Capcom Briefing in Mission Control The Space Archive 2023-08-15 | NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a group of 35 astronauts announced on January 16, 1978. It was the first NASA selection since Group 6 in 1967, and was the largest group to that date. The class was the first to include female and minority astronauts; of the 35 selected, six were women, one of them being Jewish American, three were African American, and one was Asian American. Due to the long delay between the last Apollo lunar mission in 1972 and the first flight of the Space Shuttle in 1981, few astronauts from the older groups remained, and they were outnumbered by the newcomers, who became known as the Thirty-Five New Guys (TFNG).
Space Shuttle Satellite Rescue STS-51A The Space Archive 2023-08-14 | VHS tape captured, upscaled, denoised, color corrected, and audio enhanced by TJ Cooney // The Space Archive for modern viewing.
Sally Ride Astronaut Candidate Film The Space Archive 2023-08-13 | Sally Ride became the first American woman to go into space when she flew on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. She made two shuttle flights and later became a champion for science education and a role model for generations. Ride died of cancer in 2012.
1999 Sea Launch First Flight Live The Space Archive 2023-08-12 | VHS tape captured, upscaled, denoised, color corrected, and audio enhanced by TJ Cooney // The Space Archive for modern viewing.
Atlas III AC-201 Onboard Cameras 2000 The Space Archive 2023-08-11 | VHS tape captured, upscaled, denoised, color corrected, and audio enhanced by TJ Cooney // The Space Archive for modern viewing.An Atlas III space lift vehicle made its debut on May 24, 2000 in a dramatic liftoff powered by the new Russian RD-180 engine. The liftoff occurred at 7:10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, followed by successful separation of the W4 spacecraft and insertion into geosynchronous transfer orbit just under 29 minutes later. The AC-201 flight marks the first Russian rocket engine to be provided by Pratt & Whitney and is the first Russian rocket engine to power an American launch vehicle. A P&W upper stage engine, the RL10 (RL10A-4-1B model), powered the Atlas first single-engine Centaur configuration.
Atlas III AC-201 Go Atlas Go Centaur 2000 The Space Archive 2023-08-10 | VHS tape captured, upscaled, denoised, color corrected, and audio enhanced by TJ Cooney // The Space Archive for modern viewing.An Atlas III space lift vehicle made its debut on May 24, 2000 in a dramatic liftoff powered by the new Russian RD-180 engine. The liftoff occurred at 7:10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, followed by successful separation of the W4 spacecraft and insertion into geosynchronous transfer orbit just under 29 minutes later. The AC-201 flight marks the first Russian rocket engine to be provided by Pratt & Whitney and is the first Russian rocket engine to power an American launch vehicle. A P&W upper stage engine, the RL10 (RL10A-4-1B model), powered the Atlas first single-engine Centaur configuration.
Gordon Cooper 1999 Interview on UFO Sightings in 50s The Space Archive 2023-08-09 | VHS tape captured, upscaled, denoised, color corrected, and audio enhanced by TJ Cooney // The Space Archive for modern viewing.1999 Bay Area UFO ExpoI am not endorsing Gordon Cooper's opinion that these were aliens, but I do believe he saw phenomena he could not explain.
Jim Lovell Interview | 1994 The Space Archive 2023-08-09 | VHS tape captured, upscaled, denoised, color corrected, and audio enhanced by TJ Cooney // The Space Archive for modern viewing.----Before a live audience at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose California, Moira Gunn interviews JIM LOVELL, Commander of Lunar Mission APOLLO 13. They recall the explosion that happened on that frightening journey, the technical reasons behind it and the lessons learned. They also talk about aspects of his earlier space flights, including the dramatic reading of Genesis while rounding the moon on Apollo 8, and his career in naval aviation.
Constellation Crew Exploration Vehicle CEV The Space Archive 2023-03-03 | Upscaled to HD using AI from a primitive 240p file on an old NASA server.
NASA Artemis Landing Simulations | Starship HLS The Space Archive 2023-03-03 | Video simulation (run time 27:31) for real-time Artemis mission starting with the Gateway lunar flyby. Followed by the lander undocking from gateway continuing to the lunar surface with the lunar descent. Artemis Surface:- Day 1: Connecting ridge LTV teleoperated traverse standby site to landing site.- Day 2: IVA Day- Day 3: Connecting Ridge sample collection, LTV Crewed Traverse, Landing site to bear paw, VR video with human in the loop.- Day 4: Connecting Ridge EVA at landing site.- Day 5: Connecting Ridge LTV Crewed traverse landing site to potential habitat site.- Day 6: IVA Day- Day 7: Connecting ridge LTV teleoperated traverse standby site to landing site.Includes distance vs time plot data.Heard through: twitter.com/jenakuns/status/1631175612709875712?s=20Source: ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20230001847
Skylab Zero G Flammability Studies The Space Archive 2022-05-16 | The goal of the study was to obtain photographic data of various combustible materials ignited under controlled conditions in a zero-gravity environment to determine the extent of flame propagation and flashover to adjacent materials, rates of surface and bulk flame propagation under zero-convection, self-extinguishment characteristics, and extinguishment characteristics by vacuum or water spray. The combustion chamber and controls for this experiment are provided by Experiment M512. The combustion chamber is stainless steel with a low emissivity interior. A large opening on one end permits the installation of igniter-fuel assemblies. Chamber connections are provided for venting either to the vacuum of space to exhaust smoke and products of combustion, or venting to the vehicle interior to equalize pressure and to permit opening. Interior work lights are provided as well as means to remove solid ash particles by a vacuum cleaner equipped with a filter trap. Provisions are also made to spray water to evaluate extinguishment by that means. The igniter-fuel assemblies are housed in a separate container which serves both as a protection to the assemblies and as a place to dispose of used assemblies after testing. Data will be recorded on motion picture film to be returned to Earth for analysis. The astronaut will provide voice comments while performing the experiment.
The 1966 Lunar Orbiter Program Explained The Space Archive 2022-04-09 | The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit and photographed both the Moon and Earth.All five missions were successful, and 99 percent of the lunar surface was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters (200 ft) or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential crewed lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low-inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits. Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the entire nearside and nine percent of the far side, and Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the far side coverage and acquired medium (20 m (66 ft)) and high (2 m (6 ft 7 in)) resolution images of 36 preselected areas. All of the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were launched by Atlas-Agena-D launch vehicles.The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm (24 in) narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm (3.1 in) wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film. The axes of the two cameras were coincident so the area imaged in the HR frames were centered within the MR frame areas. The film was moved during exposure to compensate for the spacecraft velocity, which was estimated by an electro-optical sensor. The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966. The first full picture of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 8 August 1967. A second photo of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 10 November 1967.
Artemis I First Rollout of SLS in 4K The Space Archive 2022-03-18 | The first rollout of the Space Launch System (SLS) that will fly the Artemis I mission took place on March 17th, 2022 at Kennedy Space Center. It took roughly 11 hours for the SLS to go on its 4.2-mile journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to pad 39B. This historic footage was captured by NASA personnel and is in the public domain.
Falcon 9 COSMO SkyMed Tracking in Realtime with Repeat Frames Removed The Space Archive 2022-02-06 | SpaceX uploaded this footage in slow motion but they did it by repeating frames, wasn't pure slow motion. After I investigated this further with lots of pixel peeping, it turns out this footage was captured at 4k 60 fps in real-time. I hope you enjoy this, I think it's a higher-quality viewing experience!TJ
NASA Max Launch Abort System Launch (2009) The Space Archive 2021-08-18 | See launch at 01:32The Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) was a proposed alternative to the Maxime Faget-invented "tractor" launch escape system (LES) that was planned for use by NASA for its Orion spacecraft in the event an Ares I malfunction during launch required an immediate abort.Designed by NASA engineers and reported on the website NASASpaceFlight.com on December 6, 2007, the proposed MLAS used four existing Huntsville-built Thiokol solid-rocket motors (built in 1988) placed at 90° intervals within the Orion's bullet-shaped fairing. The fairing was originally designed to protect the Orion spacecraft from aerodynamic stresses during launch, and to provide an interface between the spacecraft's crew module with the LES.The MLAS was designed with the aim of reducing the height of the Orion/Ares I stack while also reducing weight and center-of-gravity issues of a traditional LES. The bullet-shaped MLAS was also expected to provide better aerodynamic qualities during the first two minutes of flight, reducing stresses when the vehicle encounters the "max Q" region of hypersonic flight. The MLAS was also expected to simplify production, as existing hardware would be employed.There are several drawbacks to MLAS. First, the bullet-shaped protective cover would have to be modified and reinforced to allow for the use of the solid-rocket motors, something not needed with the LES, which bolts on top of the LIDS docking ring assembly. Second, the necessity to fire multiple motors (LES uses one motor and multiple nozzles) simultaneously for an abort decreases the theoretical reliability of the launch abort system by introducing more failure modes.Like the existing LES, the MLAS would provide protection to the Orion spacecraft crew during the first 2+1⁄2 minutes of flight, with the MLAS being jettisoned, along with the service module's fairing panels, after the solid-rocket first stage was jettisoned. If implemented, the Orion/Ares I stack would have resembled the towerless Gemini-Titan stack used between 1965–1966, in which ejection seats were used as the primary form of escape for the astronauts who flew on the ten Gemini missions.The MLAS concept was dropped with the transformation of the Crew Exploration Vehicle into the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and the switch of the launch vehicle from Ares I (with its perennial underperformance) to the Delta IV Heavy or Space Launch System.
Space Station EVA POV Camera - Michael Hopkins The Space Archive 2021-06-06 | NASA Flight Engineers Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover, who flew to the space station aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft, conducted two spacewalks, which will be the 233rd and 234th in support of space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades. This footage is from the perspective of Michael Hopkins.This Jan. 27 spacewalk focused on completing cable and antenna rigging for the “Bartolomeo” science payloads platform outside the ESA (European Space Agency) Columbus module. The duo also configured a Ka-band terminal that will enable an independent, high-bandwidth communication link to European ground stations.
RAW Skylab 4 EVA and Experiment Footage The Space Archive 2021-03-12 | Skylab 4 was the third crewed Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station.The mission started on November 16, 1973 with the launch of three astronauts on an Apollo command and service module on a Saturn IB rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida and lasted 84 days, one hour and 16 minutes. A total of 6,051 astronaut-utilization hours were tallied by Skylab 4 astronauts performing scientific experiments in the areas of medical activities, solar observations, Earth resources, observation of the Comet Kohoutek and other experiments.The crewed Skylab missions were officially designated Skylab 2, 3, and 4. Mis-communication about the numbering resulted in the mission emblems reading "Skylab I", "Skylab II", and "Skylab 3" respectively.
Perseverance Landing Every Angle 4k (Mars 2020) The Space Archive 2021-02-22 | Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission by NASA's Mars Exploration Program that includes the rover Perseverance and the small robotic helicopter Ingenuity. Mars 2020 was launched from Earth on an Atlas V launch vehicle at 11:50:00 UTC on 30 July 2020, and confirmation of touch down in Jezero crater on Mars was received at 20:55 UTC on 18 February 2021. As of 22 February 2021, Perseverance has been on Mars for 4 sols (4 total days; 4 days).Perseverance will investigate an astrobiologically relevant ancient environment on Mars and investigate its surface geological processes and history, including the assessment of its past habitability, the possibility of past life on Mars, and the potential for preservation of biosignatures within accessible geological materials. It will cache sample containers along its route for retrieval by a potential future Mars sample-return mission. The Mars 2020 mission was announced by NASA on 4 December 2012 at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Perseverance's design is derived from the rover Curiosity, and it uses many components already fabricated and tested in addition to new scientific instruments and a core drill. The rover also employs 19 cameras and two microphones, allowing for audio recording of the Martian environment.The launch of Mars 2020 was the third of three space missions sent toward Mars during the July 2020 Mars launch window, with missions also launched by the national space agencies of the United Arab Emirates (the Emirates Mars Mission with orbiter Hope on 19 July) and China (the Tianwen-1 mission on 23 July, with an orbiter, lander, and rover)
Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Tracking Camera STS-27 1988 (BEAUTIFUL) The Space Archive 2021-02-20 | STS-27R was the 27th NASA Space Shuttle mission, and the third flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis. Launching on 2 December 1988 on a four-day mission, it was the second shuttle flight after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster of January 1986. STS-27R carried a classified payload for the U.S. Department of Defense, ultimately determined to be a Lacrosse surveillance satellite. The vessel's heat shielding was substantially damaged during lift-off, impacting the right wing, and crew members thought that they would die during reentry.
Atlas Agena Launch Tests 1965 The Space Archive 2021-02-19 | The Atlas-Agena was an American expendable launch system derived from the SM-65 Atlas missile. It was a member of the Atlas family of rockets, and was launched 109 times between 1960 and 1978. It was used to launch the first five Mariner uncrewed probes to the planets Venus and Mars, and the Ranger and Lunar Orbiter uncrewed probes to the Moon. The upper stage was also used as an uncrewed orbital target vehicle for the Gemini crewed spacecraft to practice rendezvous and docking. However, the launch vehicle family was originally developed for the Air Force and most of its launches were classified DoD payloads.The Atlas-Agena was a two-and-a-half-stage rocket, with a stage-and-a-half Atlas missile as the first stage, and an RM-81 Agena second stage. Initially, Atlas D missiles, redesignated as the LV-3, were used as the first stage. These were later replaced by the standardized Atlas SLV-3, and its derivatives, the SLV-3A and B. The final Atlas-Agena launch used an Atlas E/F.
Apollo 1 Launch Pad Complex 34 B-Roll The Space Archive 2021-02-18 | Launch Complex 34 (LC-34) is a launch site on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. LC-34 and its companion LC-37 to the north were used by NASA from 1961 through 1968 to launch Saturn I and IB rockets as part of the Apollo program. It was the site of the Apollo 1 fire, which claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee on January 27, 1967.
Orbiter Enterprise Unveiled OV-101 The Space Archive 2021-02-17 | Space Shuttle Enterprise (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first orbiter of the Space Shuttle system. Rolled out on September 17, 1976, it was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform atmospheric test flights after being launched from a modified Boeing 747. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield. As a result, it was not capable of spaceflight.Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight to become the second space-rated orbiter in service. However, during the construction of Space Shuttle Columbia, details of the final design changed, making it simpler and less costly to build Challenger around a body frame that had been built as a test article. Similarly, Enterprise was considered for refit to replace Challenger after the latter was destroyed, but Endeavour was built from structural spares instead.Enterprise was restored and placed on display in 2003 at the Smithsonian's new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. Following the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet, Discovery replaced Enterprise at the Udvar-Hazy Center, and Enterprise was transferred to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, where it has been on display since July 2012.
Christina Koch in 8k Doing Experiments on the Space Station The Space Archive 2021-02-17 | Christina Koch is an American engineer and NASA astronaut of the class of 2013. She received Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.[3] She also did advanced study while working at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Just before becoming an astronaut, she served with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as Station Chief for American Samoa.On March 14, 2019, Koch launched to the International Space Station as a Flight Engineer on Expedition 59, 60 and 61. On October 18, 2019, she and Jessica Meir were the first women to participate in an all-female spacewalk. On December 28, 2019, Koch broke the record for longest continuous time in space by a woman. She returned from space on February 6, 2020.
The First X-15 Documentary The Space Archive 2021-02-15 | This documentary focused on the X-15 as a near-space vehicle. Early test footage, engineers in mission control room, in-flight footage from B-52 and chase aircraft, on-board the X-15, accidents, audio, maintenance, and pilots.
Ronald Reagans Eulogy at the Challenger Memorial The Space Archive 2021-02-13 | President Reagan's Remarks at the Memorial of the Space Shuttle Challenger Crew at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on January 31, 1986.
Building the Lunar Module The Space Archive 2021-02-12 | A description of the LM’s components for descent and ascent from the moon with period animation. Also featured: thirteen antennae for communication and maneuvering, propulsion systems and variable thrust.
Building the Saturn V Third Stage The Space Archive 2021-02-11 | Assembly and testing of the Saturn third stage. 20,000 gls of liquid oxygen at -273F, and 63,000 gls of liquid hydrogen at -423F. The J-2 engine during a test run at full throttle—200,000lbs static thrust. This is the stage that put the crew into orbit, then reignites and sends the CM, CS, an LM on their way to the moon.
Space Shuttle (STS-5) Crawls to the Pad (1982) The Space Archive 2021-01-30 | STS-5 was the fifth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. It launched on 11 November 1982 and landed five days later on 16 November. STS-5 was the first shuttle mission to deploy communications satellites into orbit, and the first officially "operational" shuttle mission.
LauncherOne First Stage to Space 1/17/21 The Space Archive 2021-01-18 | Footage owned by Virgin Orbit.LauncherOne is launched from its Cosmic Girl Boeing 747-400 carrier, attached to a pylon on the aircraft's left-wing, and released over the ocean. This was it's first successful mission to orbit.Payloads: ELaNa-20 payloads: CACTUS-1, CAPE-3, EXOCUBE-2, MiTEE, PICS 1, PICS 2, PolarCube, Q-PACE, RadFXSat-2, TechEdSat-7
The First Cargo Dragon v2 Resupply Mission The Space Archive 2020-12-07 | CRS-21 was the inaugural launch of the new Cargo Dragon v2 spacecraft.Footage Source: NASA
Judy Resnik Flies in T-38 The Space Archive 2020-10-30 | 1978 archival footage from NASA Johnson including Judy Resnik flying the back seat of a T-38 as part of her astronaut training. The film reel did not capture audio.I removed the dust & scratches, color graded, and upscaled.
Falcon 1 Flight 4 Launch to Orbit 60 fps The Space Archive 2020-09-30 | This SpaceX Falcon 1 footage was interpolated using Depth-Aware video frame Interpolation and upscaled with gigapixel AI.Source: youtube.com/watch?v=dLQ2tZEH6G0
Inside the Cupola Module in 8k The Space Archive 2020-09-25 | The cupola is a small module designed for the observation of operations outside the station such as robotic activities, the approach of vehicles, and spacewalks. Its six side windows and a direct nadir viewing window provide spectacular views of Earth and celestial objects.
Moon Sets Behind Earth from ISS in 8k The Space Archive 2020-09-24 | This footage was captured from the cupola module onboard the International Space Station using a RED Camera.
Apollo 7 Stages Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies The Space Archive 2020-09-23 | Frame interpolations are done by using Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation and 4k upscale done using Gigapixel.This S-IVB was originally captured by the crew of Apollo 7 using a 16mm camera at 6fps.
Space Launch System Solid Rocket Booster Full Duration Test 4k The Space Archive 2020-09-04 | The SLS SRB is a five-segment booster, one more segment than what was on the Space Shuttle. One booster has the equivalent thrust of around 2.5 F-1 engines.Blocks 1 and 1B of the SLS are planned to use two five-segment Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs). These new SRBs are derived from the four-segment Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters, with the addition of a center booster segment, new avionics, and lighter insulation.The five-segment SRBs provide approximately 25% more total impulse than the Shuttle SRB, but will no longer be recovered after use.The stock of SLS boosters is limited by the number of casings left over from the Shuttle program, since they modify flown boosters to add an additional segment. There are enough to last through eight flights of the SLS, but a replacement will be required for further flights. On 2 March 2019, the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) program was announced. This program will use new solid rocket boosters built by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems for further SLS flights. These boosters would be derived from the composite-casing SRBs in development for the OmegA launch vehicle, and are projected to increase Block 1B's payload to TLI by 3–4 tonnes, which is still 1 ton below the payload capacity of Block 2.
John F Kennedy Tours NASAs Launch Operations Center with Wernher von Braun The Space Archive 2020-08-18 | This reel has NO AUDIO.President Kennedy Tour's Cape Canaveral in 1962 at what is now called Kennedy Space Center. (KSC)
Mars 2020 Launch in 4k The Space Archive 2020-07-31 | Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission by NASA's Mars Exploration Program that includes the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter drone. It was launched on 30 July 2020 at 11:50 UTC, and will touch down in Jezero crater on Mars on 18 February 2021.
Apollo 14 Pre-launch Activity The Space Archive 2020-07-24 | Apollo 14 was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands. It was the last of the "H missions," targeted landings with two-day stays on the Moon with two lunar EVAs, or moonwalks.Commander Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell launched on their nine-day mission on Sunday, January 31, 1971, at 4:03:02 p.m. EST. Liftoff was delayed forty minutes and two seconds, due to launch site weather restrictions, the first such delay in the Apollo program.
Neil Armstrong Practices in Vacuum Chamber before Apollo 11 Mission The Space Archive 2020-07-23 | The Space Power Facility (SPF) is a vacuum chamber built by NASA in 1969. It stands 122 feet (37 m) high and 100 feet (30 m) in diameter, enclosing a bullet-shaped space. It is the world's largest thermal vacuum chamber. It was originally commissioned for nuclear-electric power studies under vacuum conditions but was later decommissioned. Recently, it was recommissioned for use in testing spacecraft propulsion systems. Recent uses include testing the airbag landing systems for the Mars Pathfinder and the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, under simulated Mars atmospheric conditions.The facility was designed and constructed to test both nuclear and non-nuclear space hardware in a simulated Low-Earth-Orbiting environment. Although the facility was designed for testing nuclear hardware, only non-nuclear tests have been performed throughout its history. Some of the test programs that have been performed at the facility include high-energy experiments, rocket-fairing separation tests, Mars Lander system tests, deployable Solar Sail tests, and International Space Station hardware tests. The SPF is located at the NASA Glenn Research Center at the Plum Brook site.The facility can sustain a high vacuum (10−6 torr, 130 μPa); simulate solar radiation via a 4 MW quartz heat lamp array, solar spectrum by a 400 kW arc lamp, and cold environments (−320 °F (−195.6 °C)) with a variable geometry cryogenic cold shroud.The facility is available on a full-cost reimbursable basis to the government, universities, and the private sector.In Spring 2013 SpaceX conducted a fairing separation test in the vacuum chamber.
3 Views of SpaceXs DM-2 Youve Probably Never Seen (one from a helicopter!) The Space Archive 2020-07-22 | title says it all#SpaceX #DM2 #LaunchAmerica
How the Apollo Space Suits were Made and Charlie Dukes Reaction The Space Archive 2020-07-02 | A key component of the Apollo program was the development of a space suit to be worn by astronauts during launch and reentry as well as on the lunar surface. The suit needed to provide protection from the vacuum of space and extreme temperatures crew members would face while working outside the vehicle yet be flexible enough to allow adequate mobility especially on the lunar surface. NASA awarded the contract to design, manufacture and test the Apollo Block II space suit, to support both intra- and extravehicular activities, to International Latex Corporation (ILC) in September 1965. Following the Apollo fire in January 1967, NASA managers mandated that the suit incorporate non-flammable materials wherever possible. The first two redesigned suits, designated A-6L, arrived at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in September 1967 and underwent several months of unmanned testing.On January 13, 1968, Astronaut James Irwin donned the redesigned suit for a three-hour altitude verification test in the MSC Crew Systems Division’s 8-foot altitude chamber in Building 7. The suit operated at 100 percent oxygen at a pressure of 3.7 psi, and the chamber simulated an altitude of 240,000 feet. Fellow Astronaut John Bull performed a similar run the next day. Irwin and Bull performed tasks simulating transfer from the Apollo Command Module (CM) to the Lunar Module (LM), and also recharged the Portable Life Support System (PLSS), the backpack for the suit that contains consumables, although they did not actually wear them. The PLSS, required only during space walks, would be certified during vacuum chamber tests later in 1968. These runs certified the suits for human use during vacuum chamber testing of Lunar Test Article-8 (LTA-8) and 2TV-1, ground-based versions of the LM and CM, respectively, carried out later in 1968. The vehicle tests were critical to certify those spacecraft for human space flight. Based on the results of these tests, including recommendations by astronauts, NASA upgraded the suit to the A-7L version to provide more comfort and enable enhanced mobility. This is the version of the suit that astronauts wore during the Apollo 7 through 14 missions, during launch and reentry as well as during space walks. Based on space flight experience, engineers continually enhanced the suits, to improve mobility, visibility and materials durability. Crews on Apollo 15 through 17 wore a more advanced version of the suit, designated A-7LB. In 1971, Irwin himself would wear an A-7LB when he became the eighth person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission.
STS 47 Launch Flight and Landing Recap The Space Archive 2020-07-01 | pacelab-J -- a joint NASA and National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) mission utilizing a manned Spacelab module -- conducted microgravity investigations in materials and life sciences. The international crew, consisting of the first Japanese astronaut to fly aboard the shuttle, the first African-American woman to fly in space and the first married couple to fly on the same space mission, was divided into red and blue teams for around the clock operations. Spacelab-J included 24 materials science and 20 life sciences experiments, of which 35 were sponsored by NASDA, 7 by NASA and two collaborative efforts.Materials science investigations covered such fields as biotechnology, electronic materials, fluid dynamics and transport phenomena, glasses and ceramics, metals and alloys, and acceleration measurements. Life sciences included experiments on human health, cell separation and biology, developmental biology, animal and human physiology and behavior, space radiation, and biological rhythms. Test subjects included the crew, Japanese koi fish (carp), cultured animal and plant cells, chicken embryos, fruit flies, fungi and plant seeds, and frogs and frog eggs.
Gene Kranz Announces CO2 Adapter to Save Apollo 13 Crew The Space Archive 2020-04-13 | In the aftermath of the oxygen tank explosion in the Apollo 13 Service Module, the Command Module was largely powered down to preserve it for re-entry and the LM served as a lifeboat. Among other things, the LM Environmmental Control System would have to keep carbon dioxide levels at acceptable levels for the remainder of the mission. At the time of the explosion there were two lithium hydroxide (LiOH) canisters - a primary and a secondary - in the LM ECS, which, together, had been designed to handle the carbon dioxide output of two people for about 30 hours. What was needed was a means of dealing with the output of three people for at least four days. Additional LM canisters were hopelessly out of reach in the MESA. There were plenty of CM ECS canisters, but they wouldn't fit in LM ECS. Houston went to work devising a means of drawing cabin air through a CM canister into the ECS using only materials available in the two cabins.
SpaceX Crew Dragon Emergency Escape in 4k (using AI) The Space Archive 2020-04-09 | SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch Crew Dragon, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the spacecraft, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA and SpaceX are currently targeting no earlier than mid-to-late May for launch.This second demonstration mission of the Crew Dragon spacecraft is another end-to-end flight test of SpaceX’s human spaceflight system, which will include launch, docking, splashdown and recovery operations. It is the final flight test of the system before SpaceX is certified to carry out operational crew flights to and from the space station for NASA.
SpaceX Demo-2 Crew do EVA Training The Space Archive 2020-03-25 | Crew Dragon Demo-2 (officially known as SpaceX Demo-2 and Crew Demo-2) will be the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Currently scheduled for 20 May 2020, DM-2 will be the first crewed orbital spaceflight launched from US soil since STS-135 in 2011, which DM-2's commander, Douglas Hurley, also flew.
Apollo 13 TV Transmission View of Moon and Crew The Space Archive 2020-03-09 | The Apollo 13 Crew takes a look at the moon from their command module during their trans-lunar transit. This is before the explosion in their service module.-----Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) failed two days into the mission. The crew instead looped around the Moon, and returned safely to Earth on April 17. The mission was commanded by Jim Lovell with Jack Swigert as command module (CM) pilot and Fred Haise as lunar module (LM) pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for Ken Mattingly, who was grounded after exposure to rubella.Accidental ignition of damaged wire insulation inside the oxygen tank as it was being routinely stirred caused an explosion that vented the tank's contents. Without oxygen, needed both for breathing and for generating electric power, the SM's propulsion and life support systems could not operate. The CM's systems had to be shut down to conserve its remaining resources for reentry, forcing the crew to transfer to the LM as a lifeboat. With the lunar landing canceled, mission controllers worked to bring the crew home alive.Although the LM was designed to support two men on the lunar surface for two days, Mission Control in Houston improvised new procedures so it could support three men for four days. The crew experienced great hardship caused by limited power, a chilly and wet cabin and a shortage of potable water. There was a critical need to adapt the CM's cartridges for the carbon dioxide removal system to work in the LM; the crew and mission controllers were successful in improvising a solution. The astronauts' peril briefly renewed interest in the Apollo program; tens of millions watched the splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean by television.An investigative review board found fault with preflight testing of the oxygen tank and the fact that Teflon was placed inside it. The board recommended changes, including minimizing the use of potentially combustible items inside the tank; this was done for Apollo 14. The story of Apollo 13 has been dramatized several times, most notably in the 1995 film Apollo 13.
Apollo 13 TV Transmission S-IVB Separation The Space Archive 2020-03-07 | The Apollo 13 crew separate from the Saturn rocket's third stage (S-IVB) after docking with the lunar module.----Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) failed two days into the mission. The crew instead looped around the Moon, and returned safely to Earth on April 17. The mission was commanded by Jim Lovell with Jack Swigert as command module (CM) pilot and Fred Haise as lunar module (LM) pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for Ken Mattingly, who was grounded after exposure to rubella.Accidental ignition of damaged wire insulation inside the oxygen tank as it was being routinely stirred caused an explosion that vented the tank's contents. Without oxygen, needed both for breathing and for generating electric power, the SM's propulsion and life support systems could not operate. The CM's systems had to be shut down to conserve its remaining resources for reentry, forcing the crew to transfer to the LM as a lifeboat. With the lunar landing canceled, mission controllers worked to bring the crew home alive.Although the LM was designed to support two men on the lunar surface for two days, Mission Control in Houston improvised new procedures so it could support three men for four days. The crew experienced great hardship caused by limited power, a chilly and wet cabin and a shortage of potable water. There was a critical need to adapt the CM's cartridges for the carbon dioxide removal system to work in the LM; the crew and mission controllers were successful in improvising a solution. The astronauts' peril briefly renewed interest in the Apollo program; tens of millions watched the splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean by television.An investigative review board found fault with preflight testing of the oxygen tank and the fact that Teflon was placed inside it. The board recommended changes, including minimizing the use of potentially combustible items inside the tank; this was done for Apollo 14. The story of Apollo 13 has been dramatized several times, most notably in the 1995 film Apollo 13.
Apollo 13 TV Transmission LM Tour The Space Archive 2020-03-06 | The crew of Apollo 13 give a tour of their Lunar Module, Aquarius. Little do they know that this will become the lifeboat that saves their lives in a few short hours.-----Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) failed two days into the mission. The crew instead looped around the Moon, and returned safely to Earth on April 17. The mission was commanded by Jim Lovell with Jack Swigert as command module (CM) pilot and Fred Haise as lunar module (LM) pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for Ken Mattingly, who was grounded after exposure to rubella.Accidental ignition of damaged wire insulation inside the oxygen tank as it was being routinely stirred caused an explosion that vented the tank's contents. Without oxygen, needed both for breathing and for generating electric power, the SM's propulsion and life support systems could not operate. The CM's systems had to be shut down to conserve its remaining resources for reentry, forcing the crew to transfer to the LM as a lifeboat. With the lunar landing canceled, mission controllers worked to bring the crew home alive.Although the LM was designed to support two men on the lunar surface for two days, Mission Control in Houston improvised new procedures so it could support three men for four days. The crew experienced great hardship caused by limited power, a chilly and wet cabin and a shortage of potable water. There was a critical need to adapt the CM's cartridges for the carbon dioxide removal system to work in the LM; the crew and mission controllers were successful in improvising a solution. The astronauts' peril briefly renewed interest in the Apollo program; tens of millions watched the splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean by television.An investigative review board found fault with preflight testing of the oxygen tank and the fact that Teflon was placed inside it. The board recommended changes, including minimizing the use of potentially combustible items inside the tank; this was done for Apollo 14. The story of Apollo 13 has been dramatized several times, most notably in the 1995 film Apollo 13.
