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Hi! I'm Amy Shira Teitel! Spaceflight historian, author, and all-around space history nerd! With Vintage Space you'll get weekly videos about spaceflight history, things that I'm curious about, things you guys are curious about, and things no one knew they wanted to know about! I've also got a companion blog: vintagespace.wordpress.com (archive at: popsci.com/blog-network/vintage-space) a podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/vintage-space-podcast-on-radio/id1166391203?mt=2 and a book: bit.ly/astbtcog ... just in case you guys need more space history!
From director Christopher Nolan (Inception) comes the story of ex-pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), who must leave his family and Earth behind to lead an expedition beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars. ///
Imagery of black hole lensing is mathematically and astronomically accurate; astrophysics consultant published two scientific papers advancing the physics of black holes based on research for the imagery in this film.
Film also uses actual testimony from "survivors" and witnesses of the 1930s "Great Dust Bowl" for authenticity.
Salyut 7 (Russian: Салют 7) is a 2017 Russian historical drama film directed by Klim Shipenko. The story is based on the Soyuz T-13 mission in 1985, part of the Soviet Salyut programme; it was the first time in history that a 'dead' space station was docked with, and brought back into service. //
Special effects are extremely well-done, especially weightless scenes.
Opening shots of welding in space by a female cosmonaut are incredible, but accurate to historical fact!
It roved a staggering 45.16 kilometers across the red planet. //
Late Tuesday night, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent their final data uplink to the Opportunity rover on Mars. Over this connection, via the Deep Space Network, the American jazz singer Billie Holiday crooned "I'll Be Seeing You," a song which closes with the lines:
I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you
Opportunity landed on Mars more than 15 Earth years ago, on January 25, 2004. So much time has passed since then. Facebook would not be created until a month later. YouTube would not get its first video upload for more than a year. George W. Bush was still in his first presidency. NASA's Cassini spacecraft had not yet even arrived in the Saturn system.
And yet from that moment on, Opportunity and its sister rover, Spirit, began plugging along the surface of Mars. Originally designed for 90-day lifetimes, the rovers persisted. Spirit lasted until 2010, when its batteries were unable to keep the spacecraft's critical components from freezing.
Current location of Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster and Starman launched by SpaceX on the Falcon Heavy maiden flight
Where is Starman? Track Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in Space!
On February 6, 2018, at 2045 UTC, the first Falcon Heavy was launched into space. It contained a very special payload- a Tesla Roadster with Starman.
But where is this vehicle? The current location is 32,757,279 miles (52,717,747 km, 0.352 AU, 2.93 light minutes) from Earth, moving toward Earth at a speed of 6,998 mi/h (11,263 km/h, 3.13 km/s).
The car is 83,879,929 miles (134,991,702 km, 0.902 AU, 7.50 light minutes) from Mars, moving away from the planet at a speed of 43,648 mi/h (70,244 km/h, 19.51 km/s). //
It has been 2 years, 11 months, 27 days, 23 hours, 49 minutes and 54 seconds since launch.
Goal is "to reach the Moon as fast as possible."
It's creative, beautiful, and mind-blowing.