Astonishing NASA time lapse video from the International Space Station

I’ve been totally blown away by this astonishing time lapse video taken from the International Space Station.

I’ve been totally blown away by this astonishing time lapse video taken from the International Space Station.

We love these videos where people send cameras up to the edge of space using their own DIY craft, but this is the first one we’ve seen where they’ve used a high-end camera.

This is great news space fans: starting from Spring 2012, it’ll be possible to view live, streaming HD video of Earth beamed down from the International Space Station.

To mark the 50 years since Yuri Gagarin was launched into space, a stunning, real time recreation of his pioneering flight has been released on YouTube.

While us Brits were throwing disco moves to the Detroit Spinners “Working My Way Back to You” at number 1 in the poptastic charts, NASA were busy blasting the first space shuttle into the heavens on April 12, 1981.

We’re not entirely sure what the point of this is, but anything involving technology and space is always enough to pique our interest, so here’s a couple of videos showing Google sending some of their Nexus S Android handsets into space.

This stunning photo shows astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson gazing out over the Earth from the International Space Station (ISS).

This week marks the 10th anniversary of an impressive milestone in space exploration as the International Space Station notches up a decade of continuous human habitation.

The European Space Agency‘s Rosetta spacecraft has beamed back some astonishing photos of Lutetia, an asteroid lurking somewhere between Mars and Jupiter.

NASA has released a trailer for their new 3-D game set on the Moon called, “Moonbase Alpha”.

New images from NASA would suggest that the end really is nigh for their Mars Phoenix lander, which appears to have broken apart during the Red Planet’s fierce winter.

NASA has released some truly spectacular photos and videos of the Sun, courtesy of the recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The observatory uses four telescopes looking at the currant bun in different wavelengths to produce some staggering photos and videos, fully living up to the mission’s goal of exploring “solar activity in unprecedented detail.”

We love all things NASA, and this superb piece of footage of the Apollo 11 launch shows the immense power of the Saturn V rocket in delicious slow motion.
This HD clip was shot by Camera E-8 located at the base of the rocket and is running at an incredible 500 frames per second.

NASA and General Motors have announced that they plan to send the Robonaut 2 humanoid robot (R2 to its friends) to the International Space Station this year, with aim of it eventually assisting astronauts on missions.

Virgin Galactic has announced that VSS Enterprise successfully completed its inaugural captive carry flight from Mojave Air and Spaceport.
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