First spacewalk in HD

Over 100 hours of NASA’s glory days (hopefully there are more to come*) have been digitally remastered for a Discovery Channel documentary. “When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions” will air this summer, but we already have a sneak peak at how amazing it’s going to be. Here is America’s first spacewalk from Gemini 4 [...]

HD Earth-rise from Moon

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency released pictures and video of an Earth-rise captured from its HD lunar explorer “KAGUYA.” The pictures are below and the video is here.

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First HD view of the Moon

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency released the first HDTV view of the Moon this week. You can watch the movie here.

Space Gurus Snub Lunar Base, Set Sights on Asteroids, Mars

If we don’t put a man on Mars in my lifetime, I’m going to be very disappointed.
We put many men on the moon almost 40 years ago. In the meantime, instead of attempting to do something extraordinary, we’ve pissed our money away on such hits as the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle program. Neither [...]