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Real Martians Moment: Location, Location, Location

Title: Real Martians Moment: Location, Location, Location
Runtime: 1:19
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Nikolas Trawny works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Nikolas is working on the Autonomous Descent and Ascent Powered-flight Testbed (ADAPT) and the Guidance for Fuel Optimal Large Diverts (G-FOLD) projects. These are all about giving spacecraft the ability to make precise landings on Mars and other planetary bodies. We use GPS on Earth, but that’s not available on other planets. ADAPT G-FOLD uses terrain relative navigation to determine location – the lander basically captures surface images and compares them to those stored in its memory to guide it to the landing point. The ability to make precise landings will be extremely important to the success of future human missions to Mars.

The Real Martians Moment: Where We’ve Never Been

Title: The Real Martians Moment: Where We’ve Never Been
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: As NASA’s Deputy Administrator, Dr. Dava Newman helps Administrator Charlie Bolden guide the direction of the agency – and she’s excited about where things are headed! NASA is taking the first steps into deep space, on a journey to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. It won’t be an easy task, but believe it or not, even that “challenge” is exciting to her, because of the potential discoveries NASA could make while developing new technologies needed for deep space exploration – from solar electric propulsion, to cut travel time to a fraction of what it would be today, to next generation spacesuits that are more – well, “suited” to provide the mobility astronauts need to explore the surfaces of other planets. NASA understands the importance of investing in technology and innovation to take humans where we’ve never been before.

Title: Sally Ride: Curating Her Life
Runtime: 59:31
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: This episode of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s What's New in Aerospace? series, celebrates the acquisition of the Sally K. Ride Collection of personal possessions and papers. The program focuses on how we seek to preserve the meaning of a person’s life and legacy, particularly that of a woman who is considered an iconic national hero. The What's New in Aerospace? series is presented in collaboration with NASA.

Real Martians Moment: Behind the Scenes with Dr. Jim Green

Title: Real Martians Moment: Behind the Scenes with Dr. Jim Green
Runtime: 2:23
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The film “The Martian” takes the work NASA and others have done exploring Mars and extends it into fiction set in the 2030s, when NASA astronauts are regularly traveling to Mars and living on the surface. NASA has collaborated on this film with 20th Century Fox Entertainment, providing guidance on production design and technical consultants, including Jim Green, director of planetary science.

Title: NASA Astronauts to Students: Aim High!
Runtime: 20:44
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut and Expedition 45 flight engineer Kjell Lindgren fielded questions about life and work on orbit from students at the Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Virginia during an in-flight educational event Oct. 5. Lindgren graduated from Robinson in 1991.

Real Martians Moment: Fitness, “Above” All

Title: Real Martians Moment: Fitness, “Above” All
Runtime: 1:32
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Gail Perusek manages the Advanced Exercise Concepts Development at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. Basically, she’s one of the fitness guru for the astronauts on the International Space Station. Fitness is a high priority for space explorers because it helps the body fight against bone loss and weakening of muscles. Believe it or not, there is an entire gym on the station – NASA just had to be a bit more resourceful than usual in designing that gear. Consider this – gravity on the space station is near zero, so everything floats and weights are feather-like. NASA counters this with a lot of resistance training gear (think BIG strong rubber bands) and devices to help exercising astronauts stay in place. They will have to get even more resourceful once human missions to Mars start – with smaller devices for the long trip.

Water Flowing on Mars Today on This Week @NASA – October 2, 2015

Title: Water Flowing on Mars Today on This Week @NASA – October 2, 2015
Runtime: 4:14
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A major scientific discovery was announced by NASA at a Sept. 28 news conference. From its vantage point high above the Martian surface, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft has found the strongest evidence yet, that under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on Mars. Researchers say an imaging spectrometer on MRO detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where downhill streaks, known as Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL) are seen. In the past, RSL flows have been described as possibly related to liquid water. But the new findings of hydrated minerals is key evidence. Hydrated salts can lower the freezing point of liquid brine – and produce liquid water. Also, Life beyond Earth in the next decade?, “The Martian” screening event, Cargo ship departs space station, New cargo ship delivers to space station, Rare double celestial treat and Espacio a Tierra!

Space Station Commander Discusses Life in Space with CBS’ Internet Outlet

Title: Space Station Commander Discusses Life in Space with CBS’ Internet Outlet
Runtime: 10:12
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 45 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA discussed life and research on the orbital laboratory with CBSN, the new 24-hour CBS News digital streaming network that features live anchored coverage by CBS News correspondents. Kelly is in the second half of a year-long mission on the station with Russian cosmonaut crewmate Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) in which they are gathering comprehensive biomedical data on the long-term effects of weightlessness on the human body that will be valuable in the formulation of a future human mission to Mars.

Real Martians Moment: This Stuff Never Gets Old!

Title: Real Martians Moment: This Stuff Never Gets Old!
Runtime: 1:10
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Corey Harrell works as an Air Space Engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. On a routine basis, he gets to experience, what you might call, “The Big Bang on Earth” and it never gets old! This is also known as testing rocket engines. One engine in particular, the RS-25 will help provide the “bang” that NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) Rocket needs to carry astronauts farther into space than ever before – including to an asteroid in orbit around the moon and eventually to Mars. But the most important part of his job is safety! All of that thrust, power and noise is only fun and useful if the proper engineering and precautions are developed and implemented. Because, quite literally there will be a lot more than fun riding on it when these engines are used for the first human mission to Mars!

Real Martians Moment: Not Your Daddy's Dune Buggy

Title: Real Martians Moment: Not Your Daddy's Dune Buggy
Runtime: 1:27
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: William Allen is a Mechanical Design Engineer working on development of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission. Mars 2020 is the next in a very successful evolution of robotic Mars rovers. In fact, NASA is capitalizing on the success of the Curiosity rover – which is currently on Mars – by using its DNA or architecture to design this new rover. The Mars 2020 rover is expected to have one key upgrade: the ability to gather samples and prepare them for a possible return trip to Earth. This will enable NASA to better plan for safe human missions to the Red Planet in the future.

Real Martians Moment: Getting Ready to Rumble!

Title: Real Martians Moment: Getting Ready to Rumble!
Runtime: 1:07
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Barry Robinson is the Engineering Program Manager at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in charge of restoring and upgrading the B-2 test stand. The B-2 test stand will be used to conduct thunderous tests (lots of smoke and fire!) of the rocket engines, that will power the core stage of the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Robinson and his team are rebuilding or restoring systems on the test stand that have been there since the sixties. Talk about making a “giant leap” – from technology then to now! But that is what it will take to ensure the SLS can be properly tested in preparation to safely launch astronauts to Mars and other deep space destinations.

Russian Cargo Ship Arrives at the International Space Station

Title: Russian Cargo Ship Arrives at the International Space Station
Runtime: 4:00
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Six hours after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the unpiloted ISS Progress 61 cargo craft automatically docked to the International Space Station. After a series of pre-programmed rendezvous burns of its engines, the resupply vehicle linked up to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module to deliver more than three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the six Expedition 45 crew members on the orbital laboratory. The new Progress will remain attached to Zvezda until early December.

Title: So You Want to Be a Martian?
Runtime: 1:31:47
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Real space exploration experts from NASA and cast members of the movie, “The Martian” (about a human space explorer stranded on Mars), talked during an Oct. 1 event at Kennedy Space Center, about NASA’s push to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. The event included an interactive question and answer exchange with students around the country via NASA’s Digital Learning Network.

Russian Cargo Ship Sets Sail for the Space Station

Title: Russian Cargo Ship Sets Sail for the Space Station
Runtime: 4:02
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 61 resupply ship launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 1 on a four-orbit, six-hour journey to deliver more than three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the six Expedition 45 residents aboard the International Space Station. The cargo craft is scheduled to automatically link up to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module where it will remain for just over two months.

Title: Real Martians Moment: An Amazing Analog
Runtime: 3:39
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) represents an analog for simulation of isolation, confinement and remote
conditions of mission exploration scenarios. Studies suitable for this analog may include, but are not limited to behavioral health and performance assessments, communication and autonomy studies, human factors evaluations and exploration medical capabilities assessments and operations.

Title: Jessica Chastain Talks "The Martian"
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Here's how you know that Jessica Chastain's role in The Martian may inspire girls to want to become astronauts: she inspired the astronaut who helped her prepare.

Title: The Martian: Space Q&A
Runtime: 4:26
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Crew members from the International Space Station answer questions from the director and cast of 20th Century Fox's Film "The Martian".

Real Martians Moment: Testing Close to Earth for the Journey to Mars

Title: Real Martians Moment: Testing Close to Earth for the Journey to Mars
Runtime: 0:55
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Van Feng is the manager of the International Space Station Transportation Integration Office, which takes advantage of the station's relatively close proximity to Earth and its microgravity environment to test technologies and other things in preparation for the long journey to Mars. Because the station is really just a stone's throw away (about 250 miles above), things can be tested, brought back for evaluation, tweaked and tested again on a later mission. The human system is also being tested to help prepare astronauts for the arduous round trip to the Red Planet. The goal is safe and reliable systems for deep space travel.

Real Martians Moment: Orion's Thermal Protection System

Title: Real Martians Moment: Orion's Thermal Protection System
Runtime: 1:07
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Jeremy Vander Kam works as the Orion Thermal Protection System (TPS) manager at NASA's Ames Research Center. Orion's TPS or heat shield is the largest ablative heat shield ever made and is vital technology to helping astronauts safely return to Earth after a Mars mission. At Ames, lots of Arc Jet testing is conducted with very small samples of the ablative material to evaluate how they’ll do on reentry into the earth’s atmosphere. The Orion TPS group is excited about playing such a huge role in this next giant leap NASA is taking by sending humans to Mars and, most importantly safely returning them home.

Space Station Crew Bids Sayonara to Japanese Cargo Ship

Title: Space Station Crew Bids Sayonara to Japanese Cargo Ship
Runtime: 5:05
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 45 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) used the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to release the unpiloted Japanese “Kounotori” H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5) Sept. 28, completing its five-week stay at the complex. The HTV delivered five tons of supplies and scientific experiments to the outpost following its launch from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan Aug. 19 and its arrival at the station Aug. 24.

Real Martians Moment: Modular Robotic Vehicle

Title: Real Martians Moment: Modular Robotic Vehicle
Runtime: 2:16
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Modular Robotic Vehicle, or MRV, was developed at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in order to advance technologies that have applications for future vehicles both in space and on Earth.

Space Station Crew Member Talks to Hometown Residents In Japan

Title: Space Station Crew Member Talks to Hometown Residents In Japan
Runtime: 18:22
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 45 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) fielded questions about life and work in orbit from residents and students from his hometown in the Kawakami Village Province of the Nagano Prefecture in Japan during an in-flight linkup Sept. 29. Yui arrived on the station in late July and is scheduled to remain in orbit until late December conducting research and maintenance activities.

Title: Water Flowing on Present-Day Mars
Runtime: 58:19
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: During a news conference at NASA headquarters, agency scientists and officials discussed new findings from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) that provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet. These downhill flows, known as recurring slope lineae (RSL), often have been described as possibly related to liquid water.

Real Martians Moment: The Dirt On Making Oxygen On Mars

Title: Real Martians Moment: The Dirt On Making Oxygen On Mars
Runtime: 1:32
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Diane Linne, is a Senior Research Engineer at NASA’s Glen Research Center, working on ways to make oxygen on Mars – for rocket fuel and for breathing. Believe it or not, one possible way is with dirt! That’s because we now believe there is quite a bit of water in the soil, either as bound water or as hydrated minerals. Wait ‘till you find out how you get water out of dirt – it’s real “MacGyver-like” ingenuity! This type of real NASA science is enabling the Journey to Mars and, most importantly, ensuring our astronauts can get off Mars and back home to Earth.

Real Martians Moment: What’s Up With The Martian Atmosphere?

Title: Real Martians Moment: What’s Up With The Martian Atmosphere?
Runtime: 1:10
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA Planetary Scientist, Jared Espley, is studying data being sent back from Mars by the MAVEN spacecraft, which is currently orbiting the Red Planet. The data, about the processes occurring in the upper atmosphere of Mars, can help answer some very important questions for humans planning to go to Mars – like, where is the water? MAVEN is just one of NASA’s robotic Martian explorers paving the way for human exploration of Mars in the 2030s.

Title: Rare double celestial treat
Runtime: 3:58:19
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The supermoon that occurred on Sunday, Sept. 27 was the first in more than 30 years to happen at the same time as a lunar eclipse. For more than an hour, Earth’s shadow dimmed the “larger-than-life” face of the moon. Wherever weather permitted, the occurrence was visible in the U.S. and much of the world, and NASA television carried a live stream. This rare double celestial treat won’t happen again until 2033.

Next space station crew discusses mission on This Week @NASA – September 25, 2015

Title: Next space station crew discusses mission on This Week @NASA – September 25, 2015
Runtime: 3:15
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A news conference was held on Sept. 24 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center with the next crew launching to the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Tim Kopra. ESA astronaut Timothy Peake, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Kopra will launch to the station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Dec. 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They’re currently scheduled to return to Earth in May 2016. Also, The rich colors of Pluto, Anniversary of MAVEN’s arrival at Mars, Fall IceBridge missions at both poles, New aviation technology and Robotics team on Capitol Hill!

Real Martians Moment: Space Station Science for The Journey to Mars

Title: Real Martians Moment: Space Station Science for The Journey to Mars
Runtime: 1:47
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Katie Presson is the Director of the International Space Station Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Her team is responsible for the planning, product development, training and execution of the science on the space station, which is critical to NASA’s journey to Mars. The research managed by the POIC includes technologies like 3-D printing, which could enable astronauts to make needed hardware, biomedical research to evaluate the effects of space travel on the human body and experiments designed to help space explorers grow food on the long journey to Mars and other deep space destinations.

Real Martians Moment: Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator … What a Drag!

Title: Real Martians Moment: Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator … What a Drag!
Runtime: 1:24
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Matt Moholt is a structures Engineer, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center who develops and tests advanced structures such as the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD). This technology will allow larger spacecraft to enter the Martian atmosphere and more importantly, provide a deployable method to increase drag and slow down to safe landing speeds. HIAD is one of the many technologies the agency is working on to provide safe, reliable space travel to enable humans to explore Mars.

Next Space Station Crew Discusses Mission

Title: Next Space Station Crew Discusses Mission
Runtime: 50:44
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A news conference was held on Sept. 24 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center with the next crew launching to the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Tim Kopra. Kopra, ESA astronaut Timothy Peake and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency will launch to the station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Dec. 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They are currently scheduled to return to Earth in May 2016.

Next Space Station Crew Trains for Mission

Title: Next Space Station Crew Trains for Mission
Runtime: 12:30
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Expedition 46/47, the next crew launching to the International Space Station, conducts pre-flight training activities. The crew, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, ESA astronaut Timothy Peake and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency will launch to the station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Dec. 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They are currently scheduled to return to Earth in May 2016.

Real Martians Moment: Curious about Curiosity

Title: Real Martians Moment: Curious about Curiosity
Runtime: 2:13
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A quick stop by the "Mars Yard" at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to learn more about rover technology.

Title: STEM in 30 – Asteroid Redirect Mission
Runtime: 28:58
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: “Asteroid Redirect Mission” is part of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s STEM in 30 series of live, fast-paced, 30-minute webcasts designed to increase interest and engagement in STEM for students. This episode, which originated from the museum Sept. 23, 2015, highlights the NASA mission being planned to capture a piece of an asteroid for study by NASA scientists. This STEM in 30 is all about asteroids; what we can learn from capturing one, and the technology needed to accomplish such a mission.

Real Martians Moment: Low Density Supersonic Decelerator

Title: Real Martians Moment: Low Density Supersonic Decelerator
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA’s Ian Clark is the Principal Investigator for the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) Project; it’s basically an inflatable airbrake designed to help spacecraft descending through a planet’s atmosphere to slow from breakneck speeds to a safe landing speed. The technology behind LDSD will allow NASA to safely land spacecraft with larger payloads on the surface of Mars, more accurately and at elevations we’ve never before had access to.

Real Martians Moment: No Space for Radiation on Journey to Mars

Title: Real Martians Moment: No Space for Radiation on Journey to Mars
Runtime: 1:09
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Ryan Norman is a physicist at Langley Research Center studying ways to keep astronauts on deep space missions safe from one of the most dangerous elements of space travel: Radiation. Norman and his colleagues in the Space Radiation Group look at how various shielding materials, vehicles and habitats react to radiation and evaluate their potential for keeping space travelers safe on exploration missions to Mars and various other deep space destinations.

Real Martians Moment: Space Station Crew Talks Mars

Title: Real Martians Moment: Space Station Crew Talks Mars
Runtime: 4:50
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Real Martians host Amy Shira Teitel talks to Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren aboard the International Space Station about extended stays in space and how their work puts us one step closer to Mars.

Title: Real Martians Moment: Mars Trek
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA’s Brian Day works on a web-based application capable of providing a virtual Mars experience. “Mars Trek” allows mission planners, scientists and the general public to explore Mars in great detail, as seen thru the eyes of a variety of instruments on a number of spacecraft on and around Mars. It’s the next best thing to being there and is expected to be especially useful in selecting possible landing sites for the Mars 2020 rover.

Real Martians Moment: Space Launch System Trajectory

Title: Real Martians Moment: Space Launch System Trajectory
Runtime: 1:17
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA Engineer Rafael Lugo works on the team that plots and analyzes the course for the Space Launch System, NASA’s “NextGen” rocket. The team keeps an eye on the rocket’s progress throughout various parts of the flight -- lift-off, orbit and splash-down. Ultimately, the goal is to plot future missions to deep space destinations, including Mars.

Halfway point of the one year mission on This Week @NASA – September 18, 2015

Title: Halfway point of the one year mission on This Week @NASA – September 18, 2015
Runtime: 4:49
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Sept. 15 marked the halfway point in the yearlong mission on the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. An event the day before at the National Press Club in Washington included a discussion about the biomedical research conducted on the station, to help formulate future human missions to Mars. Kelly participated from the space station. His identical twin, retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, and NASA astronaut Terry Virts, who served as commander of Expedition 43, participated from the press club. Also, I spy the space station: Live!, Expedition 43 post-flight visit, Key milestone for Orion spacecraft, Global ocean on Enceladus, Connecting space to village and more!

Title: Real Martians Moment: We All Need Water
Runtime: 1:21
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Jennifer Pruitt is a Engineer at Marshall Space Flight Center who works as the Lead Sustaining Engineer for the urine processor.

Title: Real Martians Moment: Need More Power
Runtime: 1:28
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Lee Mason is an engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center who works on power systems for space applications. One of the systems is called a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator. It uses nuclear heat to produce electricity, and is actually already in use on Mars, powering the Mars Curiosity Rover. This is technology that NASA is developing for its human Journey To Mars in the 2030s.

Title: Connecting Space to Village
Runtime: 1:16:17
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: During an event hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and astronauts Terry Virts of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti or ESA, who recently returned from a mission aboard the International Space Station, discussed the importance of the SERVIR project – a joint venture between the agencies that provides state-of-the-art, satellite-based Earth monitoring, imaging and mapping data, geospatial information, and other products to help improve environmental decision-making abilities for officials in developing countries.

Title: Surviving on Mars
Runtime: 49:43
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA’s Digital Learning Network hosts a discussion with author Andy Weir about his book, “The Martian” and the soon to be released motion picture that is based on the book. NASA collaborated on the technical aspects of the film, which are based on real NASA science. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, the story is about an astronaut struggling to survive alone on Mars in the 2030s.

What’s New in Aerospace?: Meet An Astronaut

Title: What’s New in Aerospace?: Meet An Astronaut
Runtime: 54:18
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: On Sept. 17, a presentation from NASA astronaut Terry Virts and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoferetti was featured during a recent episode of The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum series, “Whats New in Aerospace?”. Virts and Cristoforetti returned to Earth in June 2015 after 199 days aboard the International Space Station.

Title: The Real Martians
Runtime: 1:00:18
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: During an event on Sept. 17 at NASA headquarters, Administrator Charlie Bolden and other agency officials discussed how the film “The Martian” uses real science from the exploration of Mars by NASA to make the movie. The discussion also touched on how the film’s story, which is set in the 2030s, when NASA astronauts are regularly traveling to Mars and living on the surface, closely matches NASA’s story and efforts to land humans on Mars by that time. NASA collaborated on this film with 20th Century Fox Entertainment, providing guidance on production design and serving as technical consultants.

'The Martian' Star Matt Damon Discusses NASA's Journey to Mars

Title: 'The Martian' Star Matt Damon Discusses NASA's Journey to Mars
Runtime: 1:27
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

One-Year Space Station Crewmembers Discuss Life in Space with Time Magazine

Title: One-Year Space Station Crewmembers Discuss Life in Space with Time Magazine
Runtime: 12:28
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 45 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) discussed the progress of their year-long mission aboard the complex in an interview Sept. 17 with producer Jonathan Woods of TIME Magazine. TIME is providing comprehensive coverage of the one-year mission in print, video and on social media. Kelly and Kornienko reached the midway point of their year in space on Sept. 15, conducting extensive biomedical research that will be valuable in the formulation of a future human mission to Mars.

Space Station Commander Pays Tribute to a “Hero of America”

Title: Space Station Commander Pays Tribute to a “Hero of America”
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 45 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA paid tribute to a researcher at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama as part of ABC’s “Good Morning, America” “Above and Beyond” series. The son of a preacher, Trent Griffin and his six brothers and sisters were raised to reach for the stars and improve their community with them. Griffin did just that, eventually becoming a NASA physicist at the Marshall Flight Space Center in his hometown, working on space station life support systems and building a new glove box for conducting research in orbit. After coming across five siblings that shared a single bicycle in Huntsville, Griffin bought several used bikes, refurbished them and donated them to children in the community. For his service, Griffin was honored by Kelly and the hosts of the “Good Morning, America” program.

Real Martians Moment: The Journey to Mars Continues

Title: Real Martians Moment: The Journey to Mars Continues
Runtime: 1:29
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The average International Space Station expedition lasts four to six months. Research enabled by the one-year mission will help scientists better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to long-duration spaceflight. This knowledge is critical as NASA looks toward human missions deeper into the solar system, including to and from Mars, which could last 500 days or longer. It also carries potential benefits for humans on Earth, from helping patients recover after long periods of bed rest to improved monitoring for people whose bodies are unable to fight infections.

The International Space Station is a convergence of science, technology and human innovation that enables us to demonstrate new technologies and make research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. It has been continuously occupied since November 2000 and, since then, has been visited by more than 200 people and a variety of international and commercial spacecraft. The space station remains the springboard t...

Real Martians Moment: Next Generation Spacesuits

Title: Real Martians Moment: Next Generation Spacesuits
Runtime: 1:13
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA's "Real Martians" are working right now on new spacesuit designs that will continue our Journey to Mars.

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