Tag Archives: Astronauts

“Chella Ride” by Dog Blood

March 13th, 2014 | Space

“Chella Ride” is a new track from the group, Dog Blood, a musical collaboration between Skrillex and Boyz Noize. The animated music video really caught my eye. It’s an incredible production by the folks over at Golden Wolf. They implemented multiple techniques such as 3d, 2d, cel animation and live action footage to create a gritty, hard-hitting animation style.
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Dog Blood - Chella Ride 1

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Dog Blood - Chella Ride 3

celllayersIf you’re not familiar with it, cel animation is an antique method used by studios before the advent of computer-assisted design.
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The technique involves drawing on clear plastic sheets (gets its name from “celluloid” sheets) and then laying these images over a static background drawing.
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Very old school!

-RSB

A New Sleek Spacesuit for Mars

January 8th, 2014 | Space

Mars Space Suit

Mars Space Suit 2

Dava Newman, an Aeronautics researcher at MIT, has been working on a revolutionary new spacesuit for more than decade, and she recently showed off her progress at the TEDWomen session last month. The crux of the design is a new way to deliver pressure that the human body desperately needs to survive the vacuum of space. A traditional astronaut spacesuit creates a rigid pressurized vessel which is bulky and cumbersome. In contrast, Newman’s BioSuit employs semi-rigid ribs traced across the body to provide mechanical counter-pressure while letting the wearer retain a full range of movement. It sounds a bit like a suit that give you a light hug all around your body.

Dava Newman

If we plan to go to Mars and beyond, a new, more maneuverable spacesuit will likely be essential. If you’ve ever seen a recorded spacewalk, you can get a sense of just how difficult it is to do the simplest tasks in space. This new design has the potential to completely change the game.

Unfortunately, Newman hasn’t received NASA funding for the project since 2005. She recently told Boston Magazine that “without funding, we are sort of working on this one student at a time. We have a pretty extensive plan to get to a flight system for the BioSuit, and, if that were in place and funded, in two years of full-on work, we could be ready.”

Hopefully, someone can give her some $$$ to move this project along.

-RSB
[via Business Insider]

“Somewhere” – An Animated Short from Nicolas Ménard

January 7th, 2014 | Space

Somewhere Nicolas Ménard

“Somewhere” is a beautiful new animation from Nicolas Ménard, made as a first year film at the Royal College of Art in London. In the video, the protagonist crash lands his spaceship on an abandoned planet, leaving his severed arm to comfort a lost soul mate.

I really love the teal blue and red color palette of the video. It has a wonderful aesthetic. For more from Nicolas, check out his Vimeo page.

-RSB

National Geographic’s Vintage Photography Tumblr – Found

June 25th, 2013 | Space

National Geographic's Vintage Photography Tumblr - Space Suit testing

Early NASA Testing

National Geographic's Vintage Photography Tumblr - Macao Harbor 1931

Macao Harbor – 1931

Paratrooper Training 1962

Paratrooper Training – 1962

Soviet Children soak in the rays 1977

Soviet Children soak in the rays for Vitamin D – 1977

Ganges-River-India-1923

Ganges River, India – 1923

Unsheathed Rocket - New Mexico 1940

Unsheathed Rocket – New Mexico 1940

Charging Rhinoceros - 1910

Rhinoceros charges the photographer – 1910

racing

Race cars roar around the track at the Iowa State Fair -1938

I recently stumbled across a vintage photography treasure trove — the National Geographic Found Tumblr.  If you are a fan of photography at all, you must take a look at some of the collection gathered at the site.
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It’s a true time capsule.

The Tumblr was launched back in March to celebrate National Geographic’s 125th anniversary, but it feels like the magazine just needed a venue to share some of the fascinating images its collected over the years.
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 National Geographic curator William Bonner is the man in charge of picking the best photos to be shared with the public, and he’s found some gems.
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“Many of these photos have never been published and are rarely seen by the public,” the publication explains on its Tumblr. “We hope to bring new life to these images by sharing them with audiences far and wide. Their beauty has been lost to the outside world for years and many of the images are missing their original date or location.” via The Verge

Wow, I just spent an hour smiling my way through this collection…

-RSB

Black-and-White Vintage NASA Photographs

May 28th, 2013 | Space

Vintage NASA Photographs

NASA was officially created on October 1st, 1958 to “provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth’s atmosphere, and for other purposes.” However, space and aeronautics research was being conducted for several decades before NASA’s inception under the guidance of NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

The images seen here are just a sample of the gorgeous photographs taken during the infancy of the United States Space Program.

Vintage NASA Photographs

Pictured at the top is the Explorer XVII Satellite, a pressurized stainless steel sphere which measured the density, composition, pressure and temperature of Earth’s atmosphere after its launch from Cape Canaveral on April 3, 1963

Pressure Wind Tunnel 1950

This image, taken in 1950, features a 19 foot Pressure Wind Tunnel at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory.

NASA Analog Computing Machine 1949

An Analog Computing Machine in the Fuel Systems Building from 1949… This is an early version of the modern computer.
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Engine on Torque Stand 1944

(April 15, 1944) Engine on Torque Stand at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio, now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field

Apollo 11 Crew In Mexico City

(Sept. 23, 1969) The Apollo 11 astronauts (1st people to walk on the Moon), Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins, wearing sombreros and ponchos, are swarmed by thousands in Mexico City as their motorcade is slowed by the enthusiastic crowd.

NASA Lunar Lander Testing

(June 16, 1969) A Lunar Landing Training Vehicle, piloted by Astronaut Neil Armstrong, goes through a checkout flight at Ellington Air Force Base on June 16, 1969.

NASA Python Engine Installation

(August 25, 1949) An engine mechanic checks instrumentation prior to an investigation of engine operating characteristics and thrust control of a large turboprop Python engine with counter-rotating propellers under high-altitude flight conditions in the 20-foot-dianieter test section of the Altitude Wind Tunnel at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio, now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field.

NASA Pressure Tank 1922

Variable Density Tunnel at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at the shipyards. It was sent to NACA by barge and arrived in June, 1922.
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These photographs capture a golden age of space exploration.
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The United States had a clear goal — beat the Russians the Moon — and in 1969, we succeeded. However, I can’t help but feel our space program has been a bit lost ever since…

Find many more at The NASA Commons.

-RSB

[via Brain Pickings]

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