Oceans of the Solar System

Today on Far Future Horizons we present will be exploring the Alien Seas and Oceans of our Solar System with today’s feature videos.

The Invisible Universe Revealed

Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of the award-winning PBS science documentary series NOVA about the amazing discoveries of our invisible universe made by the Hubble Space Telescope.

When We Left Earth Parts 1 and 2 - Ordinary Supermen and Friends and Rivals

 

On July 29^th , 1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. And thus, America joined the great space race.

Today on Far Future Horizons we are celebrating the fifty-forth anniversary of John Glenn's orbital flight on February 20^th, 1962 by presenting the first and second episodes of the  Discovery Channel's  acclaimed TV series “When We Left Earth – Ordinary Supermen & Friends and Rivals” which chronicles the start of the Space Race and the flights of the Mercury Program.

Beginning with Alan Shepard's suborbital flight as the American’s first astronaut aboard Freedom 7, and John Glenn's historic flight aboard Friendship 7 when he became the first American to orbit the Earth.

The Mercury Seven

Still frame of Alan Shepard taken by a motion picture camera aboard Freedom 7

Fixing Hubble's Vision

Astronauts work on Hubble in Endeavour's payload bay; Story Musgrave, anchored on the end of the Canadarm, prepares to be elevated to the top of the HST to install protective covers on the magnetometers.

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the BBC Horizon documentary “Hubble Vision”.

Astronauts included in the STS-61 crew portrait include (standing in rear left to right) Richard O. Covey, commander; and mission specialists Jeffrey A. Hoffman, and Thomas D. Akers. Seated left to right are Kenneth D. Bowersox, pilot; Kathryn C. Thornton, mission specialist; F. Story Musgrave, payload commander; and Claude Nicollier, mission specialist. Launched aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor on December 2, 1993 at 4:27:00 am (EST), the STS-61 mission was the first Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission, and the last mission of 1993.

Hubble was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24^th, 1990.

When the telescope achieved first light, it was immediately obvious that there was a serious problem with the optics and that the primary mirror had been ground to the wrong shape. The design of the Hubble Space telescope had always incorporated servicing missions, and astronomers immediately began to seek potential solutions to the problem that could be applied at the first servicing mission, scheduled for 1993.

ORION - NASA's Deep Space Exploration Spacecraft

Today on Far Future Horizons we present a video feature about NASA’s next generation crewed space vehicle the ORION - NASA's Deep Space Exploration Spacecraft.

Liftoff! NASA successfully launches Orion on second try

We at Far Future Horizons congratulate NASA for the successful launch of Orion.

NASA Will Attempt To Launch Orion Again Today

NASA’s Orion Launch Scrubbed yesterday due to too much wind, a boat, and valve problems which beset the first test of the most ambitious spacecraft since Apollo.

The next attempt to launch Orion is set for today Friday December 5^th, 2014 at 7:05 A.M. (13:05 CET).

Orion Exploration Flight Test 1

Today on Far Future Horizons we wish Good Luck and Godspeed to NASA as it tests its new Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV).