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Send Your Name to Mars for FREE on NASA's next flight to the Red Planet.
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Spacelab was a European orbital laboratory that containd an observations platform composed of cylindrical pressurized modules and U-shaped unpressurized pallets which remained in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay during flight. Altogether 22 major Spacelab missions between 1983 and 1998 with where carried out with a total of 73 separate investigations in astronomy and physics, atmospheric physics, Earth observations, life sciences, materials sciences, space plasma physics and technology. This was the first time six persons were carried into space on a single vehicle. This documentary film covers the early development and preparation for the first Spacelab mission.
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STS-134 Flightday 15, 30 May 2011: Space Shuttle Endeavour's fly's around the International Space Station as the orbiter leaves the station and begins its trajectory back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. STS-134 was the penultimate mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the 25th and last spaceflight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station. Mark Kelly served as the mission commander.
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The Space God Elon Musk is back on the Joe rogan show with some very interesting insights!
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New Video series about the Space Shuttle coming soon.
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The final planet in Holst’s suite and in our solar system is Neptune, where temperatures hit 350 degrees below zero [Fahrenheit] and icy winds blow at 900 miles an hour, more than five times the speed of a Category 5 hurricane. Its atmosphere swirls with intense storms, including Great Dark Spots, akin to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. “The Mystic” was mysterious indeed when Holst penned the piece. Neptune was only found in 1846, so in that sense, it is the “newest” of our solar system’s worlds.
Neptune is 30 times as far away from the sun as Earth. At that distance, it takes 165 years for Neptune to journey around our solar system’s central star. Neptune has just barely completed one full circuit since its discovery. We began our journey this evening with “La Mer” and the waters of Earth. Now we conclude with Neptune, the Roman god of the sea. Holst wrote one of classical music’s first fadeaways to end his journey through the planets. And how fitting an ending it is: As the sun’s influence fades beyond Neptune, to become just another star in the sky, we are left wondering what magnificence awaits us as we continue to reach out and explore the open seas of space beyond.
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Uranus is Holst’s magician. True to form, this hazy ice giant has more than one magic trick up its sleeves. Uranus is so dim in Earth’s night sky that it hid more or less in plain sight for thousands of years. Not until 1781 did we identify it as a planet. Even then, Uranus still had tricks to share. Rings were discovered by chance almost 200 years later. These tenuous “now you see them, now you don’t” bands are so faint as to be all but invisible to most telescopes. The magic doesn’t end there: Every planet in the solar system more or less spins like a top in circling the sun – but Uranus rolls sideways, choosing instead to somersault. Like any great magic act, Uranus is both bombastic and playful in Holst’s score.
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In ancient times, long before the advent of telescopes, Saturn was the most distant planet known. In the Roman pantheon, Saturn was a god of time, which connects well to Holst’s movement, “The Bringer of Old Age.” In truth, Saturn is the same age as every other planet in our solar system, 4.5 billion years or so. Its most striking feature by far is its ring system. From a distance they appear solid, but they are in reality a densely packed collection of tiny ice crystals and rocks. Some of Saturn’s many moons happen to orbit through this debris disk and corral the mess, which is partly why the rings look striped. Among Saturn’s 60 or so moons is a tiny, icy body called Enceladus, like a small version of Jupiter’s Europa. And apart from this potential life-harboring spot, Saturn also fosters the only moon in our solar system with an atmosphere: Titan. Larger than the planet Mercury, Titan is the only place in the solar system (other than Earth) with liquid oceans on its surface. But on Titan, they’re not of water, but methane and ethane. Conditions for life to form on either moon may be harsh, but perhaps not impossible. Holst’s Saturn is peaceful at times, and ominous, almost chaotic, at others. This diversity of sound is likewise reflected in the diversity of fascinating exploration possibilities Saturn offers.
The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the solar system and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst. This is the 2nd movement, “Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jolity”, from orchestral suite “The Planets” (Op. 32) composed by Gustav Holst in 1914-1916.
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The gas giant Jupiter is our solar system’s most massive world (more than twice all the others put together). Its Great Red Spot is a swirling maelstrom – bigger than Earth – that has raged on for at least 150 years, and perhaps much, much longer. Jupiter is “the bringer of jollity” in Holst’s envisioning. This heavyweight world brings scientists so much joy in part because it has one of the best candidate spots in our solar system to search for life. The search for life elsewhere in the universe (life as we know it, anyway) is also the search for water. Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa may contain a liquid ocean beneath its icy surface. Jupiter itself may not be so jolly a place to visit, but perhaps nearby teems a refuge of aquatic life? The joy and excitement of new discovery is expertly captured in Holst’s tribute. If we do someday find life in Jupiter’s neighborhood, “The Bringer of Jollity” would make for an excellent discovery fanfare.
The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the solar system and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst. This is the 4th movement, “Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jolity”, from orchestral suite “The Planets” (Op. 32) composed by Gustav Holst in 1914-1916. performed by the U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band in a transcription by Merlin Patterson.
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Appropriately, Mercury is the “Winged Messenger.” The smallest planet in our solar system zips around the Sun closer than any other. Mercury completes a full circuit in its orbital relay race every 88 days, at varying speeds around 100,000 miles an hour. At first glance, this tiny rock may look rather dull, but as we’ve learned, Mercury has a lot to say. Despite how close it is to the Sun, there are places on Mercury that never see sunlight. We know now there is water ice hiding in these shadows. One of Mercury’s more important messages to science was that this Albert Einstein guy might be worth listening to. Einstein’s theory of relativity explained a wobble in Mercury’s orbit that puzzled astronomers for 50 years. Holst’s composition for Mercury features a fittingly brisk pace, with punctuated, almost Morse Code-like conversations among the instruments.
The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the solar system and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst. This is Movement III of "The Planets" by Gustav Holst, Mercury, the Winged Messenger as performed in 1998, performed by the U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band in a transcription by Merlin Patterson.
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Space: the final frontier. Our continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.