NASA facilities are spread through out the United States; and provide guidance, leadership, and work for the Space Agency.
To you and yours, the NASA family sends our warmest wishes for a wonderful holiday season.

NASA facilities are spread through out the United States; and provide guidance, leadership, and work for the Space Agency.
To you and yours, the NASA family sends our warmest wishes for a wonderful holiday season.

NASA Scientist Tiffany Kataria drops in on Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt and Michael Sheen for a fun, not so serious chat about science fiction, other worlds and time travel???

Science Max – Phil starts with a Popsicle stick catapult. Then he uses everything he knows about elastic energy to build a full-size catapult that hurls pumpkins! Plus, a maxed out paddle wheel boat and a historical re-enactment (sort of) of how catapults were used in medieval days.
Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered “What would this be like if it were HUGE?” Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you’ve done at home.
In season 1, join Phil as he builds rocket cars, uses elastic energy to hurl pumpkins on a giant catapult, builds a bridge out of pasta that can hold a human, find magnets powerful enough to float Phil off the ground, and many more experiments taken to the MAX!

The FUNnel Vision Fam is playing with an awesome new robot friend, COZMO! HE IS AWESOME, See for yourself and watch the video! 🙂 SPONSORED BY ANKI Learn more about Cozmo here: http://go.anki.com/funnelvision-yt
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Wonder what’s in store next for kids robot toys that learn. Learning Toys are popular right now as kids are becoming smarter and smarter thanks to the numerous ipad apps and educational learning toys currently available. Artificial Intelligence is the future, Robots will one day be a huge part of our life. Does it all start with this toy, Cosmo? Maybe so.
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ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet gives a tour of the International Space Station’s kitchen and the special food will share with his crewmates in space.
Astronauts get so-called “bonus food” for special occasions such as Christmas and New Year’s dinner. Thomas’ bonus food was prepared by ESA and France’s space agency CNES together with French chefs Thierry Marx and Alain Ducasse.
Connect with Thomas Pesquet on social media:
http://thomaspesquet.esa.int

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet shares his Christmas plans and wishes on the International Space Station.
Flying 400 km above Earth, astronauts on the International Space Station have a unique experience and vision of our planet that they share in this video. Thomas recounts his memories growing up in Normany, France, and explains what Christmas means to him.
His end-of-year meal was prepared by French chefs – canned of course, there is no way to cook food on the Space Station and includes ox-tongue from his home-region prepared by Thierry Marx, chicken-supreme and for desert, apple gingerbread.
Connect with Thomas Pesquet on social media:
http://thomaspesquet.esa.int
This message is also available in English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jncXk___ryE

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet shares his Christmas plans and wishes on the International Space Station with Expedition 50 crewmates Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson.
Flying 400 km above Earth, astronauts on the International Space Station have a unique experience and vision of our planet that they share in this video. Thomas recounts his memories growing up in Normany, France, and explains what Christmas means to him.
His end-of-year meal was prepared by French chefs – canned of course, there is no way to cook food on the Space Station and includes ox-tongue from his home-region prepared by Thierry Marx, chicken-supreme and for desert, apple gingerbread.
Connect with Thomas Pesquet on social media:
http://thomaspesquet.esa.int

2016 marked record-breaking progress in NASA’s exploration objectives. The agency advanced the capabilities needed to travel farther into the solar system while increasing observations of our home and the universe, learning more about how to continuously live and work in space and, of course, inspiring the next generation of leaders to take up our Journey to Mars and make their own discoveries.

NASA researchers are presenting new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union this week in San Francisco. With about 24,000 attendees, the meeting is the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists in the world. The full range of NASA’s innovative science and technology is on display. Key findings include new evidence from NASA’s Curiosity rover of how ancient lakes and wet underground environments on Mars changed billions of years ago affecting their favorability for microbial life. A new Earth-observing satellite data set and imagery was released providing a near-real-time view of every large glacier and ice sheet on Earth. The meeting continues through Dec. 16.

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet gives a guided tour of the International Space Station’s crew quarters – the bedrooms and only private areas for the six astronauts in the outpost.
After a day’s work running experiments and maintaining the weightless research centre astronauts can retreat to their private quarters that is no larger than a changing room. In this small space they can store personal items, use a laptop for internet and float to sleep in their sleeping bag.
Find out more about the Proxima mission: http://www.esa.int/proxima
Connect with Thomas at http://thomaspesquet.esa.int

Phil builds a balloon powered car in the lab. Then he tries to make one big enough to ride. Can the Science Max build team find a big enough balloon? Or are balloons the way to go? Plus, Newton’s Cradle out of bowling balls, how Guinea Pigs got their name and Newton’s 3rd Law.
In season 1, join Phil as he builds rocket cars, uses elastic energy to hurl pumpkins on a giant catapult, builds a bridge out of pasta that can hold a human, find magnets powerful enough to float Phil off the ground, and many more experiments taken to the MAX
Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered “What would this be like if it were HUGE?” Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you’ve done at home.

2016 has been an eventful and promising year for ESA’s ExoMars mission. After successfully placing the Trace Gas Orbiter into Mars’ orbit on 19 October, the orbiter has sent back its first images, tested its instruments and performed in orbit calibration measurements and health checks.
The Schiaparelli lander collected almost all of its expected data before its unexpected crash landing on the Martian surface. Crucial lessons will be learnt from this for the recently approved 2020 ExoMars mission, which will put Europe’s first rover on Mars.
The precise cause of the lander loss is still being investigated but preliminary technical investigations have found that the atmospheric entry and slowing down in the early phases went exactly as planned.
In all, since its launch in March 2016, the ExoMars mission has been a mixture of successes and one unexpected set back. Looking ahead, the Trace Gas Orbiter will start aerobraking in March 2017 to gradually slow down over the following months. By the end of 2017, the orbiter will be in a lower, near circular orbit of 400 kms and ExoMars’ primary science mission can begin.
More about ExoMars:
http://www.esa.int/exomars

Members of the media were invited to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to participate in a news conference Dec. 12 with cast members from the 20th Century Fox motion picture Hidden Figures.
The film is based on the book of the same title, by Margot Lee Shetterly, and chronicles the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson — African-American women working at NASA as “human computers,” who were critical to the success of John Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission in 1962.

Lucerne offered a scenic backdrop to ESA’s space summit – the crucial ministerial meeting held every two years when the agency’s 22 member states spend 48 hours debating one subject – Europe’s future in space.
After posing for the family photo, the leaders of the European space sector closed the doors to begin debating the big questions – ExoMars and the International Space Station.
This video is available in the following languages:
Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=556Cu6ltE94
Portuguese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcEywRwoTw
Greek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRznfZWQVxs
Italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2udiXhc-oo
Hungarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF-ED0NzEh8
German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdzNFyYTnoU
French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnLPv-sHicY

Europas Raumfahrtminister haben sich für ein Gipfeltreffen in Luzern getroffen, um über die Zukunft einiger der wichtigsten Missionen wie die Internationale Raumstation (ISS) und die ExoMars-Mission zu sprechen.
Luzern bot eine malerische Kulisse für den Weltraumgipfel der ESA – das wichtige Ministertreffen, das alle zwei Jahre stattfindet, und die 22-EU-Mitgliedstaaten, die 48 Stunden über ein Thema reden: Europas Zukunft im Weltraum.
Nach dem Gruppenfoto wurden die Türen geschlossen, um über die großen Themen zu diskutieren: die Zukunft der ExoMars-Mission und der ISS.

A luzerni csúcstalálkozón az Európai Űrügynökség (ESA) 22 tagállamának miniszterei tárgyaltak 48 órán át arról, milyen legyen Európa jövője az űrben.
A családi fotó után nagy kérdéseket kezdtek megvitatni – az ExoMarsot és a Nemzetközi Űrállomást.

This movie, based on images taken by ESA’s Mars Express, highlights Mawrth Vallis, a 600 km-long, 2 km-deep outflow channel at the boundary of the southern highlands and the northern lowlands of Mars.
The movie begins at the mouth of the channel in Chryse Planitia, and heads towards the apparent source region in the Arabia Terra highlands.
The 4 billion year-old plateau is characterised by many impact craters, indicative of its great age.
Zooming in, patches of light and dark deposits are revealed. The light-toned layered sediments are among the largest outcrops of clay minerals – phyllosilicates – on Mars. Their presence indicates the presence of liquid water in the past.
The variety of water-bearing minerals and the possibility that they might contain a record of an ancient, habitable environment on Mars led scientists to propose Mawrth Vallis as a candidate landing site for the ExoMars 2020 mission.
The animation is based on a colour mosaic and digital terrain model derived from data collected by the high-resolution stereo camera on Mars Express and released earlier this year.
More info:
http://exploration.esa.int/mars/54721-mawrth-vallis/
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/09/Mawrth_Vallis_martian_mosaic
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Ministers from ESA’s 22 member states plus Canada and Slovenia have agreed a €10.3 billion package ofspace programme funding. At the two-day council meeting at ministerial level in Lucerne, Switzerland, subscriptions were agreed for a future Marsrovermission,continued funding of missions tothe International Space Station, new elements of ESA’s launcher programme as well as developments in telecommunications, Earth observation and technology.
More about the ESA Ministerial Council 2016:
http://www.esa.int/cm16

Phil builds a balloon powered car in the lab. Then he tries to make one big enough to ride. Can the Science Max build team find a big enough balloon? Or are balloons the way to go? Plus, Newton’s Cradle out of bowling balls, how Guinea Pigs got their name and Newton’s 3rd Law.
In season 1, join Phil as he builds rocket cars, uses elastic energy to hurl pumpkins on a giant catapult, builds a bridge out of pasta that can hold a human, find magnets powerful enough to float Phil off the ground, and many more experiments taken to the MAX
Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered “What would this be like if it were HUGE?” Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you’ve done at home.

Hear from Head of School: Engineering, Associate Professor Brenton Dansie and final year University of South Australia Engineering students as they showcase their student projects.
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NASA celebrates the lives and careers of the Langley West Computing Unit who helped America win the space race of the 1950s and 60s. The lives of these unsung heroines is captured in the book and film “Hidden Figures”.

NASA kicked off a yearlong centennial celebration for its Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, with events Dec. 1 highlighting the critical work done by the African American women of Langley’s West Computing Unit, a story told in the book and upcoming movie “Hidden Figures”. During a NASA education event that was streamed to schools across the country, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Film director Ted Melfi, NASA Chief Historian Bill Barry, who consulted on the film, and NASA Modern Figure Julie Williams-Byrd, an electro-optics engineer for the Space Mission Analysis Branch at Langley, discussed the work of past and present NASA figures benefits humanity and enable future long-duration human and robotic exploration into deep space, including the agency’s Journey to Mars.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Associate Administrator for Diversity and Equal Opportunity Brenda Manuel welcome you to NASA’s Modern Figures Website:
https://www.nasa.gov/modernfigures

Scenes from the opening day of the ESA Ministerial Council 2016 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Ministers in charge of space activities from the 22 ESA Member States, Slovenia and Canada met on 1 and 2 December to decide on future space activities for Europe.
Read more about the ESA Ministerial Council:
http://www.esa.int/cm16

Pe scurt, în mai puțin de 6 minute trecem pe repede înainte prin conceptele de bază ale mecanicii cuantice și ale teoriei relativității și le explicăm pe înțelesul tuturor
Animaţie: penar.ro
Voiceover: Andrei Purcărea
Sound design: Andra Berilă
Stock Video: Space Trip. Credits Snake Force Pictures
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Muzică:
Babylon Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod
Sursă: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400029
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Cylinder Two by Chris Zabriskie
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Standing Here by Silent Partner

Science Max – What makes boats float? Tinfoil doesn’t float, but a boat made of tinfoil does. It’s all about how you build it. Watch as Phil builds his human-sized tinfoil boat wrong several times before he figures it out. Plus, Phil gets into a tub full of the main ingredient in diapers. Why would he do such a thing? For Science!
Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered “What would this be like if it were HUGE?” Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you’ve done at home.
In season 1, join Phil as he builds rocket cars, uses elastic energy to hurl pumpkins on a giant catapult, builds a bridge out of pasta that can hold a human, find magnets powerful enough to float Phil off the ground, and many more experiments taken to the MAX!

In the edition of Space, Euronews correspondent Jeremy Wilks reports from the Observatory of the Côte d’Azur in the south of France on a unique mission to deflect an asteroid.
Asteroids have the potential to cause a catastrophe – a small asteroid could wipe out an entire city, while a large one could mean the end for us all.
It’s a threat we’re aware of, and which scientists and engineers are working to overcome.
This video is also available in the following languages:
German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1p6fl7sCGk
French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCehifF8C78
Italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyyjp7Rjip0
Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiUgVncmKo4
Portuguese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bddwRV07usc
Hungarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1dfH4BzeEI
Greek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcL4oEAG-L8

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Earthquake-prone Japan is featured in the 207th edition.
See also http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/11/Japan to download the image.

Thanksgiving is a time for friends and family to come together in
Fellowship, and give thanks for all they have received in the past year.
So, whether your meal is sitting on your plates or floating out in front of you. NASA wishes you, and yours, a very Happy Thanksgiving.

A 5 m-diameter antenna reflector, designed for orbital operations, seen during a test deployment during ESA’s latest Large Deployable Antenna Workshop.
Large-scale antenna reflectors are increasingly required for telecommunications, science and Earth observation missions.
This metal mesh reflector has a ‘double pantograph’ design to form a deployable ring. Once deployed it tensions two opposing, but connected, parabolic shaped nets, one on the top and one on the bottom.
Read more here: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/11/Large_antenna_deployment

I have a lot of friends who got admitted to Stanford and in this video I summarize things that they’ve told me about their admissions process. Walking around Stanford campus in California! 📗🇺🇸 How I got full financial aid to study in the USA (my book!) – http://bit.ly/2ZwlkRB
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Magnets have poles – when you put opposite ones together, they attract. But when you but the same ones together, they repel. Could we find magnets powerful enough to repel each other and float Phil off the ground? Plus, watch magnets defy gravity all on their own.
Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered “What would this be like if it were HUGE?” Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you’ve done at home.
In season 1, join Phil as he builds rocket cars, uses elastic energy to hurl pumpkins on a giant catapult, builds a bridge out of pasta that can hold a human, find magnets powerful enough to float Phil off the ground, and many more experiments taken to the MAX!

European spirit, identity and cohesion are the overarching aspects for Europe to achieve the best of outcomes for its states and citizens in space and for a globally successful European space sector.
United Space in Europe describes the intensive cooperation of different European entities for the sake of a strengthening of Europe. With this strengthened European cooperation in space, the 2016 Ministerial Council will further ESA’s breadth and strength of action to cover its mandate as laid out in the ESA Convention through enhanced partnership with its Member States, with other institutional actors and with space actors worldwide.
The conference takes place in the advent of the Space 4.0 era, a time when space is evolving from being the preserve of the governments of a few spacefaring nations to a situation in which there is the increased number of diverse space actors around the world, including the emergence of private companies, participation with academia, industry and citizens, digitalisation and global interaction.
Space 4.0 represents the evolution of the space sector into a new era, characterised by a new playing field. This era is unfolding through interaction between governments, private sector, society and politics. Space 4.0 is analogous to, and is intertwined with, Industry 4.0, which is considered as the unfolding fourth industrial revolution of manufacturing and services.
To meet the challenges and to proactively develop the different aspects of Space 4.0, the European space sector can become globally competitive only by fully integrating into European society and economy. This requires a sustainable space sector closely connected with the fabric of society and economy. For this to happen, space must be safe, secure and easily and readily accessible, and built on a foundation of excellence in science and technology – broadly and continuously over time.
ESA will table proposals at the meeting to meet the common European goals for space in this exciting and challenging new era.
This video is also available in the following langauges:
German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV775vLxgEU
French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5cFRpo8oQ
Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4QpTqK2FqE
Italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCZ8Sm0ySrE
Read more about the ESA Ministerial Council 2016:
http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Ministerial_Council_2016

[French version] European spirit, identity and cohesion are the overarching aspects for Europe to achieve the best of outcomes for its states and citizens in space and for a globally successful European space sector.
United Space in Europe describes the intensive cooperation of different European entities for the sake of a strengthening of Europe. With this strengthened European cooperation in space, the 2016 Ministerial Council will further ESA’s breadth and strength of action to cover its mandate as laid out in the ESA Convention through enhanced partnership with its Member States, with other institutional actors and with space actors worldwide.
The conference takes place in the advent of the Space 4.0 era, a time when space is evolving from being the preserve of the governments of a few spacefaring nations to a situation in which there is the increased number of diverse space actors around the world, including the emergence of private companies, participation with academia, industry and citizens, digitalisation and global interaction.
Space 4.0 represents the evolution of the space sector into a new era, characterised by a new playing field. This era is unfolding through interaction between governments, private sector, society and politics. Space 4.0 is analogous to, and is intertwined with, Industry 4.0, which is considered as the unfolding fourth industrial revolution of manufacturing and services.
To meet the challenges and to proactively develop the different aspects of Space 4.0, the European space sector can become globally competitive only by fully integrating into European society and economy. This requires a sustainable space sector closely connected with the fabric of society and economy. For this to happen, space must be safe, secure and easily and readily accessible, and built on a foundation of excellence in science and technology – broadly and continuously over time.
ESA will table proposals at the meeting to meet the common European goals for space in this exciting and challenging new era.
Read more about the ESA Ministerial Council 2016:
http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Ministerial_Council_2016

[Spanish version] European spirit, identity and cohesion are the overarching aspects for Europe to achieve the best of outcomes for its states and citizens in space and for a globally successful European space sector.
United Space in Europe describes the intensive cooperation of different European entities for the sake of a strengthening of Europe. With this strengthened European cooperation in space, the 2016 Ministerial Council will further ESA’s breadth and strength of action to cover its mandate as laid out in the ESA Convention through enhanced partnership with its Member States, with other institutional actors and with space actors worldwide.
The conference takes place in the advent of the Space 4.0 era, a time when space is evolving from being the preserve of the governments of a few spacefaring nations to a situation in which there is the increased number of diverse space actors around the world, including the emergence of private companies, participation with academia, industry and citizens, digitalisation and global interaction.
Space 4.0 represents the evolution of the space sector into a new era, characterised by a new playing field. This era is unfolding through interaction between governments, private sector, society and politics. Space 4.0 is analogous to, and is intertwined with, Industry 4.0, which is considered as the unfolding fourth industrial revolution of manufacturing and services.
To meet the challenges and to proactively develop the different aspects of Space 4.0, the European space sector can become globally competitive only by fully integrating into European society and economy. This requires a sustainable space sector closely connected with the fabric of society and economy. For this to happen, space must be safe, secure and easily and readily accessible, and built on a foundation of excellence in science and technology – broadly and continuously over time.
ESA will table proposals at the meeting to meet the common European goals for space in this exciting and challenging new era.
Read more about the ESA Ministerial Council 2016:
http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Ministerial_Council_2016