Awesome Space

AsapSCIENCE explores the challenges associated with colonizing Mars. While water is plentiful and it’s possible to produce air, the red planet has less sunlight and gravity than Earth, and then there’s the little problem of getting people there.

“…Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us. Because our destiny lies above us.” Movieclips Trailers made this inspirational mashup of space movies, including Interstellar, Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

An international effort 10 years in the making has resulted in another giant leap for mankind. The Rosetta Mission’s Philae lander has touched down on comet 67P/C-G, which is currently about 310 million miles from Earth. Take that Kerbals!

Guillaume Juin created this eye-popping time-lapse short film by editing together thousands of high resolution images taken by the crew of the International Space Station between 2011 and 2014. Best watched in full screen, high def.

As part of NASA’s 3D camera project, astronauts at the International Space Station made a softball-sized ball of water – thanks to the low gravity in the space station – and submerged a GoPro camera inside the ball. 3D video here.

A master and his apprentice turn a wasteland into small celestial bodies. Ambition promotes the International Rosetta Mission, which sent a spacecraft to orbit comet 67P/C-G and will soon drop a lander on the comet’s surface.

Vsauce3 reminds us how awesome our planet is. Even our next door neighbor is so different and hostile. The moon has longer days and nights, wildly varying temperatures, no atmosphere and lots of radiation.

Show Land Rover a photo or video that represents what adventure means to you for a chance to win a training course and trip to space on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two for yourself and three of your loved ones.

Three trailers in and we still don’t know much about Interstellar, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. Check out glimpses of a dying Earth, the hostile environment on other planets and a walking monolith. A minilith.

Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio provide a look at our big blue marble from the vantage point of the International Space Station’s cupola, pointing out cities and landmarks as they orbit far above our planet.

Enemy Starfighter is a mix of real time strategy and space combat sim, and will support the Oculus Rift. It may not be as pretty as other upcoming space shooters, but it’s promising considering it’s being made by one man.

A rocky and icy landscape, a bubble of time and space, tiny monoliths and more abound in the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Like Rust Cohle, these clips raise more questions even as they reveal more about the movie.

To celebrate the 45th years since the Apollo 11 moon landing, GE and Android Homme made these moon boot style hi-tops. Limited to 100 pairs, they have a carbon fiber upper and hydrophobic coating. At JackThreads on 7/20.

As part of its new Space series, City Prints has created this stunning lunar image which maps out the landing sites of all of NASA’s lunar missions. Available framed, matted or in custom sizes or printed on custom substrates.

We’ve previously seen footage of NASA’s Project Morpheus, but this nighttime footage is even cooler. It’s capable of taking off, hovering, flying, and automatically landing itself – in the dark. Oh, and Sony needs to rename their project.

“We must confront the reality that nothing in our solar system can help us.” Matthew McConaughey plays a pilot forced to leave Earth and his family in order to help save mankind. Also starring Michael Caine and Anne Hathaway.