Aug
13
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1sJlFzUQVmYApr 8 -- Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday. The Falcon 9 completed its burn and landed upright on a drone ship for the first time.
Jun
10
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ycacReloAEMRelativity Space and its two founders - Tim and Jordan - have a plan to make rockets faster and cheaper than anyone else. To do this, they're looking to build every part of a rocket - its engine, its...
Jun
09
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DVdwtmFYymsPeter Beck is the real life rocket man. He loves rockets so much that he started Rocket Lab, a space startup specializing in lightweight, cost-effective commercial launch services. His goal is to make launching rockets into orbit as common...
Jun
01
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fUj1-cPaFgoMicrogravity can be used to unlock old materials and make new ones in ways that can’t be replicated on Earth. Private companies know this, and are leading the charge toward the next gold rush. But can they turn low...
May
19
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VGosZWBTF7AThere are millions of asteroids in our solar system. Because some are full of materials that are rare on Earth, they have been valued at stupendous amounts. But the most valuable resource in space may be something that's...
May
15
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gD_8hks7Es0The dawn of worldwide live television can be traced back to July 10th, 1962, when AT&T's Telstar satellite successfully transmitted a signal between the U.S. and Europe for the first time in history.
Video by Raymond Schillinger
Graphics by Christian Capestany
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May
01
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hJLrnZLNj2sBillionaire CEO and ‘real-life Iron Man’ Elon Musk is the very public face and voice of his many companies. His style and transparency have earned him both failures and successes, not to mention a fair share of trouble. Quicktake...
Apr
08
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0odk9X5PvkIRocket Scientist Natalya Bailey owns a space startup called Accion Systems that specializes in making wafer thin engines that require a tiny fraction of energy that conventional rockets use. If successful, these ion thrusters could revolutionize how we will...
