Atlantis glides in for a safe landing at KSC. You can really see how fast the shuttle is going as it approaches the runway. The jet noise in the background is from the chase planes, the space shuttle is completely silent as it touches down.
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A brief look at how astronauts live onboard the international Space Station. Episode two of three shows just how crowded and noisy life in space is for the ISS crews. Listen to the background noise made by the air filtering system - could you live with that noise 24/7, for six months at a time ?
A brief look at how astronauts live onboard the International Space Station. Episode three of the series features a look at Russian space food and the space toilet facilities.
The Apollo 14 landing crew departs from the Moon. Onboard the LEM are Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard, who was the first American to fly in space; and the only one of the original "Mercury Seven" astronauts who actually set foot on the Moon.
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Footage taken by the Mercury Messenger spacecraft during a recent fly - by of the Earth. More info on this mission available at : http://messenger.jhu apl.edu/
Footage courtesy of NASA.
