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The Definitive Guide To Starship: Starship vs Falcon 9, what’s new and improved?
Starship poses the ultimate challenge in aerospace engineering: a fully and rapidly reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle, capable of taking 150 tonnes to low Earth orbit. That’s more payload than the Saturn V, and it’ll be fully reusable!
Artemis VS Apollo – Will Artemis actually be sustainable?
The Artemis Program - NASA is working hard on getting humans back to the surface of the Moon. If all goes well, this could happen in 2024!
How do you get back to Earth from Orbit? How NASA astronauts Bob and Doug get home.
How do you get back from orbit? Do you pump the brakes and fall right out of space? We do a summary of how you deorbit, go over the hardware that allows the Crew Dragon capsule to reenter and safely splashdown.
Perseverance VS Curiosity – What’s New?
We do an overview of NASA's Perseverance Rover (formerly Mars 2020), the rocket that will take it there, the timeline, and the landing sequence. All the while, drawing comparison to its older sibling, Curiosity, to see what’s changed and what has stayed the same.
Crew Dragon Launch Day Timeline: From Suit Up to Docking with the ISS
A timeline video that follows Bob and Doug from suit-up, transport to the launch site, entering the Dragon, fuelling, launch, and docking with the International Space Station. Weather scrub criteria is also included.
Terry Virts Interview: IMAX Space Filmmaker
Making a movie in space? Shooting out-of-this-world photographs? Space Shuttle pilot and International Space Station commander Terry Virts did this and more, before Tom Cruise! Everyday Astronaut's writers had a chance to interview him recently about his space films and his post-space career.
Metric vs Imperial Units: How NASA lost a 327 Million Dollar Mission to Mars
Imagine a simple conversion error caused a multi-million dollar mission to go puff! A video released by Everyday Astronaut this week looks at how NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999. We explore how NASA’s team of contractors made a math boo-boo that cost them the mission just as it approached Mars.
SLS vs Starship: Why Do Both Programs Exist?
NASA just announced the lunar landers for the Artemis program. To everyone’s surprise, SpaceX’s massive Starship is one of three landers NASA chose alongside Blue Origin and Dynetics.
Understandably, this is bringing up a lot of questions. Some of which we will answer in my next video/article: “Should NASA just cancel SLS and use Starship and/or other commercial launchers for Artemis?” But today I think we need to settle a lot of debates about these two rockets first. Now, more than ever, it is time we truly compare them head-to-head.
Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck April Interview
Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut interviews Rocket Lab's Peter Beck about rocket reusability, Photon, and why the supply chain for satellites is so fragile.
Ben Feist Interview on Apollo 13 Audio
We are fast approaching the 50th anniversary of the iconic and suspenseful Apollo 13 mission and many of us were not alive for it. This article talks about how you can relive and just exactly how this experience was created with the help from one of its own, Ben Feist!