National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Washington, D.C., USA

What does astronaut see from up there? From the red soil of africa, the blue water of oceans, to the green lights of the poles and yellow light of human activity, discover, throught this journey to space, something astoundingly beautiful and strange at the same time.

I wanted to do something different from what has been done before with those shots. Something more dynamic and fast. After all, ISS travel through space at 28.000km/h! There are also more recent footage that have never been used (at least I think...) in other edits.

All the credit goes to the crew members of ISS expeditions 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, shot from 2011 to 2014.
The international Space Station weigh 377 tons, orbits the earth at around 350km from the surface, and does one spin around the earth in 1h30, at 28.000k/h! At 1'11 we can see a little refueling shuttle desintegrating back to earth. At 1'20, it's a little telecom satellitte that is launch in orbit. The little green and purple lights you can see at 1'57 are respectively fishing boats and oil platforms offshore with the big city of Bangkok nearby.

All the footage (around 80GB of pictures) was processed throught after effects/premiere, denoised for some shots, removal of dead pixels for some shots, deflickering, and simple color grading (didnt want to change the already incredible look! just curves, saturation, and some blue crushing). Don't hesitate to comment and ask questions about the video!

Video courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center

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It's NASA's first time presenting at CES, and they're showing off some of the technology they use on the International Space Station, as well as some of their concept ideas for the Journey to Mars.

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This video shows testing conducted in the 1960s on a NASA Android. The Android is now on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. Video courtesy of NASA.

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We’ve taken giant leaps and left our mark in the heavens. Now we’re building the next chapter, returning to the Moon to stay, and preparing to go beyond. We are NASA – and after 60 years, we’re just getting started. Special thanks to Mike Rowe for the voiceover work.

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During our visit to NASA Ames Research Center, we stopped by the Roverscape, a testing ground for robots and rovers that simulates various types of terrain. We chat with an engineer from the Intelligent Robotics Group about robot testing platforms, and pilot both a real and virtual robot!

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Dr. Robert Ambrose
J. Mike Walker '66 Chair Professor
Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University

Robots at the Johnson Space Center and Future Plans
Abstract:

The seminar will review a series of robotic systems built at the Johnson Space Center over the last 20 years. These will include wearable robots (exoskeletons, powered gloves and jetpacks), manipulation systems (ISS cranes down to human scale) and lunar mobility systems (human surface mobility and robotic rovers). As all robotics presentations should, this will include some fun videos.

Bio:

Having recently retired from NASA, Dr. Robert Ambrose is now the J. Mike Walker Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University and Associate Director of the Texas A&M Space Institute. He will outline his plans to extend the work of his NASA team, with projects in surface mobility, robotic manipulation and human augmentation. Dr. Ambrose is the Texas A&M Director for Space and Robotic Initiatives, and the Director of Space and Robotics at the Bush Defense Complex. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, serves as the VP of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for Industrial Activities, and retired from NASA as a member of the Senior Executive Service.

Robert Ambrose received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Mechanical Engineering and his M.S. and B. S. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. He has previously worked as a researcher in academia (UT Austin), as an engineer at an FFRDC (MITRE), and as a Project Leader at a small startup company (Metrica, Inc).

With NASA’s Johnson Space Center from 2000-2021, he served as a Project Manager, Branch Chief and later as the Division Chief for the Software, Robotics and Simulation Division. Dr. Ambrose’s Division supported the International Space Station (ISS), software and simulation for the Space X, Boeing, and Orion Spacecraft, and the development of exercise equipment, wearable robotics and jetpacks used by astronauts in space. He led the design of futuristic machines like Robonaut, the Chariot rovers, Centaur, Valkyrie, MRV, Resource Prospector / VIPER rovers, and the LTV Rover that are paving the way for space exploration. Dr. Ambrose also served for 7 years at NASA Headquarters as the Principal Technologist for Robotics and Autonomous Systems. He is married to Dr. Catherine G. Ambrose with homes in Colorado and Texas. He may be reached at [email protected].
November 17, 2023

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