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History of Spaceflight All the best videos and images from 50 years of
NASA manned spaceflight. Includes the early Mercury and Gemini programs, the Apollo
missions to the Moon, the Space Shuttle years and finally the International
Space Station. Features over an hour of historic video footage plus 69
high-resolution photographs from the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. All
images and original footage courtesy NASA. Videos featured: * Project Mercury – 7 min – classic cold war relic
from 1962 about the first "free men" in space. * Gemini Program – 8 min – looks at these
two-crewed missions from the mid-1960s – featuring the first rendezvous in
space, spacewalks and first long duration missions. * Apollo Program – 25 min – looks at Apollo 8
(first mission to the Moon) Apollo 11 (first landing) plus Apollos 15 and 17.
Also features 36 images of the Moon and astronaut activity on the surface. * Skylab Space Station – 5 min – NASA's first
space station – looks at experiments performed and acrobatic displays. * Space Shuttle – 11 min – features funny moments
from the 30 year Shuttle program – working and playing in the weightlessness
of space. Plus 33 images of Shuttle launch, in space and Earth views. * International Space Station – 14 min – looks at
the history of the Station and features a tour of the current station set up.
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Solar System News Volume 1- The Sun and
Inner Planets All the latest videos and images from space probes
sent to explore the Sun and inner planets Mercury, Venus and Mars, plus numerous
Asteroids. Also features a program about the Earth and exploration of the
Moon. Includes almost an hour of video and over 100 high-resolution images.
All images and original footage courtesy NASA & ESA. Videos featured: * Summary – 5 min – looks at the evolution of the
Solar System and then gives a brief summary of the Sun each of the inner
planets. * The Sun – 5 min – looks at the energy that
drives the Sun and the probes sent to explore it. * Mercury – 10 min – looks at the discoveries made
by the Messenger probe now in orbit around the innermost planet. Also
includes 27 images from Messenger. * Venus – 8 min – concentrates on the discoveries
made by Venus Express, but also looks at past missions to the planet.
Features 22 images from these probes. * Earth and Moon – 7 min – features a series of
images of the Earth from Space, then looks at the Smart 1 lunar probe and a
future Lunar Lander. Features 23 images of the Earth and 13 Moon images. * Mars – 17 min – contains all the latest news
from the landers and orbitters currently exploring the Red Planet, including
8 min on the Mars Rovers. 55 images cover all aspects of the planet and its
two small moons. * Asteroids – 6 min – looks at space probe
encounters with asteroids such as Eros, Steins and Lutetia. 26 images feature
the best images taken of asteroids from space probes. Buy
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Solar System News Volume 2- The Outer Planets All the latest videos and images from space probes
sent to explore the outer planets Jupiter (Galileo), Saturn (Cassini), Uranus
and Neptune (Voyager). Also features programs about Comets and Dwarf Planets
such as Pluto and Eris. Includes almost an hour of video and over 100
high-resolution images. All images and original footage courtesy NASA &
ESA. Videos featured: * Summary – 5 min – looks at the evolution of the
Solar System and then summarizes each of the outer planets. * Jupiter – 10 min – presents the discoveries made
by the Voyager and Cassini missions about the planet, its moons and rings. 31
images cover the planet and its four Galilean moons. * Saturn – 17 min – features all the latest news
from the Cassini mission to planet, its rings and moons, especially Titan and
Enceladus. Also features news from the recent equinox of Saturn. 26 images. * Uranus – 5 min – highlights from the Voyager
encounter of 1986. 11 images. * Neptune – 6 min – highlights from the Voyager
encounter of 1989. 12 images. * Dwarf Planets – looks at the New Horizons
encounter with Pluto in 2015 and summarizes trans-Neptunian objects. 13
images. * Comets – 9 min – introduces the various types of
comets, then looks at the Rosetta and Deep Impact missions to comets. 12 images.
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Universe News Volume 1 - Stars and Stellar
Evolution These videos and images provide an introduction to
the basics of stellar evolution; how
stars are born, the source of their energy, and how they die as Red Giants,
White Dwarfs, Supernovae and Black Holes. Most of the videos are ESA programs
about the latest discoveries from Hubble and ground telescopes, looking at
star birth, star death and star clusters. Includes over 45 minutes of video
and 58 high-resolution images. Video programs courtesy of ESA. Images:
NASA/ESA. Videos featured: * Stars – introduction – 9 min – provides a summary of the energy
that drives stars, and how changes in this energy source lead to the death of
stars as Red Giants and white dwarfs or supernovae and black holes. 12 images
include diagrams and artist views. * Star Birth – 12 min – features four ESA
programs concerning the birth of
stars in Nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Carina and Orion. Looks at
Hubble discoveries about proto-planetary discs in Orion. 14 images of
nebulae. * Star Death – 11 min – three programs looking at
a mass loss star, a supernova remnant, and the black hole that lies at the
centre of our galaxy. 19 images of planetary nebulae. * Star Clusters – 12 min – looks at the starburst
open cluster, then two programs on globulars. 13 images of open and globular
clusters. Buy
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Universe News Volume 2 - Exoplanets and
Galaxies These videos and images look at one of the most exciting
recent discoveries in Astronomy – extra-solar planets (planets in orbit around other stars) and
then look at Galaxies – the huge collections of billions of stars. Also
features Dark Matter, Galaxy interactions and Cosmology. Includes over 45
minutes of video and 48 high-resolution images. Video programs courtesy of
ESA. Images: NASA/ESA. Videos featured: * Exoplanets – 13 min – four ESA programs looking
at Hot Jupiters, Fomalhaut B, light Exoplanets and extra-galactic ones. * Galaxies – 13 min – introduces the basic types
of galaxies and then looks at examples of spiral and elliptical galaxies.
Plus 16 images of spiral and elliptical galaxies. * Galaxy clusters – 12 min –looks at merging and
interacting galaxies in clusters. 16 images. * The Cosmos – 13 min – three ESA programs about
Dark Matter, a fossil galaxy and the most distant galaxy discovered. 16
images and diagrams. Buy
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If you have any questions or find any bugs in
the apps, please email me at: mail@astrovisuals.com.au