I’ve came across this beautiful stop Motion video by Michael König.
The photos in this video are taken from NASA’s “The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” project.
The funny story of NASA’s numbering
Introduction
To understand the numbering system of NASA, we must plunge into the glorious and euphoric years of the first missions of the U.S. Space Shuttle. On April 12, 1981 Shuttle Columbia made its maiden flight in order to certify the Shuttle as machine operational. The missions follow and nothing seems to stop this mad frenzy. Launch after launch, the shuttle impressed by its reliability and its modernism.
NASA and the USAF main “customers” of the shuttle are not always in agreement. The USAF wants to have its own shuttle (Atlantis) and his own base (Vandenberg) as originally scheduled by the program. NASA must imagine a new numbering system.
Chasing Dreams
What happens when you let your passion drive you to the other side of the world? Uri_ba has done just that. This is the story of a shuttle nut traveling 10,000 km (6,500 miles) for hope of catching a glimpse…
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About the ingame Spash Screen
The background picture is a key Image, and the message is delivers is very important, after all it is one of the first things the player will see after launching the game. In such image you need to think carefully about what you want to broadcast to the viewer. In our case I felt that player should feel the professional aspect of the product and see its dynamism. For this I chosen a Space Shuttle lift-off (there’s been another attempt with the shuttle in orbit) because this moment is one of the most best of a shuttle mission and all fans watch it every time (relayed on television). For this is one of the most critical moment of the mission and the more stressful. Read the rest of this entry »
My thoughts after two years of SSM2007
Hey everyone!
Considering, it been over two years of SSM2007, and the fact, that its been a long time since i’ve posted here, i wanted to share my thoughts on this project. Read the rest of this entry »
Living the moment – Synced launch
Shuttle launches are always exciting to us space junkies, whether we are on site (you lucky bastards! 
) or watching it live on NASA TV. SSM allows us to take the watching to the next level. it is not a secret that you can sync up your SSM launch to the live feed, the SSM community is doing it for the last six months in a very organized way. Now with the Release of the new Demo version of SSM, and the upcoming launch of STS-129 we are “revealing our secrets” to allow everyone to enjoy the experience. Read the rest of this entry »
) or watching it live on NASA TV. SSM allows us to take the watching to the next level. it is not a secret that you can sync up your SSM launch to the live feed, the SSM community is doing it for the last six months in a very organized way. Now with the Release of the new Demo version of SSM, and the upcoming launch of STS-129 we are “revealing our secrets” to allow everyone to enjoy the experience. Read the rest of this entry » Flyaround the lazy way
With the Introduction of SP4.10 we have gotten a new set of tricks up our SSM sleeve. one of them is flying the flyaround in a very fun and easy way which might help out newcomers, authenticity enthusiasts (just look at the NASA checklists ) and just lazy folks, like myself, that are constantly looking for ways to make life easy.
) and just lazy folks, like myself, that are constantly looking for ways to make life easy. SSM 2007′s SP4 released today
Today the new SP 4.0 has been released. It includes new ealistic R-BAR, TORVA, V-BAR and TORF procedures which are used for docking with the ISS.!
To help you all out, the SSM-Fans-Staff has been working hard to get the tutorial videos updated.
And Here are the Results
Rendezvous Videos on YT
part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilBUN1LO6Zc
part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3BXxMLdQFk
part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isb-jgDtzzs
part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgUq7hsYD-s
part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WafRumIS6g
Docking Vid on YT
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlGS1mnGZVw
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ub8BywvZPA
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZc_QAcbY_c
Fly-around Video
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5vka0KI3n8
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdv62QrQNpU
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_p1yLqDvNg
Hope this will help you getting through the Flight-school again
Have fun!
The SSM-Fans Staff
Good bye innocence
The Ground-Crew of SSM2007 has allowed us to play around with the beta version of the upcoming Service Pack of the game. The Service Pack offers great improvement in realism, therefore making it is a SSM veteran heaven! To find out what’s new, and why you would probably sit in front of the “Download” page with the finger on the refresh button, you’ll have to click the “read more”.. You didn’t expect us to reveal it so easily did you? 
RMS OPS – challenge thyself
Some of you must be thinking, “RMS OPS? challenge? he must be joking”…. Well, I’m not
In this article I want to cover a basic RMS challenge. working the arm without using external views…
