Lady Gaga – Poker Face – Parody (“Outer Space”)

By Stars & Astronomy On September 9th, 2010

Please comment, rate, favorite and subscribe for more home-made celeb parodies. www.vprincess.com This song “Outer Space” is now available on itunes! http Also you can buy a hard copy of it. The first 250 sold will be personally signed by me. :-) You can buy it here: store.dftba.com The sunglasses, head orbiter, and mirror mask are all hand-made. (I’m an arts & crafts nerd.) :-P *And in response to the comments about the way I sang this: It was not suppose to sound good. I was playing an eccentric, odd alien. It was not making fun of Lady Gaga’s voice though, as I know she sings well. But this is a PARODY of her extraterrestrial self. If you want to hear me sing a song as myself, here is a clip: www.youtube.com I actually really respect Lady Gaga and really love her music. So this song was a fun spin on her outrageous style… which I actually admire about her. Special thanks to Steve, the super talented guy that composed, arranged, and performed the original music in this video. Please check him out at: www.myspace.com Lyrics & vocal melody written by me. I also sung, edited, and played all of the characters except for The aliens and robots. www.vprincess.com

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Space History at a Glance

By Stars & Astronomy On September 9th, 2010

Britain’s contribution to space science began hundreds of years before Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced a new British space research programme in 1959.

For centuries our scientists and astronomers have shaped how the world is seen and they continue to add to our knowledge of the Universe through space missions and ground-based science.

The following list highlights some of the most important
discoveries for science as well as key missions involving British scientists and engineers.

1668 – Sir Isaac Newton builds the first reflecting telescope. Over 300 years later, Newton’s invention forms the basis of the Hubble Space Telescope.

1675 – John Flamsteed becomes the first Astronomer Royal at The Royal Observatory in Greenwich.

1687 – Newton publishes Principia Mathematica, possibly the most important book in the history of science. It contains his theory of universal gravitation, marking the beginning of modern astronomy.

1705 – Edmund Halley correctly predicts that a comet seen in 1682 would reappear in 1758. The comet, now named after Halley, is visible from Earth every 7576 years. It featured in the famous Bayeux Tapestry, was last seen from Earth in 1986 and observed in close-up by ESA’s Giotto spacecraft. The comet will return in 2061.

1781 – William Herschel, a German musician who spent his whole life in England, discovers the planet Uranus with a mirror telescope of his own creation.

1798 – Henry Cavendish, an English chemist and physicist, first measures the force of gravity between two objects.

1846 – Calculations made by English mathematician John Couch Adams enable Johann Galle to see Neptune for the first time.

1856 – Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell proves that Saturn’s rings are not solid, liquid or gaseous but are actually made up of different independent particles.

1897 – JJ Thompson, a leading English mathematician and physicist of the late 19th century, discovers the electron.

1919 – During an expedition to view a solar eclipse in Africa, English astrophysicist Arthur Eddington proves Einstein’s prediction that gravity bends light.

1932 – English physicist James Chadwick proves the existence of neutrons.

1957 – Launch of first British Skylark sounding rocket.

1957 – The UK’s massive Jodrell Bank radio telescope becomes operational.

1957 – Sputnik becomes the first manmade object to enter orbit.

1957 – Russian dog Laika becomes the first creature to be launched into space.

1959 – In September Soviets crash land a probe on the Moon. A few weeks later Lunik 3 sends back the first pictures of the far side of the Moon.

1959 – First meeting of the British National Committee on Space. This is the first committee to advise the government on space issues. Later in the year, Harold Macmillan announces a new British space research programme.

1961 – Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to orbit the Earth and returns a hero.

1962 – The first international satellite, Ariel 1, is launched. Built by NASA, it contained six instruments developed by British scientists.

1963 – Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

1963 – The British Government establishes the Space Research Management Unit, a forerunner of the BNSC.

1965 – Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov is the first person to ‘walk’ in space.

1967 – The first all British satellite, Ariel 3, is launched.

1969 – On 21 July, Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the surface of the Moon.

1971 – British Prospero satellite launched on British Black Arrow launch vehicle.

1975 – The European Space Agency (ESA) is established with the UK, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland as founder members.

1976 – America’s Viking I spacecraft lands on Mars and sends back the first photographs of the planet’s surface.

1979 – The first European-built rocket, Ariane 1, successfully completes its maiden flight.

1980 – The Voyager 1 space probe sends back vivid images of Saturn.

1985 – The British Government sets up the BNSC.

1986 – Space station Mir is launched by the Soviet Union.

1988 – Professor Stephen Hawking publishes A Brief History of Time, the most influential book about space written in the last 100 years.

1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope is launched.

1991 – Helen Sharman from Sheffield becomes the first Briton in space when she joins the crew for Project Juno. This was a Soviet mission, partly funded by British companies.

1992 – Michael Foale becomes the first British-born man in space, as part of the crew for the Space Shuttle mission STS45.

1995 – The joint NASA/ESA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is launched.

1997 – The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, a joint mission between NASA, ESA and the Italian Space Agency, is launched to Saturn.

1997 – The Pathfinder robot begins its exploration of Mars.

2001 – The Aurora project begins, with the first launch due in 2011.

2002 – Piers Sellers joins the crew of the STS112 mission and becomes the third British-born astronaut in space.

2002 – The first satellite for the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) is launched. All five satellites in the group have been built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.

2003 – The launch of Mars Express.

2003 – Europe’s first mission to the Moon, Smart1, is launched.

2003 – China succeeds in sending its first manned spacecraft into orbit.

2003 – Mars Express arrives in orbit. It releases the Beagle 2 probe but the signal from the lander is lost.

2004 – ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft launched on its way to a rendezvous with Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko.

2004 – The Mercury Messenger mission is launched to the Sun’s closest planet.

2005 – The Huygens probe begins its descent through Titan’s atmosphere. The first part of the probe to land on Titan was built in Britain.

2005 – The European Venus Express mission is launched and Mars Express sends back images of the Red Planet.

2005 – The world’s largest and most sophisticated civilian telecommunications satellite, UK-built Inmarsat4 f1, goes into orbit.

2005 – Launch of GioveA, the first satellite in the Galileo global positioning system.

2006 – NASA’s New Horizons mission heads for the outer reaches of our Solar System towards Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

2006 – Venus Express reaches its final orbit and begins to send back data.

2006 – Solar B, later renamed Hinode, is launched. This three year mission to study the Sun involves ESA and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

2006 – After a highly successful mission, Smart1 undergoes a controlled ‘crash’ into the Moon.

2007 – Japan launches Kaguya (formerly SELENE) for a global survey of the Moon.

2008 – India’s first mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1, is due for launch.

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Fundamental constant might change across space

By Stars & Astronomy On September 8th, 2010

Research results currently under peer review imply that the fine-structure constant, which characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic force, might have different values depending on which direction scientists are looking in the sky. View full post on Astronomy.com – News

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Live HD broadcast from International Space Station Part 1 (HD)

By Stars & Astronomy On September 8th, 2010

First live HD broadcast from International Space Station. Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria shows us the interior of one of the modules. Part 2: www.youtube.com

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IAC2009: The Contribution of Space Science to Astronomy

By Stars & Astronomy On September 6th, 2010

Astronomy, one of the worlds oldest sciences, has benefited greatly since the advent of space science fifty years ago. Space science allows an ever expanding horizon for astronomy as evidenced by current and future telescopes based in space (Hubble, James Webb, etc.). This plenary, organised by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), covered related topics including an overview of astronomy from space.

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Cancun Real Estate looks great – even from space!

By Stars & Astronomy On September 6th, 2010

We all know that Cancun real estate is beautiful – luxury condos on a perfectly white beach, with the turquoise blue ocean.  But can you imagine what Cancun would look like from space? In a live interview broadcast today that the Televisa network. Mexican astronaut Jose Hernandez, part of the mission on U.S. space shuttle Discovery, said that the waters of Cancun are “extremely beautiful” even from space.

The U.S. space shuttle Discovery landed at dawn on Sunday 30 August at the International Space Station, two days after leaving Earth with seven astronauts on board for a 13-day mission.

NASA says that it is the first interview in history live from space, made from a communication base in Latin America. Hernandez said that one of the things that surprised him most is seeing the world as a unit, without borders.

The astronaut, the son of Mexican immigrants to the United States, said that when passing over Mexico, he is always trying to locate Michoacan, the home state of his family. At night, “Mexico City is all lit up” and during the day “the waters of Cancun look very beautiful from here,” he said.

“You can see for yourself the wonder that the world is,” he said.  “We should bring all the leaders of the world to see the world from this perspective,” he said, to see that “political boundaries are not so important.”  This sentiment is not so distant from what Cancun represents.  Cancun real estate has residents and draws buyers from all over the world; in a way it is like a little world without borders.

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Hubble’s Successor: The James Webb Space Telescope

By Stars & Astronomy On September 5th, 2010

Please join us on Facebook for the latest science news and videos: tinyurl.com Science@ESA (Episode 4): Following The Redshift (Part 2) – Hubble’s Successor: The James Webb Space Telescope. In this fourth episode of the Science@ESA vodcast series Rebecca Barnes will identify some of the key discoveries achieved with the famous Hubble Space Telescope, look at the concept of redshift, and meet a new telescope that will be used to uncover the early Universe. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Named in 2002 in honour of NASA’s administrator during the Apollo programme, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mission is a collaborative project between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. JWST will address many of the outstanding issues of modern astronomy related to the ‘Early Universe’ and is expected to yield scientific breakthroughs as did its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope. JWST will be a general-purpose observatory with a suite of astronomical infrared-sensitive instruments. Compared to existing or planned observatories, JWST will have the unique advantage of combining superb image quality throughout a wide wavelength range, a wide field of view and unparalleled photon sensitivity due to its 6.5-metre diameter telescope primary mirror. sci.esa.int — The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned infrared

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Astronomer Royal tackles space, politics and scientific advice

By Stars & Astronomy On September 5th, 2010

Lord Rees, President of the Royal Society and the UK’s Astronomer Royal, talks to Matin Durrani, Editor of Physics World, about why the society still has a vital role 350 years after it was founded — and why President Obama was right to cancel manned US missions to the Moon

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President Obama Calls International Space Station Says Wuzzzz Uppp

By Stars & Astronomy On September 5th, 2010

President Obama Calls Space Station President Obama’s call to the International Space Station says Wuzz Uppp also In the News USA May or May not Soon Colonize the Moon. Also $8 Billion On Clean Nuclear Reactors. February 17, 2010 | 53:43 The President congratulates astronauts on the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Endeavour on their successful ongoing mission. He is joined by Congressional leaders and middle school students from Michigan, Florida, and Nebraska.

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Holidays in Space Available for Some

By Stars & Astronomy On September 3rd, 2010

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