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Can We Build Into Space?

Imagine for a second, a skyscraper, the tallest skyscraper ever built, that’s 100 kilometers tall. You could take an elevator from the ground floor of this skyscraper all the way up to where space begins to a sky bar where you could look at the earth below, and maybe even be launched into space from

The Solar System's Boundaries | NASA Planetary Sciences

Discover what happens at the outer edges of our solar system, where the solar wind interacts with interstellar space. The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a mission to study the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space. Voyager 1 and 2 have provided some direct measurements f

NASA ScienceCasts: Making Space for Technology Development

Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA The International Space Station provides the only microgravity environment in which we can test technologies critical to our deep-space exploration in the near and far-term future. Space Station Research & Tech: http://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

Measuring Distance in the Solar System | NASA Planetary Sciences

Explore how astronomers and scientists use astronomical units to measure distances in the solar system in this video adapted from NASA. The astronomical unit (au) -- equal to the average distance from Earth to the Sun -- is a convenient unit of measure when talking about distances in the solar syste