In a live interview with Japan’s Fuji TV, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut and Expedition 22 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi demonstrates his love for cooking aboard the International Space Station with the first hand-rolled sushi in space (with salmon). Found at YouTube from NASATelevision via Popsci via Holy Kaw!

High definition footage of the space shuttle Atlantis launch, accompanied by music. Found at YouTube from millitaryexcellence.

An aerial video crew observed the October 28, 2009 Ares I-X test flight from a Cessna Skymaster aircraft positioned approx. 10 nautical miles away from the vehicle at an altitude of 12,000 feet. Found at YouTube from NASATelevision.

Considered a leader in the search for planets outside our solar system, Alan Boss says we are at a turning point in our search for extraterrestrial life. He expects we are on the verge of finding many different Earth-like planets across the universe, and he expects it will be common to find life on those planets. [...]

NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon’s surface early Friday in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft’s instruments to assess whether water ice is present. Found at YouTube from NASAtelevision.

What NASA calls its ‘Heliophysics Observatory’ is an impressive fleet of spacecraft designed (often with international partnership) to study the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Solar System. Flying in an array of trajectories and orbits, many of these satellites do not take images in the conventional sense but record fields, particle energies and fluxes [...]

NASA’s been tracking the thinning of the ozone layer the south pole for nearly 20 years. In this slowed-down animation, you can watch the ozone hole’s average size each October. Found at YouTube from Wired.

This video would be unremarkable were it not for the fact that it is of a lunar bulldozer! NASA plans to deploy the "Lunar Chariot" on the moon to plow roads, dig trenches, and drill for minerals. How cool is that?

NASA has found Bigfoot on Mars!