Living in space (forces, movement and how objects behave in space)

Produced by FootageVault, these videos from NASA illustrate the effects of apparent weightlessness as astronauts live and work in space. Clips include astronauts in Skylab...

The International Space Station and Skylab

Produced by FootageVault and using original NASA video, these clips illustrate life onboard the International Space Station (ISS) and its forerunner, Skylab. The clips...

Apollo 1 fire - the Aftermath

This historic footage, from Footagevault, was recorded at the top of the Apollo 1 rocket stack shortly after the fire which claimed the lives of the first Apollo astronauts. The film shows how ferociously things burn in a high pressure pure...

Astronauts on 'Space Walk' from the International Space Station

This vertiginous video clip , from Footagevault, shows an astronaut emerging from the Quest airlock on board the International Space Station. Further views recorded from a small camera mounted on the astronaut's helmet show the astronaut-eye view of his spacewalk, looking around the outside of the Space Station and...

Astronauts leaping on the Moon

This footage, from Footagevault, documents the locomotion of humans on the Moon under reduced gravity conditions. It can be used with key stage three and four students to start discussions about forces. This clip shows Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan leaping towards the camera with great big kangaroo hops.

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Spaceflight history: first spacewalk

Produced by FootageVault, this original NASA video shows the USA's first spacewalk, made by astronaut Ed White, from his Gemini IV spacecraft on the 3rd of June 1965. The spacewalk lasted 23 minutes, during which time the astronaut manoeuvred using a hand-held oxygen-jet gun to push himself.

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Spaceflight history: high altitude parachute test

Produced by FootageVault, and using original NASA video, these clips chart the first high...

Spaceflight history: early space suits

Produced by FootageVault, using original NASA video, these clips show developments in early space suit design. The clips show how suits were tested for mobility and shows...

Spaceflight history: rockets and the Space Shuttle

Produced by FootageVault and using original video from NASA, these clips show some of the major milestones in the development of spaceflight; the Apollo missions used the...

Saturn V rocket lift-off (showing staging)

This clip, from Footagevault, could be used for teaching key stage three and four content on energy, electricity and forces, or chemical and material behaviour. The film clip dramatically shows Newton's Third Law of Motion in action, "to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction...". The footage...