In honor of the last space shuttle launch, we’re casting our eyes to the stars for this week’s edition of the YouTube Roundup.
Take a look at the twinkly gallery of vids below — we’ve got double the Bowie — and then go outside and stare into the vast, majestic void that is the universe. Or, you know, crack open an after-work beer and stare into the void that is your soul. Either/or.
Happy weekend!
Space Jam Trailer
Adam Ostrow: Space Jam, an essential movie in the sports star meets cartoon character meets outer space genre.
Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot
Josh Catone: Carl Sagan sums up life on our pale blue dot nicely.
The Funniest Moments of Spaceballs
Louis Dorman: Space Balls! Inspiration behind some of the greatest space movies of all time... Apollo 13, The Right Stuff and Alien Vs. Predator.
The Simpsons
Brian Anthony Hernandez: Homer to the (failed) rescue!
Great Space Coaster
Lauren Rubin: Children of the [early] 80s will remember the wildly random Great Space Coaster, and its signature character Gary Gnu. Because no gnus is good gnus.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Stephanie Haberman: 42, part the first.
Powers of Ten
Adam Hirsch: Calculating the distance between man and space by the powers of ten every ten seconds... then all the way backâ¦.
Space Toilet
Amy-Mae Elliott: Ever wonder how astronauts go to the toilet? You haven't? Reeeally?
Family Guy Star Wars
Stephanie Buck: Family Guy's Herbert lisps a serenade to Chris with space troopers as backup dancers.
A Look at the Space Camp Experience
Erica Swallow: SPAAAACCCEEE CAAAAAMMPP!!! ... did any of you get to go to space camp as a tween? If so, #jealous. I wanted to go SOOOO BAAAADDD, but it just never worked out. Am I too old to go now?
Space Ghost
Robyn Peterson: Not complete without the original Space Ghost song: "Dumb People Haul Trash Around."
NIN to Mars
Charlie White: Hey, let's all go to Mars. There will be robots and airbags!
2001: A Space Odyssey
Jenn Van Grove: Epic and eerie. Hal continues to haunt me to this day.
Flight Of The Conchords
Chelsea Stark: Bowies in Space.
We Choose To Go To the Moon
Ben Parr: âWe choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.â
The Far Out Space Nuts
Todd Wasserman: The words "lunch" and "launch" sounds similar, so this kind of mix-up is understandable, especially when Gilligan's on board.
David Bowie's "Space Oddity"
Brenna Ehrlich: Poor Major Tom...
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