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LiveLeak com NASA Antares from 3,000ft rocket explodes on launch – Video

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The video below was taken in a Cessna 177 Cardinal owned by Sealing Technologies Inc from an altitude of 3000ft. A rocket carrying supplies for the International Space Station exploded six...

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From Apollo 11 to the Antares rocket: Nasa’s missions in 90 seconds – Video

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From Apollo 11 to the Antares rocket: Nasa #39;s missions in 90 seconds
An unmanned Antares rocket exploded seconds after lift-off from a commercial launch pad on Virginia #39;s east coast, marking the first accident since NASA turned to private operators to deliver...

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Using virtual reality to study stress and improve training – Video

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Iowa State University researchers are using virtual reality to study how stress affects decision-making. They #39;ve studied how firefighters react in a virtual burning building, created interactive...

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German Astronaut On International Space Station Discusses Life In Orbit With German Media – Video

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German Astronaut On International Space Station Discusses Life In Orbit With German Media
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency discussed the accomplishments of his five and a half month mission on the...

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Commercial Space Station Company NanoRacks Opens Silicon Valley Office

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Left:Ronald Goedendorp, Vice President of Space Station Opportunities, NanoRacks and Pete Worden, Director, NASA Ames Research Center.

NanoRacks LLC, the industry leader for utilization of the low-Earth region of outer space, is delighted to announce that our third office will be based at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Opening November 1st, the West Coast office will help ensure that NanoRacks can meet our growing customer needs, as well as develop new deep space business.

This is an fantastic step forward for NanoRacks, allowing us to tap into, and contribute to, the agile aerospace innovation that exists from Silicon Valley to Seattle and even up to Vancouver for the new space marketplace, explained Jeffrey Manber, CEO of NanoRacks. We are fully committed to utilizing the most innovative technologies in our future products for low-earth orbit and beyond.

Heading the office will be Ronald Goedendorp, Vice President of Space Station Opportunities. Explained Ron, This step signals NanoRacks clear intent to be both a leading customer and provider of next generation hardware and practices on multiple platforms for multiple orbits.

Ron comes with 20 years of experience in business and corporate development in imaging systems, semiconductors, aerospace, and data analytics. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and co-founded the UCSD Bay Area Alumni Scholarship Fund. Added Ron, I was looking to become an active part of the new commercial space revolution and no one company symbolizes that better than NanoRacks. What they are doing for commercial access to the International Space Station is auspicious for the future of this industry.

For further press inquiries, please contact Abby Dickes at 202-750-0914.

Visit NanoRacks.com or follow @NanoRacks for continued updates.

About NanoRacks, LLC NanoRacks LLC was formed in 2009 to provide commercial hardware and services for the U.S. National Laboratory onboard the International Space Station via a Space Act Agreement with NASA. NanoRacks main office is in Houston, Texas, right alongside the NASA Johnson Space Center. The Business Development office is in Washington, DC. The Company seeks to democratize outer space utilization by owning and marketing its own family of research equipment and by providing low-cost, high quality services in low earth orbit and beyond. To date over 200 payloads have been deployed by the Company on the International Space Station and our customer base includes the European Space Agency (ESA) the German Space Agency (DLR,) the American space agency (NASA,) US Government Agencies, Planet Labs, Urthecast, Space Florida, NCESSE, Virgin Galactic, pharmaceutical drug companies, and organizations in Vietnam, UK, Romania and Israel. Our customer base has propelled NanoRacks into a leadership position in understanding the emerging commercial market for low-earth orbit utilization.

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Orbital's Rocket Disaster Narrows Space Station Resupply Options

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The explosion of anOrbital Sciencesrocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station signaled more than the loss of a $200 million mission on Tuesday. The incident marked the first disaster of a commercial resupply mission to the space station since NASA put the responsibility in the hands of private U.S. contractors. Itsa turn of events that will likely leave the supply runs in the hands of Orbitals competitor SpaceX and Russiain the near future.

The Antares rocket owned by Orbital Sciences was originally scheduled to carry about 2,200 kilograms of supplies to the six astronauts currently stationed aboard the space station, according to BBC News. But the rocket faltered just 15 seconds after liftoff,fell back to Earth, and exploded in an infernoon Oct. 28. Click Orlando reported that the force of the explosion broke windows and damaged ceiling tiles ofshops and restaurants several miles from the launch site at the NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.

Evidence suggests the failure initiated in the first stage after which the vehicle lost its propulsive capability and fell back to the ground impacting near, but not on, the launch pad, according to anOrbital Sciences statement on 30 October.

TheAntares rocket carriedsupplies that included 600 kilograms of food such as pre-packaged meals and freeze-dried crab cakes,BBC Newspoints out. Other cargo consisted of experimental equipment for testing blood flow to the human brain, understanding how space travel affects the human bodys immune system,analyzing meteorsand studying the growth of pea shoots in orbital conditions.

Luckily, the space station has enoughsupplies to last for a period of four to six months, a NASA officialsaid in a CBS News interview. That means the astronauts should be able to hold out well into the next year even if no other resupply spacecraft arrived. Russias Roskosmos space agency said it was ready to launch extra supply missions upon NASAs request, according toReuters.

Orbital Sciences holds a $1.9 billion contractwith NASA for resupplying the space station for at least eight launches through 2016. U.S. spaceflight firm SpaceXfounded by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elon Muskholds a separate resupply contract with NASA worth $1.6 billion. But the space station can also receive supplies from a host of space agency spacecraft such as Russias Progress cargo ship andJapans H-2 Transfer Vehicle, according toSPACE.com. (The European Space Agency wrapped up its fifth and final resupply mission for the space station with its Automated Transfer Vehicles in August of this year.)

An ongoing investigation of the disaster by Orbital Sciences has focused on the evident failure in the Antares rocketsfirst stage enginesAJ26 engines first developed by the Soviet Union for its failed N-1 moon rocket program in the 1960s and 1970s. Aerojet-Rocketdyne bought and refurbished many of the Russian rocket engines before contracting to sell20 of theenginesto Orbital Sciences, according to theLos Angeles Times. The newspaper reports that Orbital Sciences had already been planning to retire the problematic rocket engines prior to the recent launch failure.

The latest disaster comes at an awkward time for Orbital Sciences in addition to driving the companys stock price downward. Orbital is in the midst of merging with Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK)an aerospace company that built the solid rocket motors for NASAs space shuttleto form a new company focused on space rockets and military hardware. But the Wall Street Journal reports thatboth Orbital and outside analysts dont expect the rocket accident to dramatically affect the merger.

Still, Orbital Sciences wont be launching more resupply missions for the space station anytime soon. That may give the edge to Musks SpaceX in terms of future contract awards from NASA if there is a protracted accident investigation, saidChris Quilty, an analyst at Raymond James, in a research note cited byBusinessweek. SpaceX also recently won an additional $2.6 billion contractto build and test its Dragon 2 spacecraft for carrying U.S. astronauts to the space station.

NASA will also have to manage space station operations with just one commercial resupply partner in the short term, if not longer. The U.S. space agency is focusedon developing itsheavy rocket systemfor taking astronauts beyond Earth orbit while leaving the standard space station resupply missions to private contractors.

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