International Space Station Captures CRS-4/Dragon (9/23/2014)
Crew members of the ISS captured the CRS-4/Dragon capsule using the Canadarm2 Sept. 23 2014 while traveling at over 17000 mph 262 miles above the Earth. The Dragon will spend a month docked...
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SpaceX #39;s Dragon Cargo Spacecraft Arrives At Space Station | Video
The private space company #39;s cargo spacecraft delivered supplies, a 3-D printer and more to the International Space Station on September 23rd, 2014. Full Story: http://goo.gl/6A5wcu.
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Set on an intergalactic ship, the sci-fi comedy "Space Station 76" mixes elements of "The Jetsons" (chore-performing robots, meals that appear at the push of a button) with "Logan's Run" (molded, white plastic living spaces, windows with planetary views) and tosses in a bit of "The Brady Bunch" (wood-paneled walls, shag carpeting, the color brown) for good measure.
"We wanted our space station to be as much inspired by suburban homes of the '70s as it was by sci-fi movies and TV from the '70s," says director Jack Plotnick, who found his own childhood echoed in the sets.
"There's a microwave in the wall of one of the kitchens, just like my family had, and there are couch pillows with the same design as our couch had. And the jewelry box on one of the character's dressers turned out to be the spitting image of the one my mom had that gave me chills!"
"It's like 'Peyton Place' in outer space," offers production designer Seth Reed, who only had four weeks to prep the low-budget film and found inspiration in everything from midcentury architects like Pierre Koenig to the 1971 "The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement" (a few sets are still available on Amazon).
"The thought was that the characters were given anonymous, empty white living capsules when they arrived on the ship, and then they were allowed to choose color schemes and furniture to suit their taste," Reed says. "The unhappy couple [Matt Bomer and Marisa Coughlan] have customized theirs with fake wood paneling and furniture in rusty reds and browns. There are ferns, a flokati rug and a fake electric fireplace."
Their lonely daughter's bedroom, while modular as well, looks like a lot of girls' bedrooms in the mid-'70s: flowered wallpaper and multiple framed pictures of horses all over the walls. "We were trying to embrace that particular '70s style, even amplifying it," Reed says. "We went for irony a lot!"
While the swirling super-graphic featured on the wall in the ship's recreation room and the patterned "tiles" in the captain's (Patrick Wilson) bathroom were painted by the production team, set decorator Kat Wilson sourced most of the movie's groovy furniture smoked acrylic chairs, chrome lighting fixtures, white plastic everything from industry rental houses. "I don't think most of the pieces were originals, merely inspired by designer pieces," she says.
As for what design element from the era most deserves a comeback, Plotnick doesn't hesitate. "Shag carpeting!" he declares. "What's more comforting than walking on shag carpeting? I think we got rid of it because it collects dust, but now that we really live in the future and have Roombas that can spend all day cleaning, please, can we bring them back?"
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Flipping through online photo albums and social media collections of "selfies" is one thing, but when pictures can show land areas where millions of people live, it can put things in a completely different perspective -- especially for scientists.
One of NASA's newest tools for effective Earth observation has been orbiting our planet for more than 15 years. The International Space Station provides a constant, reliable perspective from which to record changes on the surface of Earth.
A new user-friendly online resource will provide images from a space station camera with nearly two years of images to share. The interface is a world map that links to thousands of images made by the ISERV camera: the International Space Station SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System. With the click of a mouse, the public can access the images with the ISERV Viewer.
People can view and download specific ISERV captures from a collection of more than 4,000 Earth images. ISERV scientists plan to expand the database to about 60,000 by summer 2015.
ISERV was installed as a technology testbed in the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF) on the orbiting laboratory in January 2013 and is scheduled to be removed from operation in 2015. The camera receives and acts on commands from the ISERV team to acquire image data of specific areas of Earth's surface as the space station passes overhead.
Images from ISERV are uploaded quickly to the web due to a new automated georeferencing capability, allowing imagery to be processed and published much faster. This is critically important when dealing with a disaster situation. Georeferencing is a process in which points in an image can be associated with geographic locations on a map. Developed by the ISERV ground team, the automated system uses the space station orbit and position data, along with the acquisition time information contained within each image to establish location on Earth and post it on the online map.
The ISERV camera is part of the SERVIR Earth observation program. For 10 years, SERVIR -- an acronym meaning "to serve" in Spanish -- has been a successful collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. The program provides satellite-based Earth observation data and science applications to help developing nations in Central America, Africa and Asia assess environmental threats and the damage from -- and their response to -- natural disasters.
"ISERV has demonstrated the value of Earth observation from the International Space Station for decision makers and disaster responders around the world," says Burgess Howell, ISERV principal investigator at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. "This new image portal will provide public access to a vast array of images over much of the populated area of Earth."
With ISERV, the SERVIR team has pioneered using the space station to support humanitarian relief and disaster support in underserved regions of the globe.
"Nearly 95 percent of the planet's populated area is visible during the station's orbit," said William Stefanov, PhD., associate program scientist for Earth observations in the International Space Station Program Science Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "Imagery captured by ISERV provides valuable information to the scientists and governments around the world to assist in environmental assessments and disaster situations."
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Liftoff of SpaceX-4
The SpaceX-4 Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 1:52 a.m. EDT.
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SpaceX cargo ship blasts off toward space station
SpaceX #39;s unmanned Dragon cargo ship blasts off toward the International Space Station, carrying a load of supplies and science experiments for the astronauts living there. The spacecraft launched...
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Expedition 41 Soyuz Prepared for Launch to Station
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft was encapsulated into the third stage of its Soyuz booster rocket Sept. 19 as preparations continued for the Sept. 26...
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SPACE STATION - NZ VS AUS..THE FANS ARE STILL FUCKWITS
Click the time to link to the battle you want, or enjoy the whole thing. HARJOT SINGH(sydney) vs DND(nz) M@$%N(melbourne) vs JYO(nz) - 08:50 NOYES(queensland) vs KAMASUDA(1out nz...
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Space Station 76 Official Movie Trailer: Matt Bomer Patrick Wilson
The official trailer to Space Station 76, starring Patrick Wilson, Matt Bomer, Liv Tyler, Marisa Coughlan. Science Fiction, comedy, 2014 - more on http://www.bravenewhollywood.com/ The 1970s #39;...
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Airplanes take us to the Skies; i.e. Int. Space Station (Satellite)
Jesus said "I go to prepare a place for you and if I go... I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am ye may be also" In 1st Thessalonians 4: 15-17 portrays we "Shall meet...
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The International Space Station accepted another SpaceX shipment containing the first 3-D printer ever launched into orbit.
The SpaceX cargo ship, Dragon, has arrived at the space station two days after blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
German astronaut Alexander Gerst used a robot arm to grab the capsule.
The Dragon is delivering more than 5,000lbs of supplies, with the 3-D printer - an experimental model taking top billing among the payload.
Also on board are mice and flies for biological research, fresh spacesuit batteries so Nasa can resume routine spacewalks, and a 30 million dollar (18 million) instrument to measure ocean wind.
Nasa is paying California-based company SpaceX to stock the station. Last week, the firm won the right to transport astronauts, although that is still a few years off.
The Dragon will remain at the orbiting outpost for about a month, where it will be filled with experimental materials and data for return to Earth.
The Dragon is the only unmanned cargo capsule capable of returning items, and this mission marks its fifth visit to the space station.
Another spacecraft is due to arrive in another couple days.
Russia is poised to launch a Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan on Thursday with a three-person crew. That will bring the number of astronauts at the space station to the usual six.
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Let #39;s Play Space Station 13 Part 9: Captains Quarters
Things get hot and heavy as we move to the captains quarters. Definitely not for the kids.
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Boeing Crew Transport Vehicle Progresses To Manufacturing Phase | Video
The CST-100 spacecraft will be put through test flights and eventually fly crewed operational missions to the International Space Station. Boeing #39;s contract with NASA is in its final phase...
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SpaceX Dragon Selected to Ferry Astronauts to the Space Station | Video
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Next Space Station Crew Prepares for Launch
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 41/42 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight...
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Super Metroid (SNES) - Chapter 1 - Space Station Ceres - 100%
The game begins with Samus responding to a distress call from the Ceres Station. You #39;ll start out at the top of a long shaft, Drop down past all the platforms and go through the door at the...
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3D Printing in Space: The Next Frontier | Niki Werkheiser | TEDxHuntsville
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Any remote location, whether it is the middle of the desert or the surface of Mars, presents a challenge...
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Delayed Space X mission launches
Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/ODNsubs NASA #39;s space X mission to deliver supplies and science equipment to the International Space Station launched today after being delayed by bad weather....
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updated 9:49 AM EDT, Sun September 21, 2014 |
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(CNN) -- A spacecraft that launched early Sunday is transporting a 3-D printer that could change life on the International Space Station.
The SpaceX Dragon lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 1:52 a.m. ET. It will arrive on Tuesday, bringing other cargo as well, including 20 mice and elements for 255 scientific experiments aboard the ISS.
"There's nothing like a good launch, it's just fantastic," said Hans Koenigsman, vice president of Mission Assurance for SpaceX. "From what I can tell, everything went perfectly."
It marks the first time a 3-D printer will be used in space, testing the ability to produce parts cheaply and on demand instead of waiting for them to arrive on a cargo ship. This technology would save time and money in future deep space missions.
Also coming along is a device called ISS-RapidScat that will measure the winds on the Earth's oceans.
"This launch kicks off a very busy time for the space station," said NASA's Sam Scimemi, director of the ISS.
On September 25, three new crew members for the ISS will arrive aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. Barry "Butch" Wilmore of NASA and Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency will launch from Kazakhstan and are expected to arrive six hours later.
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The private spaceflight company SpaceX lit up the night sky over Florida early Sunday (Sept. 21) with the spectacular launch of Dragon spacecraft packed with supplies including the first 3D printer in space and a troop of 20 mice for the International Space Station.
The unmanned Dragon space capsule launched into orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 1:52 a.m. EDT (0552 GMT). Ten minutes later, Dragon reached orbit and separated from the Falcon 9. It should reach the space station on Tuesday, Sept. 23.
"Nothing like a good launch it's just fantastic," HansKoenigsmann, SpaceX's vice presidentof mission assurance, said during a post-launch briefing. "Everything was really perfect." [See photos from the SpaceX-4 Dragon mission]
Dragon is carrying about 2.5 tons of cargo to the space station for NASA. The mission is SpaceX's fourth of 12 delivery missions for the U.S. space agency under a $1.6 billion deal. Sunday's flawless launch occurred one day after rain and thick cloudsforced SpaceX to delay the launchon early Saturday (Sept. 20).
But skies were clear and the stars were out during the pre-dawn launch on Sunday morning. Sam Scimemi, NASA's International Space Station director, told reporters that the Falcon 9 appeared to be soaring though the constellation Orion after it took off.
"It was a beautiful night," Scimemi said.
Food, care packages and provisions for NASA's astronauts make up more than a third of thecargo onboard Dragon. But the spacecraft also has experiments and equipment that will eventually help scientists complete 255 researchprojects in total, according to NASA. In Dragon's trunk, there's an instrument dubbed RapidScat, which will be installed outside the space station to measure the speed and direction of ocean winds on Earth. Among the commercially funded experiments onboard Dragon is a materials-science test from the sports company Cobra Puma Golf designed to build a stronger golf club.
Dragon is also hauling thefirst space-grade 3D printer,built by Made in Space, which will test whether the on-the-spot manufacturing technology is viable without gravity.
Jeff Sheehy, senior technical officer of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, said it is " a certainty" that NASA will eventually rely on 3D-printed tools and replacement parts that are made in space instead of traditional equipment sent up from Earth.
"If we're really going to set up shop on Mars, we have to get there," Sheehy told reports during a briefing Friday morning. "We really can't afford to bring everything we need."
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