ESA contacts the International Space Station from ITU
The European Space Agency (ESA) nurturing space activities as a driver for world class science and international cooperation, make live radioamateur contact ...
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NASA To Outsource Astronaut Delivery To SpaceX, Boeing
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NASA Picks Boeing, SpaceX to Carry Astronauts Into Space
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Space Station Live: Micro-8 Yeast Study
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SpaceX CRS-4 Model Organisms Cargo Previewed
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Space to Ground: Preparing for Liftoff: 9/19/14
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The 3-D printing boom is about to invade space.
NASA is sending a 3-D printer to the International Space Station in hopes that astronauts will be able to one day fix their spacecraft by cranking out spare parts on the spot.
The printer, made by a Northern California company called Made in Space, is among more than 5,000 pounds of space station cargo thats stuffed into a SpaceX Dragon capsule that was supposed to lift off before dawn Saturday. Rainy weather forced SpaceX to delay the launch until Sunday.
Besides real-time replacement parts at the station, NASA envisions astronauts, in the decades ahead, making entire habitats at faraway destinations like Mars.
If were really going to set up shop on Mars, we have to do this, Jeff Sheehy, NASAs senior technologist, said Friday. We really cant afford to bring everything we need for an indefinite amount of time. Well need to get to the point where we can make things that we need as we go.
At Kennedy Space Center, the company showed off a number of objects made by its 3-D printers. On display was a scaled-down model of an air filter that the Apollo 13 astronauts devised to survive their aborted moon mission in 1970. It took five hours to print the model in a lab.
SpaceX is making the supply run for NASA, the same California company that just won a huge contract to deliver U.S. astronauts to the space station. Its Falcon 9 rocket with an unmanned Dragon is scheduled to blast off at 1:52 a.m. Sunday; slightly better weather is expected.
This April 2014 photo provided by NASA shows a 3-D printer after it passed flight certification and acceptance testing at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.Photo: AP
The small 3-D printer on board is a demo unit meant to churn out sample items made from the same type of plastic used for Lego bricks.
It was designed to operate safely in weightlessness inside a sealed chamber. The printing process is the same as on Earth, creating an object with layer upon layer of plastic.
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A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship during berthing last year at the International Space Station. SpaceX plans to launch its fourth operational station resupply mission early Saturday. SpaceX
SpaceX engineers loaded last-minute equipment and research gear aboard a Dragon cargo ship Friday, setting the stage for launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket early Saturday on a two-day flight to the International Space Station.
Loaded with more than 5,100 pounds of cargo, including 20 mice in a compact habitat, spacesuit batteries, an experimental 3D printer, IMAX cameras and an instrument to measure ocean wind speeds, the Dragon cargo craft was scheduled for liftoff from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 2:14 a.m. EDT Saturday, roughly the moment Earth's rotation carries the pad into the plane of the space station's orbit.
Assuming an on-time launch, the Dragon cargo ship is expected to rendezvous with the space station early Monday, pulling up to within about 30 feet and standing by while the lab's robot arm locks on around 7:30 a.m. and pulls the capsule in for berthing at the Earth-facing port of the forward Harmony module.
If all goes well, the spacecraft will remain attached to the station until around Oct. 18, returning to a Pacific Ocean splashdown, bringing some 3,800 pounds of research samples and equipment back to waiting scientists and engineers.
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Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of mission assurance at SpaceX, told reporters Friday the rocket and capsule were in good shape and ready for flight, but forecasters predicted a 50 percent chance of rain and thick clouds that could force a 24-hour delay. The outlook for Sunday calls for a 70 percent chance of acceptable weather, and a third launch opportunity may be available next Tuesday if needed.
If the Dragon is not off the ground by then, SpaceX will have to stand down until Sept. 28 to make way for the launch of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three fresh crew members to the outpost. The Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft, carrying commander Alexander Samokutyaev, flight engineer Elena Serova and NASA astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore, is scheduled for launch Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Joining station commander Maxim Suraev, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA flight engineer Reid Wiseman, the combined six-member Expedition 41 crew faces a particularly busy Fall schedule, unloading the SpaceX cargo ship, repacking it with samples and equipment for return to Earth, capturing an Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo craft in mid October and carrying out three spacewalks Oct. 7, 15 and 22.
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How to Configure Your Starmade Universe
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Minecraft Space Station Challenge Pack #3 | SMELTERY AND THINGS! - Minecraft Mod Pack Survival
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THE MISSION IS IN SIGHT
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Four Years of Progress
NASA and its aerospace industry partners have worked together for more than four years to develop subsystems,spacecraft, and launch vehicles that will lead to safe and reliable transportation...
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NASA Chooses Boeing and SpaceX Companies to Transport U.S. Astronauts to ISS
NASA officials at the agency #39;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida announced Sept. 16 the selection of Boeing and SpaceX to develop and certify crew transportation systems that will transport...
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SpaceX Dragon version 2 to Transport U.S. Astronauts to the International Space Station #Nasa
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Blue Dot: Three months of science in space
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International Space Station contact with Institut Florimont from ITU
ITU radioamateur station 4U1ITU facilitates radio contact with the International Space Station and Geneva school students Aim to inspire students to seek careers in science and technology....
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Boeing, SpaceX to send astronauts to space station
NASA selected Boeing and SpaceX on Tuesday to build America #39;s next spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2017, opening t...
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Dr. George Nelson: How best to use your neighborhood space station
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Russia Spaced Out: NASA to end Kremlin space reliance and partner with Boeing and SpaceX
NASA has confirmed that America #39;s reliance on Russia for space travel will end. NASA will partner with private firms Boeing and SpaceX for sending people into space from 2017. Russia currently...
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