Minecraft: Galacticraft #40 - Kevin Costner the Space Station
Back on the Space Station we christen it and then start moving our machines from the Overworld and the Moon up to the facility. Then we figure out the power ...
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"SPACE STATION" ZEON
Video and Sounddesign David Deignan.
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ARISS Brings ISS to OZ
This video covers the ARISS operation at Exploration Place in Wichita, KS on February 28, 2014. Dozens of middle school students were able to listen to a dozen of their classmates speak with...
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Space station astronauts connect with Indianapolis students
During a NASA Destination Station event on April 29, astronauts aboard the International Space Station talked with students at the Children #39;s Museum in India...
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HOUSTON (FOX 26) - Three newNASA flight directors will manage International Space Station operations at Houston-based Johnson Space Center.
Amit Kshatriya, Jeffery Radigan, and Zebulon Scoville, who are all veteran employees at JSC, will lead teams of flight controllers, support personnel, and engineering experts in the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center.They also are involved in cargo and crew vehicle integration with the ISS and developing plans for future exploration missions.
"These new flight directors will help us transition the knowledge and experience gained from our human spaceflight programs into the next period of ISS operations," said chief flight director Norm Knight. "This includes the development of new technologies and techniques for our exploration and commercial endeavors."
Kshatriya, Radigan and Scoville will supervise U.S. commercial cargo spacecraft and American commercial crew transports as they arrive at and depart from the space station. They will also help ensure that crews of the orbiting laboratory have what they need to conduct scientific research and help better prepare NASA for long-duration exploration in deep space as part of the development of the Orion spacecraft and its Space Launch System heavy-lift vehicle.
The three flight directors will also assist crew members as they demonstrate emerging technologies aboard the space station that will help the agency accomplish more significant space exploration goals.
Following completion of training and certification, NASA will have 26 active flight directors supporting the space station, exploration, commercial spaceflights and new technology demonstration initiatives. BeforeKshatriya, Radigan, and Scoville were selected, 83 people had served as flight directors throughout the more than five decades of NASA-led human spaceflight.
Kshatriya started his career at JSC as an instructor for the space station robotics system responsible for training multiple space shuttle and station crews. He is from the Houston area and earned a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin.
Radigan began his career at JSC as a member of the station flight control team assigned to the electrical power system. He is originally from Ohio, and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Ohio State University.
Scoville started his JSC career as both an instructor and flight controller for the Extravehicular Activity operations team and has experience in both space shuttle and space station operations. He is originally from Vermont and earned a bachelor's in mechanical engineering and a master's in astronautical engineering from Stanford University.
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Swanson compares space to 'being a kid and you find the best playground in the world'
Astronaut Steve Swanson, a University of Colorado graduate now living aboard the international space station, tries to spot Boulder every time the vessel flies by the U.S.
But the space station orbits Earth at roughly 5 miles per second, so even on clear days, he usually whiffs.
"I thought it would be easy," said Swanson, 53, during a video chat with students Wednesday. "You think you'll just look for the mountains, but by the time you take about 10 seconds to process it, you're past."
Donning a CU T-shirt and speaking into a floating microphone, Swanson who earned a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from CU in 1983 met for an hour with an audience of about 50 at CU's Fiske Planetarium, reminiscing about his days in Colorado and fielding questions on everything from gravitational physics to his distaste for space food.
He's been on the space station since March 25 and will assume command of the vessel in September. So far, so good, he said Wednesday.
"It's like being a kid and you find the best playground in the world, and then you get to stay there for five months," he said.
When asked his favorite part of living on the space station, Swanson didn't think twice.
"The best thing you can do is a space walk," he said. "The views are fantastic. The overall experience is just fantastic."
On one walk in particular, he told the audience, "I almost lost my mind with a sense of purpose."
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Viscera Cleanup Detail - The Space-Station Janitor Simulator!
The Tengu Cleaning Squad mop up alien blood, incinerate severed limbs and take out the space trash in this hardcore physics based cleaning game... set in spa...
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A Lettuce Garden Arrives at the Space Station | NASA Space Science
More space news and info at: http://www.coconutsciencelab.com - "Outregeous" is a space-faring lettuce that was delivered to the space station by the SpaceX ...
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Kerbal Space Program: RPL (9) - Building a Space Station
Building a Space Station. I recorded this and the next two videos at 60 fps just to see how it would turn out. It seems to have been a general failure due to...
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Microbes take over and then destroy the Space Station
Microbes take over and then destroy the Space Station.
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NASA #39;s Path to Mars
Get an inside look at NASA #39;s next steps in deep space exploration -- from the space station, to an asteroid and on to the human exploration of Mars.
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Bugs Bunny Lola Bunny : Operation Carrot Patch - The Space Station
Cela pourra peut-tre vous surprendre de voir ce genre de jeu dans mes reprises. Mais ce jeu est un des jeux de mon enfance je trouve la mlodie trs jolie. Si jamais vous voulez connatre...
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Arianespace Flight VV03 - KasEOSat-1
On Tuesday, April 29 at 10:35 pm local time in French Guiana, Arianespace successfully launched the third Vega launcher from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), orbiting the KazEOSat-1 (DZZ-HR)...
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In response to US sanctions aimed at Russia's space industry, Russian Deputy Prime MinisterDmitry Rogozin suggested that US astronauts get to the space station using a trampoline. Given a big enough trampoline, could that actually work?
Responding to new US sanctions to be imposed against his country in response to the Ukraine crisis, Russian Deputy Prime MinisterDmitry Rogozin took to Twitter on Tuesday to propose a novel way for US astronauts to travel to the International Space Station.
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"After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry," Dr. Rogozin tweeted in Russian, "I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline."
Following the conclusion of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, Russia's space program is the world's only institution currently capable of manned spaceflight. When US astronauts visit the International Space Station, they travel via Russian Soyuz spacecraft, at a fare of about $70 million per seat. Given the heightened tensions between our two countries, it's not unreasonable for the US to at least consider alternative transportation.
So exactly how feasible isRogozin's suggestion? Could a trampoline furnish an astronaut with the one giant leap needed to reach the space station, which orbits 220 miles above the Earth's surface?
Doing so would require significant trampoliningadvances, but Americans are nothing if not innovative. Just three weeks ago, in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza, acrobat Sean Kennedy, propelled by the combined kinetic energy of his brothers Eric and T.J., set the Guinness World Record for the highest trampoline jump, at 22 feet 1 inch, or 0.0018 percent of the distance to the space station.
Jonathan McDowellof the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics calculates that, for a trampolining astronaut to be properly flung into space, we would need a hole about one kilometer deep for the trampoline to stretch into. But he cautions that ordinary trampoline fabric would not be up to the task. "That's a problem for material scientists," he says.
Even if NASA were to design and build such a trampoline, say, by stretching some exotic, super-stretchy material across the Grand Canyon, an astronaut still wouldn't be able to bounce into space.
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Swanson compares space to 'being a kid and you find the best playground in the world'
Astronaut Steve Swanson, a University of Colorado graduate now living aboard the international space station, tries to spot Boulder every time the vessel flies by the U.S.
But the space station orbits Earth at roughly 5 miles per second, so even on clear days, he usually whiffs.
"I thought it would be easy," said Swanson, 53, during a video chat with students Wednesday. "You think you'll just look for the mountains, but by the time you take about 10 seconds to process it, you're past."
Donning a CU T-shirt and speaking into a floating microphone, Swanson who earned a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from CU in 1983 met for an hour with an audience of about 50 at CU's Fiske Planetarium, reminiscing about his days in Colorado and fielding questions on everything from gravitational physics to his distaste for space food.
He's been on the space station since March 25 and will assume command of the vessel in September. So far, so good, he said Wednesday.
"It's like being a kid and you find the best playground in the world, and then you get to stay there for five months," he said.
When asked his favorite part of living on the space station, Swanson didn't think twice.
"The best thing you can do is a space walk," he said. "The views are fantastic. The overall experience is just fantastic."
On one walk in particular, he told the audience, "I almost lost my mind with a sense of purpose."
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Team of engineers at Rice work on harvesting energy from heat in space
Rice University engineering students think it #39;s a shame to waste energy, especially in space. So a team of seniors invented a device that turns excess heat into electricity. Heat created by...
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Tekkit Livestream 4/28 - Space Station Building
Just building my space station. Livestream - http://www.twitch.tv/ToastedBabyLive Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/ToastedBaby Don #39;t forget to leave a rating! The texture pack used is my personal texture...
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When Space ExplorationTechnologies (SpaceX) launched NASA's third contractedcargo resupply mission to the International Space Station April 18, anexperiment designed by University of California,Davis, was among the cargo headed to space.
The experiment, NanoRacks-Comparison of the Growth Rate and DNACharacterization of Microgravity Exposed Microbial Community Samples(NanoRacks-Project MERCCURI), comparesthe growth rates of microbes isolated from samples collected from ground-basedpublic venues both in the microgravity environment of the space station and inthe lab. This study also characterizes the microbial communities found onsurfaces aboard the station using culture-independent methods.
U.S. company SpaceX ofHawthorne, Calif., launched its Dragon spacecraft atop the company's Falcon 9 rocketfrom the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 12:25 p.m. PDT.
SpaceX developed its Dragoncapsule, the only cargo spacecraft currently servicing the space station withthe capability to return cargo back to Earth, with NASA and now successfullyhas completed three missions to the orbiting outpost. Expedition 39 crewmembers captured the SpaceX-3 Dragon using the station's robotic arm at 7:06a.m. April 20. The capsule is scheduled to remain attached to the station unit for28 days. It then will return to Earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean, offthe coast California. It will return samples from scientific investigationscurrently underway aboard the space station.
The InternationalSpace Station is a convergence of science, technology and human innovation thatdemonstrates new technologies and makes research breakthroughs not possible onEarth. The space station has had continuous human occupation since November2000. In that time it has been visited by more than 200 people and a variety ofinternational and commercial spacecraft. The space station remains thespringboard to NASA's next great leap in exploration, including future missionsto an asteroid and Mars.
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University of California Davis Experiment Launches with NASA Cargo to Space
Expedition 39 commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, currently aboard the International Space Station, will make space-to-Earth musical connections with students in Texas this week to share and explore the relationship between the arts and space exploration.
Students from Pearl Hall Elementary in Pasadena, Texas, will perform songs with NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, Houston Symphony violinist Sergei Galperin and violinist Kenji Williams at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. From the space station, Wakata will perform a piece of the ancient Gagaku music with a Japanese reed instrument called a sho.
The live Music in Space program will be broadcast on NASA Television and webcasted on the DLiNfo Channel at 12:30 p.m. EDT Friday, May 2.
To attend the event at Johnson, media should contact Megan Sumner at 281-483-5111 ormegan.c.sumner@nasa.gov. Johnson Space Center is located at 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston.
This is the second Music in Space event. The first featured astronaut Chris Hadfield formerly of the Canadian Space Agency in March 2013. This event is a part of the Building Cultural Bridges program, which links Pearl Hall Elementary with Johnson Space Center and several arts organizations, providing opportunities for students to discover that they are an integral part of society at the local, state, national and international levels.
Linking students directly to space station astronauts provides them with an innovative experience of space exploration, scientific studies and the possibilities for future human space exploration.
These in-flight education events are part of a series with educational organizations in the United States to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics teaching and learning. It is a component of NASA's Digital Learning Network education program, which is designed to deliver interactive instruction in support of long-term retention of knowledge as only NASA can.
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Computerworld - NASA is reaching out to companies that want to use the International Space Station or low-Earth orbit for research or commercial space activities.
The space agency is asking for ideas from companies interested in using the orbiter to expand the U.S.'s commercial space industry or to propel technologies that will ultimately help NASA explore deep space.
"Now is an exciting time for space research and developing exploration capabilities," said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA, in a statement. "After 10 years of continuous habitation in low-Earth orbit, we know microgravity provides data unattainable on Earth. We are already seeing benefits in pharmaceuticals, medical robotics and materials sciences."
NASA's request for commercial proposals is expected to help the agency decide how to open up the orbiting laboratory to the private sector in better and more practical ways, according to Gerstenmaier.
"Ultimately, [this could help] to pave the way for private microgravity research facilities of the future," he said.
The ideas should focus on:
The complete proposal is available on NASA's website.
Proposals should be no more than 20 pages long and are due by June 30.
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