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Astronaut on Role as Reservist Apache Pilot - 25.11.14
A reservist Army Apache pilot who will become Britain #39;s first astronaut to spend six months in space has been talking to Forces TV about his love of flying in the military and his mission to...

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NASA Space Station Tour of Orbital Laboratory (Documentary HD)
In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours...

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MOC Space Station Prop
Just a little overview of the space station prop I made for MOC photography and such. It #39;s made from plenty of duck tape and recycled materials. Check out the blog post for more http://bionicfuzio...

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Space Nation - Initial Attack (docking)
another video from unfinished series "space nation" showing ship docking into space station.

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"Ptolemy Wept" Animated STAR TREK episode, Part 6
PART 6 - The U.S.S. Enterprise crew takes on a Federation historian to investigate an ancient space station which has suddenly appeared in orbit of a planet that the crew has visited before....

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Space Station Live: Untangling Alzheimers Proteins on Orbit
NASA Public Affairs Officer Brandi Dean speaks with Dr. Sam Durrance of the Florida Institute of Technology about his space station research NanoRacks Self Assembly in Biology and Origins of...

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CASIS SpaceX-5 Payload Overview
This video provides an overview of a CASIS/NASA/NIH investigation focused on immune suppression for aging adults by former astronaut Dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford. It will launch to the International...

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There soon could be more than one massive space station floating above Earths atmosphere if Russia follows through on a plan to construct a rival to the International Space Station. I confirm we are considering such an option, Oleg Ostapenko, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, told news agency RIA Novotsi, as quoted by Reuters. This is a possible direction of development.

NASA expects the $100 billion ISS, which is maintained and shared by 15 countries, to remain in service until at least 2024. Yet rumors have circulated in the Russian media for months that the Kremlin, which is engaged in prolonged, intense hostility with the West over Ukraine and other issues, hopes to build its own space station. With the oil-dependent country facing a currency crisis and expected to enter recession in 2015, however, experts wonder where the funding would come from.

How can they suddenly plan a new space station? Its impossible, Russian space industry analyst Pavel Luzin told the English-languageMoscow Times.

Officials have maintained that Russia will honor its commitment with the ISS, a partnership that lasts until 2020. Also, in September Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, head of the space industry, said the federal space budget for the years 2016 to 2025 will dedicate 321 billion rubles ($6.8 billion) to continuing development on the ISS.

Experts have suggested that the contradiction only highlights the current conflict within the Kremlin. President Vladimir Putins popularity has hovered around 80 percent, in part because of a Russian national image thats become more assertive even as the value of the ruble falls.

The best thing for the economy short of an oil price which the Kremlin has no influence over would be to negotiate a settlement with Ukraine and climb down the escalation, foreign policy expect and Russian commentator Ian Bremmer told Business Insider. But that flies against whats actually sustained Putins popularity and the primary driver of his entire strategy for the past year.

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An urban sprawl engulfs San Francisco Bay in a sea of lights. The three bridges Oakland Bay Bridge, San Mateo Bridge and Dumbarton Bridge glow as straight lines connecting the coasts. From top right going clockwise, freeways pass through Oakland, Hayward, Fremont, San Jose, Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Mateo and San Francisco.

The bright lights of the cities are themselves surrounded by natural parks. Past the coastal Eastern Bay Regional Parks to the right, the cities of Pleasanton and Walnut Creek keep the dark wilderness at bay with their street lighting. To the left, apart from the Half Moon Bay Airport on the coast, the blackness of the Pacific Ocean prevails. This image was taken on December 23, 2012 from the International Space Station.

The European Space Agency developed an automatic camera tripod that compensates for the speed of the Space Station flying at 28,800 km/h to take sharper pictures at night.

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A 300-foot-long barge will be used as an off-shore landing platform during launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Friday. The primary goal of the flight is to deliver critical supplies and equipment to the space station, but SpaceX hopes to land the rocket's first stage on the barge for possible refurbishment and reuse -- a key milestone in the company's push to reduce launch costs. Harwood/CBS News

SpaceX engineers are gearing up to launch a Dragon cargo ship atop a Falcon 9 rocket Friday for the company's fifth operational space station resupply mission. And if all goes well, the Falcon 9's first stage will attempt to land on a barge stationed off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., a key milestone in SpaceX founder Elon Musk's drive to lower costs by reusing boosters that otherwise would be discarded in the sea.

The Marmac 300, a platform barge listed on McDonough Marine Service's website and modified for use by SpaceX, features a spacious deck measuring 300 feet long and 170 feet wide. The barge, which SpaceX calls an autonomous spaceport drone ship, was seen by reporters over the weekend docked adjacent to the Jacksonville cruise ship terminal.

"Reusability is the critical breakthrough needed in rocketry to take things to the next level," Musk said during the MIT AeroAstro Centennial Symposium in October. "We've been able to soft land the rocket booster in the ocean twice so far. Unfortunately, it sort of sat there for several seconds then tipped over and exploded (laughter). It's quite difficult to reuse. It's as tall as a 14-story building. When a 14-story building falls over, it's quite a belly flop!

"So what we need to do is be able to either land on a floating platform or ideally boost back to the launch site and land back at the launch site. But before we boost back to the launch site and try to land there, we need to show that we can land with precision over and over again, otherwise something bad could happen."

The SpaceX barge would appear to be an ideal offshore landing platform. The deck's dimensions are listed as 300 feet by 100 feet on McDonough Marine's website, but the barge was widened by two wing-like additions seen extending from its sides. Company officials did not return a phone call seeking additional information, but the barge is believed to be equipped with powerful thrusters capable of maintaining its position to within a few tens of feet and internal water tanks to help damp out wave action.

An industry source said the platform will be operated remotely or autonomously on launch day with a crew stationed on another ship a safe distance away.

The width of the Marmac 300 barge was extended to provide additional landing space for the Falcon 9 first stage, which has a leg span of some 70 feet. The dimensions of the landing platform are 300 feet by about 170 feet.

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