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Space Station Live: Satellites on the Station
NASA Public Affairs Officer Lori Meggs and interviews Stephen Volz, Associate Director for Flight Programs. Numerous free-flying satellites orbit Earth and map our planet for various areas...

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Space Station Live: Satellites on the Station - Video

Iss (International space station)
The International space station went over my house.

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Iss (International space station) - Video

International Space Station for Wed, 8th October 2014
This is a image taken from the live feed from the International Space Station.

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International Space Station for Wed, 8th October 2014 - Video

Space Station Live: Checking Your Eyes in Space
Space Station Live commentator Brandi Dean interviews Dr. Christian Otto, Principal Investigator, Ocular Health. This interview aired during Space Station Live on October 9, 2014.

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Space Station Live: Checking Your Eyes in Space - Video

International Space Station Fly-over 10/8/2014
Caught the ISS flying overhead 7:45pm on 10/8/2014. Speed at the time was 17100mph according to ISSTracker.com. Recorded location in Jonesborough, TN in backyard.

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International Space Station Fly-over 10/8/2014 - Video

NASA's newest Earth observing mission, the International Space Station-Rapid Scatterometer, or ISS-RapidScat, is collecting its first science data on ocean wind speeds and direction following its successful installation and activation on the exterior of the station's Columbus module.

Ground controllers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston robotically assembled the RapidScat instrument and its nadir adapter, which orients the instrument to point at Earth, on Sept. 29 to 30. On Oct. 1, the instrument was powered on, its antenna began spinning and it started transmitting and receiving its first winds data. The team then began checking out the instrument, a process expected to take about two weeks. Checkout activities to date are proceeding nominally.

Following instrument checkout, the team will perform two weeks of preliminary calibration and validation of science data. RapidScat will then be ready to begin its two-year science mission.

On Oct. 3, mission scientists processed their first winds data and produced their first uncalibrated images: a partial global map of wind speeds and a close-up image of what was then Tropical Storm Simon, brewing off the west coast of Mexico, showing its wind speeds and wind directions at approximately 7 p.m. local time.

The new images are available here.

"Most satellite missions require weeks or even months to produce data of the quality that we seem to be getting from the first few days of RapidScat," said RapidScat Project Scientist Ernesto Rodriguez of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, which built and manages the mission.

"We have been very lucky that within the first days of operations we have already been able to observe a developing tropical cyclone.

"The quality of these data reflect the level of testing and preparation that the team has put in prior to launch," Rodriguez said. "It also reflects the quality of the spare QuikScat hardware from which RapidScat was partially assembled."

RapidScat is the first science payload to be robotically assembled in space since the space station itself. Launched Sept. 21 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle, RapidScat rode to orbit in the "trunk" of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. The Dragon reached the station on Sept. 23, was captured by the station's robotic arm and was then berthed at the station's Node 2 Nadir, or Earth-facing, port.

Following inspections of RapidScat from cameras installed in the Dragon's trunk and on the station's robotic arm, ground controllers at Johnson Space Center used the DEXTRE manipulator on the station's robotic arm to pluck RapidScat's nadir adapter from the Dragon trunk on Sept. 29.

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NASA's New Winds Mission Installed, Gathers First Data

Let #39;s Play Alien : Isolation - Episode 1 - Gameplay Walkthrough
Let #39;s Play Alien : Isolation, shall we? Welcome to my walkthrough of Alien : Isolation, a game in which we will work our way through a derelict space station while avoiding becoming the xenomorph #39;s...

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Let's Play Alien : Isolation - Episode 1 - Gameplay Walkthrough - Video

A pair of astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Tuesday for a six-hour spacewalk to perform maintenance work including putting an old cooling pump into storage.

Flight engineers Reid Wiseman with the US'National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)and Alexander Gerst with the European Space Agency (ESA) left the station's Quest airlock about 8:50 am EDT (1250 GMT), a first spacewalk for both, a NASA Television broadcast showed.

Their primary goal was to finish work from December to replace a failed ammonia cooling pump.

"Nice work today, guys. Great job on the tasks," NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock from Mission Control in Houston radioed to the astronauts as they returned to the airlock six hours later.

The old cooling unit was removed and a spare installed during two December spacewalks, but the repair crew ran out of time to put the failed module into storage for possible repair and reuse.

After gathering tools, Wiseman prepared the intended storage site on one of the station's external stowage platforms while Gerst attached himself to the end of the station's 58-foot-(18-metre) long robotic arm to move the old pump.

With NASA crewmate Butch Wilmore operating the crane from inside the station's cupola module, Gerst carried the module, which on Earth weighs about 850 pounds (385 kg), over to its storage site.

"Nice flying, Butch," Wheelock radioed to the crew.

After bolting the module into place, Wiseman and Gerst tackled some electrical work to provide an alternative power source for equipment on the robot arm's mobile base. They also replaced a light in a television camera outside the Destiny laboratory module.

A second outing by Wiseman and Wilmore is scheduled for October 15 to replace a failed component in a voltage regulator that is part of the station's solar power system. The device failed in May, taking down one of the station's eight power channels.

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International Space Station astronauts conduct maintenance work on 6-hour spacewalk