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Giant Kerbal Space Station
At launch it weighed over 5000000kg and has over 500 parts. It makes it to orbit with 8 Kerbodyne S3-14400 Tanks completely full.

By: Corey Duma

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Giant Kerbal Space Station - Video

Get alerts anytime the International Space Station flies over your location, so you can wave, send a tweet, or run outside to see it at night.

It's easy to forget that there's a big floating box full of people orbiting about 200 miles above us. The ISS-Above project on Kickstarter wants to be your reminder. It gives out alerts anytime the space station flies above your location, so you can wave, send a tweet to the station, or run outside to see it at night.

The brains behind ISS-Above is a Raspberry Pi system with a memory card loaded with your location information. LEDs light up to alert you to the space station's presence. There are different case options depending on the look you want your gadget to have, including some colorful 3D-printed options.

A complete ISS-Above device preloaded with your location goes for a pledge price of $115. If you just want the memory card with your location and custom Twitter login for sending a quick "hello" to the ISS, then it's just $42. This is a good option if you want to make your own custom alert device. The project has until February 27 to meet its $5,000 funding goal.

Back when the space shuttle was still in operation, I met my mother to see both the shuttle and ISS together in the night sky, two little pinpoints of light moving rapidly out of view. "There are people up there," was all I could say to her, all my years of "Star Trek" fandom and childhood astronaut dreams running through my head.

I see ISS-Above as a mini-celebration of humans in space, a reminder that we really did manage to get people off the planet, and they're still up there, living and working above.

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ISS-Above glows when the space station orbits near you

Mina Hainsworth at the Intergalactic Space Station
Mina on the decks at ITG!

By: Phobos Jamberoo

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Mina Hainsworth at the Intergalactic Space Station - Video

September 4, 2014

Image Credit: The first in a series of NASA Earth-observing instruments to be mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station is scheduled for launch this month. ISS-RapidScat will monitor ocean winds for climate research, weather predictions and hurricane monitoring. Credit: NASA

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ NASA opens a new era this month in its exploration of our home planet with the launch of the first in a series of Earth science instruments to the International Space Station. A media briefing on this addition to NASAs Earth-observing program will air at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 8, on NASA Television and the agencys website.

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The first Earth-observing instrument to be mounted on the exterior of the space station will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on the next SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services flight. ISS-RapidScat will monitor ocean winds for climate research, weather predictions and hurricane monitoring from the space stations unique vantage point.

The second instrument is the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), a laser instrument that will measure clouds and the location and distribution of pollution, dust, smoke, and other particulates in the atmosphere. CATS will follow ISS-RapidScat on the fifth SpaceX space station resupply flight.

The briefing will take place in the NASA TV studio at the agencys Headquarters, located at 300 E Street SW in Washington. The briefing panelists are:

Julie Robinson, ISS Program chief scientist, NASAs Johnson Space Center, Houston

Steve Volz, associate director for flight programs in the Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington

Melanie Miller, lead SpaceX-4 robotics officer, Johnson

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NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Announce New Earth-Observing Role for International Space Station