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Eye of Super Typhoon Maysak Looks Like a Black Hole from Space
European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has just posted these five shots of typhoon Maysak, taken from aboard the International Space Station. Maysak is a very strong category...

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Super Typhoon Maysak seen from Space Station
Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has published many incredible images of Super Typhoon Maysak. These images are taken from the International Space Station (ISS). Cristoforetti posted...

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The Spatials Gameplay Test Drive! (Space Station Sim)
Let #39;s play The Spatials! Starting with a small crew of intrepid officers, you must build and manage a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Send your crew on planetary tactical combat...

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The Spatials (Gameplay) - No Idea What I #39;m Doing - Part 1
Today Brbteabreak plays The Spatials, an "Indie Tycoon RPG Simulation Resource Management set in Space" We start up our space station and try to work out what #39;s going on. Don #39;t worry we work...

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The first one-year crew for the International Space Station is set to launch Friday, March 27. NASA Television will provide extensive coverage of the launch and the crew's arrival to the orbital laboratory.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend a year living and working aboard the space station and will launch with cosmonaut Gennady Padalka. The trio will become part of the station's Expedition 43 crew.

NASA TV coverage will begin at 2:30 p.m. EDT March 27, with launch scheduled for 3:42 p.m. (1:42 a.m. Saturday, March 28 in Baikonur) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio will ride to space in a Soyuz spacecraft, which will rendezvous with the space station and dock after four orbits of Earth. Docking to the space station's Poisk module will take place at 9:36 p.m. Friday. NASA TV coverage of docking will begin at 8:45 p.m.

Hatches between the Soyuz and the station will be opened at approximately 11:15 p.m., at which time Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts of NASA and his crewmates, Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency), will greet Kelly, Kornienko and Padalka. Hatch opening coverage begins on NASA TV at 10:45 p.m.

Kelly and Kornienko will spend a year on the space station to better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to the harsh environment of space. Data from the expedition will be used to determine whether there are ways to further reduce the risks on future long-duration missions to an asteroid and eventually Mars.

The crew will support several hundred experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science - research that impacts life on Earth. Data and samples will be collected throughout the year from a series of studies involving Scott and his twin brother, former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. The studies will compare data from the genetically-identical Kelly brothers to identify any subtle changes caused by spaceflight.

Padalka will spend six months aboard the outpost, during which he will become the first four-time station commander and record holder for most cumulative time spent in space.

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One-Year Crew Set for Launch to Space Station

A few years ago, educator Patricia Tribe was cooking spaghetti and contemplating a tough question: How do you keep science in schools while still making enough time for literacy?

By 2011, the now-former director of education at Space Center Houston saw her vision realized: Astronaut Alvin Drew read a book by children's space author Jeffrey Bennett on the International Space Station during the STS-133 space shuttle mission.

"He read 'Max Goes to the Moon'" (Big Kid Science, 2012), Tribe told Space.com. Bennett was happy to contribute to the project, but at first didn't believe the messenger, she joked. "He thought it was a prank call." [Space.com's Favorite Sci-Fi and Space Books]

Four years later, Tribe's "Story Time from Space" group is bigger; members include Drew, Bennett and former Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason. There are now five books from Bennett on the station, launched on an Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares flight in January 2014. Several astronauts have read the books on video in the past year. But Tribe's group now wants to add science experiments to the stories.

The group is asking for $55,000 on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. They've raised a little more than $3,000 to date, and a Kickstarter campaign last year failed to achieve its goal. Tribe, however, says the group will keep seeking money through grants if this second campaign fails.

"We're not stopping, that's for sure," she said. The Indiegogo campaign concludes April 25.

The science experiments will deal with nine topics: balance, buoyancy, free fall, heat transfer, light, surface tension, orbit, pendulums and space's effects on the human body. Items for the experiments will include a spectrometer, a sensor to measure acceleration and discs with different colors to measure heat absorption through the station's huge cupola windows.

A typical experiment will be paired with material from one of the five books on the station, like using the spectrometer to watch the light changing during a sunset, for example. Data from the experiment will then be included in the lesson plan, which will be tailored according to student age (from primary school to university).

Despite the wide range of topics, the group's experiments fit in a box roughly 1 foot (30 centimeters) square that weighs only a couple of pounds (about 1 kilogram). They're expected to ride a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft to station on June 13, Tribe said.

The major partner for "Story Time from Space" is the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the sole operator for the United States science laboratory on the station, called Destiny. CASIS and NASA take care of the launch costs, while "Story Time", a nonprofit group, is responsible for paying for the payload creation, Tribe said.

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'Story Time from Space' Raising Funds to Put Kids' Science in Orbit

April 2, 2015

These culture dishes hold seedlings and the growing medium for the Plant Gravity Sensing investigation, which were used during astronaut training at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agencys Tsukuba Space Center in March 2014. (Credit: European Space Agency/S. Corvaja)

Provided by Laura Niles,International Space Station Program Science Office and Public Affairs Office

Although it is arguable as to whether plants have all five human senses sight, scent, hearing, taste and touch they do have a unique sense of gravity, which is being tested in space. Researchers with theJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency will conduct a second run of thePlant Gravity Sensing study after new supplies are delivered by the sixthSpaceX commercial resupply mission to theInternational Space Station. The research team seeks to determine how plants sense their growth direction without gravity. The study results may have implications for higher crop yield in farming and for cultivating plants for long-duration space missions.

The investigation examines the cellular process of formation in thale cress, orArabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant related to cabbage. The genetic makeup of thale cress is simple and well-understood by the plant biology community. This knowledge allows scientists to easily recognize changes that occur as a result of microgravity adaptation.

NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg harvests plants from a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency investigation of Arabidopsis thaliana during Expedition 37. (Credit: NASA)

Understanding the cellular processes in plant development may translate to better knowledge of cellular processes in the human body. Since thale cress is considered amodel organism for biological research, there are genetic similarities that may reveal insights into our health. Specifically, this could impact medical science since research teams may gain a better understanding of mechanisms of diseases affected by gravity, such as osteoporosis and muscle loss.

In the Plant Gravity Sensing study, scientists examine whether the mechanisms of the plant that determine its growth direction the gravity sensor form in the absence of gravity. Specifically, the research team analyzes how concentrations of calcium behave in the cells of plants originally grown in microgravity when later exposed to a 1g environment, or gravity similar to that on Earth. Plant calcium concentrations have been shown to change in response to temperature and touch and adapt to the direction of gravity on Earth.

Plants cultivated in space are not experienced with gravity or the direction of gravity and may not be able to form gravity sensors that respond to the specific direction of gravity changes, said Hitoshi Tatsumi, Ph.D., principal investigator of the Plant Gravity Sensing investigation and associate professor at Nagoya University in Nagoya (present address: Kanazawa Institute of Technology), Japan.

Researchers use a centrifuge in theCell Biology Experiment Facility inKibo, the Japanese Experiment Module, to monitor the plants response to changes between microgravity and a simulated 1g condition. The research team does this to determine if the plants sense changes in gravitational acceleration and adapt the levels of calcium in their cells.

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Plants use 'sixth sense' to grow on ISS

Typhoon Maysak looks imposing from orbit. ESA/NASA/Samantha Cristoforetti

Typhoon season is off to an early start this year and NASA's eyes in the skies are getting a good look at a super-typhoon that formed over the Pacific Ocean. Typhoon Maysak is still churning away, but European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti caught an image of it on March 31 as it strengthened into a super-typhoon.

Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman in space, is a member of the Expedition 42/43 crew on the International Space Station. The photo shows a massive, swirling cloud formation from an upside-down perspective. The typhoon's eye is visible as a hole in the clouds near the center. Heavy rainfall and strong thunderstorms are hidden underneath the floor of clouds.

NASA's weather satellites are tracking Typhoon Maysak, monitoring its movement, rainfall and winds. NASA notes that Maysak produced maximum sustained winds near 150 mph. The space agency's Aqua satellite captured another view of the storm system, looking almost directly down, showing the wide scope of the typhoon over the ocean.

Currently, Typhoon Maysak is heading towards the Philippines, though the Pacific Disaster Center reports it is now entering a weakening phase.

A NASA satellite takes another look at Maysak. NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team

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Typhoon eye seen from space is terrifying and fascinating

Kerbal Space Program - Space Station Teaser (no mods)
Kerbal Space Program v0.90 / no mods Music (YT): Satie - Gymnopedie no1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satie) Recorderd with Nvidia Shadowplay: 1920x1080@60FPS Preparations to fulfill a contract:.

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Star Trek Attack Wing batrep: Space Station Battle
Six people with 100 points each in a 3 vs 3 battle with a space station as well on each side, so almost 700 points on the table.

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