Category Archives: Space Station

KSP #83 - Project Rapture Ep. 1 - The Secret Space Program (Subscriber Colony)
I will be taking 3 people from the comments of this video to add to the space program for now but I #39;ll allow more each episode. All you have to do is like the video, write your funniest joke...

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Star Wars : The New X Wing XJ8 Model | Space Engineers
Inspired by the new X Wing model shown on the set of Star Wars Episode 7: "The Force Awakens," Incom Corporation shows off the latest starfighter seen in the latest Star Wars Trailer. The model...

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Foxx Plays: KSP 365 Challenge! ep.29
Mission on the 29th upload on the 30th... you win some you lose some. Today we deliver the very first space station expansion! (sorry for the scratchy audio in the second half) Tantares Mod...

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Space Station 13 Episode 40: A Bombing and Tradio
The audio is kind of funky in this one, not sure why but my encoder was flipping out when trying to encode at anything better then "absolute crap." So sorry about that.

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When more than 100 million people on Earth tune in for the Super Bowl kick-off this Sunday, NASA's astronauts in space will probably be sleeping.

But two the American astronauts living and working on the International Space Station are football fans, and at least one of them says he hopes to wake up in time to see the end of the Super Bowl matchup between the New England Patriots or the Seattle Seahawks.

"Regrettably, our bedtime, or at least my bed time is quite early," the station's commander, NASA astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore,said in an interview with reporters earlier this week. "But I am an early riser I look forward to at least watching the end and seeing the outcome. And I might throw something on the grill just for myself as well." [NASA Space Tech Makes the Super Bowl Possible]

"Grilling" for Wilmore probably means heating up somefreeze-dried or thermostabilized packaged food with warm water. There are no microwaves or ovens on the space station, and definitely no grills. Open flames aren't allowedinside the orbiting lab.

It's not possible for the astronauts to live on a typical day-night cycle. Their orbiting home circles Earth every 90 minutes, and they might witness up to 16 sunrises and sunsets each day. They live on Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT, and the 6:30 p.m. EST kick-off time actually occurs about two hours after the start of their bedtime, said NASA spokesman Dan Huot. If astronauts are awake, the game will be uplinked to them live.

"Not clear on who they will be rooting for," Huot said in an email. "Wilmore is from Tennessee and a big Titans fan and Virts has been wearing his Texans gear lately."

Virts posted a picture of himself on Twitter last week sporting a J.J. Watt Houston Texans shirt while looking down at Earth from the space station's cupola. The Texans didn't make it to the playoffs this year. Nonetheless, Virts wrote that Watt is "the best football player on Earth."

Wilmore isn't just a football fan; he's also a former college football star. He was a linebacker for Tennessee Tech's Golden Eagles. With 143 tackles, he ranks third on the team's all-time tackles list, and he was inducted into the school's "Sports Hall of Fame" in 2003.

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Super Bowl in Space: Astronauts May Watch the Big Game in Orbit

Many in the Northeast are still cleaning up and scraping away Winter Storm Juno, which brought 3 feet of snow in some parts of New England, wind gusts as high as 78 mph and severe flooding in coastal areas.

Images and time-lapse videos of the blizzard flooded social media earlier this week, but one NASA astronaut proved that the best view of a monster storm is always from space. Astronaut Terry W. Virts had a stunning view of Juno, tweeting photos and a video of the storm from the international space station as it hammered Massachusetts.

The blizzard looks like a hurricane, Virts tweeted as the storm approached the eastern tip Boston.

Heres what Juno looked like near peak intensity early Tuesday via the Suomi National Polar-orbiting satellite, operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Some of the clouds over the sea were also generating lightning, according to the Weather Channel.

This image shows the storm in its organizing stage along the East Coast. Blizzard conditions were intact for 14 straight hours in Marshfield, Mass., the Weather Channel said.

Astronaut Sam Cristoforetti from the European Space Agency offered another striking viewpoint of Earth from space, tweeting this photo on Wednesday.

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The Margin: What monster storm Juno looked like from space

Space Station Live: Fighting Coarsening in Colloids
NASA Commentator Pat Ryan talks with Dr. Matthew Lynch of Proctor Gamble, the principal investigator of the Advanced Colloids ExperimentMicroscopy on the ...

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Living in Space: Fresh Fruit
There are many Psychological support items/services to assist International Space Station Astronauts. One way is providing food the astronauts like to eat when they are on earth. Providing...

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International Space Station (Iss) Flying over Mediterranean Alexandria
International Space Station (Iss) Flying over Mediterranean Alexandria, January 28, 2015 @ 03:38 AM / UTC.

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International Space Station (Iss) Flying over Mediterranean & Alexandria - Video

Suni Williams: Commercial Crew a Natural Station Partner
Astronaut Suni Williams, who flew on the International Space Station, space shuttle and Russian Soyuz, describes the value of NASA #39;s Commercial Crew Program for American interests in space...

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