Category Archives: Space Station

Space Station Live: Responding to the Unexpected
NASA Public Affairs Officer Dan Huot talks with International Space Station Program Manager Mike Suffredini about the quick response on orbit and in Mission Control Houston to indications of...

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Space Station Ammonia Alarm - Quick Response Explained | Video
International Space Station program manager Mike Suffredini talks about how the astronauts responded to the ammonia leak alarm in the early morning hours of ...

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Astronauts relocate after space station alarm
Astronauts relocate after space station alarm.

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ThirdPhaseOfMoon Caught Faking UFO Videos Again! "ISS Flying Saucer Visits ISS" January 2015
Not only is this footage years old/// but once again ThirdPhaseOfMoon attempt to con their viewers and subscribers that a real UFO intercepts the International Space Station, when in reality...

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SpaceX Rocket Crashes Onto An Ocean Barge
SpaceX released this footage on Vine of a Falcon 9 rocket crashing on the deck of an ocean barge during its landing attempt. The rocket was on target, but approached at a roughly 45-degree...

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Let #39;s Play Star Wars: The Old Republic | Ep.32 | Cat #39;s Got Claws
Finding our target Admiral, we discover the true identity of the Major #39;s Cathar companion and finally leave Balmorra to attack a Hutt space station. Subscribe for more Wretch Plays! ...

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Earth From Space - HD Views of Earth from the International Space Station ISS
Earth From Space - Views of Earth from the International Space Station ISS Pre-recorded footage from the ISS , watch the earth roll by.

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Sunrise over Nova Scotia from the International Space Station @ 17,000 MPH
Sunrise over Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, as seen from the International Space Station @17000 MPH. HDEV Stream sites: http://columbuseye.uni-bonn.de/ ...

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From a false alarm on the International Space Station, to finding a long-lost lander on Mars, this has been a big week for news. Here are Space.com's picks for the biggest space stories of the week:

The European Space Agency's long-lost lander Beagle 2 was found on Mars after it lost contact with Earth in 2003. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the probe from its place in orbit around the Red Planet. [Full Story: UK's Lost Beagle 2 Mars Lander, Missing Since 2003, Found in NASA Photos]

NASA's New Horizons probe has started observing Pluto as it approaches the dwarf planet. The spacecraft is scheduled to make its much-anticipated flyby of Pluto on July 14, potentially revealing new findings about the small cosmic body. [Full Story: NASA Pluto Probe Begins Science Observations Ahead of Epic Flyby]

The huge asteroid 2004 BL86 will make its close flyby of Earth on Jan. 26. The space rock will be about 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers), from the planet when it passes by, marking the asteroid's closest approach to Earth fro the next 200 years. [Full Story: Big Asteroid to Zoom by Earth on Jan. 26]

Officials from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency are now saying that many of the UFO spotted by people in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States were actually high-flying space planes. [Full Story: CIA About UFOs of the 1950s and '60s: 'It Was Us']

China's first moon lander called Chang'e 3 is still operational on the lunar surface. The probe has captured a nice picture of the Pinwheel Galaxy after more than a year on the moon. [Full Story: Chinese Moon Lander Spots Pinwheel Galaxy from Lunar Surface (Photo)]

SpaceX's fifth Dragon cargo ship made it to the International Space Station on Monday (Jan. 12) in the early morning. The spacecraft carried tons of supplies under a contract with NASA. [Full Story: SpaceX Dragon Capsule Delivers Fresh Supplies to Space Station]

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently orbiting the Red Planet captures an image of a relatively new crater created on Mars in the last few years. [Full Story: Fresh Crater on Mars Spied by NASA Spacecraft (Photo)]

The sun shot out its first significant solar flare of 2015 on Monday night (Jan. 12). NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an amazing image of the M-class solar flare. [Full Story: Sun Fires Off First Strong Solar Flare of 2015 (Video)]

Crewmembers on the International Space Station had a scare when an alarm that sometimes indicates an ammonia leak sounded on the orbiting outpost Wednesday (Jan. 14). It turned out to be a false alarm, but astronauts on the U.S. side of the station did evacuate to the Russian side as a precaution. [Full Story: Space Station Astronauts Return to US Side After Leak False Alarm]

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Best Space Stories of the Week - Jan. 18, 2015

In a little more than two months, American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will depart from Earth, not to return for an entire year. Their mission aboard the International Space Station will be the longest in more than a decade, twice as long as the normal six-moth stay.

As NASA continues to gear up for its next generation of manned deep space missions -- to the moon, asteroids and eventually to Mars -- scientists at the space agency are keen to better understand the long-term impacts of microgravity on the human mind and body.

According to NASA, the investigations "are expected to yield beneficial knowledge on the medical, psychological and biomedical challenges faced by astronauts during long-duration space flight."

Scientists will observe Kelly and Kornienko before, after and during their year-long mission in order to gain a better understanding of long-term isolation and exposure to microgravity -- including effects on behavioral health, vision, metabolism, physical stamina, microbiome makeup and more.

"What we don't know right now is what that six- to 12-month period looks like," Julie Robinson, NASA's space station program scientist, recently told reporters. "We're talking about it scientifically, but we're not really having deep discussions about it until we have the first information from the first two."

Astronauts with NASA have been calling for more one-year missions for some time now, but officials have been reluctant to plan additional 12-month stints.

"If we see something dramatic, that's going to change how everybody looks at having additional one-year missions," she added.

A recent study of space station astronauts showed that a six-month stay on ISS had a much more dramatic affect on the body's blood than previously thought. Returning astronauts showed a profound blood shift from the lower to the upper half of the body, and also had considerably lower blood pressure.

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