Category Archives: Space Station

Dan Rather Hosts Latest Space Station Update Video
In the latest episode of Space To Ground, the legendary anchor -- and son of Texas -- steps in to talk cargo crafts, the Olympic torch and station science.

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WASHINGTON It's a story almost as old as humanity: Braving unknown dangers, a team of explorers settles a wild frontier, and then almost as quickly bureaucrats tie it up with red tape.

This time, the frontier is outer space. And the regulators are from the Federal Aviation Administration, which licenses commercial-rocket launches in addition to monitoring the airlines.

The FAA has so far been constrained by one major loophole: Once a spacecraft reaches orbit, it's largely free of regulation a libertarian's final refuge.

But that could change soon.

This week, at a congressional hearing and an industry conference in Washington, FAA officials and space attorneys began seriously discussing rules of the road for outer space, from mining rights to safety practices.

Although there have been some broad guidelines the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, for example, prohibits nations from claiming the moon specific space regulations have been few and far between. In part that's because few countries let alone private companies have had the ability to blast people or products into orbit.

But the commercial space industry, once a pipe dream for "Star Trek" fans, has burgeoned in recent years.

In 2012, the California company SpaceX became the first commercial-rocket company to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. And space tourism companies, such as Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace, are preparing to fly passengers to suborbital space as soon as this year.

Those efforts have led Congress, the administration and industry to begin talking about how to ensure that people and property stay safe in microgravity.

These proposals run the gamut, from figuring out how to restrict the amount of dangerous "space junk" shed by spacecraft to finding a way to coordinate traffic in Earth's orbit.

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New Space Station Cargo Ship Flies a Fast Track to Deliver Supplies
Just six hours after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the unpiloted ISS Progress 54 cargo craft docked to the International Space Stati...

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Kerbal Space Program: KSO Shuttle Missions: STS 101
The First of my STS KSO Shuttle Missions! STS 101 #39;s objectives are to bring up a satellite telescope, the Kerbal Space Telescope I, and perform a crew transf...

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Robotic spaceship docks with International Space Station
Subscribe to ITN News: http://bit.ly/1bmWO8h An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Wednesday to deliver supplie...

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NASA SPACE SECRET US Version
One of the perks of the International space station is you get to try all the different governments weed from around the globe. Same with the coffee, food, a...

By: Fred Grace

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Can we see the ISS with the naked eye? | Martin Archer | Ask Head Squeeze
This week our question comes from our G+ Community, from Ben Trendkilla who asked #39; #39;How big would the space station have to be to be able to see it with the ...

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Can we see the ISS with the naked eye? | Martin Archer | Ask Head Squeeze - Video

Quick Unboxing 03 : Hobby supplies, generic kits, and a Space Station !
Quick unboxing episode 3. Two packages today, one from my usual hobbyshop with some hobby supplies and two kits, the other from the US with two star trek kit !

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Futuristic Space Station Tunnel

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Space Station Live: Investigating "Genius Materials" On the Space Station
Space Station Live commentator Pat Ryan talks to Dr. Eric Furst, Principal Investigator for the InSPACE experiment, from the University of Delaware. InSpace,...

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