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KSP 0.18 – Duna space station part 6 (DSS Landing Madness) – Video

Posted: February 24, 2013 at 5:45 pm


KSP 0.18 - Duna space station part 6 (DSS Landing Madness)
Landing madness. Its Mad, MAD I tell you!

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Space Station Astronauts Hangout with Earthlings (and Universe Today!)

Posted: February 23, 2013 at 1:45 pm

by Nancy Atkinson on February 22, 2013

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Its not often that people on Earth get to hangout with astronauts in space, but today NASA held the first-ever Google Plus Hangout from the International Space Station. It was a live event, and if you arent familiar yet with G+ Hangouts (you really should be by now!) they allow people to chat face-to-face while thousands more can tune in to watch the conversation live on Google+ or YouTube. NASA took questions live from Twitter and G+, but they also took questions submitted previously via You Tube, and we were proud to see that Frasers question that he submitted via You Tube was included in the Hangout! You can see the question and astronaut Chris Hadfields reply at about 42:00 in the video above. Fraser asked how being on the ISS and the special conditions it has (microgravity, harsh exposures, distant objects, weird lighting ) affect photography and as you know we feature A LOT of ISS photography here on UT.

Hadfield said photography from orbit is quite complex, but the weird part about it is that space is so incredibly black and dark. The difficulty is having the dark background of space against the brightness of Earth and trying to balanace that. The advantage is being able to use the really big lenses and have them be weightless no tripod needed!.

The best part is, Hadfield added, even though we are not photographers by trade, we have really good professional photographers as trainers and a vantage point that is absolutely unparallelled.

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield uses a camera to photograph the topography of a point on Earth from a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

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Space station's orbit is readjusted

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Published: Feb. 22, 2013 at 1:51 PM

MOSCOW, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The engines of a Russian space freighter docked with the International Space Station were fired to readjust the station's orbit Friday, officials said.

"The space freighter's engines were started as scheduled, at 14:34 Moscow time [5:34 a.m. EST]. As a result of the maneuver, the ISS orbit was raised by approximately 1 kilometer," a Roscosmos spokesman told RIA Novosti.

After the readjustment the space station's mean orbital altitude stood at 254.6 miles, the space agency said.

Adjustments to the station's orbit are carried out regularly to compensate for Earth's gravity because the space station loses an average 300 feet of altitude each day.

The adjustments also facilitate the docking and undocking of spacecraft, and are sometimes conducted to dodge space debris.

Friday's readjustment was to create the best conditions for the undocking of a Soyuz TMA-06M manned spacecraft that will return Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin and U.S. NASA astronaut Kevin Ford to Earth March 15.

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Peter Gabriel Talks With Space Station Crew – Video

Posted: February 22, 2013 at 3:47 am


Peter Gabriel Talks With Space Station Crew
Singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel and family visit Mission Control Houston and talk with Expedition 33 Commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn and Chris Hadfield aboard the International Space Station.

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Space Station PXLFLX – Video

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Space Station PXLFLX
A little sci-fi little teaser for the PXLFLX channel made with After Effects, Element 3d, and some green screening. The original ae Earth project was complimentary of Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot here: http://www.videocopilot.net The awesome 3d space station model can be found for free at http://www.turbosquid.com

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Let’s Play Space Station Silicon Valley – Part 15 – Video

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Let #39;s Play Space Station Silicon Valley - Part 15
Part 15 - Hoppa Choppa It #39;s bunnies vs. huskies as Evo takes on the carnivorous canines

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NASA Filmed UFO Over Hurricane Sandy From Space Station. – Video

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NASA Filmed UFO Over Hurricane Sandy From Space Station.
NASA Filmed UFO Over Hurricane Sandy From Space Station.

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NASA briefly loses contact with space station

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The International Space Station briefly lost contact with ground controllers on Tuesday because of a computer problem, but its commander said the crew was fine, NASA said.

The glitch lasted just under three hours.

The agency initially said flight controllers in Houston were updating software on board the station's flight computers when one of the station's data relay systems broke down.

The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.

Officials in Houston were later able to communicate briefly with the crew as the space station flew over Russian ground stations. They instructed them to connect a backup computer to begin the process of restoring communications.

And communications were restored nearly three hours after the initial breakdown, NASA said in a tweet.

The International Space Station marked its 10th anniversary of continuous human occupation on Nov. 2, 2010. Since Expedition 1 in 2000, the space station has been visited by 204 individuals.

The current crew is made up six men: two Americans, three Russians and a Canadian.

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NASA loses contact with space station

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The International Space Station lost contact with ground controllers because of a computer problem but its commander says the crew is fine, NASA says.

The agency said flight controllers in Houston were updating software on board the station's flight computers on Tuesday when one of the station's data relay systems broke down.

The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.

Officials in Houston were later able to communicate briefly with the crew as the space station flew over Russian ground stations. They instructed them to connect a backup computer to begin the process of restoring communications.

The International Space Station marked its 10th anniversary of continuous human occupation on November 2, 2010. Since Expedition 1 in 2000, the space station has been visited by 204 individuals.

The current crew is made up six men: two Americans, three Russians and a Canadian.

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Space Station Science Goes Social – Video

Posted: February 20, 2013 at 7:50 pm


Space Station Science Goes Social
Astronaut and former ISS resident Don Pettit is the headliner for this get-together of social media users to learn about the important, one-of-a-kind research now being performed on the International Space Station, the world #39;s only laboratory in microgravity. Held at NASA Headquarters in Washington, Feb. 20, 2013.

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