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Collin opening his space station
Collin opening his space stationFrom:Jenny SpencerViews:1 0ratingsTime:01:11More inComedy

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July 1, 2012 Earth Orbit_Soyuz spacecraft undocks from ISS to head home
A Soyuz space carrier, which docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday morning, has now undocked and is heading for Earth. It picked up three of six crew members from the station. The crew on board the Soyuz, headed by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, passed the baton onto the next ISS commander Russian Genady Padalka and his team -- Sergey Revin also from Russia and Joseph Acaba from the US. Kononenko and his two colleagues, American Donald Pettit and Dutchman Andre Kuipers, have spent more than six months in orbit and have fulfilled their space mission. The Soyuz carrier is expected to land back on Earth at 12:15 Moscow time on Sunday. The Great Day of Annihilation http://www.facebook.comFrom:Felonious VendettaViews:0 0ratingsTime:03:10More inNews Politics

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Minecraft: ISS
This is my newest project that I #39;ve build. The ISS (International Space Station). I spend more than 5 hours to build this. Music: Skrilley - Bangerang Hope you enjoy!From:denbarriViews:2 0ratingsTime:03:33More inGaming

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The International Space Station - Go for Assembly - ISS - 1998
Building the ISS - the logistics of building an orbiting space laboratory- the International Space Station. Wonderful pictures of the Space Station, the Moon surface, space walk. The ninth space station to be inhabited, a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998, consisting of pressurised modules, external trusses, solar arrays transported there by the space shuttle, and Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets. Courtesy of http://www.dvidshub.netFrom:Bel99TVViews:0 0ratingsTime:10:58More inEducation

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The Universe - s03e01 - Deep Space Disasters
In space travel there is a saying that the first 50 miles and the last 50 miles are the most dangerous. Explore the controlled explosion of launch, the fiery crucible of reentry and everything in between. See how a single spark inside a spacecraft or a micrometeoroid less than an inch wide hitting a space station can turn a routine mission into a lethal nightmare. As the missions become longer, venturing to Mars and beyond, the potential disasters will only become bigger. What would happen if a spacecraft ventured too close to a black hole or was hit by a gamma ray burst? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Series Playlist: http://www.youtube.comFrom:AllFreeingEyeViews:0 0ratingsTime:44:31More inEducation

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Let #39;s Play!: Kerbal Space Program #22 - "Kerbal-Lab"
Heya Everyone! This is the first of my away videos so I do hope you don #39;t think they are crap O_o In today #39;s episode of KSP we aim to set a simple, single stage Space Station in orbit around Kerbin for experiments and such like to be done... or something... Everything will go great!... You #39;d be surprised... Enjoy! Get Kerbal Space Program 0.13.3 (Demo) at: http://www.mediafire.com Get the latest version and all future updates of Kerbal Space Program for $23/14.27 at:www.kerbalspaceprogram.comFrom:TheDunntistViews:3 1ratingsTime:21:35More inGaming

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STS-134 Endeavour May 16 2011
Launch of STS-134 STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6) was the penultimate mission of NASA #39;s Space Shuttle program. The mission marked the 25th and last spaceflight of Space Shuttle Endeavour.[8] This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station. Mark Kelly served as the mission commander. STS-134 was expected to be the final space shuttle mission if STS-135 did not receive funding from Congress; however, in February 2011, NASA stated that STS-135 would fly "regardless" of the funding situation. The Launch On Need mission, a contingency mission to rescue a stranded STS-134 crew, would have been the STS-135 flight (formerly STS-335), flown by Atlantis. Changes in the design of the main payload, AMS-02, as well as delays to STS-133, led to delays in the mission. The first launch attempt on 29 April 2011 was scrubbed at 12:20 pm by launch managers due to problems with two heaters on one of the orbiter #39;s auxiliary power units (APU). Endeavour launched successfully at 08:56:28 EDT (12:56:28 UTC) on 16 May 2011, and landed for the final time on 1 June 2011.From:wingman011111Views:0 0ratingsTime:02:26More inScience Technology

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Dehydration and Altitude
Dr. Donner discusses the similarities between acute mountain sickness (AMS) and dehydration. - MedWild: Wilderness Medicine, Rescue, Survival - Dr. Howard Donner #39;s unique medical practice has taken him to the farthest reaches of the globe. He began his career working 8 years as a professional river and mountain guide. Now specializing in high altitude and expedition medicine, he has advised mountaineers, rescuers and aerospace personnel throughout his career. Howard spent 3 climbing seasons as a rescue doctor for the Denali National Park Service at the 14000 foot medical/rescue station. He has worked on numerous medical projects in the Himalayas including the first American ascent of Kangchenjunga, two seasons as a staff physician for the Himalayan Rescue Association, and as expedition doctor on the 1998 NOVA Everest expedition. Howard also served for 5 years as a medical operations consultant for NASA, where he was involved in the design of the Shuttle and International Space Station medical systems. He is a commercial pilot and Certified Flight Instructor.From:MedWildVideosViews:2 0ratingsTime:01:15More inEducation

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Ford Fighting for Irish Football From Space!
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford, an Indiana native and 1982 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, discussed the upcoming BCS college football championship game between the Irish and the University of Alabama Jan. 7 and life and work aboard the orbital laboratory with the University of Notre Dame #39;s Office of Communications during an in-flight interview Dec. 26, 2012.From:NASAtelevisionViews:301 32ratingsTime:10:30More inScience Technology

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Colonel Chris Hadfield recently recorded the first original song written for and performed on the International Space Station. He joins a long and venerable tradition of astromusicians.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield plays Christmas carols while orbiting over the Mediterranean. (@Cmdr_Hadfield/Twitter)

Astronaut Chris Hadfield has a new song out, a sweet Christmas melody laid over some solid guitar strumming. But if you listen carefully, you'll hear something else: a soft whir of fans in the background. Why? Because this song wasn't recorded in the constructed silence of a recording studio, but on the International Space Station as it orbited Earth at about 17,000 miles per hour, some 260 miles overhead.

It seems that this is the first song written specifically for the International Space Station to be recorded there. But that's a pretty specific accomplishment -- and that's because humans have been playing music in space for about five decades. The first song we have a recording of from space was also a Christmas tune, this one a bit better known: Jingle Bells. Astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford snuck some bells and a harmonica (now housed at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum) onto Gemini 6 in 1965. As they prepared to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on December 16, they played a little joke on those listening down below.

The prank, captured in the video below, is a little hard to make out verbatim, but Schirra's later recollections give the joke's flavor. He wrote: "We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, probably in polar orbit.... Looks like he might be going to re-enter soon.... You just might let me pick up that thing.... I see a command module and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit." And then they began to play:

Stafford told Smithsonian Magazine in 2005 that it was Schirra who originally came up with the idea. "He could play the harmonica, and we practiced two or three times before we took off, but of course we didn't tell the guys on the ground....We never considered singing, since I couldn't carry a tune in a bushelbasket."

It seems that no one heard the recording of that moment -- the first musical instruments played in space, according to Margaret A. Weitekamp, a curator at the Air and Space Museum -- for decades, but last year a YouTube user by the name buzzlab, and identified by Boing Boing as "Patrick," ferreted it out of NASA's Media Resource Center in Houston, Texas, which provided him with 33 hours of audio files from the mission with a note that promised, "It's in there somewhere."

On the International Space Station and Mir, where astronauts have lived for long periods and therefore have had more leisure time, instruments have been fixtures of space-station living. On a space station, NASA explains, the instruments don't sound any different, but they are all thoroughly checked to make sure they will not threaten the safety of the astronauts (if they were to, say, emit some noxious gases, or perhaps combust). Astronauts have to adapt to playing without gravity, figuring out clever ways of holding themselves in place while they strum or tap the keys.

Over the years of space-station living, there have been many firsts: Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko wrote 20 songs while living on Mir in the late '80s, though it seems he did not record them there. Hadfield brought a modified, foldable electric guitar to Mir in the '90s, and he and astro-guitarist Thomas Reiter used it to play Russian folk ballads and Beatles songs. Several astronauts haveschleppedkeyboards with them (such as Carl Walz, pictured at right);Don Petit turned a vacuum tube into a workable didgeridoo;and two astronauts, Cady Coleman and Ellen Ochoa, have both brought flutes with them into space. In 2011, a recording of Coleman playing Bach's Bouree was merged with another from Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull, for the first ever Earth-space duet.

But there is one first that was planned and never happened, and that story is a reminder of the tough path that space exploration has sometimes been. And that is the story of Ron McNair, who was the first person to bring an instrument into space (not counting the bells and harmonica of the Gemini pranksters). In 1984 he brought his saxophone with him on a shuttle mission. The tape of that music was sadly recorded over.

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