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STS-135: Solid Rocket Booster Left Forward Camera Video – NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch – Video
STS-135: Solid Rocket Booster Left Forward Camera Video – NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch STS-135 Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) – Left forward camera view looking towards the base of the booster. The final jouney of the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis shown using a camera mounted on one of the two solid rocket boosters. This provided a unique angle of the launch from the Kennedy Space Center and the subsequent water landing downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. Continue reading
STS-135: Solid Rocket Booster Left Aft Camera Video – NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch – Video
STS-135: Solid Rocket Booster Left Aft Camera Video – NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch STS-135 Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) – Left aft camera view looking towards the front of the booster and underside of the shuttle. The final jouney of the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis shown using a camera mounted on one of the two solid rocket boosters. This provided a unique angle of the launch from the Kennedy Space Center and the subsequent water landing downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. Continue reading
STS-135: Solid Rocket Booster Left Intertank Camera Video – NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch – Video
STS-135: Solid Rocket Booster Left Intertank Camera Video – NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch STS-135 Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) – Left camera view looking towards the external fuel tank. Video commences shortly before SRB separation commences at 2 minutes into flight. Continue reading
NASA's Next Capsule to Land Like a Helicopter?
It looks like NASA is getting a little more creative with its landing systems. Continue reading
NASA aims to trim giant SLS rocket's costs
New and efficient assembly methods should lower the price tag of NASA’s giant new rocket for deep space missions, agency officials say. Engineers at ATK Space Systems in Utah are putting together the solid rocket boosters for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lifter, which is designed to blast astronauts toward near-Earth asteroids, Mars and other destinations beyond Earth orbit. The new boosters are similar to the ones that helped loft NASA’s now-retired space shuttles to orbit Continue reading
NASA building a better solid rocket booster for Space Launch System rocket
ScienceDaily (Oct. 2, 2012) The largest and most powerful solid rocket booster ever built for flight is being assembled for NASA’s Space Launch System at ATK Space Systems in Brigham City, Utah, incorporating new cost-savings measures Continue reading
Private SpaceX Rocket Test-Fires Engines for Space Station Trip
A private rocket poised to launch its first official cargo delivery run to the International Space Station performed a major engine test this weekend, setting the stage for its planned Oct. Continue reading
NASA launches hypersonic inflatable heat shield
NASA launched a novel new heat shield prototype on a successful test flight Monday (July 23), a mission that sent a high-tech space balloon streaking through Earth’s atmosphere at hypersonic speeds of up to Mach 10. The test flight blasted off atop a suborbital rocket at 7:01 a.m. EDT (1101 GMT) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va Continue reading
NASA Johnson Space Center's Shuttle II (1988)
A year ago today, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis was docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Continue reading
Gene therapy for smoking kills pleasure of nicotine
By Jon Bardin, Los Angeles Times / For the Booster Shots blog 7:01 p.m. EST, June 29, 2012 A new vaccine may help prevent the brain stimulation that keeps smokers from being able to quit Continue reading
Space Flight Authority names Nash as new executive director
WALLOPS — The Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority Board of Directors this week announced the selection of Dale K. Nash to serve as the authority’s new executive director beginning July 31 Continue reading
Research and Markets: Translational Regenerative Medicine – Oncology, CNS and Cardiovascular-Rich Pipeline Features …
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/skdhnn/translational_rege) has announced the addition of the “Translational Regenerative Medicine – Oncology, CNS and Cardiovascular-Rich Pipeline Features Innovative Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Applications” report to their offering. More Guidelines Needed to Grow Regenerative Medicine Market, Report Finds Standardized research guidelines are needed to control and encourage the development of gene therapy and stem cell treatments, according to a new report by healthcare experts GBI Research Continue reading
Liberty Rocket Targets 2015
LOS ANGELES The aerospace company that built the solid rocket boosters for NASA’s space shuttle fleet announced plans Tuesday to develop its own private launch system a spaceship and rocket to fly astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit. Continue reading
Boeing's Private Space Taxi to Take Flight by 2016
With NASA’s space shuttle fleet now permanently grounded, aerospace giant Boeing is aiming to fly astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a new private spaceship as early as 2015 or 2016, company officials say. Boeing’s CST-100 capsule (short for Commercial Space Transportation-100) is being designed to ferry astronauts to and from the space station and other destinations in low-Earth orbit. The spacecraft will initially launch from Florida atop United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket, but the company is not ruling out other booster options in the future, officials have said. Continue reading