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Douglas students get portal to space station
DOUGLAS It wasn’t a typical Monday afternoon at Douglas Intermediate Elementary School it was actually a pretty extraordinary day by most schools’ standards. In the school’s auditorium, kids in Grades 6-8 were talking in real time with astronauts over 200 miles above the Earth’s surface on the international space station and launching rockets with a Raytheon engineer in the parking lot afterward. Continue reading
NASA Funds 3D Pizza Printer
NASA has doled out a research grant to develop a prototype 3D printer for food, so astronauts may one day enjoy 3D-printed pizza on Mars. Anjan Contractor, a senior mechanical engineer at Systems and Materials Research Corporation (SMRC), based in Austin, Texas, received a $125,000 grant from the space agency to build a prototype of his food synthesizer, as was first reported by Quartz. NASA hopes the technology may one day be used to feed astronauts on longer space missions, such as the roughly 520 days required for a manned flight to Mars Continue reading
Ammonia leak detected outside International Space Station
(Reuters) – An ammonia leak was detected in the cooling system outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, but no crew members are in danger and the station is operating normally, the U.S. space agency NASA said on its website. Continue reading
Russia Charging NASA $70 Million per Spaceship Seat
Commercial space flight is something NASA supports. The agency is working with Boeing, Space Exploration Technologies and Sierra Nevada Corp. to develop space taxis. Continue reading
NASA: Russia charging U.S. $70M per astronaut seat
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space, and the agency’s leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense Continue reading
NASA Helps Break Guinness World Record for Biggest Astronomy Lesson
With their eyes turned up at the Texas night sky, NASA and 526 space fans have set a new Guinness World Record for the largest outdoor astronomy lesson in Austin. The huge group gathered on the lawn of the Long Center for the Performing Arts at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival on March 10 to learn about how astronomers use light and color to understand cosmic objects, from the moon to distantgalaxies. Continue reading
2013 New Year’s Message from the Space Station – Video
2013 New Year's Message from the Space Station 2013 New Year's Message from the Space Station. Video coutesy NASA. By: okrajoe Continue reading
NASA Gives Private Spacecraft Companies $30M To Build ISS Taxi
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online NASA has just handed out $30 million to the private spacecraft companies to help get their vehicles certified to fly to the International Space Station (ISS). The U.S. space agency has been relying on the Russian Federal Space Agency to ferry its astronauts to and from the space station since it retired its space shuttle program in the spring … Continue reading
Hurricane Sandy view from the Space over USA 2 – Video
Hurricane Sandy view from the Space over USA 2 Hurricane Sandy was viewed Monday morning from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. Sandy had sustained winds of 90 miles an hour as the station passed above the storm Continue reading
SpaceX set to launch with cargo for International Space Station
The first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station is set to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center Sunday evening.From the space station crew’s standpoint, some of the most precious cargo could well be ice cream. The first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station is set to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Sunday evening kicking off a series of at least 12 resupply missions NASA has ordered up under a $1.6-billion contract with Space Exploration Technologies, based in Hawthorne, Calif. Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS of The Christian Science Monitor Weekly Digital Edition The mission, utilizing SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket topped with the company’s cargo-carrying Dragon capsule, follows on the heels of a successful test flight to the space station in May Continue reading
Astronaut Ice Cream: Frozen Dessert Launching to Space Station
Ice cream is blasting off for the crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The frozen confectionery not the freeze-dried souvenir version sold in museum gift shops is packed on board the first NASA-contracted commercial mission to resupply the orbiting laboratory. The Commercial Resupply Services-1 (CRS-1) mission is scheduled to lift off on a Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday (Oct. Continue reading
How SpaceX's First Space Station Cargo Mission Will Work
SpaceX’s robotic Dragon capsule is slated to blast off Sunday night (Oct. 7) on the first-ever bona fide private cargo run to the International Space Station. In May, Dragon become the first commercial spacecraft to visit the station. Continue reading
International Space Station Astronauts Land Safely in Kazakhstan
Three members of the Expedition 32 crew undocked from the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth on Sunday, wrapping up a mission lasting more than four months. Continue reading
NASA Spaceline Current Awareness 25 November 2011 (Recent Space Life Science Research Results)
Papers deriving from NASA support: 1 Jeong SM, Shibata S, Levine BD, Zhang R. Exercise plus volume loading prevents orthostatic intolerance, but not reduction in cerebral blood flow velocity after bed rest. Continue reading
NASA Television to Air Space Station Cargo Ship Moves and Test
WASHINGTON — NASA Television will broadcast the move of a Russian cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station and the demonstration of a new docking system beginning Sunday, July 22. Continue reading
Soyuz docks with space station, boosts crew back to six
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut, and a Japanese engineer — all space veterans — docked with the International Space Station early Tuesday after a flawless rendezvous. A Russian Soyuz ferry craft glided to a computer-orchestrated docking with the International Space Station early Tuesday, bringing a Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut and a Japanese engineer to the lab complex two days after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft as seen from the space station early Tuesday during the final phases of a two-day rendezvous. Continue reading
Ripples in the sky: Space Station astronaut captures mysterious 'night shining' clouds over Tibetan plateau
By Rob Waugh PUBLISHED: 06:37 EST, 28 June 2012 | UPDATED: 10:31 EST, 28 June 2012 Space Station astronauts captured images of rare ‘night shining’ clouds as the craft passed over the Tibetan Plateau – high-altitude clouds which appear as delicate, shining threads against the darkness of space. The clouds can only be seen from aircraft in flight, from the Space Station, or rarely from the ground at twilight – and shine at night because the ice crystals are lit up by the sun from beneath the visible horizon Continue reading
NASA technology-sharing portal announced
WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) — NASA says it has launched an Internet portal to accelerate technology transfer from the space agency to U.S. businesses, industry and the public Continue reading
SpaceX Ship Rockets into Space
Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a spectacular middle-of-the-night blastoff. The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and its unmanned Dragon capsule marked the first time a commercial spacecraft has been sent to the orbiting outpost. Continue reading