Space Station Live: Fixing an Ammonia Leak on the Station – Video




Space Station Live: Fixing an Ammonia Leak on the Station Brandi Dean interviews SPARTAN flight controller Anthony Vareha. The SPARTAN console in the Mission Control Center is in charge of the station's electrical a… Continue reading

StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty – Campaign Playthrough Part 14 (No commentary, Mission 14) – Video




StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty – Campaign Playthrough Part 14 (No commentary, Mission 14) This is the campaign playthrough for StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. Continue reading

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission goes to development

NASAs first asteroid sample return mission took a step closer to reality on Wednesday, as the OSIRIS-REx project was cleared for development and testing. Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission passed a series of detailed project assessments and now goes on to the development phase Continue reading

NASA craft to visit asteroid approved, destination chosen

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft has been approved for development, and NASA plans to send it to meet up with asteroid Bennu within the next five years. A rendering of Osiris-Rex from a NASA concept video. NASA’s plan to go poking around on an asteroid, with the ultimate goal of snagging one of the space rocks and towing it closer to Earth, is moving forward, and a specific asteroid has been chosen to visit and sample in the next few years Continue reading

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler probe in peril

NASA An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Kepler space telescope observing a planet making a transit across an alien star. (Star and planet not to scale.) By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope suffered a second failure in its reaction-wheel control system, forcing a suspension of its search for alien planets while the space agency determines whether the four-year mission is truly finished. “It’s certainly not good news,” Charles Sobeck, deputy project manager for the $600 million mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center, told reporters Wednesday. Continue reading

StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty – Campaign Playthrough Part 12 (No commentary, Mission 12) – Video




StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty – Campaign Playthrough Part 12 (No commentary, Mission 12) This is the campaign playthrough for StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. This video contains no commentary, just the campaign gameplay on medium difficulty Continue reading

NASA: International Space Station has ammonia leak in cooling system

By CNN Staff updated 8:25 PM EDT, Thu May 9, 2013 STORY HIGHLIGHTS (CNN) — The International Space Station is once again leaking ammonia from a cooling system, NASA said Thursday in a news release. The crew is not in danger, NASA said. The space station crew reported seeing small white flakes floating away from the station, the space agency said, So NASA helped locate the leak with external cameras while the crew used hand-held cameras pointed out windows. Continue reading

NASA and Amateur Radio Operators Piece Together the PhoneSat Picture

Although the ultimate goal of the PhoneSat mission was to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics for a satellite in space, the three miniature satellites (named Alexander, Graham and Bell) also took pictures of Earth and transmitted these “image-data packets” to multiple ground stations on Earth. Continue reading

NASA Asian American Pacific Islander History Month – Pauline Hwang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Video




NASA Asian American Pacific Islander History Month – Pauline Hwang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pauline Hwang, has been working on the Mars Science Laboratory project since 2010 starting at design and development into the operations phase of the mission… Continue reading

10-16-2009 – NASA’s Moon-Smashing Mission – C2CInsider – Coast To Coast AM – Video




10-16-2009 – NASA's Moon-Smashing Mission – C2CInsider – Coast To Coast AM Coast To Coast AM – subscribe to the main channel here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=DisclosureRadio For Full Show Information Downloa… By: C2CInsider Continue reading

Space Station Live: Robotic Refueling Mission – Video




Space Station Live: Robotic Refueling Mission NASA Public Affairs Officer Dan Huot speaks with Robert Pickle, Robotic Refueling Mission ROBO lead, about the International Space Station demonstration of t… By: ReelNASA Continue reading

NASA's Asteroid Mission Takes Shape as Congress Remains Skeptical

NASA’s proposed mission to snag an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit to be visited by astronauts is beginning to take shape even as arguments over its rationale continue. NASA is asking for $100 million for the mission for FY2014. Continue reading

NASA successfully launches three smartphone satellites

Apr. 22, 2013 Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. The trio of “PhoneSats” is operating in orbit, and may prove to be the lowest-cost satellites ever flown in space. Continue reading

Private Space Firms Praise NASA's Asteroid-Capture Plan

NASA this week put the official stamp on an initiative to capture a near-Earth asteroid and haul it back to a “stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it.” The space agency apportioned $105 million for the mission as part of its fiscal 2014 budget, released on Wednesday. Continue reading

Astronauts Launch on First ‘Express’ Flight to Space Station

A Soyuz rocket carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts roared into space today on the first-ever “express” flight to the International Space Station. The rocket launched NASA astronautChris Cassidyand Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Pavel Vinogradov into orbit at 4:43 p.m Continue reading