Kerbal Career Part 13 (Attempting to crash the space station)
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Space to Ground - What #39;s happening aboard the International Space Station 02/28/14
NASA #39;s Space to Ground is your weekly update on what #39;s happening aboard the International Space Station. Got a question or comment? Use #spacetoground to tal...
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HOUSTON Thanks to its reliance on Russia, NASA is once again confronted with the nightmare of a diplomatic roadblock in a project originally made possible by diplomacy: the U.S.-Russian partnership in space exploration.
And if Russia's confrontation with Ukraine and the West turns into the worst diplomatic crisis of our generation, as feared, it could have equally profound and disturbing consequences for space exploration.
This month's comings and goings at the International Space Station highlight the interdependence of the U.S. and Russian space efforts: Next week, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins is due to return from the space station aboard a Russian capsule, alongside two Russian cosmonauts. A couple of weeks after that, NASA's Steven Swanson is to ride another Russian Soyuz craft up to the station, again in the company of two Russians.
Under the current arrangement, NASA astronauts cannot get to and from the station without Russian help, due to the retirement of the space shuttle fleet. The ticket price for each astronaut is $70 million, payable to the Russians.
The United States and Russia are not just "joined at the hip" on the space station. Numerous other rocket projects rely on either Russian or Ukrainian space hardware and services. Even U.S. national security satellites are powered into orbit on an American rocket with a Russian-built rocket engine.
What if the Soyuz spacecraft suddenly became unavailable for use by American astronauts, contract or no contract? Would it be the end of U.S. human spaceflight? Would it kick off a new round of extortionary price-gouging, both fiscal and diplomatic?
Well, maybe not.
Moving away from co-dependence
Its cold comfort that the Russians rely on NASA almost as much as NASA relies on the Russians. If Russia monopolizes up-down transport, the United States essentially controls the only space destination: Russia's orbital hardware couldn't function without U.S. electrical power and communications services.
However reluctant the partners may be in such an awkward "space marriage," it has until now provided an astonishing degree of robustness and flexibility.
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HOUSTON Thanks to its reliance on Russia, NASA is once again confronted with the nightmare of a diplomatic roadblock in a project originally made possible by diplomacy: the U.S.-Russian partnership in space exploration.
And if Russia's confrontation with Ukraine and the West turns into the worst diplomatic crisis of our generation, as feared, it could have equally profound and disturbing consequences for space exploration.
This month's comings and goings at the International Space Station highlight the interdependence of the U.S. and Russian space efforts: Next week, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins is due to return from the space station aboard a Russian capsule, alongside two Russian cosmonauts. A couple of weeks after that, NASA's Steven Swanson is to ride another Russian Soyuz craft up to the station, again in the company of two Russians.
Under the current arrangement, NASA astronauts cannot get to and from the station without Russian help, due to the retirement of the space shuttle fleet. The ticket price for each astronaut is $70 million, payable to the Russians.
The United States and Russia are not just "joined at the hip" on the space station. Numerous other rocket projects rely on either Russian or Ukrainian space hardware and services. Even U.S. national security satellites are powered into orbit on an American rocket with a Russian-built rocket engine.
What if the Soyuz spacecraft suddenly became unavailable for use by American astronauts, contract or no contract? Would it be the end of U.S. human spaceflight? Would it kick off a new round of extortionary price-gouging, both fiscal and diplomatic?
Well, maybe not.
Moving away from co-dependence
Its cold comfort that the Russians rely on NASA almost as much as NASA relies on the Russians. If Russia monopolizes up-down transport, the United States essentially controls the only space destination: Russia's orbital hardware couldn't function without U.S. electrical power and communications services.
However reluctant the partners may be in such an awkward "space marriage," it has until now provided an astonishing degree of robustness and flexibility.
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Alfonso Cuaron won for Best Director and the movie took home seven Academy Awards including for Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects. It was enough to draw the attention of fans who escaped Earth's gravitational pull.
Expedition 38 crew members Richard A. Mastracchio and Michael S. Hopkins, from NASA, and Koichi Wakata, from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, congratulated Gravity and the films crew from the ISS. Hopkins, Wakata and Mastracchio took turns discussing life in space, complete with Hopkins tumbling in the background, as well as the movie itself.
Wakata said the stunning visuals and stark imagery of Gravity was what most impressed the astronauts aboard the space station. During the message, Hopkins completed seven full flips and was halfway through his eighth before the end of the video.
Even if Gravity did not win big at the Oscars it would have been easy to call the film a success, in part due to its box office take as well as furthering awareness of space exploration and helping foster curiosity about NASA and their programs. According to Box Office Mojo, Gravity grossed $704.9 million worldwide, $270.5 domestically and $434.4 million overseas, with an estimated budget of $100 million.
During the filming of the movie, Sandra Bullock consulted NASA astronaut Catherine Cady Coleman to prepare for the role of an astronaut. Coleman discussed what movement was like in microgravity and talked to Bullock about life aboard the ISS.
NASA also points to the International Space Station as another star in Gravity. Much like the real ISS mission, Gravity features several scenes where Bullock is conducting experiments. On the ISS there are hundreds of experiments that are assigned to the crew.
During the Oscars 2014 broadcast, NASA launched the #RealGravity campaign on Twitter which highlighted photo galleries of the ISS, the Hubble Space Telescope and views from space. The space agency used the hashtag to highlight upcoming missions to Mars and its asteroid initiative.
You can watch the ISS crew, as well as NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, congratulate "Gravity" below.
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Engineering Icons: Mike Massimino on the Future of Space Flight
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Shuttle: The Space Flight Simulator (PC,DOS) 1992 Virgin Games/Vector Grafix ltd,
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The U.S. Air Force plans to launch two space surveillance spacecraft into high-altitude orbits later this year to monitor satellite traffic in the congested geosynchronous belt 22,300 miles above Earth, the head of Space Command has announced.
The previously classified program will help the Air Force track man-made orbiting objects in high-altitude orbits, a region populated by the military's strategic communications and early warning satellites.
The capabilities of existing space surveillance assets on the ground and in orbit a few hundred miles above Earth are limited in detecting satellite movements at higher altitudes, according to military officials.
Known as the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP, the initiative was revealed Friday by Gen. William Shelton, head of Air Force Space Command, who described the system as a "neighborhood watch" for satellites. [Top 10 Space Weapons]
"GSSAP will produce a significant improvement in space object surveillance, not only for better collision avoidance but also for detecting threats," Shelton said in a speech at the Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla. "GSSAP will bolster our ability to discern when adversaries attempt to avoid detection and to discover capabilities they may have which might be harmful to our critical assets at these higher altitudes."
The service published a fact sheet on the program in conjunction with Shelton's announcement.
According to the fact sheet, the surveillance project's primary contractor is Orbital Sciences Corp. The GSSAP program's budget and details of the satellites were not released.
The Air Force's Space Based Space Surveillance, or SBSS, satellite launched in 2010 with an optical telescope to peer at spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit. But SBSS flies in low Earth orbit about 300 miles high, putting it thousands of miles away from its observational targets.
The GSSAP satellites will be much closer, but the Air Force has not said how close.
"As other nations show their commitment in investing in systems capable of harming our satellites, we are committed to investing in space surveillance assets like GSSAP that will directly enable safe operations, protect our spacecraft, and indirectly enable a range of decisive responses that will enable counterspace threats ineffective," Shelton said.
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Russia and India have agreed to hold consultations on space cooperation and joint projects in this field, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday, February 26.
"We also discussed GLONASS and think there is an enormous potential for cooperation in this area and the joint use of space services in general," Rogozin, who is co-chair of the Russian-Indian inter-governmental commission on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation, said.
He noted that this year India would be celebrating the 30th anniversary of its first astronaut Rakesh Sharma's space flight accomplished in 1984.
"We have agreed to hold a series of consultations between our space agencies to engage our Indian partners in the plans and projects to be undertaken by the United Rocket and Space Corporation," Rogozin said.
He met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid and Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma.
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At the 86th annual Academy Awards, all eyes were on the red carpet looks. Unfortunately for Anna Kendrick, Penelope Cruz and Ireland Baldwin, heads were turned for all the wrong reasons.
Penelope Cruz rarely makes a fashion misstep, and in fact typically features on best-dressed lists. But the 39-year-old actress's powder pink Giambattista Valli Haute Couture silk gown, accented with a stark black ribbon at the waist, was not a winning look
With its toga-esque fit and excess of fabric - especially at the back, where it draped around her in pleated layers - the ensemble resembled something of a bed sheet and failed to accentuate her womanly curves.
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Award for worst dressed: Penelope Cruz rarely makes a fashion misstep. But on the Oscars red carpet, the 39-year-old actress looked ready for a toga party in her powder pink Giambattista Valli Haute Couture silk gown, accented with a stark black ribbon at the waist
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The Sun was once thought to provide energy for all life on Earth - meaning that life could not survive without it. In the 20th century, as astrobiologists began to explore the Earth's most remote and harsh environments, scientists began to question that assumption.
We now know that numerous microorganisms are able to obtain the energy they need for life through chemical reactions that do not involve sunlight. These incredible organisms can be found in many environments - from sediments below the dark ocean floor to microscopic pockets of water inside solid rock.
Many questions about these microbial ecosystems remain. How do microbes get into the deep subsurface in the first place? Are communities capable of growing, or do they just sort of sit there in the rock recycling nutrients and carbon from dead cells? How much of the deep biosphere is actually living, and how much of it is just dead matter trapped in the slow, grinding motion of our planet's geology?
Field studies have revealed that subsurface microorganisms can and do live active lives, even when buried kilometers under the surface. But we're still not entirely sure how large the living subsurface biosphere is, how deep it actually goes, and how it originated.
Previous Studies: A Community Harvest Organisms in the deep subsurface can be identified by simply digging up samples, sticking them under a microscope, and then seeing what's there. The problem is, even though microbes might be present, it's sometimes hard to tell if they're active - or how they behave in their native environment.
Previously, scientists have tried to define the depth limit for life based on environmental constraints like temperature. In general, the environment gets hotter and hotter as you get closer and closer to the Earth's core. Life simply cannot survive when it gets too hot. However, it's hard to tell just how close to that boundary a living community can get.
"The reality is that in order to live at high temperatures, you are forced to replace your proteins very frequently," said Tullis Onstott, a geoscience professor at Princeton University. "If you do not have enough metabolic energy to support that replacement then you, as an individual cell, cannot live."
High temperature environments can be challenging for life. Cellular components break down at an increased rate. If a cell cannot actively repair the damage, the conditions quickly take a turn toward the uninhabitable. Proteins stop working, causing metabolism to grind to a halt. Cell membranes, cell walls and DNA also begin to deteriorate. So it's not temperature alone that affects habitability, it also comes down to an organism's ability to repair the damage that high temperatures cause.
"You will die at a lower temperature even though under energy and nutrient-rich situations you can live at higher temperatures and to much greater depths," said Onstott. "The most important constraint that this places on deep life is its abundance as a function of depth."
The depth and abundance of living organisms in Earth's subsurface depends on how active they are, and how quickly they can repair and reproduce. This is a question of resources and energy. Previous studies have often focused on the resource part of the question - specifically the resource of organic carbon.
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NASA #39;s AIRS Sees Rivers of Rain for California
Wet weather is again hitting drought-stricken California as the second and larger of two back-to-back storms makes its way ashore. The storms are part of an ...
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Global Precipitation Satellite Launched on This Week @NASA
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission #39;s Core Observatory launched from Japan #39;s Tanegashima Space Center on February 27, Eastern Standard Time. T...
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NASA JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Launches from Japan with Post Launch Comments
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The Final Frotnier: 50 Years of N.A.S.A. - Space, Rockets, Blast Off!
A great film about the the first 50 years of NASA. Anyone that loves space will like this film. Thanks.
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News UFOs near the Sun - NASA satellite images monitoring for March 2, 2014
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NTG: Michael Martinez, nasa Amerika bilang paghahanda sa kanyang pagsabak sa Junior Olympics
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