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HOUSTON - After years of training and preparation, a Colorado native is now just days away from a flight to the International Space Station.
The journey will take Coloradan Steve Swanson into the heavens for a third visit to Earth's only permanent, orbiting outpost -- but he will face unique new challenges on this trip.
Swanson and two Russian cosmonauts are scheduled to launch aboard Soyuz TMA-12M on March 25. He will be the most experienced astronaut on board, but it will be his first flight aboard the cramped Russian spacecraft. The astronaut's two previous flights were aboard NASA Space Shuttles, before that program was retired.
"Each time I was up there with my shuttle flights, it was only two weeks long and I just wanted to stay," he said.
To prepare for the upcoming six-month expedition, Swanson has spent years in training. Although he and his fellow cosmonauts will spend just a few days aboard the Soyuz, Swanson spent months traveling between the United States and Russia to train for the trip.
"It's like starting a roller coaster ride," said Swanson describing the launch he has trained for.
After the Soyuz carries the crew to the ISS, hundreds of miles above the Earth, Swanson will assume the role of flight engineer for Expedition 39. Every crew visiting the station overlaps and when Expedition 39's members depart a few weeks later, Swanson will become the commander of Expedition 40.
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"I just always loved to explore," the graduate of Steamboat Springs High School said.
"I'd just go hike around, you know, the areas where we were camping, and I used to love doing that, I think that's kind of the same idea, I love to explore," he added.
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GREENBELT Scientists and engineers at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center have begun to assemble and test the James Webb Space Telescope in advance of its 2018 debut.
A model of the James Webb Space Telescope, said to be 100 times more powerful than the Hubble. (File photo)
At the center, the instruments for the telescope remain in the clean room the central area where scientists are putting it together. Only after taking an air shower and wearing a full-body clean suit and gloves can a scientist enter the area.
Going into the clean room is like going into an operating room, said Ray Lundquist, a Webb telescope systems engineer. The mirrors need to be completely clean to guarantee the highest quality of the images the telescope produces.
The telescope will use four main instruments to detect light from distant galaxies and celestial bodies.
The near infrared camera, provided by the University of Arizona, is the Webb telescopes main camera and will detect light from the earliest galaxies and stars.
The near infrared spectrograph, from the European Space Agency, can analyze the spectrum of 100 objects simultaneously and will assist in studying the temperature, mass and chemical components of celestial bodies.
The mid-infrared instrument, built by European scientists, will be used to detect distant galaxies and newly formed stars.
And the fine guidance sensor/near infrared imager and slitless spectrograph will allow the telescope to point accurately and take high-definition images and discover planets outside the Solar System.
At the heart of the telescope is the 6.5-meter-diameter primary mirror, made up of 18 beryllium segments that are gold-coated to help capture the most remote infrared light.
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A little rain didn't stop Hollywood's A-listers from bringing out their red carpet best Sunday (March 2) at the 86th Academy Awards. The highly anticipated Oscar night fashions did not disappoint. With classic Hollywood couture, bold dresses and solid color statements, it was a golden night on the red carpet.
From Lupita Nyong'o looking all sorts of perfection in pale blue Prada to Jennifer Lawrence's stunning Dior gown to Pharrell's tuxedo shorts, there were so many classic and memorable looks that it's almost impossible to pick a favorite.
MTV News, along with MTV Style editor Gabrielle Wilson and #shehashadit blogger Jarvis Derrell decided to give out our own fashion awards for the Oscars.
Blue Beauties Ladies on the red carpet seemed to be feeling a little blue, wearing all different shades of the deep-toned color, and making it one of the biggest trends of the night.
Nominees: Amy Adams, Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Bullock Winner: Lupita Nyong'o in Prada
"Lupita wore a custom Prada dress that she actually made with the designer. The shade of blue was this really beautiful pastel sky blue that she actually called Nairobi blue. She said that it had reminded her of the shade of blue that her classrooms were painted back home in Nairobi, Kenya." Gabrielle
"She is God's gift to the red carpet this season, and she was really nailing it this year in a Nairobi blue. So stunning, nice and clean lines with a deep plunging V-neck. Just amazing. She's perfect, and she's perfect for a reason. Thank you, Kenya, for giving us Lupita. We are so grateful." Jarvis
Breaking Black Starlets were breaking all the rules on the red carpet and dared to wear black. The risk paid off, making their looks extravagant and simply classic. Nominees: Charlize Theron, Anna Kendrick, Olivia Wilde Winner: Charlize Theron in Dior
"Usually, you don't see a lot of black on the red carpet, but this year, the girls are breaking all the rules and showing us their dark side. But my favorite has to be Charlize Theron; she looks stunning in this gorgeous gown." Jarvis
"I'm not even sure how to describe Charlize Theron: It's just one of the most sort of perplexing dresses I've ever seen. From the very atypical neckline kind of darting up instead of in a sweetheart shape, to the netting and mesh around the skirt, but I loved it. She looked amazing in it." Gabrielle
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Keeping it classic! Jared Leto continued to turn heads with his lucious locks on the 2014 Oscars red carpet. Instead of sporting his edgy "man bun," the Dallas Buyers Club star, 42, let his wavy hair cascade down to his shoulders.
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Leto lit up the red carpet in a white blazer, black pants, and deep red bowtie with a matching pocket square. With his mother Constance Leto and older brother Shannon Leto by his side, Jared looked confident and proud heading into the 86th annual Academy Awards.
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The former My So-Called Life star emerged as the unexpected hair hero of the 2014 awards show season when he wore a "man-bun" to the 2014 Golden Globes. However, for the SAGs and Critics' Choice Awards, Leto styled his ombre hair into smooth waves.
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Before the Oscars, Leto's longtime stylist, Chad Lusero, discussed the challenges of styling Leto's long hair. "It's really important that he doesn't look like a woman," he said. "It's been hard to have him not end up on the 'best hair' lists -- and that definitely hasn't been our intention. We've had all of these actresses, like Olivia Wilde and Rachel Bilson and Julia Roberts, asking about his hair. He has amazing hair, so it's kind of inevitable."
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By HARUNA UMAR and MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) - Twin car bombs at a bustling city marketplace blasted buildings to rubble and tore apart bodies the same night an attack on a farming village razed every thatched-roof hut.
At least 90 people have been killed, officials and survivors reported Sunday, as Nigeria's Islamic extremists step up attacks and criticism mounts of the failure of the military and government to suppress the 4-year-old Islamic uprising in the northeast.
In Maiduguri, capital of Borno state and birthplace of the Boko Haram terrorist network, the attackers chose a densely populated area with narrow alleyways that maximized the blasts and a Saturday night when the market was open late.
The victims include children dancing at a wedding celebration and people watching a soccer match at a cinema, survivors told The Associated Press.
Fifty-one bodies were retrieved by Sunday morning but many more are believed buried in rubble, said a Red Cross official who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. Some were burned beyond recognition in fires caused by the explosions.
In a village 60 kilometers (40 miles) away, suspected extremists also struck Saturday night, killing 39 people, according to cab driver Mansur Buba.
He said he returned home Sunday to find victims being buried in Mainok village, which has been attacked many times in the past year. A State Security Service agent said no huts were left standing there. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to reporters.
In Maiduguri, the headquarters of the army and air force offensive against Boko Haram, the first bomb came from a pickup truck loaded with firewood, said Hassan Ali, the leader of an anti-terror vigilante group.
Many more people were killed in the second blast, which was timed to catch people who rushed to the aid of those wounded in the first explosion, survivors said.
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NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino on "Gravity" Award Win
NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino congratulates the filmmakers and actors of the Academy Award-winning film "Gravity" on their achievement.
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By MARCIA DUNN/AP Aerospace Writer/February 26, 2014
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) NASA could have prevented last summers near-drowning of a spacewalking astronaut at the International Space Station, an investigation panel concluded Wednesday.
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitanos helmet filled with water July 16 during his second spacewalk in a week. He barely made it back inside alive.
But according to the panels report, his helmet also had leaked at the end of his first spacewalk a week earlier. The panel said the space station team misdiagnosed the first failure and should have delayed the second spacewalk until the problem was understood.
This event was not properly investigated, said Chris Hansen, NASAs chief space station engineer and chairman of the investigation board created by the space agency after the close call.
There was a lack of understanding in the severity of the event, Hansen said during a news conference.
Space station officials even the astronauts themselves presumed the leak was from a water drink bag in the suit when, in fact, that was not the culprit, he noted.
Investigators said Parmitanos calm demeanor during the incident quite possibly saved his life. It was fortunate he was relatively close to the space station entrance when the helmet flooded, Hansen noted.
Now 37, Parmitano is a former test pilot and an officer in the Italian Air Force who was making his first space mission. He returned to Earth in November.
The precise cause of the water leakage is still under review.
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Image Caption: A mockup of Boeing's CST-100. Credit: The Boeing Company
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NASAs aerospace industry partners continue to meet milestones under agreements with the agencys Commercial Crew Program (CCP), as they move forward in their development of spacecraft and rockets that will transport humans to destinations in low-Earth orbit.
Blue Origin, Boeing Space Exploration, Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and SpaceX each are developing unique transportation systems, and each faces stringent evaluations and tests in 2014. CCPs engineering team is working closely with its partners as they develop the next generation of crewed spacecraft. NASA intends to certify and use commercial systems to fly astronauts from U.S. soil to the International Space Station, and back.
Already this year, NASA and its industry partners are making tremendous progress toward achieving the nations goal of restoring Americas capability to launch commercial passengers, including astronauts, from U.S. soil to low-Earth orbit, said Kathy Lueders, CCPs acting program manager. This year, well see hardware testing, flight demonstrations and the award of the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract. Were excited for what the rest of this year holds and look forward to highlighting the tremendous progress our partners make to advance commercial human spaceflight.
Working under Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) agreements with NASA, Boeing and SNC met key milestones in late December and throughout January. Boeing worked with United Launch Alliance to complete milestones in the development of an emergency detection system and launch vehicle adapter for the Atlas V rocket planned to launch Boeings CST-100.
United Launch Alliance was an integral partner in both of these milestones, ensuring that the launch vehicle adapter and emergency detection system were fully functioning and safe for our future passengers, said John Mulholland, vice president and program manager of Boeing Commercial Programs. A tireless engineering development and analysis effort since the preliminary design review early last year has led to the success of two critical milestone completions.
The CST-100s emergency detection system is an integrated set of hardware and software that will operate with the avionics systems of the Atlas V rocket as it lifts off and ascends into orbit. In the event of a confirmed emergency, the detection system will send a signal to the CST-100 to trigger escape thrusters on the spacecraft to push the crew out of harms way and return them safely to Earth.
Engineers ran the software through a series of emergency scenarios to verify the performance of the escape system, carefully tracking how changes in one component might affect another. The launch vehicle adapter that connects the CST-100 to the top of the rocket also received significant attention during the critical design review. Boeing demonstrated that pilots could take over control of the CST-100 and fly it through various phases of a mission successfully.
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Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz demonstrate a new principle for magnetic recording / Publication in Nature Nanotechnology The research group of Professor Jairo Sinova at the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), in collaboration with researchers from Prague, Cambridge, and Nottingham, have predicted and discovered a new physical phenomenon that allows to manipulate the state of a magnet by electric signals. Current technologies for writing, storing, and reading information are either charge-based or spin-based. Semiconductor flash or random access memories are prime examples among the large variety of charge-based devices. They utilize the possibility offered by semiconductors to easily electrically manipulate and detect their electronic charge states representing the "zeros" and "ones". The downside is that weak perturbations such as impurities, temperature change, or radiation can lead to uncontrolled charge redistributions and, as a consequence, to data loss. Spin-based devices operate on an entirely distinct principle. In some materials, like iron, electron spins generate magnetism and the position of the north and south pole of the magnet can be used to store the zeros and ones. This technology is behind memory applications ranging from kilobyte magnetic stripe cards to terabyte computer hard disks. Since they are based on spin, the devices are much more robust against charge perturbations. However, the drawback of current magnetic memories is that in order to reverse the north and south poles of the magnet, i.e., flip the zero to one or vice versa, the magnetic bit has to be coupled to an electro-magnet or to another permanent magnet. If instead one could flip the poles by an electric signal without involving another magnet, a new generation of memories can be envisaged combining the merits of both charge and spin-based devices.
In order the shake a magnet electrically without involving an electro-magnet or another permanent magnet one has to step out of the realm of classical physics and enter the relativistic quantum mechanics. Einsteins relativity allows electrons subject to electric current to order their spins so they become magnetic. The researchers took a permanent magnet GaMnAs and by applying an electric current inside the permanent magnet they created a new internal magnetic cloud, which was able to manipulate the surrounding permanent magnet. The work has been published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology on 2 March 2014.
Publication: Kurebayashi, H., Sinova, J. et al. An antidumping spinorbit torque originating from the Berry curvature Nature Nanotechnology, 2 March 2014 DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.15
Figure: http://www.uni-mainz.de/bilder_presse/08_physik_GaMnAs_magnet.jpg Electrically shaken GaMnAs magnet (source/: Jairo Sinova)
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19 hours ago The image on the left is an electron beam microscopy image of the extremity of the plasmon nano-tweezers. The image on the right is a sketch illustrating the trapping of a nanoparticle in the bowtie aperture. Credit: Institute of Photonic Sciences
As science and technology go nano, scientists search for new tools to manipulate, observe and modify the "building blocks" of matter at the nanometer scale. With this in mind, the recent publication in Nature Nanotechnology in which ICFO researchers demonstrate for the first time the ability to use near-field optical tweezers to trap a nano-size object and manipulate it in the 3 dimensions of space, is an exciting achievement. Romain Quidant, ICREA Professor and leader at ICFO of the Plasmon Nano-Optics research group comments that "this technique could revolutionize the field of nanoscience since, for the first time, we have shown that it is possible to trap, 3D manipulate and release a single nano-object without exerting any mechanical contact or other invasive action".
Imagine an elephant trying to grab an object the size of a needle with its gigantic hoof? Clearly this would be a tremendous if not impossible challenge because of the elephant's enormous size in comparison to that of the needle. Now imagine that our needle is a single molecule or tiny object about the size of a few nanometers and we, with our conventional tools, need to trap it and manipulate it in in order to, for example, understand its implication in the development of a disease. We have the same problem, first because a conventional optical microscope is not capable of visualizing a single molecule and second, because the physical limitations of our conventional tweezers are simply not capable of grasping or manipulating such small objects.
Invented in Bell Labs in the 80's, the original optical trapping demonstrated great capability to trap and manipulate small objects of micrometer size dimensions using laser light. By shining a laser light through a lens, it is possible to focus light in a tiny spot, creating an attractive force due to the gradient of the light intensity of the laser and thus attracting an object/specimen and maintaining it in the spot/focus.
While Optical tweezers have changed forever the fields of both biology and quantum optics, the technique has considerable limitations, one of which being its inability to directly trap objects smaller than a few hundreds of nanometers. This drawback prompted the pursuit of new approaches of nano-tweezers based on plasmonics, capable of trapping nano-scale objects such as proteins or nanoparticles without overheating and damaging the specimen. A few years ago, ICFO researchers demonstrated that, by focusing light on a very small gold nano-structure lying on a glass surface which acts as a nano-lens, one can trap a specimen at the vicinity of the metal where the light is concentrated. This proof of concept was limited to demonstrate the mechanism but did not enable any 3D manipulation needed for practical applications.
Now researchers at ICFO have taken this a crucial step further by implementing the concept of plasmonic nano-tweezers at the extremity of a mobile optical fiber, nano-engineered with a bowtie-like gold aperture. Using this approach, they have demonstrated trapping and 3D displacement of specimens as small as a few tens of nanometers using an extremely small, non-invasive laser intensity. Central to the great potential of this technique is that both trapping and monitoring of the trapped specimen can be done through the optical fiber, performing the manipulation of nano-objects in a simple and manageable way outside of the physics research lab.
This technique opens a plethora of new research directions requiring non-invasive manipulation of objects at the single molecule/virus level. It is potentially attractive in the field of medicine as a tool to further understand the biological mechanisms behind the development of diseases. Likewise, it holds promise in the context of nanotechnologies to assemble future miniature devices, among other exciting potential applications.
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More information: Nature Nanotechnology DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.24
Journal reference: Nature Nanotechnology
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