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Here comes the sun(spot) Nasa telescope captures best ever image of x-ray emissions – Video

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Here comes the sun(spot) Nasa telescope captures best ever image of x-ray emissions
Here comes the sun(spot) Nasa telescope captures best ever image of x-ray emissions on the solar surface One of Nasa #39;s most powerful space telescopes has turned its gaze on the Sun for the...

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All About That Space – YouTube

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All About That Space is a volunteer outreach video project created by interns at NASA's Johnson Space Center. It was created as a parody (to raise interest and excitement for Orion's first flight) of Meghan Trainors All About That Bass. The lyrics and scenes in the video have been re-imagined in order to inform the public about the amazing work going on at NASA and the Johnson Space Center.

NASAs Orion spacecraft is built to take humans farther than theyve ever gone before. Orion will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry the crew to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities.

Learn more about NASA: http://www.nasa.gov Learn more about Orion: http://www.nasa.gov/orion Follow the Orion Spacecraft on Twitter: @NASA_Orion Follow the Orion Spacecraft on Instagram: @explorenasa Follow NASA's Orion Spacecraft on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASAOrion

For students interested in NASA Johnson Space Center: http://pathways.jsc.nasa.gov https://intern.nasa.gov/ http://www.facebook.com/nasa.jsc.stud... http://www.twitter.com/nasajscstudents http://instagram.com/nasajscstudents

Special thanks to: Dylan Mathis, Megan Sumner, Jack Moore, Allison Mcintyre, John Konvicka, Bill Bluethmann, Randy Eckman, and Logan Farrell

Point of Contact: Alex Hoffman Director: Brianna Bolling Lyrics: Sarah Schlieder Video Editing: Avery Bodenstein Audio Recording/Editing: Lauren Foley, AJ Sauter, Jimmy Garrett Storyboard and Choreography: Christina Dillon, Brianna Bolling

**For current Pathways Interns looking for information/how tos/otherwise contact the students who created the video, contact Brianna Bolling using global**

"All About That Space" Lyrics:

Because you know Im all about that space Bout that space, space travel. Im all about that space Bout that space, space travel. Im all about that space Bout that space, space travel. Im all about that space Bout that space

Yeah, its pretty clear, I aint commercial crew But I can launch it, launch it Like Im supposed to do Cause I got that boom boom that all the Astros chase And all the space flight to all the right places

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NASA space skills gap?

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Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. April 5, 2010.(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

NASA could lose its lead in the space race to China or Russia if it doesnt revitalize its workforce, a new study has found.

In the longer term (two to three decades from now), China appears to be best positioned to be a challenger for the top spot, Prof. Loizos Heracleous of Warwick Business School in the U.K. told FoxNews.com. He and Steven Gonzalez of NASAs Johnson Space Center co-authored the study, Two modest proposals for propelling NASA forward, which waspublished on Nov. 17 inSpace Policy.

This is due to the amount of resources [China] dedicates to space activities, the breadth of its programs, its long-term thinking and its determination, Heracleous continued.

He noted that other countries, too, are getting in on the space game nations like India, which recently launched an orbiter to Mars at the incredibly low cost of $74 million, though its program lacks the scope of the U.S., Russian or Chinese programs.

But those countries space programs are gaining momentum and closing ground, he said.

Heracleous and Gonzalez have written in their study that NASA can overcome its predicament by addressing two issues its lack of employee turnover and its budgetary problems.

It would be beneficial if NASA could be given the freedom to manage its human resources and infrastructure based on performance-based, market-oriented, competitive principles, Heracleous said. Such a move would have positive consequences organizationally and strategically, including the ability to revitalize its workforce and facilitate transfer of relevant competencies from wherever they reside.

Heracleous blames lack of support and funding for NASAs struggles. NASA has not been resting on its laurels, he said. However, it has been constrained by several factors, including a misalignment between long-term project timescales on one hand, and uncertainty in terms of political support, funding cycles and leadership stability on the other hand.

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NASA looks at city above Venus

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(CNN) -- Imagine a blimp city floating 30 miles above the scorching surface of Venus -- a home for a team of astronauts studying one of the solar system's most inhospitable planets.

NASA is currently doing just that; floating a concept that could one day see a 30-day manned mission to Earth's closest planetary neighbor.

Eventually, the mission could involve a permanent human presence suspended above the planet.

Deep heat

Also known as the morning star, and named after the goddess of love and beauty because it shone the brightest of the five planets known to ancient astronomers, Venus is a hot, sulphurous, hellish place whose surface has more volcanoes than any other planet in the solar system.

With a mean temperature of 462 degrees Celsius (863 degrees Fahrenheit), an atmospheric pressure 92 times greater than Earth's and a cloud layer of sulphuric acid, even probes to Venus have lasted little more than two hours. Its surface is hot enough to melt lead and its atmospheric pressure is the equivalent of diving a mile underwater.

But above this cauldron of carbon dioxide at an altitude of 50km (30 miles) scientists say the conditions are as close to Earth's as you'll find anywhere in the solar system.

The gravity at this altitude is only slightly lower than that of Earth, its atmospheric pressure is similar and the aerospace provides enough protection from solar radiation to make it no more dangerous than taking a trip to Canada.

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NASA Selects Commercial Space Partners for Collaborative Partnerships

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NASA announced Tuesday the selection of four U.S. companies to collaborate with NASA through unfunded partnerships to develop new space capabilities available to the government and other customers. The partnerships build on the success of NASA's commercial spaceflight initiatives to leverage NASA experience and expertise into new capabilities.

The Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities (CCSC) initiative is designed to advance private sector development of integrated space capabilities through access to NASAs spaceflight resources and ensure emerging products or services are commercially available to government and non-government customers within approximately the next five years.

The companies selected for the Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities and their projects are:

- ATK Space Systems, in Beltsville, Maryland, is developing space logistics, hosted payload and other space transportation capabilities.

- Final Frontier Design, in Brooklyn, New York, is developing intra-vehicular activity space suits.

- Space Exploration Technologies, in Hawthorne, California, is developing space transportation capabilities that could be used to support missions into deep space.

United Launch Alliance, in Centennial, Colorado, is developing new launch vehicle capabilities to reduce cost and enhance performance.

Companies in all shapes and sizes are investing their own capital toward innovative commercial space capabilities, said Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight development at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "These awards demonstrate the diversity and maturity of the commercial space industry. We look forward to working with these partners to advance space capabilities and make them available to NASA and other customers in the coming years.

The Space Act Agreements (SAAs) have no exchange of funds, and each party bears the cost of its participation. NASA's contributions could include technical expertise, assessments, lessons learned, technologies and data. Sharing this existing expertise in a structured way requires minimal government resources while fostering the development of technologies to enable NASA to achieve its strategic goal to expand human exploration of the solar system and to advance exploration, science, innovation, benefits to humanity, and international collaboration.

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