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We at NASA Reveal the Secret Meaning of Our Logo (Concave Earth) – Video

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The International Space Station, NASA TV Presents: Inside the ISS, Christmas Special 2014 – Must See – Video

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A look inside the life, science and adventure of being an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station.

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Tube Or Pipe Leading To Underground Imaged By NASA’s Curiosity Rover? – Video

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Tube Or Pipe Leading To Underground Imaged By NASA #39;s Curiosity Rover?
This sure meets all the requirements by me to be a tube leading to the underground. The fact that it is curved makes sense as well. It would be much harder for sand and silt to make its way...

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NASA Super Guppy Plane Delivers Large Composite Structure for Testing

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A plane that looks more like a giant fish than an aircraft hauled a huge, uniquely-shaped, fuselage cross-section across country for testing at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

The Super Guppy, which is based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, carried the 30-foot (9.14 meters) wide, 10,000-pound (4,536 kilograms) composite, double deck multi-bay box from Long Beach, California, to Virginia so researchers can bend, pressurize and eventually break it. The multi-bay box is a test article that represents part of the center section of a futuristic airplane design, called a hybrid wing body.

Much of the test article is made out of a low-weight, damage-tolerant, stitched composite structural concept called Pultruded Rod Stitched Efficient Unitized Structure or PRSEUS. It was built for NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) project by Boeing Research and Technology in Huntington Beach, California, and assembled in Long Beach. The ERA project is part of NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate.

"We chose to use the Super Guppy because it could easily accommodate the large structure, which is representative of a cross-section of a 75-percent scale futuristic hybrid wing body aircraft fuselage," said Dawn Jegley, lead NASA engineer on the PRSEUS project. "The plane and its crew also have experience ferrying aircraft and spacecraft components."

The Super Guppy, designated 377SG-201, has a cargo compartment that is 25 feet tall, 25 feet wide and 111 feet long (7.6 x 7.6 x 33.8 meters). It can carry a maximum payload of more than 26 tons (23,587 kg).

The aircraft has a unique hinged nose that can open more than 200 degrees, allowing large pieces of cargo to be loaded and unloaded from the front. This is at least the fourth trip a Super Guppy has made to NASA Langley. Previous Guppy airplanes carried the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle in 1968, an XFV-12A vertical takeoff and landing aircraft prototype in 1977, and a component for the National Transonic Facility in 1979.

After the cargo carrier arrived at the NASA Langley hangar, a U.S. Air Force crew from the 633rd Logistics Readiness Squadron Squadron out of nearby Joint Base Langley-Eustis used a Tunner 60K aircraft cargo loader/transporter to remove the pallet carrying the multi-bay box from the Guppy's cargo bay.

Also supporting the delicately choreographed operation were Air Force reservists from the 71st Aerial Port Squadron, also based at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, but part of the 512th Airlift Wing headquartered at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

The Tunner, which looks a little like something out of the movie "Star Wars," moved the large test article and pallet slowly about five blocks to NASA Langley's Combined Loads Test System (COLTS) facility, under NASA Langley security police escort. A NASA Langley crane lifted the multi-bay box from the pallet and transferred it into COLTS. That is where next spring engineers will subject the article to extreme combined bending and pressure loads to assess its strength, and eventually take the large structure to failure.

NASA worked with The Boeing Company and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop the PRSEUS concept, which consists of carbon-epoxy panels that are infused with resin and cured by vacuum pressure without having to use a size-restricting autoclave. That means components can be made in larger pieces.

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NASA to be overfunded in 2015, its future as bright as the Sun

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NASA has often gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to federal budgets, but a rather fascinating thing happened when the US House of Representatives recently passed its massive $1.1 trillion spending bill. NASAs 2015 budget actually saw an increase of 2% over 2014 levels, which is even more than the agency asked for. That means more space science is getting done next year.

Under the new budget, NASA would receive a total of $18 billion. Thats $364 million more than last year. NASA requested $500 million less than that, but it will surely be happy to take the extra cash. Of course, being a Congressional spending bill, there are specific requirements for some of this money. Amazingly, though, the increased funding in certain areas didnt come at the expense of any other space science divisions.

The big winner is NASAs planetary science program, which is earmarked to receive $160 million more than the original request. The budget includes a stipulation that at least $100 million of that money be spent on a robotic mission to reach the icy world of Europa. This moon of Jupiter is thought to have plate tectonics and a subsurface liquid ocean with the potential for alien life. Thats not enough to get us there, but it can help lay the groundwork (and provide an economic boost in congressional districts with NASA research centers). NASAs primary planetary focus right now is returning samples from Mars as part of a next-generation version of the Curiosity mission.

NASAs astrophysics division also got a nice increase of $70 million. This funding will keep the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) program alive. SOFIA is an infrared telescope mounted in a modified Boeing 747. By flying into the stratosphere, the instrument can get a clear view of space at a fraction of the cost of launching a satellite-based telescope. However, SOFIA is still pricey compared to many other programs. There was concern it would be grounded in the new budget, but all systems appear to be go. The James Webb Space Telescope will also continue as planned with all $645 million NASA requested to keep the program going.

Human spaceflight accounts for half of NASAs budget, and here the agency got everything it asked for. Orion and the commercial crew program (i.e. SpaceX and other private launch companies) are fully funded, which is nice. Now NASA will have a little cash left over to make more parody music videos. For example, the following rendition of All About That Base, which has been modified to All About That Space. Oh, NASA. Its a little cringe-worthy in places, but at least we can be sure NASA is run by giant nerds, as well it should be.

This budget isnt final yet the US Senate is set to vote on it in the next few days, but its expected to pass. Failing to do so would result in a government shutdown, which no one is too keen on right now.

Now read:NASAs Orion spacecraft runs on a 12 year-old single-core processor from the iBook G3

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NLBS #27: NASA Never Spent One Million Dollars on a Pen, and more BS Misconceptions – Video

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NLBS #27: NASA Never Spent One Million Dollars on a Pen, and more BS Misconceptions
We #39;ve been running at an intense pace with some rather intense topics over the past few episodes, so it #39;s a perfect time to lighten things up and take a look at a few BS misconceptions that...

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NASA Postpones Launch of Orion Spacecraft Due to Wind, Rocket Valves Till Friday – Video

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NASA Postpones Launch of Orion Spacecraft Due to Wind, Rocket Valves Till Friday
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