NASA Antares Rocket Explodes Right After Take Off - Caught On Tape
A $200m Antares Rocket Explodes causing panic to all who watched. The investigation is that the Antares rocket was using a 40-year-old Russian engine of a similar design to those used during...
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Probe of Virginia rocket blast begins space station supplied - NASA
The 14-story Antares rocket, built and launched by Orbital Sciences Corp, blasted off from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island at 6:22 p.m. on Tuesday but burst into flames...
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Orbital Antares failed launch explosion - Slow Motion, NASA Wallops
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NASA Cut Transmission as UFO is spotted.
Not sure what this is, I don #39;t think NASA know either.
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NASA rocket explodes, HP reimagines the desktop, Microsofts new wearable- World Tech Update
Coming up on WTU this week, the unmanned Antares rocket explodes on liftoff, HP unveils a double touchscreen PC called Sprout and Microsoft enters the wearables race with a fitness band.
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NASA Finishes Building Its Mars-bound Orion Spacecraft
Humanity is one step closer to reaching Mars. NASA finished up its Orion Spacecraft Thursday, and its preparing for a test flight on Dec. 4. When Orion launches in December, aboard a Delta...
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NASA goal to snag an asteroid and bring a space rock close to Earth is a distraction from the effort to send humans to Mars, a top asteroid expert says.
In a commentary in the journal Nature, planetary scientist Richard Binzel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology calls NASAs Asteroid Redirect Mission (a.k.a. ARM) a multibillion-dollar stunt. The strongly worded text comes after a National Research Council report in June offered multiple routes to get to Mars -- including the asteroid-snagging plan -- but didnt recommend one over any other.
Binzel, whose work has helped to evaluate the hazard from various near-Earth asteroids, said its time to choose an option that doesnt detract from the ultimate goal of reaching the Red Planet.
Over the next two months, Obamas 2015 budget will be shaped. NASA needs to make a clear choice about its priorities, Binzel wrote. It should abandon the ARM mission concept and make an asteroid survey its top priority to provide a basis for future crewed missions.
The Obama administration has set goals to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars by the mid-2030s. But trying to retrieve part of an asteroid is a waste of resources, Binzel argued.
It will require an ancillary spacecraft deploying either a huge capture bag or a Rube Goldberg contraption resembling a giant arcade-game claw, Binzel wrote. Neither technology is useful for getting humans to Mars.
Instead, rather than hunt an asteroid down, lasso it and lug it back, NASA should use near-Earth asteroids as stepping stones on the way to Mars, he said. Thousands of sizable space rocks pass by Earth as close as the moon each year at least one 10-meter-wide asteroid comes within that distance each week.
Near-Earth asteroids are the most accessible interplanetary stepping stones to Mars, Binzel wrote. Why retrieve an asteroid when we can wait for one to come near us?
Ideally, NASA would aim for increasingly distant targets. The first missions could cross short distances and last a few weeks, and build to months-long missions sending humans farther into space. Each would be a learning opportunity to test technology that could eventually transport astronauts to the Red Planet.
But if asteroids were to be used as stepping stones, their movements would need to be predicted well ahead of their Earth flybys, Binzel said. A 2005 federal law requires that NASA find 90% of hazardous asteroids (140 meters or larger) by 2020. That effort would require $200 million per year which may seem like a lot, but is a fraction of the billions that the Asteroid Redirect Mission would cost, he said.
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The spacecraft, which could one day take humans to Mars, will blast off for its maiden voyage on Dec. 4.
NASA's next-generation Orion crew module has finally been completed, and the first spacecraft designed to carry humans on deep space missions beyond the moon will undergo its first test flight on Dec. 4, the space agency said this week.
Orion marks a return to the capsule designs of the Apollo Program. The Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is larger than the three-person spacecraft used to take the Apollo astronauts to the Moon and back, with room enough to carry an additional space traveler.
The four-person, long-range capsule's first test flight will carry it to 15 times the height of the International Space Station.
The first, uncrewed test flight will be a 4.5-hour trip sending Orion around the Earth twice at a distance of 36,000 miles, or "farther than any crewed spacecraft has gone in more than 40 years," according to the space agency.
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Incredible Footage of NASA #39;s Antares Spacecraft Explosion in HD and 4K
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Destroyed in Launch Mishap The Orbital Sciences Antares rocket that was supposed to resupply the ISS exploded seconds after liftoff at NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility...
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Dr. Laura Iraci - Up in the Air: Methane and Ozone Over California
NASA Ames Research Director #39;s Colloquium, August 7, 2014. The Alpha Jet Atmospheric eXperiment (AJAX) at NASA Ames Research Center measures in-situ carbon dioxide, methane, and ozone ...
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NASA Operation IceBridge Hangout from Punta Arenas, Chile
NEW TIME - Because both the Ambassador and NASA #39;s Chief Scientist were able to go on an #IceBridge flight today! Check out the Twitter chat on @NASA_Ice and tune in on Wed for this G+ Hangout.
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Orbital Sciences ORB-3 Explodes on lift-off from NASA #39;s Wallops Flight Facilities in Virginia
USA in Space Video Taken from the Media Viewing Area using a GoPro Hero 4. The Orbital Sciences Antares ORB-3 Exploded just seconds after clearing Pad 0A in Wallops Island, Virginia at the...
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NASA NY Times Advice On Maximizing Hangouts
John Yembrick, social media manager of NASA, and Sona Patel, social media editor of The NY Times, offered tips for organizations considering adding G+ Hangouts to their digital communications...
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A NASA advisory panel said earlier this year that inadequate funding jeopardized the safety of commercial space cargo shipments, such as the unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp. (ORB) mission that exploded this week over Virginia.
In its annual report released in January, the agencys Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel warned about funding shortfalls in programs that use commercial companies to transport crew and cargo to low-orbit space.
Insufficient funding results in either extended schedule or lower performance, according to the 2013 annual report to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The panel said the result could be higher failure risk through improper or insufficient testing.
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A commercial space industry has emerged in the U.S. after budget cuts prompted NASA to retire the space shuttle in 2011. The agency now relies on Orbital and Elon Musks Space Exploration Technologies Corp. to ferry supplies to the International Space Station.
Last month, the agency for the first time handed responsibility for manned spaceflight to private contractors, awarding Boeing and SpaceX as much as $6.8 billion in contracts to ferry astronauts to the space station.
The explosion on Oct. 28 of a $200 million Antares rocket and spacecraft occurred seconds after launch at the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginias eastern shore. No one was injured. NASA and Orbital said they remain committed to the program, though Orbital Chief Executive Officer David Thompson said it would delay its next launch, scheduled for April. He said the company was still investigating the cause.
The NASA panels report said the agency should clarify what, if any, limits to the cargo program are appropriate for the relatively unproven vehicles and the limited insight/oversight posture currently in place.
NASA requested $850 million for fiscal year 2012 for contract management and oversight of the commercial operations, according to the advisory panels report. Congress appropriated $397 million, raising the risk of failure, according to the report.
Appropriations have increased since, though fell short of NASAs request again in 2013. The agency sought $830 million and received $525 million. That figure is only for the manned portion of the program because the cargo missions were shifted to the International Space Station budget in 2013, according to the Congressional Research Service. Figures for the cargo portion of the space station budget were not immediately available.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Six months ago, NASA's LADEE probe went out with a bang, slamming into the surface of the moon after little more than half a year on the job. Earlier this week, one of NASA's veteran lunar probes spotted LADEE's final resting place.
As new photographs captured by the camera of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show, a small crater marks the spot were LADEE intentionally smashed itself into the moon's surface on April 18, 2014. The crater lies within the larger Sundman V crater, located on the far side of the moon away from the Apollo landing sites. The new imagery confirms LADEE crashed roughly two-tenths of a mile away from where NASA engineers predicted the probe would make impact.
"I'm happy that the LROC team was able to confirm the LADEE impact point," Butler Hine, LADEE project manager at California's Ames Research Center, said in a press release. "It really helps the LADEE team to get closure and know exactly where the product of their hard work wound up."
While LADEE lasted only barely more than six months in space, LRO has been orbiting the moon for more than five years. The probe is managed by NASA engineers working from Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
"With LRO, NASA will study our nearest celestial neighbor for at least two more years," said John Keller, LRO project scientist. "LRO continues to increase our understanding of the moon and its environment."
A slding composite image, showing before and after shots of the LADEE impact site, can be found on NASA's website.
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Watch Antares rocket explode during NASA launch
During NASA #39;s second attempt at launching Antares rocket an explosion occured on the launch pad. There are no fatalities and limited damages to the facility.
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NASA rocket explodes
Unmanned Antares rocket explodes shortly after liftoff.
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BREAKING: Unmanned NASA Rocket Explodes Just After Liftoff
An unmanned commercial supply rocket bound for the International Space station has exploded moments after liftoff http://www.paulbegleyprophecy.com also ...
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