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Sierra Nevada Corporation's Space Systems' Dream Chaser spacecraft. (Sierra Nevada Corporation)
NASA has ordered Boeing Co. and SpaceX to stop work on crewed spacecraft that may someday ferry astronauts to the International Space Station while a bid protest filed by Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Louisville-based Space Systems is being investigated.
NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Martin confirmed the stop-work order, calling it a "typical process" with a bid protest, but declined to comment further.
Space Systems filed the formal protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Sept. 26 over rejection of its bid for NASA's commercial crew contract to shuttle astronauts to the space station.
An artist's rendition of the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 next to the International Space Station (ISS). (The Boeing Company )
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Sept. 16 announced the $6.8 billion total contract would be split between Chicago-based Boeing's CST 100 capsule and Elon Musk's SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
No documents related to the protest have been made public. Space Systems, SpaceX and Boeing all declined to comment.
The GAO appeal process was created by Congress to give businesses the ability to protest without filing a full legal claim in federal court, said Ralph White, GAO's managing associate general counsel.
"A disappointed bidder can challenge the terms of solicitation or outcome of procurement, and in return we will hear those cases or provide an answer within 100 days," White said. "It's a nonpartisan and objective place for the review of contracts."
During the first 30 days, NASA will decide whether to request that the protest be dismissed or to defend its decision by submitting answers to each of Space Systems' claims. The response is due by Oct. 27.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- When NASA awarded SpaceX and Boeing the contract to start bringing astronauts to the International Space Station as early as 2017, the Sierra Nevada Corp. was not happy. They're planning to legally contest NASA's decision to choose those companies, instead of them, so they can one day be part of space missions run by a commercial company.
The Sierra Nevada Corp. filed a complaint to the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Sept. 26, alleging there were "serious questions and inconsistencies."
Now the company has announced its plan for getting astronauts into space: hitching its spacecraft to the Stratolaunch plane, said to be the largest ever.
The plane was designed by Stratolaunch Systems, a company started in 2011 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and Scaled Compositions founder Burt Rutan. The Dream Chaser-Stratolauncher system can transport three crew to low Earth orbit, or it can be tailored for unscrewed missions.
This is a different approach than SpaceX or Boeing, which plan to launch their spacecrafts with traditional rockets. The Dream Chaser was originally planned to be mounted on an Atlas V rocket, but they have since changed their plans.
The executive director of Stratolaunch Systems claims they can get astronauts from low Earth orbit to land within 24 hours.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- When NASA awarded SpaceX and Boeing the contract to start bringing astronauts to the International Space Station as early as 2017, the Sierra Nevada Corp. was not happy. They're planning to legally contest NASA's decision to choose those companies, instead of them, so they can one day be part of space missions run by a commercial company.
The Sierra Nevada Corp. filed a complaint to the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Sept. 26, alleging there were "serious questions and inconsistencies."
Now the company has announced its plan for getting astronauts into space: hitching its spacecraft to the Stratolaunch plane, said to be the largest ever.
The plane was designed by Stratolaunch Systems, a company started in 2011 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and Scaled Compositions founder Burt Rutan. The Dream Chaser-Stratolauncher system can transport three crew to low Earth orbit, or it can be tailored for unscrewed missions.
This is a different approach than SpaceX or Boeing, which plan to launch their spacecrafts with traditional rockets. The Dream Chaser was originally planned to be mounted on an Atlas V rocket, but they have since changed their plans.
The executive director of Stratolaunch Systems claims they can get astronauts from low Earth orbit to land within 24 hours.
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Image Caption: The former Marine CH-46E Sea Knight hit the dirt at about 30 miles an hour a severe but survivable impact condition under military and civilian standards. Credit: NASA Langley/David C. Bowman
Kathy Barnstorff, NASA Langley Research Center
Its not every day that you see a black and white polka-dotted helicopter hanging in the air, suspended by cables.
But then not every day is a crash test day at NASAs Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
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NASA researchers and others from the military and national and international government agencies spent more than three years preparing for less than 10 seconds. Thats about how long it took for a 45-foot-long former Marine helicopter to fall 30 feet into a bed of dirt during the Transport Rotorcraft Airframe Crash Testbed (TRACT 2) full-scale crash test at NASA Langleys Landing and Impact Research (LANDIR) facility.
We chose soil because if you look at the mishap data the majority of the mishaps dont occur on prepared surfaces, like concrete said Martin Annett, lead test engineer. The helicopter plowed into the dirt at about 30 miles an hour a severe but survivable crash according to civilian and military standards.
Inside were 13 instrumented crash test dummies and two non-instrumented manikins. They were strapped in as cables hauled the helicopter fuselage into the air and then swung it to the ground, much like a pendulum. Just before impact pyro-technic devices released the suspension cables from the helicopter to allow free flight.
The test mimicked a similar one done last summer, but this time the helicopter stopped abruptly and only slid a few feet. Because it came to an abrupt stop theres a lot more load or jerking motion that gets imparted in the longitudinal direction, forward and backward, said Annett. One of the reasons that we do these types of tests is that we learn things when you drop them. You can design the test. Then you put the experiments into a full-scale helicopter in a combined-loading horizontal and vertical environment and they behave completely differently.
NASA and the Australian Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Composite Structures developed and installed three energy absorbing composite material concepts under the passenger floor for this test. That was in addition to other experiments designed to evaluate crashworthy concepts, including seats, restraints and the type of crash test dummies used to certify equipment inside aircraft.
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Image Caption: NASA is inviting people everywhere to become cloud-studying citizen scientists during Earth Science Week, Oct. 12-18. Credit: NASA
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ NASA is inviting people around the globe to step outside during Earth Science Week, Oct. 12-18, observe the sky and share their observations as citizen scientists.
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NASAs #SkyScience activity is part of an annual educational event organized by the American Geosciences Institute to encourage the public to engage in Earth sciences. Citizen scientists can participate in this global Earth science data collection event by observing, photographing and reporting on clouds over their location as a NASA satellite passes over. Reports and photos will be compared to data collected by NASA Earth-observing instruments as a way to assess the satellite measurements.
Using the hashtag #SkyScience, participants are encouraged to post their cloud and sky photos and observation experiences to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Google+ and Flickr. Throughout the week, NASA will share some of the most interesting photos on the agencys social media accounts.
In addition to #SkyScience, NASA has been engaging students in cloud observation for years through the agencys Students Cloud Observations On-Line (SCOOL) Project.
#SkyScience is another opportunity to get lots of reports in a short period of time and enable additional statistical analysis, said SCOOL project lead Lin Chambers of NASAs Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
To learn how to get involved in the #SkyScience activity, visit: http://go.nasa.gov/skysci
For information about NASAs Earth science activities in 2014, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow
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Papers deriving from NASA support: 1 Goel N, Bale TL, Epperson CN, Kornstein SG, Leon GR, Palinkas LA, Stuster JW, Dinges DF. Effects of sex and gender on adaptation to spaceflight: Behavioral health considerations. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2014 Sep 26. [Epub ahead of print] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25259837 (PIs: D.F. Dinges, J.W. Stuster) Note:ISS results. Journal Impact Factor:1.896 Funding:Preparation of this manuscript was supported in part by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute through NASA NCC 9-58; the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research Award No. N00014-11-1-0361; and NIH grants: K24 DA030301, P50 MH099910, MH073030, MH091258, and MH087597. 2 Pennline JA, Mulugeta L. Evaluating daily load stimulus formulas in relating bone response to exercise. Cleveland, OH: NASA Glenn Research Center. 2014 June; 22 p. NASA/TM-2014-218306. http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140012744 (PI: J.A. Pennline) Note:This article may be obtained online without charge. Journal Impact Factor:Not applicable to this publication. Funding:This work was supported by the Digital Astronaut Project of NASAs Human Research Program. 3 Salguero L, Saadat F, Sevostianov I. Micromechanical modeling of elastic properties of cortical bone accounting for anisotropy of dense tissue. J Biomech. 2014 Sep 1. pii: S0021-9290(14)00443-6. [Epub ahead of print] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25234350 Journal Impact Factor:2.496 Funding:This work was supported in part by a grant from the NIH Grant no. R25GM061222 and by the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium via NASA Grant no. GR0003400. 4 Baulch JE, Aypar U, Waters KM, Yang AJ, Morgan WF. Genetic and epigenetic changes in chromosomally stable and unstable progeny of irradiated cells. PLoS One. 2014 Sep 24;9(9):e107722. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25251398 (PI: J.E. Baulch) Note:This article may be obtained online without charge. Journal Impact Factor:3.534 Funding:This work was supported by NASA Grants NNX13AK69G and NNX13AK70G to JEB as well as by Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division, under Contract DE-AC05-76RL0 1830 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research Low Dose Science Program. 5 Sanzari J, Muehlmatt A, Savage A, Lin L, Kennedy AR. Increased intracranial pressure in mini-pigs exposed to simulated solar particle event radiation. Acta Astronaut. 2014 Feb 1;94(2):807-812. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25242832 (PI: A.R. Kennedy) Journal Impact Factor:0.816 Funding:This research was supported by the Center of Acute Radiation Research (CARR) grant from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) through NASA NCC 9-58 and NIH Training Grant 2T32CA00967. 6 Derecho I, McCoy KB, Vaishampayan P, Venkateswaran K, Mogul R. Characterization of hydrogen peroxide-resistantAcinetobacterspecies isolated during the Mars Phoenix spacecraft assembly. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25243569 Journal Impact Factor:2.512 Funding:This work was funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute Minority Institutional Research Support award to R. Mogul, and in part by a NASA Research Announcement (NRA) ROSES 2006 award to K. Venkateswaran. A component of the research described in this publication was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ___________________________________________________________________________ Other papers of interest: 1 Ten Hagen B, Kmmel F, Wittkowski R, Takagi D, Lwen H, Bechinger C. Gravitaxis of asymmetric self-propelled colloidal particles. Nat Commun. 2014 Sep 19;5:4829. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25234416 2 Pei YC, Bensmaia SJ. The neural basis of tactile motion perception. J Neurophysiol. 2014 Sep 24. pii: jn.00391.2014. [Epub ahead of print] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25253479 3 Wyller VB, Fagermoen E, Sulheim D, Winger A, Skovlund E, Saul JP. Orthostatic responses in adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome: Contributions from expectancies as well as gravity. Biopsychosoc Med. 2014 Sep 15;8:22. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25237387 Note:From the Background section: The aim of the present study was to explore the differences between autonomic responses due to gravitational stimuli and autonomic responses due to expectancies in adolescent CFS. This article may be obtained online without charge. 4 Niu Y, Li C, Pan Y, Li Y, Kong X, Wang S, Zhai Y, Wu X, Fan W, Mei Q. Treatment of Radix Dipsaci extract prevents long bone loss induced by modeled microgravity in hindlimb unloading rats. Pharm Biol. 2014 Sep 22:1-7. [Epub ahead of print] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25243871 Note:Hindlimb unloading study. 5 Lai LP, Lotinun S, Bouxsein ML, Baron R, McMahon AP. Stk11 (Lkb1) deletion in the osteoblast lineage leads to high bone turnover, increased trabecular bone density and cortical porosity. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25240456 Note:From the Introduction: Osteoblast specific removal of Stk11 highlights a critical role for Stk11 in regulating bone turnover and both the organization and number of cortical and trabecular osteoblast and osteoclast populations, and the microstructure and quality of the osteoblast-generated bone matrix. 6 Mader TL, Novotny SA, Lin AS, Guldberg RE, Lowe DA, Warren GL. CCR2 elimination in mice results in larger and stronger tibial bones but bone loss is not attenuated following ovariectomy or muscle denervation. Calcif Tissue Int. 2014 Sep 19. [Epub ahead of print] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25234653 Note:From the abstract: The objectives of this study were to examine the effects of genetic elimination of CCR2 on cortical and trabecular bones in the mouse tibia and how bone loss was impacted following disuse and estrogen loss. 7 Couch MJ, Blasiak B, Tomanek B, Ouriadov AV, Fox MS, Dowhos KM, Albert MS. Hyperpolarized and inert gas MRI: The future. Mol Imaging Biol. 2014 Sep 17. [Epub ahead of print] Review. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25228404 Note:This article is related to NASA-funded research conducted by Albert from 2003-2009. 8 Chowdhury SM, Surhland C, Sanchez Z, Chaudhary P, Suresh Kumar MA, Lee S, Pea LA, Waring M, Sitharaman B, Naidu M. Graphene nanoribbons as a drug delivery agent for lucanthone mediated therapy of glioblastoma multiforme. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25131339 9 Gao X, McDonald JT, Naidu M, Hahnfeldt P, Hlatky L. A proposed quantitative index for assessing the potential contribution of reprogramming to cancer stem cell kinetics. Stem Cells Int. 2014;2014:249309. Epub 2014 May 12. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24955094 Note:This article may be obtained online without charge. 10 Ghandhi SA, Ponnaiya B, Panigrahi SK, Hopkins KM, Cui Q, Hei TK, Amundson SA, Lieberman HB. RAD9 deficiency enhances radiation induced bystander DNA damage and transcriptomal response. Radiat Oncol. 2014 Sep 18;9:206. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25234738 Note:This article may be obtained online without charge. 11 Maeda S, Gunji S, Hanai K, Hirano T, Kazama Y, Ohbayashi I, Abe T, Sawa S, Tsukaya H, Ferjani A. The conflict between cell proliferation and expansion primarily affects stem organogenesis inArabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol. 2014 Sep 22. pii: pcu131. [Epub ahead of print] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246492 12 Maffei ME. Magnetic field effects on plant growth, development, and evolution. Front Plant Sci. 2014 Sep 4;5:445. Review. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25237317 Note:This article may be obtained online without charge. 13 Hoson T, Wakabayashi K. Role of the plant cell wall in gravity resistance. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25236694 Note:ISS results fromthe Space Seed experiment on the Kibo Module are discussed. 14 Effertz T, Scharr AL, Ricci AJ. The how and why of identifying the hair cell mechano-electrical transduction channel. Pflugers Arch. 2014 Sep 23. [Epub ahead of print] Review. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25241775 15 Kumar S. Cellular mechanotransduction: Stiffness does matter. Nat Mater. 2014 Sep 22;13(10):918-20. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25241671
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You don't have to become an astronaut to use the International Space Station's new 3D printer.
NASA has challenged students, ages 5 to 19, to design 3D-printed tools that could be made in microgravity.
The first 3D printer to fly in space arrived at the astronaut outpost last month aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule. SpaceX delivered the machine along with more than 5,000 lbs. (2,268 kilograms) of cargo on its fourth resupply mission to the space station for NASA.
The printer was built by the California-based company Made in Space, which plans to create simple plastic parts at first, to test whether 3D printing is viable in the final frontier. Now, students will have a chance to take part in that experiment.
NASAand the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Foundation launched a set of "Future Engineers" 3D Space Challenges on Sept. 21. The contest asks students in grades K-12 to create and submit a digital 3D model of a tool that they think astronauts will need in space.
"As you know we don't have overnight shipping up in space, so when we really need something we have to wait," NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock, who spent six months living and working on the space station in 2010, said in a video announcing the challenge. "To be able to make parts on demand will forever change that for us."
Entries, which are due by Dec. 15, will be judged for their creativity, usefulness and adherence to design guidelines. Semifinalists will be announced in mid-January and the winners will be revealed on Jan. 30.
The grand prize for the winning teen entrant (ages 13 to 19) includes a trip to NASA's Payload Operations in Huntsville, Alabama, where the student will watch his or her print made live on the space station. The winner in the 5- to 12-year-old set will get a 3D printer for his or her school.
You can learn more about the contest and how to participate here: http://www.futureengineers.org/
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Mysterious feature on Saturn #39;s moon baffles NASA scientists
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