NASA UFO, Apollo Anomalies - The Real Reason the Space Race Froze
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How ISRO MOM is Better than NASA #39;s Mars Missions (Full Documentary)
NASA vs. ISRO ISRO #39;s mission cost around 11% of NASA #39;s mission India #39;s mission to Mars cost less than the movie Gravity Is it okay to compare NASA to APPLE and ISRO to micromax...
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NASA | The Difference Between CMEs and Solar Flares #NasaGoddard
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares are both solar events, but they are not the same. This video shows the differences between the two by highlighting specific features of each. This...
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Michael Gazarik, Ph.D., associate administrator ofNASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), visitedSouthern Research Institute's Engineering Research Center (ERC) today to tour the engineering facilities and meet with engineering program directors. NASA established STMD inFebruary 2013to lead the innovation of technologies that will maintain NASA leadership in space exploration and spur U.S. economic growth.
STMD research and development takes place within NASA centers, academia, and private industry, while leveraging partnerships with other government agencies. Gazarik emphasized that working with these outside organizations is essential to the national space initiative.
"Multidisciplinary partnerships are important to NASA's future and to America's advancement in space," said Gazarik. "As a result of our collaborations with academia and industry, we have been able to transform inventive concepts into state-of-the-art technologies."
Gazarikan electrical engineer by tradejoined NASA after more than 15 years in the private sector developing systems, software, and hardware for both the commercial and governmental industries. He has more than 25 years of experience in space technology design and implementation. As administrator, he leads STMD programs and focuses on integrating NASA's exploration and science mission needs, demonstrating the needed resources of the greater aerospace community, and helping advance the nation's innovation economy.
"We are pleased to have Dr. Gazarik visit our campus and see, firsthand, the work we are doing," saidArthur J. Tipton, Ph.D., president and CEO of Southern Research Institute. "Collaborating with other trailblazing organizations like NASA helps cultivate Southern Research's pioneering spirit and exhibits our wide range of capabilities."
Southern Research's engineering division has supported NASA for more than 40 years, primarily in materials development and mechanical engineering for NASA's manned space flight program. Southern Research furthered its contributions with the imaging systems critical to the space shuttle program's return to flight following theColumbiadisaster in 2003.
Gazarik's visit follows theJuly 2014appointment ofMichael D. Johns, vice president of Southern Research's engineering division, as a member of NASA's Technology, Innovation, and Engineering Committee. The committee is part of theNASA Advisory Counciland supports the advisory needs of the NASA administrator, office of the chief technologist, and mission directorates, with a scope that includes NASA programs that could benefit from technology research and innovation. Johns was appointed to a two-year term as a special government employee.
"I am honored that NASA chose me to be part of this dynamic advisory committee," said Johns. "I look forward to serving alongside my accomplished colleagues."
Following his visit to Southern Research, Gazarik visited theUniversity of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, to speak with engineering research leadership and graduate students and to tour the university's research facilities.
About Southern ResearchSouthern Research Institute, founded in 1941, is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) scientific research organization that conducts preclinical drug discovery and development, advanced engineering research in materials, systems development, and environment and energy research. Approximately 500 scientific and engineering team members support clients and partners in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, defense, aerospace, environmental, and energy industries. Southern Research is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with additional laboratories and offices in Wilsonville and Huntsville, Alabama, Frederick, Maryland, Durham, North Carolina, Houston, and Cartersville, Georgia. For more information visit:http://www.southernresearch.org.
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The White House is looking to data from NASA's space shuttle program to help in the fight against climate change.
At the United Nations Climate Summit in New York this week, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a suite of new initiatives to help people around the world prepare for drought, flooding, coastal storm surges and other severe effects of a changing environment.
As part of that effort, NASA will publicly release some of its best topographic maps of the globe generated during a space shuttle mission more than a decade ago. [6 Coolest Space Shuttle Science Experiments]
Previously, the high-resolution images collected by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, or SRTM, which flew onboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2000, were only available for the United States. But now NASA is releasing datasets covering the rest of world over the next year. The first topographic maps released cover Africa; the next release will cover Latin America and the Caribbean, NASA officials said.
Each pixel in the new datasets covers a 98-foot (30-meter) area of the ground. That's three times more detailed than the 295-foot (90-meter) pixels in the global maps that were initially released to the public in 2003 after SRTM.
During its 11-day flight aboard Endeavour, SRTM bounced radar signals off the surface of Earth numerous times from different perspectives, between 56 degrees south and 60 degrees north of the equator.
NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan said in a statement that the move to make the space-based data available to the public will "benefit international efforts to better understand natural processes that shape our planet, prepare for and respond to natural hazards and anticipate and prepare for the impacts of global change."
Topography can influence the distribution of plants and animals, weather patterns, rainfall patterns andthe movement of surface water. NASA officials said these improved maps could help local leaders better understand how flooding, severe storms and sea-level rise will affect their region.
The datasets are going online through the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Earth Explorer website. In partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development and other organizations, NASA is planning training workshops in Africa to show local officials how to advantage of these data resources.
NASA retired its shuttle program in 2011 after a three-decade run. Endeavour now lives in Los Angeles, where it is on public display at the California Science Center.
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The Mars rover Curiosity's primary science mission has begun on Mount Sharp.
The Mars rover Curiosity's primary science mission has begun.
After more than two years and a dangerous trek of about six miles, NASA's SUV-sized, robotic rover has made its first drill into Mount Sharp -- the geologic site scientists have been focused on since before Curiosity landed on Mars.
The rover, however, has been far from idle. In the last two years, it has drilled holes , sampled soil and rocks and even found evidence of ancient water flows on the surface of the Red Planet.
That work was largely prelude to the current mission, its next and potentially most significant scientific phase.
"We're putting on the brakes to study this amazing mountain," said Curiosity Deputy Project Manager Jennifer Trosper. "Curiosity flew hundreds of millions of miles to do this."
According to NASA, Curiosity late on Wednesday used its hammering drill to dig about 2.6 inches into a basal-layer outcrop on Mount Sharp. The rover then collected a sample of powdered rock and is holding it in its robotic arm.
The next step in Curiosity's research will be to move the sample into a scoop on the rover's arm. There, it can be studied to determine whether it safely can be put through a sieve, portioned out and delivered to the rover's scientific instruments -- such as its chemical or mineralogical analysis instruments -- without clogging them.
"This drilling target is at the lowest part of the base layer of the mountain, and from here we plan to examine the higher, younger layers exposed in the nearby hills," said Curiosity Deputy Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada. "This first look at rocks we believe to underlie Mount Sharp is exciting because it will begin to form a picture of the environment at the time the mountain formed, and what led to its growth."
Scientists are not sure how far up the mountain the rover will get, but hope to take samples along the way.
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NASA SDO - Lunar Transit, September 24, 2014
On September 24, 2014 the Moon made a quick appearance and transited through my field of view. At approx. 06:48 UT the Moon entered from the bottom right and moved across to the upper left...
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Space Station Crew Member Discusses the Future with Former President Clinton
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA discussed the future of human spaceflight, the commercialization of space and the research being conducted...
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Here #39;s Why India #39;s Mars Mission Is Cheaper Than NASA #39;s
India sent an orbiter to Mars, and much has been made of the shoestring budget it did it on. Why exactly is its mission so much cheaper than NASA #39;s? Follow Sebastian Martinez: http://www.twitter.c...
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NASA | Comparing CMEs
This video features two model runs. One looks at a moderate coronal mass ejection (CME) from 2006. The second run examines the consequences of a large coronal mass ejection, such as The Carrington-...
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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft isn't wasting any time at Mars.
MAVEN sent home itsfirst images of Mars' upper atmosphereearly Monday morning (Sept. 22), just eight hours after entering orbit around the Red Planet.
The false-color images, which NASA released Wednesday (Sept. 24), were captured by MAVEN's Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument when the probe was 22,680 miles (36,500 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, agency officials said.
"Blue shows the ultraviolet light from the sun scattered from atomic hydrogen gas in an extended cloud that goes to thousands of kilometers above the planets surface," NASA officials wrote in anonline description of the image.
"Green shows a different wavelength of ultraviolet light that is primarily sunlight reflected off of atomic oxygen, showing the smaller oxygen cloud," they added. "Red shows ultraviolet sunlight reflected from the planets surface; the bright spot in the lower right is light reflected either from polar ice or clouds."
The $671 millionMAVEN mission, whose name is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, is NASA's first effort to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere. MAVEN will use its three onboard instrument suites to measure the rate of gas escape into space, in an attempt to better understand why Mars lost most of its atmosphere over the eons. (The planet's air was relatively thick in the ancient past but is now just 1 percent as dense as that of Earth.)
MAVEN's observations should shed light on how and why Mars transitioned from a warm and wet world billions of years ago to the cold, dry planet we know today, mission scientists have said.
The spacecraft is now in a commissioning phase, during which mission team members will lower MAVEN to its final orbit and check out its science gear. The probe's one-year science mission is scheduled to start in early November.
MAVEN isn't the only new arrival at Mars. On Tuesday night (Sept. 23), just two days after MAVEN's orbital insertion, India's first-ever Red Planet effort, the $74 million Mars Orbiter Mission, was captured by the planet's gravity as well.
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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft isn't wasting any time at Mars.
MAVEN sent home itsfirst images of Mars' upper atmosphereearly Monday morning (Sept. 22), just eight hours after entering orbit around the Red Planet.
The false-color images, which NASA released Wednesday (Sept. 24), were captured by MAVEN's Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument when the probe was 22,680 miles (36,500 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, agency officials said.
"Blue shows the ultraviolet light from the sun scattered from atomic hydrogen gas in an extended cloud that goes to thousands of kilometers above the planets surface," NASA officials wrote in anonline description of the image.
"Green shows a different wavelength of ultraviolet light that is primarily sunlight reflected off of atomic oxygen, showing the smaller oxygen cloud," they added. "Red shows ultraviolet sunlight reflected from the planets surface; the bright spot in the lower right is light reflected either from polar ice or clouds."
The $671 millionMAVEN mission, whose name is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, is NASA's first effort to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere. MAVEN will use its three onboard instrument suites to measure the rate of gas escape into space, in an attempt to better understand why Mars lost most of its atmosphere over the eons. (The planet's air was relatively thick in the ancient past but is now just 1 percent as dense as that of Earth.)
MAVEN's observations should shed light on how and why Mars transitioned from a warm and wet world billions of years ago to the cold, dry planet we know today, mission scientists have said.
The spacecraft is now in a commissioning phase, during which mission team members will lower MAVEN to its final orbit and check out its science gear. The probe's one-year science mission is scheduled to start in early November.
MAVEN isn't the only new arrival at Mars. On Tuesday night (Sept. 23), just two days after MAVEN's orbital insertion, India's first-ever Red Planet effort, the $74 million Mars Orbiter Mission, was captured by the planet's gravity as well.
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NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will supply images of the future to brighten the fun and boost the learning at the first-ever Virginia Science Festival.Set to take place Oct. 4-11 at locations across the commonwealth, the festival has been organized by the Science Museum of Western Virginia and Virginia Tech. It brings together the worlds of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) with hands-on experiences, live performances, interactive demonstrations, and family-oriented entertainment.During the Oct. 4 festival kickoff event at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, NASA Langley Center Director Steve Jurczyk will lend a hand at an opening ceremony and give a talk at noon about NASA's future as part of a "Meet the Scientists" program. Also, staff from NASA Langley will present exhibits about vehicles that will one day carry NASA astronauts into deep space."One of NASA's key roles for the nation is to inspire the next generation of explorers," Jurczyk said. "This is an outstanding opportunity for our scientists, engineers and technologists to engage the public throughout the state in Langleys research, development and education activities."In Blacksburg, NASA's displays and interactive activities will offer a close-up look at the Space Launch System and Orion, the new launch vehicle and spacecraft now under development. Together, the Space Launch System and Orion vehicles will allow astronauts to travel beyond low Earth orbit all the way to an asteroid or Mars. A 30-foot-tall, inflatable model of the Space Launch System will make NASA's presence at the festival hard to miss.Other NASA displays at Virginia Tech will focus on unmanned aerial systems as well as partnerships that connect NASA Langley with NASA Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. Displays will also explain the challenges and rewards of working and living in space.On Sunday, Oct. 5, the NASA Langley team will head up Interstate 81 to the city of Lexington to be part of a related science celebration. NASA representatives will also support the festival through mid-week presentations at several public schools in Mecklenburg County before traveling to the festivals finale in downtown Roanoke Oct. 10-11.The festival will touch the Hampton Roads region, too. NASA Langley will join with the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton and the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News to generate STEAM excitement. A gathering at the Hampton restaurant Marker 20 is also planned.NASA's contributions throughout the commonwealth are intended to help the festival make a strong first impression."As soon as we heard that NASA Langley would be a part of the Virginia Science Festival, we knew we were on the way to a successful public event," said Jim Rollings, executive director for the Science Museum of Western Virginia. "No one else generates excitement like NASA, and the work done at NASA Langley deserves as much public exposure as we can get."Here are highlights of NASA Langley's participation in the Virginia Science Festival:Oct. 4-- Festival kickoff ceremony at Moss Arts Center/Ruth C. Horton Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. 9:45 a.m.-- Festival events and displays on the campus Drillfield, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.-- "Meet the Scientists" presentation at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center, Virginia Tech. NASA Langley Director Steve Jurczyk speaks on "The Future of NASA." Noon.-- "Cool Science Saturday" program at Virginia Air & Space Center, Hampton. The event will feature activities and presentations from NASA representatives on subjects ranging from space radiation on the International Space Station to the physics behind the northern lights and similar phenomena. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.-- Air quality activities at Virginia Living Museum, Newport News. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Oct. 5-- Virginia Science Festival @ Lexington. This free one-day, interactive science fair for children and families is designed to spark interest and introduce people of all ages to the wonders of science and math. The event will take place in two locations in downtown Lexington: Dunlap Auditorium in Lexington Presbyterian Church, and at 18 E. Nelson (corner of Nelson and Randolph). 2-5 p.m.Oct. 6-- Science Caf event on the subject of big data at Marker 20 restaurant, 21 E. Queens Way, Hampton. NASA Langley scientists will discuss how they process the flood of data collected by NASAs CERES experiment measuring Earth's energy budget. 5:30 p.m.Oct. 11-- Festival finale at various locations in downtown Roanoke. NASA exhibits will be presented at Elmwood Park. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. A festival school preview will be held in Roanoke on Oct. 10.-- "Explosions of Our Closest Star" program at Virginia Air & Space Center, Hampton. The sun that we see every day is capable of producing extreme "space weather" events that can knock out the power grid and cause major satellite failures. In a series of talks starting at 11:30 a.m., experts from NASA Langley and NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center share insights into these solar storms. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.-- Talk: "Where Outer Space Meets the Air We Breathe: How the Atmosphere Affects Studies of Our Universe and Our Earth," by NASA Langley researcher Ann Martin at the Virginia Living Museum, Newport News. 6 p.m.To learn more about the Virginia Science Festival, visit the event website atvirginiasciencefestival.org. To learn more about NASAs Langley Research Center, visitwww.nasa.gov/centers/langley/
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Registration is open for the 2015 NASA Centennial Challenges Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) Prize, which will take place April 7-12, 2015. The competition carries a prize purse of $50,000 and will be held in Huntsville, Alabama, in conjunction with theNASA Student Launchevent, an academic engineering design challenge that provides resources and experiences for students and faculty.
The Mars Ascent Vehicle Prize will aid NASA in advancing technologies that could be used to return samples from Mars in the future. The challenge focuses on simulating the collection of samples from the Martian surface, placing them into Mars orbit for collection and returning them to Earth. This new challenge is open to both academic and non-academic teams to demonstrate technologies that may be relevant to potential future NASA Science Mission Directorate Mars missions. This challenge has no relation to NASA missions currently in development such as the Mars 2020.
The MAV Prize is an opportunity for us to team up with an established academic competition and invite teams of all kinds to work in parallel on technologies that will aid in future Mars exploration, said Sam Ortega, Centennial Challenges program manager.
The Challenge requires reliable, autonomous sample insertion into the rocket, launch from the surface, and deployment of the sample container. Innovative technology from this competition could be considered in future planning for a Mars exploration mission.
Centennial Challenges will award prizes for successful demonstration of an end-to-end autonomous operation to sequentially accomplish the following tasks: picking up the sample, inserting the sample into a single stage solid-propellant rocket in a horizontal position, erecting the rocket, launching the rocket to an altitude of 3,000 feet, deploying a sample container, and landing the container safely while following the National Association of Rocketry guidelines.
The first-place award is $25,000; second-place is $15,000; and third-place is $10,000. Competing teams will be eligible for prize money only after the successful completion of all the required tasks.
Interested teams may apply for the challenge by submitting a registration proposal to the Student Launch project office. Details for submitting the proposal and complete rules may be found in thehandbook.
The Centennial Challenges program is part of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, which is innovating, developing, testing and flying hardware for use in NASA's future missions. It is managed out of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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NASA #39;s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars #39; orbit at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now will prepare to study the Red Planet #39;s...
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Une compilation impressionnante des films montrant des Ovnis, archivs par la Nasa. http://messagesdelanature.ek.la.
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U S Cargo Ship Arrives and Grapples at the International Space Station
An unmanned U.S. resupply ship arrived at the International Space Station Sept. 23, two days after its launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying more than 5000 pounds of supplies...
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