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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou, a senior scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, has been elected to National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the academy comes by a vote of academy members and is conferred on a limited number of scientists each year with distinguished careers of ongoing scientific accomplishment. It is one of the highest honors in science.
Kouveliotou is the only living member of the academy in Alabama, but geneticist Louise Chow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is a foreign associate, an affiliate honor given to foreign nationals that does not include voting rights in the academy.
Kouveliotou was on the original team that proved gamma rays were coming from outside the galaxy, and she is one of the principal scientists on the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, an instrument flying aboard the Femi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Throughout her career, NASA said Thursday, Kouveliotou has worked on one "vital" NASA research mission after another, including the International Sun Earth Explorer-3, the Solar Maximum Mission and the Burst and Transient Source Experiment, which flew on NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory.
"I salute the National Academy of Sciences for their recognition of the groundbreaking scientific contributions that Dr. Kouveliotou has made in the field of high energy astrophysics," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "Her work in expanding our knowledge of the nature of cosmic gamma-ray bursts, and her broad efforts in the service of science are exemplary of the creativity, collaboration and innovation that are hallmarks of a great scientist. I extend my heartfelt congratulations to her, and am confident that she will continue to do great science and serve the nation as a member of the academy."
A native of Athens, Greece, Kouveliotou has received numerous awards. In 2012 alone, she earned the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics and the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, and was named one of Time magazine's 25 most influential people in space.
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LONDON: Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has made it clear that being on a ventilator hasn't curbed his lifestyle and said his next aim is to go join British tycoon Richard Branson on a space flight as early as next year. "Being on a ventilator has not curbed my lifestyle. Since going on a ventilator full time I have been to Brussels, the Isle of Man, Geneva, Canada, California twice, and I hope to go into space with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic," he said during a rare public appearance here.
It's been six long years since the Cambridge professor and author of the worldwide bestseller, 'A Brief History of Time', got a taste of weightlessness during a zero-G airplane flight from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center, but he still wants to feel the real deal aboard Virgin Galactic's 'SpaceShipTwo' rocket plane. After that flight Hawking declared, "Space, here I come!"
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Marshall Space Flight Center Director Patrick Scheuermann will deliver the spring commencement address at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The commencement will be May 4 at 10 a.m. at Propst Arena in downtown Huntsville's Von Braun Center.
UAH expects to award 860 diplomas - 630 bachelor's degrees, 194 master's degrees and 24 doctoral degrees. Scheuermann will receive an honorary doctorate from UAH during the ceremony.
Scheuermann came to Huntsville in September 2012 to take over what is one of NASA's top field centers. Marshall has 6,000 government and contractor support workers and a budget of more than $2 billion. It is leading development of the Space Launch System, NASA's new heavy-lift rocket for exploration beyond low-Earth orbit.
Before coming to Marshall, Scheuermann headed NASA's engine-testing Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss. He is a native of New Orleans and a graduate of the University of New Orleans. Scheuermann and his wife, the former Sarah Melissa Lee of Pearl River County, Miss., have a son and daughter, Chandler and Christina.
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Richard Branson's dream of ferrying paying tourists into space came a step closer last week with the successful completion of a "cold flow" test of its spacecraft.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two flew high above the Mojave Desert in California as oxidiser - rocket propellant - was pumped through the propulsion system for the first time.
Although it was not ignited, it indicates the rocket is ready for the next stage - fully fired up testing.
A statement of the Virgin Galactic website said: "As well as providing further qualifying evidence that the rocket system is flight ready, the test also provided a stunning spectacle due to the oxidizer contrail and for the first time gave a taste of what SpaceShipTwo will look like as it powers to space.
Although still in the testing phase, Virgin Galactic's craft could be ready to take paying tourists into space as early as next year.
The world's first purpose built spaceport is currently being built in the Mojave Desert.
Amongst the first customers for the sub-orbital space flight could be Tom Cruise. The Hollywood A-lister recently told the Sun he would consider paying 130,000 for a seat onboard.
"Who wouldnt want to do something like that?" he added.
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Ars spent the better part of a week at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)in Huntsville, Alabama, gathering material for our pieces on the Saturn V's F-1 resurrection and testing and the new F-1B rocket engine that's being developed right now. In the process, we got to peek into a number of different areas of MSFC not open to the general public, including manufacturing, training, and operations areas. I took over a thousand photographs over the time I was there, and couldn't resist showing them off. Below are the 40 best images from our tour of Marshall, the birthplace of the Saturn V rocket and the place where NASA's latest launch vehicle is being designed.
A late-afternoon moon peeking over the edge of the engine interface panel on one of Marshall Space Flight Center's outdoor F-1 rockets.
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A late-afternoon moon peeking over the edge of the engine interface panel on one of Marshall Space Flight Center's outdoor F-1 rockets.
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Detail of F-1 engine F-6049. The gas generator from this engine was pulled, reconditioned, and test-fired more than 20 times by the team at MSFC and Dynetics.
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More detail on F-6049. The missing gas generator fits on the upper portion of the rocket. Its cloth-covered attachment points are visible.
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Close detail of the upper nozzle of one of the F-1 engines in storage at MSFC. This portion of the nozzle is constructed of steel tubes brazed together and bound with hoops like a barrel. RP-1 fuel was circulated through the tubes to cool the nozzle.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala (WAAY) - President Obama's FY2014 proposed budget will not force any program cuts at Marshall Space Flight Center that according to Director Patrick Scheuermann.
The President's budget allocates $17.7 billion for NASA, that number is about 3% lower than the 2012 budget. Marshall Space Flight Center will receive $2.18 billion. Scheuermann says that is enough to continue Marshall programs such as the Space Launch System and Orion as well as a new program to identify, capture, and relocate an asteroid, a program which will require the SLS system.
From a human standpoint the only way to get the humans to the asteroid no matter where it comes to will be on the SLS which means great news for Marshall Space Flight Center," said Director Scheuermann.
He also says considering the lean financial times the country is facing he views this budget as a strong one.
This budget enables Marshall to continue to play a major role in NASA's top priorities, the development of the SLS and Orion, operating the International Space Station to 2020 and beyond, and testing the James Webb Space Telescope," Scheuermann said. It really gives us the stability that we need in order to be able to execute the mission that we have been entrusted with.
The budget also keeps NASA on track to send humans to an asteroid in 2025 and onto Mars in 2030.
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*The Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF) and NASAs Goddard Space Flight Centers recently announced partnership has spawned its first initiative, PROJECT STARGAZER: Developing Diverse Sci Fi Movies for the 21st Century.
With a mission to encourage and support creative, multicultural works in the science fiction genre, PROJECT STARGAZER is a competition for screenwriters and filmmakers to create a sci-fi filmed entertainment project featuring NASA technology. It will provide writers and filmmakers from diverse communities with new resources to tell science fiction stories that capture science facts resulting from NASA science missions. The announcement was made by Tanya Kersey, Founder and Executive Director, HBFF.
The goal of PROJECT STARGAZER is to identify great science fiction story ideas and encourage emerging visionary screenwriting talent from diverse communities. The program seeks to identify strong and thoughtful stories that incorporate NASA science facts and technology; stories that force the viewer to question reality; that explore reality and our perception of it; and that challenge us with the mystery of the mind and the universe.
Were looking for ideas and stories that can be developed into scripts, and ultimately films that captivate broad audiences as well as inspire future generations of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) enthusiasts, says Ms. Kersey. We want to nurture and celebrate the next generation of diverse sci-fi storytellers.
Projects may incorporate future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, paranormal abilities, infinity, immortality, what is human, time, space, consciousness, etc. Its up to you, added Tony Chamblee, Program Director, PROJECT STARGAZER. You can find out about NASA technology at: http://www.nasa.gov/, http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAexplorer or http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/featured_tech.shtm.
Anyone from first-time screenwriters and filmmakers to seasoned professionals can submit their story idea to PROJECT STARGAZER. Applicants must integrate at least one NASA technology into their submission. Submissions must include a logline, synopsis, treatment and an artistic statement describing your creative vision for the project. Submissions must also clearly feature one or more NASA technologies. The main characters should reflect the multi-cultural panorama of the 21st century. A panel of industry and NASA judges will score each submission based on originality, story idea, characters, tone, visual style, marketability, and use of NASA technology. Ten (10) semi-finalist Stargazers will be selected.
At HBFF 2013, the semi-finalist Stargazers will participate in an intensive workshop that includes individual one-on-one meetings and master classes with top industry writers, directors, producers and science/technology consultants to assist in the further development of the Stargazer projects. Each Stargazer will have the opportunity to pitch their projects to a panel of judges who will select three Stargazer finalists to participate in the 2014 PROJECT STARGAZER Lab. Finalists will be announced at the HBFF 2013 Closing Night Ceremony.
For complete details including submissions guidelines and entry dates for PROJECT STARGAZER, http://www.hbff.org/hbff-2013-project-stargazer-faqs/.
To submit your story idea to PROJECT STARGAZER visit http://www.hbff.org/submit-to-hbff-2013-project-stargazer/.
The 13th Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival runs October 2-6, 2013 in Hollywood, CA. For more information: http://www.hbff.org. Like HBFF on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/hollywoodblackfilmfestival. Follow HBFF on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/hbff.
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