Buzz Aldrin #39;s talk at the Technik Museum Speyer 2014-10-04 (excerpt)
Buzz Aldrin on his great adventure and his vision for the future of space flight. This is an excerpt of his talk given at the Technik Museum Speyer, Germany ...
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Sunday, Oct. 12
The Beginning, a film festival that starts on Oct. 10 and runs through Oct. 17 at the Rodina movie theater, showcases the best and brightest talents in Russia as they and other students of film debut their work for an appreciative audience. Check out the events website for more details about the selected films.
Film lovers will also rejoice as the city plays host to Shnit, Europes largest short film festival, which will be in the culture capital from today until Oct. 19. Films from Great Britain, Germany, France and Belgium are just some of the offerings for cinephiles. The screenings begin at 8 p.m. each night of the festival at the Erarta art museum.
Monday, Oct. 13
Today is the final day of Portrait of a Family, an exhibition at the Russian Museum featuring more than 200 paintings from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries alongside modern photographs provided by city residents.
Tuesday, Oct. 14
Brush up on your French at the British Book Centers French Club this evening at 6 p.m. Practice this Romance language and improve your pronunciation so that you can eventually pass for a Parisian.
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Artist's rendering of Orion during Exploration Flight Test-1, the first spaceflight of America's next-generation spacecraft. A scale model of this configuration of the Orion underwent buffet/acoustic testing in Arnold Engineering Development Center's 16-foot transonic wind tunnel in support of an upcoming flight test in 2014.
Scientists and engineers in the tri-state region working on a future Mars mission will test their mettle in December with a space shot.
Officials at Arnold Engineering and Development Complex and Micro Craft in Tullahoma, Tenn., are crowing about their role, along with companies in Decatur, Tenn., and Scottsboro, Ala., in preparing and supporting the Orion spacecraft mission for its December launch.
The Dec. 4 test flight will be a four-and-a-half-hour mission that includes two orbits around Earth for the NASA Orion spacecraft, a capsule designed to take humans farther than weve ever gone before, NASA spokeswoman Rachel Kraft said Thursday.
Its the first spacecraft NASAs built since the shuttle era. Weve tested Orion and its elements extensively on the ground but theres nothing like testing it in the environment its going to face when we go to new destinations in the solar system, Kraft said.
Orion is the replacement for the space shuttles that began flying in 1981.
In Tullahoma, Jim Herron, CEO for Micro Craft Inc., formerly Alliant Techsystems, admits that the December test flight makes everyone a little nervous.
But were extremely excited about it; we were watching a video of the preview this morning, Herron said Friday.
Micro Craft built several of the wind-tunnel scale models used for aerodynamics testing. The firm also built the cases that hold the rocket motors on the Launch Abort System, designed to save the crew module should anything go wrong.
Herron said the NASA video about Orions upcoming flight shows the rockets housed in Micro Crafts cases firing as the crew module is released from the main rocket.
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Does Space Travel Make You Stupid?
Space travel is a fascinating idea, but it comes with some potentially harmful consequences. Trace is here to discuss many ways that space can harm the human body. Read More: Why astronauts...
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L39 Albatross Jet Fighter flight - Echuca, Australia
December 2013. Incredible thrill ride in an L39 Albatross Jet Fighter Piloted by Squadron Leader Phil Frawley. I can #39;t imagine a more incredible thrill, short of space flight.
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Playing games on Linux: Kerbal Space Program KSP is a space flight simulator; like in many sandbox games, you got a good amount of parts and an open world to explore. This video depicts a...
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CLIMATE UPDATE 9 OCTOBER 2014
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As if they were performing delicate surgery, a crew inside the California Science Center museum hoisted a 3,000-pound portable space lab and storage pod inside the space shuttle Endeavour's huge cargo bay Thursday, reuniting the retired orbiter with a piece of equipment it used on some missions over its two decades of flight.
It was just one small step that, along with the installation of a replica robotic arm, airlock and docking system, moves the last shuttle ever built closer to becoming the nation's most complete iteration of the grounded aircraft on exhibit.
None of the other shuttles on display have equipment in the cargo bay. Endeavour's final pose will also be unique: It will be the only one of the three retired shuttles that orbited the Earth Endeavour, Atlantis and Discovery to be posed with its nose pointing to the stars, just like when it flew into space.
The final exhibit is still four years away from being complete. But the installation of equipment, which will continue in the coming days at the temporary exhibit site, will offer the public a rare, brief chance to see Endeavour with both cargo bay doors open before they are closed after Oct. 21.
The cargo bay is so enormous a school bus can fit in it a scale most people have not been able to appreciate because the cargo bay doors were almost always closed when in public view on Earth. At its technologically awesome heart, the shuttle was a workhorse.
"That's what this thing is about bringing stuff to and from space," said California Science Center president Jeffrey Rudolph. "So that's why we really wanted to be able install a payload and put it up, and let people understand the function of the space shuttle a lot better."
When the final exhibit at the yet-to-be built Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center is unveiled, visitors will get to see two views of the shuttle.
The plan is for people to first watch a movie about Endeavour before the screen rises, allowing guests to see the shuttle vertically.
"Just like it's ready to launch," Rudolph said. Walking to the other side, people will be able to peek inside the craft.
"That payload bay door will be open, and you'll be able to look inside," he said, and get a view of the laboratory and storage pod, named Spacehab. Visitors will be able to walk underneath the massive engines.
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NASA has enlisted the engineering expertise of private industry to begin sending humans into space from the US once again, but thats only part of NASAs manned space flight plans. The Orion program is NASAs version of a next generation launch system for missions to deep space, and its going to get its first real world test late this year.
NASA has been so kind as to put together a seven minute video detailing Orions first mission. It wont carry and people when it lifts off December 4, but this is a huge step for the Orion program, which was almost scrapped several times. Orion is vastly different vehicle than the Space Shuttle, which was monstrously complex. It has more in common with the old Apollo missions, but its trip will start at the top of a Delta IV heavy rocket.
As soon as Orion has reached orbit, it will jettison the launch abort system. This is a small rocket pod on the noseof the crew capsule designed to carry its occupants to safety in the event of a launch failure. The main thrusters will carry Orion into a standard low-Earth orbit so the sensors inside the craft can acquire data on its performance. The next phase is the beginning of Orions specialized mission.
The engines will fire again and take Orion to an orbital altitude of 3600 miles 15 times higher than the International Space Station. This will send the craft through the Van Allen radiation belts, which surround much of the Earth and pose a danger to human astronauts. NASA will carefully evaluate how the Orion module holds up in the presence of this punishing radiation.
When bringing Orion home, its going to hit the atmosphere going nearly 20,000 mph. As it compresses and forces its way through the thickening atmosphere, the air will heat up 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The pod will slow to about 300 mph, but the parachutes deployed over the ocean will take that down to a mere 20 mph before splashdown. The entire mission is expected to last just 4.5 hours, but the data gathered will be invaluable in planning a future manned flight in Orion to asteroids or even Mars.
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G force training with Virgin Galactic in Mojave
I continued my preparations for space with some exciting g force training in Mojave. Virgin Galactic Chief Pilot Dave Mackay piloted an Extra 300L plane, a small but extremely fast and reliable...
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October Is Month of Historic 'Firsts' in Space HOUSTON, Oct. 8, 2014 - It's another first for Houston and Space Center Houston as the nonprofit museum becomes the first Smithsonian Affiliate in the city. The center celebrates a "month of firsts" by opening a new exhibition today about the first voyages into deep space.
The new status grants access to the national archive of more than 138 million artifacts, specimens and works of art, as well as entree to more than 50 traveling exhibitions developed by the Smithsonian Institution.
"We are delighted to launch our first Houston affiliate partnership with Space Center Houston, an organization that has done so much to honor and preserve the history of space flight," said Harold A. Closter, Smithsonian Affiliations director. "This new partnership builds on a solid foundation of prior collaboration, artifact loans and scholarly exchange and will address ways that we can work together to inspire a new generation to dream, explore, and further the boundaries of knowledge."
The national recognition and exposure for Space Center Houston is expected to increase annual visits, boosting the center's current $45 million annual impact on the greater Houston area. In addition, Houstonians can look forward to Smithsonian exhibitions and programs.
"Space Center Houston is proud to be the first Smithsonian affiliate in Houston," said Richard E. Allen Jr., president and CEO of Space Center Houston. "This is a result of our continuous dedication to preserving the unique history of space exploration and sharing NASA's bold vision to expand humanity's presence into deep space. This affiliation will help us to inspire all generations through the wonders of space exploration."
The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum and research complex, with 19 museums and galleries and the National Zoological Park. Learn more at http://www.spacecenter.org.
The "month of firsts" launches with The Next Giant Leap: Beyond Planet Earth, presented by the City of Webster. Open today, this all new exhibition explores how humanity will take its first steps towards living and working in deep space, independent of the Earth. This is the first exhibition of the center's "Next Giant Leap" 2014-15 season of educational programs and exhibits aligned with NASA's deep-space exploration initiatives.
October is the month of many historic firsts in space. During past Octobers, both NASA (1958) and Space Center Houston (1992) began operations and launches occurred of the first satellite Sputnik I (1957), the first NASA satellite Pioneer 1 (1958) and NASA's first crewed Apollo mission (Apollo 7, 1968).
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MOJAVE, Calif., Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Virgin Galactic -- the Richard Branson enterprise aimed at taking civilians to the brink of space aboard a commercial shuttle -- successfully launched and landed its SpaceShipTwo Tuesday in an unmanned flight test.
The rocket-powered shuttle took off from and landed at Mojave Air and Space Port in California Tuesday, the latest test since the shuttle last took to the air in August. Virgin Galactic commercial space flight plans have suffered a string of delays, but Branson and his company are still confident that they aren't far from taking their first paying customers to space.
Virgin Galactic's Twitter account said the successful test flight "brings spaceflight closer."
Not everyone thinks the delays are anything to put much stock in, and many believe the company continues to make significant strides.
"They're doing it the right way," former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria recently told Space.com. "They're taking their time. They're being safe. They're making sure they have all the t's crossed and the i's dotted."
Branson originally promised the first commercial spaceflight would take off from New Mexico's Spaceport America by the end of the year. That date has since been pushed into 2015.
SpaceShipTwo is built to carry two pilots and six passengers to suborbital space. Paying customers won't orbit Earth, but they will get dramatic views of their home planet set against the blackness of space -- as well as a few minutes of zero-gravity weightlessness. Tickets are $250,000. More than seven hundred passengers have already reserved seats.
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo completes another test flight
WHITLEY, UK -- October 7, 2014: Land Rover has released exclusive new detail on what budding astronauts can expect to experience on a Virgin Galactic space flight.
The short film has been created as part of Land Rover's 'Galactic Discovery' competition, which offers four friends a once-in-a-lifetime chance to win a trip to space. Worth over US$1million, the top prize will see the winners take a one-week trip to the US, where they will undergo three days of training and preparation at the Foster + Partners designed Spaceport America in New Mexico, before taking a Mach 3.5 ride to space in Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, experiencing out of seat weightlessness and life changing views of planet Earth.
Gabi Whitfield, Global PR director for Land Rover said: "We knew the appetite for space travel would be huge around the world but also that this is still an area most people know very little about. We wanted to give our competition entrants as much detail as possible on the prize, to get them really excited about this once-in-a-lifetime experience
The film shows footage of the test flights undertaken by Virgin Galactic to date, alongside CGI animation of the zero gravity experience. The voiceover provides a step by step account of the planned Virgin Galactic space experience from arrival at Virgin Galactics Gateway to Space facility at Spaceport America, to the Mach 3.5 vertical rocket ride into the black sky of space and the return to Earth.
Narration comes from Virgin Galactics Vice President of Operations, Mike Moses. He leads the team in all aspects of safe and successful space flight operations, including WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo vehicle processing, planning, training and flight crew operations. Mike came to VG after a distinguished career with NASA where amongst other things he chaired the Mission Management Team providing the ultimate space shuttle launch decision authority.
The film also shows Spaceport America in New Mexico, featuring the Norman Foster-designed Gateway to Space building which will become the home for Virgin Galactic space travel once commercial operations go live. This is the second film released in the last few weeks to showcase the facility, the other being the Land Rover Discovery Sport and competition launch film. Land Rover created this footage to bring the consumer one step closer to personal space travel, something anyone now has a chance to experience with Virgin Galactic through the incredible Galactic Discovery competition.
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(UPDATED) The eclipse is the second of four total lunar eclipses, starting with a first 'blood moon' on April 15, in a series astronomers call a tetrad
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WASHINGTON DC, USA (UPDATED) Stargazers in the Americas and Asia were treated to a lunar eclipse Wednesday, October 8, a celestial show that bathed the moon in a reddish tint to create a "blood moon".
During the total lunar eclipse, light beams into Earth's shadow, filling it with a coppery glow that gives it a red hue.
The early phase of the eclipse began at 0800 GMT, or 4:00 am, on the east coast of the United States.
NASA provided live footage via telescope of the eclipse, showing a black shadow creeping across the moon in a crawl that took about an hour.
Only when the moon was totally eclipsed did the redness appear. The total eclipse was also to last about an hour, and ditto for the return to its normal color. The total eclipse happened at 6:25 am on the US east coast (1025 GMT).
The moon turns red and orange during a total lunar eclipse, as seen from Wichita, Kansas, USA, 15 April 2014. Larry W. Smith/EPA
The NASA web site was peppered with Tweets bubbling with questions and comments on the heavenly phenomenon.
"This is amazing. Thank you for this opportunity," read a Tweet from the handle @The Gravity Dive.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) A seemingly inconspicuous set design choice caught the attention of one Marshall Space Flight Center employee.
Rockets developed and worked on right here in the Rocket City decorate the home of one ofBig Bang Theorysmost popular science nerds.
Tucked in the background of Howard Wolowitzs home are models of the Saturn V rocket, Space Launch System, and NASAs Orion Spacecraft.
Weabsolutely love programs like that that give the cool factor to science and math, said Kim Henry, a spokesperson for Marshall Space Flight Center. Even here, somany people the next day after an episode will talk about things on the episode that were discussed that may relate to their job here.
NASA provides model rockets for educational and promotional purposes. Theywant people across the nation to get talking about whats to come for space exploration.
NASAson an exciting journey right now. Were going to deep space. Were eventually going to an asteroid and maybe even Mars, said Henry. [The SLS will]be the most powerful rocket weve ever built. Its exciting and we want the American public to know about it, to get behind it, get excited about it, to be a part of it.
Its not the first timeNASAs work got a nod from the show. Ina2012episode, Howard took a trip to the International Space Station.
You can catch the Big Bang Theory and maybe even a glimpse of the rockets on WHNT News 19 on Mondays at 7 p.m.
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European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst prepares his suit for a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk Tuesday outside the International Space Station. Gerst and astronaut Reid Wiseman plan to move a faulty cooling pump to a secure location and to carry out a variety of maintenance tasks. NASA
Space station astronauts will venture outside the complex Tuesday and again next week to move a failed ammonia pump to a more secure storage location, to replace an electrical component that will restore one of the lab's solar power channels to normal operation and to carry out a variety of "get-ahead" maintenance tasks.
The two U.S. spacewalks will set the stage for a complex series of eight to 10 NASA spacewalks and module relocations next year that are needed to prepare the station for dockings by Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew ferry craft.
Two commercial crew docking adapters will be installed, one on the front end of the forward Harmony module where shuttles once docked and the other on the module's upper space-facing port. Harmony's Earth-facing port will remain available for use by visiting cargo ships.
A pressurized storage module now attached to the Earth-facing port of the central Unity module will be moved to the forward side of the Tranquility compartment where the multi-window cupola is located, making way for equipment that will enable visiting cargo ships berth at Unity.
The relocations will be carried out remotely using the station's robot arm, but multiple spacewalks will be needed to route and re-route power and data cables and to install a universal communications and navigation system that will be used by Boeing and SpaceX crew craft during station approaches and departures.
When the work is complete, the U.S. segment of the station will be able to accommodate two commercial crew vehicles and two cargo ships at the same time, providing fully independent access to the lab complex for the first time since the space shuttle's retirement in 2011.
"When you look out a little further as to how the EVAs stack up after the first of the year and out into the spring, we're really going to start this transformation of the space station," said Kenny Todd, space station integration and operations manager. "We're going to be doing the things we need to do on these EVAs to prep for moving some modules around.
"All that is in preparation for being able to support future commercial crewed vehicles coming to station. We're trying to get out in front of that. We'll be prepping for moving modules, we'll be installing a new docking adapter system. All of that will be happening throughout the next several months."
But first, NASA is staging a pair of spacewalks to complete unfinished business, to restore an electrical power channel to normal operation and to move camera lights and equipment needed for the upcoming commercial crew reconfiguration.
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Huge Rocket for NASA's 1st Orion Test Flight Moves to Launch Pad
A huge Delta 4 Heavy rocket that will blast NASA's new crew capsule into space for the first time ever was rolled from an assembly facility to Launch Complex 37 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rocket is scheduled to blast off on Dec. 4, carrying NASA's Orion spacecraft on its debut test flight. [Photos: NASA's Orion Space Capsule Test Flight]
Observers across parts of Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico caught sight of debris from the military satellite and pieced together story of Russia's Cosmos 2495, that re-entered Earth's atmosphere. Now, it appears that the slow-moving fireball spotted over the U.S. on Sept. 2 was due to a lingering leftover from the Soviet military spacecraft. [6 Biggest Spacecraft to Fall from Space]
NASA'sSwift satellite spotted the enormous star flare on April 23 from a system of two red dwarfs located about 60 light-years from Earth. Researchers sais the superflare's X-ray brightness outshone both stars' total luminosity in all wavelengths for a few minutes and its temperature reached 360 million degrees Fahrenheit (200 million degrees Celsius) about 13 times hotter than the sun's core.
A group of MIT researchers want to "shrink-wrap" the spaceflyers of tomorrow. According to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spacesuits could be replaced by a pressurized, skintight suit allowing for a much better range of motion during exploration. [See more images of MIT's Biosuit design]
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, at times possesses clouds made of frozen cyanide, researchers say. Hydrogen cyanide is expected to condense in Titan's atmosphere at an altitude of about 50 miles (80 km), and research has detected a nearly imperceptible tropical haze layer at this height matching this gas. The cloud was first seen in images from Cassini's cameras taken in 2012, but only now is its cyanide composition understood.
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Galaxy Heist Dev Update #1 - Early Space Flight and Combat
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