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In 2009, volcanologist Alexander Gerst from Germany became a member of the European Space Agency #39;s Astronaut Corps. Having undergone a rigorous international training programme, on 28 May...
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To highlight the direction for life and physical sciences aboard the International Space Station, a panel of experts gathered today for the Destination Station: International Space Station Science Forum. This forum, the first in a new series of public discussions dedicated to research aboard the station, emphasized current and future microgravity research that will prepare astronauts for long-duration missions farther into the solar system than ever before and provide lasting benefits to life on Earth.
Not only does the space station provide a one-of-a-kind orbiting laboratory for researching many science disciplines in microgravity, but it also serves as a technology development testbed for deep space exploration and is a destination to grow a robust commercial market in low-Earth orbit. While the use of the space station continues to grow, science studied aboard is underway at an unprecedented pace. In addition to continued scientific opportunity, there also are key areas in which to focus on the most crucial research needs in space.
In 2011, the National Research Council published a report on how best to use the space station. This report, entitled Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era, established priorities and provided recommendations for life and physical sciences research in microgravity for the 2010-2020 decade.
We took a broad look at what research needed to be done in the physical sciences and the life sciences to underpin the future of space exploration, said Elizabeth Cantwell, director for mission development in the engineering directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, and co-chair of the National Research Councils decadal study. We recommended that because animal studies underpin so much of our knowledge and understanding of human health terrestrially, that animal studies be supported more strongly in the space station science program and that microbial studies be beefed up in the form of long-term ability to study microbes in space on the space station.
Among other recommendations for the space station, the report endorsed a clearly defined and prioritized integrated life and physical sciences research portfolio and associated objectives. This report detailed seven major disciplines for focus by station research, including plant and microbial biology and animal and human biology.
Life science research already conducted aboard the space station includes studies of protein crystals, pharmaceutical treatments and model organisms like plants and fish. Model organisms have characteristics that allow them to easily be maintained, reproduced and studied in a laboratory and have a genetic makeup that is relatively well-documented and well-understood by scientists. Upcoming research in the area of omics, the study of the entire complement of biomolecules like proteins or genes, and in rodent research will further enable humans to carry out long-term space exploration and support a greater understanding of how gravity shapes fundamental biological processes.
In response to the report, we identified new facilities that we needed, like new rodent and plant habitats, and starting this year, those facilities are going to keep coming online one-by-one, and each will be used on every flight over and over on the space station for the next 10 years, said Julie Robinson, Ph.D., chief program scientist for the International Space Station.
Protein crystals have been studied in microgravity throughout the space stations assembly, and investigations using protein crystals continue today. High quality crystals grown on the space station are used to determine protein structure. This helps researchers understand better protein the three-dimensional structure of proteins and may lead to designing new therapeutics for diseases. In fact, a previous study of protein crystals on the space station led to the discovery of a water molecule in a protein-inhibitor complex that now is being used to develop a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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Published: May 22, 2014
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Civilian space projects, including the International Space Station, have driven cooperation between the U.S. and its allies for more than 20 years.
With defense belt-tightening squeezing military space endeavors across Europe, North America and the Pacific, the people in uniform are hatching plans for similar cooperation in defense satellite work.
Some cooperative projects are already flying, including a military communications satellite used by American, Canadian and Australian forces. Air Force Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski told an audience at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs on Wednesday that working with allies makes financial sense as the Pentagon plans to cuts billions from its space budget over the next decade.
"We needed to reach out and share the costs of access to space," said Pawlikowski who commands the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, which develops the Air Force's new satellites and rockets.
Allies were reaching out to the U.S. at the Space Symposium, which drew a large international contingent among its 9,000 attendees.
"Let's be clear: It is very difficult for a single European nation to afford a full-spectrum capability," said Col. Dominique Arbiol, a French air force officer who oversees military space efforts there.
"My minister is very, very keen on international cooperation," said Cdmr. Volker Brasen, a German navy officer who serves as a top space officer in his country's defense ministry.
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Bidder spends $1 million to sit near Leonardo DiCaprio on Virgin Galactic space flight
It was, Dave Mackay assured me, one of the most stunning experiences of his life. And from the man who recently ignited the rockets on a spaceship as chief test pilot for Sir Richard Bransons Virgin Galactic project, that was an impressive recommendation.
And so taking his advice, here I was on the tarmac at Newark airport in New Jersey, kitted out in my blue flight suit with another 25 passengers, about to embark on a zero gravity journey aboard a Boeing 727 plunging and soaring in 12,000ft arcs over the North Atlantic.
Nine of my fellow flyers were Virgin Galactic space tourists preparing for their $200,000 forays into sub-orbit by finding their weightlessness legs in advance.
Among their ranks was Cheryl Howard, the actress whose husband Ron took several zero gravity flights when he was directing the film Apollo 13. On this day, however, Mr Howard had just come along to support his wife before the flight and would be remaining with his feet firmly on Earth.
Astronauts, of course, conduct their work in a zero gravity environment thousands of miles up in space. But for $4,950, the same sensation can be yours on Zero Gravity Corporations G-Force One, a modified jet whose pilots induce weightlessness through a series of mid-air manoeuvres called parabolas.
Nasa puts its astronauts through a much more rigorous version of the same flights as part of their training, pushing participants to nausea in what has been colourfully nicknamed the vomit comet.
That detail was causing some preflight nerves, even though Zero-Gs president Terese Brewster and her team of instructors assured us that we would not be subjected to anything as intense.
As someone who long ago swore never to ride another rollercoaster and has often felt nauseous on boats, the prospect of motion sickness still worried me as I prepared boldly to go where few have gone before.
But within an hour, I was indeed floating, without any stomach churning discomfort, in the remarkable world of zero gravity as we repeatedly dived 12,000 feet before then being pinned to the matted floor by the gravitational force (G force) when we accelerated back up to the top of the arc. Around me, my fellow passengers were pirouetting and somersaulting, not to mention delivering passable impressions of Superman, arm punched out ahead.
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My incredible flight to the weightless world of space travel on the 'vomit comet'
Before I left for Houston to go on a weightless flight, I explained to my mother how the escape from gravity works: The plane flies a series of parabolas. From an altitude of about 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), the aircraft quickly ascends maybe another 20,000 feet into the sky and then plummets. It climbs and drops over and over again 30 times creating short periods of weightlessness at the crest.
"What if you really, really don't like it? Can't they stop?" she asked, her face turning grim.
For those who hate flying, this path might sound like a nightmare. But for people who grew up envying astronauts, as I did, a weightlessmight be the next best thing to space travel and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to study some aspect of life away from Earth. Last month, I shadowed a group of undergraduates from the University of California, San Diego who defied gravity in the name of science. The experience was both euphoric and eye-opening, though I'm still finding it difficult to describe the totally alien sensation of weightlessness. [See Photos from the Weightless Flight]
A competitive NASA program
The team was among dozens of ambitious students across the United States who gathered at Ellington Field in Houston after spending the last several months preparing an experiment to fly aboard the plane as part of NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program, which uses flights by the commerical Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G Corp.) to perform weightless science.
The program is competitive. Of the 50 detailed proposals submitted last year, just 18 were selected to participate in one of the 2014 flights, said program manager Frank Prochaska. During our flight week in April, there were students from Stanford and Caltech testing how a heart monitor would work on a dummy. There was a Dartmouth crew investigating how the eye changes in a zero-gravity environment. The UCSD students I was following were lighting small fires in a triple-contained acrylic box to measure how four different biofuels burnwithout gravity.
"The future of this country and this world is going to involve reduced gravity," Prochaska said. "It's going to involve space and engineering projects in a reduced-gravity environment, and that is something that not a lot of people have experience with. These students have the opportunity to be able to engineer something for that environment and to experience it themselves."
In Prochaska's eyes, the experience of weightlessness is more than a reward for all the nights and weekends the students gave up to work on their experiments.
"As soon as they feel it for the first time, you can see the light bulbs going off in their head like, 'Oh man, I should have redesigned this' it's immediate learning," Prochaska said. "I think a program like this is really going to be integral to raising America's engineers."
Led by Sam Avery, a senior in UCSD's aerospace engineering department bound for graduate school at Stanford, the team was made up of eight people: two ground support crew members and two teams of three fliers. Prone to settling arguments with equations, the students were focused in the days leading up to their flights. They spent hours inside a hanger at Ellington Field, calibrating their experiment and practicing how they would manipulate the buttons and switches on a control panel during each short period of microgravity. As their team journalist, I had the plum job of observer.
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As if flying to space weren't exciting and surreal enough on its own, someone just plunked down nearly $1 million to make the trip with movie star Leonardo DiCaprio.
DiCaprio plans to fly aboard Virgin Galactic's suborbital SpaceShipTwo space plane in 2015. A seat on the same flight with the actor sold for 700,000 euros ($954,000 at current exchange rates) Thursday (May 22) at the annual amfAR auction near Cannes, France, which benefits AIDS research, Variety reported.
The 2015 DiCaprio flight is filling up fast; at last year's amfAR auction, three other seats on it sold for a combined $3.8 million. (SpaceShipTwo can accommodate six passengers and two pilots.)
The SpaceShipTwo spaceliner is designed to be carried up to an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15,000 meters) by a mothership named WhiteKnightTwo. After being dropped, the space plane's rocket engine fires up, boosting the vehicle into suborbital space.
Passengers aboard SpaceShipTwo will get to see Earth against the blackness of space and experience a few minutes of weightlessness, Virgin Galactic representatives say.
Regular tickets to ride the commercial spaceliner sell for $250,000, and to date more than 700 people have put down deposits to reserve a seat. DiCaprio is not the only celebrity with plans to fly; actors Ashton Kutcher and Angelina Jolie have booked tickets, as has singer Justin Bieber.
And Virgin Galactic's founder, billionaire Sir Richard Branson, has said he and his family will be aboard the first commercial flight of SpaceShipTwo.
That landmark liftoff may come sometime in 2014. Virgin Galactic has already conducted dozens of flight tests with SpaceShipTwo, including three trials in which the vehicle fired its rocket engine after being dropped by WhiteKnightTwo.
SpaceShipTwo is the successor to SpaceShipOne, which won the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004 by becoming the first private manned vehicle to fly to space and back twice in the span of two weeks.
Virgin Galactic isn't the only company offering suborbital flights. XCOR Aerospace, for example, is selling seats aboard its one-passenger Lynx rocket plane for $95,000. Lynx could begin commercial operations about the same time that SpaceShipTwo does.
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Me, Sam and Diogo visiting old places. Nothing is more fun! (yay) Anyway, the video got all weird but I uploaded it anyway because I live in the moment.
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BOSTON (AP) - Most of the fans had left Fenway Park by the time the Red Sox scored against the Toronto bullpen to cut a five-run deficit to two. And when the game ended in another Boston loss, there wasnt enough energy left in the crowd for a healthy boo.
The defending World Series champions lost again the next afternoon, completing back-to-back sweeps at Fenway Park by the Detroit Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays. Its the first time Boston has gone winless on a homestand of at least six games since Butch Hobson presided over the 1994 team.
With eight losses in a row after a 1-0 defeat Friday night to Tampa Bay, that brings up another embarrassing name in franchise lore: Bobby Valentine. Not since the Red Sox lost the last eight games of his one-year reign have they slumped this badly.
Its frustrating right now for a number of guys, Red Sox manager John Farrell said after losing to Toronto 7-2 on Thursday to end the homestand without a win. Everyone in our uniform is aware of whats taking place.
Less than seven months after going from worst-to-first, following the collapse under Valentine with a World Series victory, the Red Sox have reversed course again - and not in a good way. They are a season-worst seven games under .500 and have fallen into last place in the AL East.
Theres plenty of time to turn it around, catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. Weve just got to do it tomorrow. We cant waste any more time.
The front office apparently agrees.
The signing of shortstop Stephen Drew to a one-year deal Wednesday helps shore up the left side of the infield, at least while third baseman Will Middlebrooks is injured. Drew was the shortstop on the World Series champions, but he remained without a team after rejecting Bostons $14.1 million qualifying offer over the offseason.
At the very least, his signing is a signal that the team isnt ready to concede its title defense and use the year to get young players like Xander Bogaerts and Jackie Bradley Jr. some experience. But Drew, who batted .253 with 13 homers and 67 RBIs last year, might not help much at the plate for a team that is hitting .245 for the season.
The Red Sox entered Friday 12th in the AL with 4.02 runs per game, and their .238 batting average with runners in scoring position is 13th out of 15 teams in the league.
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After opening a series of mostly Italian restaurants in neighborhoods across Seattle, Ethan Stowell segues from bistecca to steak frites at his new Madrona brasserie, Red Cow.
Youll know the place it was once Cremant, then June, then lately Restaurant Bea but you wouldnt recognize it. Beas flowered wallpaper has given way to a sophisticated urban monochrome of black, white and not-quite-50 shades of gray. A squat pillar candle on a plate is the sole adornment at each zinc-topped table, unless you count the modish men and women who regularly dine here.
They look good reflected in mirrors embedded in weathered wood paneling above high-backed, cushioned banquettes. Mirrors also trim the archway to the kitchen, visible beyond a cozy bar and lounge that is a haven for drop-ins and something of a refuge from the almighty roar up front. (The noise level is something that hasnt changed. Management hopes to install sound panels soon.)
Steak frites is Red Cows raison dtre. The frites are fabulous, which bodes well for Chippys, the fish-and-chip joint Stowell debuted this month in Ballard, next to his flagship, Staple & Fancy. But the inch-thick, one-pound boneless rib-eye with them lacked a proper sear: no crust, no juice, in short, a bust.
In that same meal, sea scallops were poorly seared as well. Browned only on one side, they were missing the crusty edge they sorely needed in a dish that, except for some hazelnuts, was all luxurious softness: pured potato, braised fennel, nettle pesto, brown butter.
Another night, hanger steak was cooked just right. So was a fat pork chop, evenly burnished and tender to the bone. Roast chicken was perfect, mussels a delight.
Sweet parsnip pure and a potent demi-glace enhanced that chop. A light, lemony, green sauce flattered the crisp-skinned chicken. The mussels, simply steamed with white wine, shallots, butter and sprigs of fresh thyme, came with frites and aioli on the side.
A choice of four sauces is offered with steaks. Ask for a sampler if you cant decide among a mellow red-wine reduction, bold horseradish cream, chive and shallot butter (my preference) or barnaise, which was dense as sour cream one night, thin and frothy another. (Chocolate mousse pebbled with irresistibly crunchy chocolate BBs had similar issues of consistency: pourable as a milkshake one time; smooth and spoonable the next.)
Sharing is a great way to go here with appetizers, salads and sides. Just about everyone starts with charcuterie, six or seven items that will vary, prettily presented with baguette toasts, two mustards, plus pickled carrots, cauliflower and haricots verts. I was most impressed with satiny foie gras torchon, herby lamb terrine and pork rillettes packed in a jar sealed with fat.
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BOSTON - Mark Buehrle got his major league-leading eighth win with a big boost from Toronto's powerful lineup.
Neither was surprising.
"Look what he's done all year," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said after a 7-2 win over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday. "Who's pitched better in baseball?"
Buehrle (8-1) has eight wins through May for the first time since 2002 and an ERA of 2.16. He gave up two runs in the first two innings, but by then Toronto had seven, starting with homers on consecutive pitches by Melky Cabrera and Jose Bautista in the first inning.
That gave the Blue Jays a major league-high 67 homers and gave Buehrle a big cushion.
The 15-year veteran lefty blanked the Red Sox for his final five innings and allowed seven hits and no walks while striking out five in seven innings.
Dustin McGowan pitched two shutout innings as the Blue Jays took a half-game lead over the New York Yankees in the AL East.
"It's nice, obviously" to lead the majors in wins, "but I've always said you can go out your next eight starts and (stink) and be under .500," Buehrle said. "I try to throw it out the window and get ready for my next start."
Toronto improved to 8-2 in its past 10 games, while Boston lost its seventh straight. The Red Sox went 0-6 on their homestand, the first time since June 1994, when they also lost six in a row at Fenway Park, that they were winless on a homestand of at least six games.
"We're in a stretch of games here where we're giving up too many runs early and we're scuffling to score runs," Boston manager John Farrell said. "That's a dangerous combination."
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Updated: Friday, May 23 2014 11:09 PM EDT2014-05-24 03:09:02 GMT
The Bronx Zoo now has dragons. Komodo dragons, the world's largest lizards, are back in the Bronx for the first time since the 1950s, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. They are in the zoo's new exhibit called Amazing Monitors, which features three other species of monitors.
The Bronx Zoo now has dragons. Komodo dragons, the world's largest lizards, are back in the Bronx for the first time since the 1950s, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. They are in the zoo's new exhibit called Amazing Monitors, which features three other species of monitors.
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Beaches and boardwalks are always popular during Memorial Day weekend, but don't forget about all the rooftop bars New York City has to offer. An enchanting garden oasis like no other awaits at Gallow Green. This overgrown urban paradise overlooks Chelsea, downtown Manhattan and the Hudson River. Where else can you dine on Scottish cuisine inside a hollowed-out railroad car or sip on a hand-crafted cocktail as lush as your surroundings. For $60 the gin punch is perfect for sharing.
Beaches and boardwalks are always popular during Memorial Day weekend, but don't forget about all the rooftop bars New York City has to offer. An enchanting garden oasis like no other awaits at Gallow Green. This overgrown urban paradise overlooks Chelsea, downtown Manhattan and the Hudson River. Where else can you dine on Scottish cuisine inside a hollowed-out railroad car or sip on a hand-crafted cocktail as lush as your surroundings. For $60 the gin punch is perfect for sharing.
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If your head's spinning sitting in Midtown Tunnel traffic trying to get out to the Hamptons, you might try spinning out to the east end of long island on one of these instead: a helicopter. Thanks to Blade, an app that describes itself as "The Sharpest Way to Fly," getting to the Hamptons is as easy as a quick download.
If your head's spinning sitting in Midtown Tunnel traffic trying to get out to the Hamptons, you might try spinning out to the east end of long island on one of these instead: a helicopter. Thanks to Blade, an app that describes itself as "The Sharpest Way to Fly," getting to the Hamptons is as easy as a quick download.
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BOSTON (AP) - Jon Lester took little solace in a strong recovery after a rough start.
Allowing seven runs in the first two innings was too much for Boston to overcome and end a skid that hit seven straight with a 7-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday.
I just wasnt able to do it with anything. Pick a pitch, I wasnt able to do it, Lester said. It just wasnt good from the start.
Its been a common theme for the defending World Series champion Red Sox, who are on their longest losing streak since losing the final eight games of the 2012 season.
Mark Buehrle won his major league-leading eighth game, Melky Cabrera and Jose Bautista homered on consecutive pitches for the Blue Jays as they completed a three-game sweep and won for the eighth time in 10 games.
Lester (4-6) had his worst outing of the season, allowing seven runs and seven hits through 1 1-3 innings. He settled down and retired 12 straight batters and left with one out in the seventh. Lester allowed 10 hits and striking out just three.
He just missed some spots and theyre hot right now. Missed spots against these guys, theyre going whack it, catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. I think the frustrating thing for him was he made some good pitches and they got hits.
Buehrle (8-1) allowed two runs in the first two innings and left after giving up seven hits and no walks with five strikeouts in seven innings. He retired 11 of his last 12 batters.
Lester retired the first batter of the game, Jose Reyes, on a grounder. But Cabrera hit a 1-0 pitch for his eighth homer and Bautista followed with his 12th. Both were to left field.
Toronto kept rolling in the second when six of its first seven batters reached base on five hits and a walk.
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NASA Asteroid Hunters Prep for Mission Underwater
May 22 (Bloomberg) --- NASA has a bold new plan to land astronauts on an asteroid by 2025. Bloomberg looks at what NASA hopes to discover on the mission and how it #39;s testing and training people...
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