[ISS] Soyuz TMA-11M Touches Down in Kazakhstan After 6 Month Mission to ISS
Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, American NASA astronaut Richard Mastracchio and Japanese JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata successfully have arrived back on Earth after a 6 month stay onboard...
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Russia Bans US from International Space Station
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Expedition 39 commander Koichi Wakata, right, turns the International Space Station over to Expedition 40 commander Steven Swanson, front left, during a change of command ceremony Monday. Wakata, Soyuz TMA-11M commander Mikhail Tyurin, middle right, and Rick Mastracchio, back right, planned to return to Earth late Tuesday. NASA TV
A Japanese astronaut, a veteran Russian cosmonaut and a NASA flight engineer boarded their Soyuz ferry craft and undocked from the International Space Station Tuesday, setting their sights on a fiery plunge back to Earth to close out a 188-day stay in space.
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In the latest space-related tit for tat, Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's deputy prime minister for space and defense, told Russian news agencies future sales of RD-180 engines, which power the first stage of United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket, will not be permitted for launches of U.S. military payloads.
Departing space station commander Koichi Wakata, facing camera, and Soyuz TMA-11M commander Mikhail Tyurin, left, close the hatch to the ferry craft prior to departing the International Space Station. Also on board for return to Earth was NASA flight engineer Rick Mastracchio.
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In any case, ULA officials say the company has a two-year supply of RD-180s in hand and it's not yet known what impact Rogozin's statements might have down the road.
Both sides say the station program is not affected by sanctions or other diplomatic hurdles and the Russians continue to honor their lucrative contract with NASA to carry U.S. and partner astronauts to and from the space station aboard Soyuz spacecraft at more than $70 million a seat.
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Responding to US and European sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine, Russia says it would consider ending its cooperation on the International Space Station. But its options are limited, say experts.
The safe landing in Kazakhstan Wednesday of a Russian Soyuz capsule returning three astronauts from the International Space Station suggests that for all the thunder and fury coming from Moscow about the future of the station, operations are continuing on a business-as-usual basis, at least for now.
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On Tuesday, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin announced that the country would consider ending its participation in the space-station program in 2020; would prohibit the US military's use of a rocket motor that powers the Atlas V, one of two launch workhorses for defense and intelligence satellites; and would close down global-positioning-satellite monitoring stations in Russia unless it was allowed to build comparable monitoring stations in the US for its navigation satellites.
All of these threatened steps are in response to sanctions the US and Europe have imposed on influential Russians including Mr. Rogozin over Russia's annexation of Crimea and its efforts to destabilize eastern Ukraine.
Tuesday's announcement represents a shot across the bow for the US space program, says Roger Handberg, a political scientist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando who specializes in space and defense policy.
But, if no further actions or statements come out of Moscow "indicating that this is going to get pushed seriously, then I think we'll just go on as we are," he says.
NASA has no other choice, he says, and in some ways, neither do the Russians.
In January, the US agreed to extend its participation in the space station program to 2024 instead of 2020, an extension that US partners sought after studies showed that the modules, especially the most recent additions from Europe and Japan, would be capable of lasting at least until 2024, and likely well beyond. The moves Rogozin threatened regarding the space station would affect all of the major partners and put Moscow in the unexpected position of being tarred as an unreliable partner for spaceflight activities.
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A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts rests on the ground after landing in Kazakhstan on May 13, 2014.NASA TV
Three crewmembers of the International Space Station have returned safely to Earth, ending their six-month orbital mission.
A Russian Soyuz capsulecarrying NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Japanese spaceflyer Koichi Wakata and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 9:58 p.m. ET Tuesday night (7:58 a.m. local time on Wednesday, May 14).
The Soyuz undocked from the space station 3 1/2 hours earlier while the two vehicles were above Mongolia, marking the end of Expedition 39 and the beginning of Expedition 40 aboard the orbiting lab.
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"What an exciting time we shared in this increment," Expedition 39 Commander Wakata said Monday as he handed the station's reins over to NASA astronaut Steve Swanson. "Congratulations, and best wishes to the crew of Expedition 40 for a successful mission."
Wakata, Mastracchio and Tyurin enjoyed an eventful and historic stint in orbit after arriving at the space station on Nov. 7, 2013. For example, Wakata became the first Japanese person ever to command the station when he took charge of Expedition 39 on March 10.
Just four days later, Wakata and Mastracchio participated in "Live from Space," a two-hour TV event hosted by Soledad O'Brien that aired on National Geographic Channel, as well as Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. "Live from Space" gave viewers in more than 140 countries an idea of what it's like to live and work on the orbiting lab, with Wakata giving a guided tour of the $100-billion complex.
"It is true that it is unprecedented," former NASA astronaut Ron Garan said of the project at the time. "I've never seen any kind of access like this before. Typically, live events from space run 15 minutes, 20 [minutes] tops. Two hours is just unbelievable."
Expedition 39 also oversaw the arrival of SpaceX's robotic Dragon capsule, which launched toward the space station April 18 on the California-based company's third contracted cargo mission for NASA. (SpaceX holds a $1.6 billion deal to make 12 such flights for the agency.)
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(CNN) -- Russia said it does not plan to use the International Space Station beyond 2020, casting a shadow on U.S. plans to continue cooperation with the country and extend the life of the orbiting laboratory until at least 2024.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told reporters Tuesday that Russia is looking to redirect its attention to other projects after 2020. His comments come as tensions mount over U.S. sanctions on Russia for its role in the crisis in Ukraine.
NASA released a statement saying that the U.S. space agency "has not received any official notification from the Government of Russia on any changes in our space cooperation at this point."
NASA added that cooperation in space has been a hallmark of U.S.-Russian relations, even during the Cold War, and it pointed to the past 13 years of continuous human presence on the orbiting outpost.
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Three astronauts one American, one Russian, and one Japanese ended their six-month mission aboard the space station after their Russian Soyuz capsule touched down Wednesday in Kazakhstan.
Three crewmembers of the International Space Station have returned safely to Earth, ending their six-month orbital mission.
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A RussianSoyuz capsulecarrying NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Japanese spaceflyer Koichi Wakata and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 9:58 p.m. EDT Tuesday night (May 13; 7:58 a.m. local time on Wednesday, May 14).
The Soyuz undocked from the space station 3 1/2 hours earlier while the two vehicles were above Mongolia, marking the end of Expedition 39 and the beginning of Expedition 40 aboard the orbiting lab. [Expedition 39 Returns to Earth (Photos)]
"What an exciting time we shared in this increment," Expedition 39 Commander Wakata said Monday (May 12) as he handed the station's reins over to NASA astronaut Steve Swanson. "Congratulations, and best wishes to the crew of Expedition 40 for a successful mission."
Wakata, Mastracchio and Tyurin enjoyed an eventful and historic stint in orbit after arriving at the space station on Nov. 7, 2013. For example, Wakata became the first Japanese person ever to command the station when he took charge of Expedition 39 on March 10.
Just four days later, Wakata and Mastracchio participated in "Live from Space," a two-hour TV event hosted by Soledad O'Brien that aired on National Geographic Channel, as well as Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. "Live from Space" gave viewers in more than 140 countries an idea of what it's like to live and work on the orbiting lab, with Wakata giving a guided tour of the $100-billion complex.
"It is true that it is unprecedented," former NASA astronaut Ron Garan said of the project at the time. "I've never seen any kind of access like this before. Typically, live events from space run 15 minutes, 20 [minutes] tops. Two hours is just unbelievable."
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(CNN) -- Russia said it does not plan to use the International Space Station beyond 2020, casting a shadow on U.S. plans to continue cooperation with the country and extend the life of the orbiting laboratory until at least 2024.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told reporters Tuesday that Russia is looking to redirect its attention to other projects after 2020. His comments come as tensions mount over U.S. sanctions on Russia for its role in the crisis in Ukraine.
NASA released a statement saying that the U.S. space agency "has not received any official notification from the Government of Russia on any changes in our space cooperation at this point."
NASA added that cooperation in space has been a hallmark of U.S.-Russian relations, even during the Cold War, and it pointed to the past 13 years of continuous human presence on the orbiting outpost.
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Scientists atNASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have simulated the collision of two ultra-dense neutron stars, which tear each other apart and ultimately form a black hole.
An amazing new NASA video shows two super-dense neutron stars tearing each other apart in a cataclysmic cosmic merger that ultimately forms a black hole.
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The neutron star collision video, which wasproduced by scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is a supercomputer simulation. It starts off with two neutron stars the city-size, dense remnants of a violent supernova explosion separated by about 11 miles (18 kilometers), NASA officials said. One object contains about 1.7 times the mass of our sun, while the other weighs in at 1.4 solar masses.
The two neutron stars spiral toward each other, deforming. As they get closer and closer to each other, the bigger stellar remnant crushes the smaller one, causing it to erupt and form a spiral arm around the larger neutron star, according to NASA. [The Top 10 Star Mysteries]
"At 13 milliseconds, the more massive star has accumulated too much mass to support it against gravity and collapses, and a newblack holeis born," NASA officials said in a statement. "The black hole's event horizon its point of no return is shown by the gray sphere. While most of the matter from both neutron stars will fall into the black hole, some of the less-dense, faster-moving matter manages to orbit around it, quickly forming a large and rapidly rotating torus."
Neutron stars form when a star that is eight to 30 times the mass of the sun explodes as a supernova, leaving behind the compressed, dense core. One cubic centimeter (0.06 cubic inches) of neutron star matter outweighs Mount Everest, NASA officials said.
In 2013, scientists found that mergers of neutron stars could create the gold in the universe.A group of astronomers, led by Edo Berger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, discovered that the collisions of neutron stars could eject as much as 10 moon masses' worth of gold.
Scientists think that the violent cosmic mergers ofneutron starscan also produce short gamma-ray bursts, which last about two seconds and unleash as much energy as all the stars in the Milky Way produce in more than a year, according to NASA.
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Scientists atNASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have simulated the collision of two ultra-dense neutron stars, which tear each other apart and ultimately form a black hole.
An amazing new NASA video shows two super-dense neutron stars tearing each other apart in a cataclysmic cosmic merger that ultimately forms a black hole.
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The neutron star collision video, which wasproduced by scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is a supercomputer simulation. It starts off with two neutron stars the city-size, dense remnants of a violent supernova explosion separated by about 11 miles (18 kilometers), NASA officials said. One object contains about 1.7 times the mass of our sun, while the other weighs in at 1.4 solar masses.
The two neutron stars spiral toward each other, deforming. As they get closer and closer to each other, the bigger stellar remnant crushes the smaller one, causing it to erupt and form a spiral arm around the larger neutron star, according to NASA. [The Top 10 Star Mysteries]
"At 13 milliseconds, the more massive star has accumulated too much mass to support it against gravity and collapses, and a newblack holeis born," NASA officials said in a statement. "The black hole's event horizon its point of no return is shown by the gray sphere. While most of the matter from both neutron stars will fall into the black hole, some of the less-dense, faster-moving matter manages to orbit around it, quickly forming a large and rapidly rotating torus."
Neutron stars form when a star that is eight to 30 times the mass of the sun explodes as a supernova, leaving behind the compressed, dense core. One cubic centimeter (0.06 cubic inches) of neutron star matter outweighs Mount Everest, NASA officials said.
In 2013, scientists found that mergers of neutron stars could create the gold in the universe.A group of astronomers, led by Edo Berger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, discovered that the collisions of neutron stars could eject as much as 10 moon masses' worth of gold.
Scientists think that the violent cosmic mergers ofneutron starscan also produce short gamma-ray bursts, which last about two seconds and unleash as much energy as all the stars in the Milky Way produce in more than a year, according to NASA.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses with the agencys Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft, mission personnel, Goddard Center Director Chris Scolese and NASA Associate Administrator John Grunsfeld, during visit to the cleanroom at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on May 12, 2014. Credit: Ken Kremer- kenkremer.com
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD NASAs upcoming Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is comprised of a quartet of identically instrumented observatories aimed at providing the first three-dimensional views of a fundamental process in nature known as magnetic reconnection. They were unveiled to greet NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Monday, May 12, in a rare fully stacked arrangement inside the Goddard clean room.
Universe Today was on hand with NASA Administrator Bolden, Science Chief John Grunsfeld and the MMS mission team at Goddard for a first hand inspection and up close look at the 20 foot tall, four spacecraft stacked configuration in the cleanroom and for interviews about the projects fundamental science goals.
Im visiting with the MMS team today to find out the status of this mission scheduled to launch early in 2015. Its one of many projects here at Goddard, NASA Administrator Bolden told me in an exclusive one-on-one interview at the MMS cleanroom.
MMS will help us study the phenomena known as magnetic reconnection and help us understand how energy from the sun magnetic and otherwise affects our own life here on Earth. MMS will study what effects that process and how the magnetosphere protects Earth.
Magnetic reconnection is the process whereby magnetic fields around Earth connect and disconnect while explosively releasing vast amounts of energy.
Technicians work on NASAs 20-foot-tall Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mated quartet of stacked observatories in the cleanroom at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on May 12, 2014. Credit: Ken Kremer- kenkremer.com
MMS measurements should lead to significant improvements in models for yielding better predictions of space weather and thereby the resulting impacts on life of Earth as well as satellite explorers in orbit and the heavens beyond.
The four identical spacecraft which are still undergoing testing were stacked in a rarely seen launch arrangement known affectionately as the IHOP configuration because they look like a stack of luscious pancakes.
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The Mercury 7 NASA introduced the Project Mercury Astronauts to the world on April 9, 1959, only six months after the agency was established. Known as the Mercury 7 or Original 7, they are: front row, left to right, Walter H. "Wally" Schirra, Jr., Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper. (Courtesy of NASA Langley /April 9, 1959)
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When America's first astronauts arrived at newly renamed NASA Langley Research Center in the spring of 1959, they knew they were going to make history in outer space.
But not until 55 years ago this week did the scientists and engineers of Langley's Space Task Group lay out the kind of training that would teach the pioneers of Project Mercury how to do it.
Astronauts John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter inspect a Mercury capsule at NASA Langley Research Center shortly after beginning their training there in the spring of 1959. (Courtesy of NASA Langley/Claude Patterson / May 14, 2014)
Selected on April 2, 1959 -- and presented to the public on April 9 -- the corps of seven military test pilots began their work at Langley on April 27, meeting the team assembled by STG director and Hampton resident Robert R. "Bob" Gilruth to determine if humans could survive the forces of lift-off and orbit in space.
Two weeks passed as they familiarized themselves with the previous research done by the members of the center's relatively small Pilotless Aircraft Research Division, which along with Gilruth had been reassigned to concentrate on the task of human space flight.
The project's goal was to put a man into space using known rocket and missile technologies, "extending the state of the art as little as necessary," NASA officials explained.
But that didn't mean the astronauts and an increasingly large number of Langley-based designers, technicians and engineers wouldn't need an immense amount of preparation and training before they could carry out their mission.
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New York Red Bulls star Tim Cahill heads the diverse 30-man provisional World Cup roster announced by Australia on Wednesday, a group hailing from a dozen different leagues on four continents.
With seven players age 21 or younger, Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou has blended in a substantial dollop of youth alongside the veteran core led by Cahill, Mark Bresciano and Josh Kennedy, heroes of Aussie World Cup campaigns past but there was no place for longtime servant Lucas Neill.
Crystal Palace standout Mile Jedinak will anchor the midfield, while Dutch-based winger Tommy Oar offers a valuable wide option and Kennedy brings towering size up front. This week Postecoglou convenes a week-long training camp which will help him winnow his squad down to 23 by June 2.
After decades of frustrating near-misses, the Socceroos have now qualified for three straight World Cups since their move from Oceania to the Asian Football Confederation. They will travel to Brazil with cautious optimism, having been drawn into a rugged Group B alongside Chile, the Netherlands and reigning world champions Spain.
Australia open their tournament against Chile in Cuiaba on June 13. They face the Netherlands on June 18 in Porto Alegre, then play Spain in Curitiba five days later.
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Mark Birighitti (Newcastle Jets - Australia / 23yrs) Eugene Galekovic (Adelaide United- Australia / 32yrs) Mitch Langerak (Borussia Dortmund - Germany / 25yrs) Mat Ryan (Club Brugge - Belgium / 22yrs)
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Josh Brillante (Newcastle Jets- Australia / 21yrs) Jason Davison (Heracles Almelo - Netherlands / 22yrs) Ivan Franjic (Brisbane Roar- Australia / 26rs) Curtis Good (Dundee United - Scotland /21yrs) Ryan McGowan (Shandong - China / 24yrs) Matthew Spiranovic (Western Sydney Wanderers - Australia / 25yrs) Alex Wilkinson (Jeonbuk - South Korea / 29yrs) Luke Wilkshire (Dynamo Moscow - Russia / 32yrs) Bailey Wright (Preston North End - England / 21yrs)
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An unsual 1960s British car is seemingly without an owner, and Red Deer RCMP are scratching their heads trying to find out who owns the almost certainly treasured vehicle.
On May 4, RCMP found and towed an Austin Cambridge from the Husky gas bar downtown.
Since then, police have tried to find the rightful owner, but have been unsuccessful.
The Austin Cambridge is possibly an A60 model, which were produced between 1961 and 1969. It is white in colour with a red interior and is in good condition.
In the car world something that unusual grabs attention. It was like having something frozen in time. It was in remarkably good shape, said Jim Sutherland, a local freelance writer who specializes in collector cars.
Red Deer Staff Sgt. Andrew Shepherd said neither the cars licence plate nor vehicle identification number yielded any results.
Were wondering why someone would move it there and walk away from it, said Shepherd.
According to Hagerty Insurance, a classic car valuation provider, the car would be worth about $9,500.
How did it end up there? said Shepherd. Someone goes into their garage and sees their pride and joy stolen, they usually phone the police. As of yet, nobody has done that.
Its not damaged, it is in nice shape, were all scratching our heads.
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NASA Astronaut Michael Fincke Visits IVC (Part 1)
On 05/12/2014 Colonel Michael Fincke visited Jim Fisher #39;s Chemistry classroom here at Imperial Valley College to give us a presentation on his experiences as an astronaut with NASA. http://www.jsc...
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NASA #39;s Wild New Footage Of Huge Hole In The Sun #39;s Corona
NASA #39;s Solar Dynamics Observatory has some beautiful new video of a new coronal hole in our sun. NASA has detected no danger to Earth, but they will be keeping a close eye on the square-shaped...
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