Expedition 40/41 Crew Conducts News Conference and Traditional Ceremonies in Russia #39;s Red Square
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Tracy McMahan, a public affairs officer at the Marshall Space Flight Center, spoke with Gabriel Pont, DECLIC #39;s mission manager from the French Space Agency (CNES). Data from the investigation...
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Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) has been selected by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company to provide cameras for the OSIRIS-REx mission. OSIRIS-REx (Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer) is a NASA New Frontiers mission, led by Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland manages the mission for NASA. Lockheed Martin is building the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will operate it in flight from its Mission Support Area in Denver, Colorado.To be launched in September 2016, OSIRIS-REx will orbit the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, eventually acquiring a sample from its surface and returning it to Earth in 2023.MSSS will provide the Touch-and-Go Camera System or TAGCAMS, which will consist of two redundant Navigation Cameras or "NavCams", and a single "StowCam". The NavCams will be used for navigation and control both by ground controllers and the spacecraft's onboard guidance system, while the StowCam will be used to verify proper storage of the asteroid sample in the spacecraft's Sample Return Capsule.TAGCAMS is a version of MSSS's off-the-shelf ECAM space camera product line, with mission-specific enhancements to its optics, digital logic, and software. The NavCams are ECAM-M50s, the StowCam is an ECAM-C50 (all with the standard ECAM MFOV lens system) and the cameras are controlled by an ECAM-DVR8.MSSS cameras are currently operating on five space missions, most recently the Curiosity Mars rover and the Juno mission to Jupiter. ECAM builds on this experience to meet a need for capable science and engineering support cameras that provide high reliability imaging, while using a minimum of mission resources.Jacob Schaffner, electronics engineer and the designer of ECAM at MSSS said, "TAGCAMS is a demanding application, but one which the ECAM system has proven well-suited for, and all in a package that weighs less than 3 kilograms. We're proud to be part of this exciting mission."Additional information about the ECAM product line can be found athttp://www.msss.com/space-cameras/The OSIRIS-REx mission is described athttp://osiris-rex.lpl.arizona.edu
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico -- After passing the sign reading "Danger Falling Aliens," New Mexico artist Roy Lohr and dog Yoda lead visitors to the "Spaceport" he has built in his backyard out of wine bottles and cement.
It's no wonder the lanky 69-year-old embraces the real Spaceport America in his town's backyard, the world's first space base built expressly for commercial launches and soon-to-be site of the first space flights with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic.
"It is hard for locals to realize the impact it is going to have, but it is slow coming and this is a tiny little town," said Lohr. But he has no doubt "things are happening."
The inaugural flight of the six-passenger SpaceShipTwo should take place this year, carrying Branson from the 12,000-foot (3.6-kilometers) runway to suborbital space about 65 miles (100 km) from Earth.
"As always, safety will ultimately call the shots, but right now, Im planning to go to space in 2014!" Branson wrote in an email this week.
The first of some 700 "astronauts," who have already paid $250,000 for the two-hour-plus flight and some minutes of weightlessness, should follow a month later.
After 10 years of conception and construction at the state-run, taxpayer-funded, $212-million Spaceport, the people of Truth or Consequences, population 6,500, are sensing a shift in confidence as the countdown nears.
While the economic windfall is difficult to estimate for the town that famously renamed itself after a radio quiz show in 1950, most everyone in these parts agrees the Spaceport should inject new energy into the somewhat tattered and totally quirky T or C, as it is known in local parlance.
"There might have been some doubt about how much T or C would be ready for all of this future endeavor," said Cydney Wilkes, who bought and renovated a motel with wife Val a few years ago and called it, aptly, Rocket Inn.
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Gov. John Hickenlooper will participate in two events at this months 30th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. The Space Foundations Space Symposium is an international space conference from May 19-22 at The Broadmoor.
At 11:40 a.m. on May 20, the governor plans to sign a bill in the symposiums Boeing Exhibit Center at the Colorado Space Coalition booth. The bill is HB14-1178 Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Space Flight Property by representatives Mark Ferrandino and Brian DelGrosso and senators Mary Hodge and Kevin Grantham.
The governor will also speak at the symposiums Space Warfighters Luncheon on May 20 at The Broadmoors Colorado Hall beginning at 12:15 p.m.
Featured speaker at the luncheon will be Lt. Gen. John W. Jay Raymond, USAF, commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic), Air Force Space Command; and commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space, U.S. Strategic Command, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
The Space Warfighters Luncheon takes place annually during the Space Symposium to honor the men and women who serve in the military around the world and highlights the role space assets play in providing security and solutions for keeping troops safe, informed and effective. The luncheon is co-sponsored by United Launch Alliance (ULA), with corporate host Michael C. Gass, president and chief executive officer, ULA.
Hickenlooper, a self-described recovering geologist now on loan to public service, was elected governor in 2010, after serving eight years as mayor of Denver.
The full list of Space Symposium speakers can be found at http://www.SpaceSymposium.org.
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NASA ISS video feed shows two UFO #39;s then they cut transmission. Thanks StreetCap1 for this great whistle blower video.
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NASA Unveils Live HD Streaming Footage of Earth From ISS
NASA has launched a new experiment called #39;High Definition Earth Viewing #39;. Basically it #39;s live streaming footage taken from the ISS of Earth. Have you ever wondered what the Earth looks like...
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Country Music Star Kellie Pickler Touts NASA #39;s SLS | Video
The recording artist promoted the Orion capsule ands Space Launch Systems in this public service announcement.
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At a hearing held January of 2014, the Court questioned Declinols scientific expert on Declinols use of the term nanotechnology, stating, in fact, your use of the term nanotechnology, its a bit of a stretch, isnt it? The court went further, asking wouldnt it be more accurate to call it liposomal delivery? Declinols own scientific witness agreed with the Court. (source 6)
With the denial of the motion brought by Kirven, Declinol and Puricorp, Avantcares case against Kirven, Declinol, and Puricorp for intellectual property infringement, false advertising, and deceptive trade practices is clear to proceed in Federal Court. (source 5)
Nanotechnology is a questionable technology that works with atoms in the process of manipulating matter at the molecular level. Puricorp had maintained that the use of nanotechnology in their products was not dangerous to human health but recently removed references to nanotechnology in their advertising for one of their products.
Dr. Frank W. Gibson, creator of the Last Call Program and Sobrexa and Avantcare, Inc. CEO, reported that the Companys Science and Medical Board carefully studied the dangers of nanotechnology prior to declaring nanotech products unsafe and pledging never to use nanotechnology in any of the Companys products. As the leader in the field of addiction and natural products, we looked at nanotechnology very closely with some scary results. The fact that nanotech disables the bodys natural ability to protect itself from harmful particles and that nano particles have the potential to bypass the blood brain barrier and remain in the brain and organs for much longer than normally sized particles (source 1) was enough for us to join the world-wide stand against nanotechnology. The fact that a new, untested and un-regulated technology has been introduced into the marketplace is of real concern. We take our responsibility to protect and inform our consumers very seriously.
According to a study in the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, nanomaterials may, enter the body through the lungs or other organs via food, drink, and medicine and affect different organs and tissues such as the brain, liver, kidney, heart, colon, spleen, bone, blood, etc. and may cause cytotoxic effects, e.g. deformation and inhibition of cell growth leading to various diseases in humans and animals. (source 2,3)
The FDA currently has little regulatory authority over nanoengineered products, but the agency states that it is a top priority. In the April 2012 FDA Nanotechnology Fact Sheet, the FDA states: Understanding nanotechnology remains a top FDA priority. FDA is monitoring the evolving science and has a robust research agenda to help assess the safety and effectiveness of products using nanotechnology. (source 4)
Avantcares nanotech pledge can be viewed in its entirety at http://www.lastcallprogram.com along with current studies regarding the dangers of nanotechnology
SOURCES: 1. Nanotechnology and Health Safety Toxicity Risk Assessments of Nanostructured Materials on Human Health, Singh,S. and Nalwa, H. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol.7, p. 3048, 2007.
2. Study in the Journal of Nanoscience sourced from - National Center for Biotechnology Information, division of the NIH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18019130
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Newswise ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Humans have used metals for thousands of years, but theres still a lot about them that isnt fully understood. Just how much stretching, bending or compression a particular metal will take is determined by mechanical properties that can vary widely, even within parts made of the same material.
Sandia National Laboratories is working to fill gaps in the fundamental understanding of materials science through an ambitious long-term, multidisciplinary project called Predicting Performance Margins, or PPM. From the atomic level to full-scale components, the research links variability in materials atomic configurations and microstructures with how actual parts perform.
PPM aims to identify how material variability affects performance margins for an engineering component or machine part. The goal is a science-based foundation for materials design and analysis predicting how a material will perform in specific applications and how it might fail compared with its requirements, then using that knowledge to design high-reliability components and systems. Materials are such things as alloys, polymers or composites; components are switches, engines or aircraft wings, for example, while systems can be entire airplanes, appliances or even bridges.
Safer, more reliable vehicles, machines hinge on how materials perform
Understanding reliability and performance at the fundamental materials science level isnt important just to Sandias national security missions. Performance is crucial to safety and reliability in spacecraft, bridges, power grids, automobiles, nuclear power plants and other complex engineered systems.
The PPM approach has become a prototype for tackling other difficult materials issues. Materials science researchers recently used the approach in a proposal to understand brittle materials, establishing a multidisciplinary project to develop the fundamental science while delivering improvements during the project to those who use these materials. That way, users dont have to wait years to reap benefits from the fundamental work. Future studies that could benefit from the approach include the aging of polymers and foams, friction between electrical contacts and failures in glass-to-metal seals and in solders and interconnects.
Too often, we are unable to predict precisely how a material will behave, and instead we must rely on expensive performance tests, said program manager Amy Sun. Capturing variability by testing alone is too expensive and not predictive.
PPM simultaneously tackles fundamental materials science issues at the atomic and microstructural scales and engineering problems at the visible scale.
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Yale University researchers have developed a simple method for controlling the doping of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a chemical process that optimizes the tubes properties. Reported April 29 in Nano Letters, the method could improve the utility of doped CNTs in a number of nanotechnologies and flexible electronics, including CNT-silicon hybrid solar energy cells.
Led by Andr Taylor of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science and Nilay Hazari of Yales chemistry department, the researchers developed a method that uses organic compounds with a metal core known as metallocenes to produce two possible types of doped CNTs.
A small amount of metallocenes in solution is deposited on the CNTs, which are then rotated at high speed. This simple spin coating process spreads the solution evenly across the surface of the CNTs, resulting in high doping levels that can improve electrical utility.
Using the method, the researchers found that doping with electron-deficient metallocenes, such as those with a cobalt core, results in CNTs with more positively charged electron holes than available negatively charged electrons to fill those holes; these CNTs are known as p-type because of their positive charge. On the other hand, doping with electron-rich metallocenes, such as those with a vanadium core, results in thenegatively charged n-type CNTs, which have more electrons than holes.
According to the team, which also includes doctoral candidates Xiaokai Li (lead author) and Louise Guard, metallocenes are the first generic family of molecules demonstrated to produce both p-type and n-type doping.
We showed that by changing the coordinate metal of a metallocene, we could actually render these carbon nanotubes p-type or n-type at will, and we can even go back and forth between the two, said Taylor, who is associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering. Hazari is assistant professor of chemistry.
The finding is significant, Taylor said, because although p-type doping is common and even occurs naturally when CNTs interact with air, previous n-type doping methods produced low doping levels that could not be effectively used in devices. The Yale teams method produced an n-type CNT-silicon cell more than 450 times more efficient than the best solar cells of this type.
If you have a high doping ratio, then you have better electron transport, better mobility, and ultimately a better functioning device, said Taylor. As such, these findings move us one step further towards our goal of improving the efficiency of hybrid solar cells.
The paper is titled Controlled Doping of Carbon Nanotubes with Metallocenes for Application in Hybrid Carbon Nanotube/Si Solar Cells.
The National Science Foundation, Sabotka Research Fund, Teracon Corp., and the Yale Climate and Energy Institute provided support for this research.
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PHILADELPHIA - Ancient philosophers looked to alchemy for clues to life everlasting. Today, researchers look to their yeast. These single-celled microbes have long served as model systems for the puzzle that is the aging process, and in this week's issue of Cell Metabolism, they fill in yet another piece.
The study, led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, identifies a new molecular circuit that controls longevity in yeast and more complex organisms and suggests a therapeutic intervention that could mimic the lifespan-enhancing effect of caloric restriction, no dietary restrictions necessary. After all, says senior author Shelley Berger, PhD, "who wants to live on 500 calories a day?"
Berger, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor in the departments of Genetics and Cell and Developmental Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine and the department of Biology in the School of Arts and Sciences, studies epigenetics, the science of the control of genetic information. Epigenetics comprises multiple regulatory layers, including chromatin packaging -- the orderly wrapping of DNA around histone proteins in the cell nucleus. By altering this DNA packaging, cells can control when and how genes are expressed.
"Aging is, in part, the accumulation of cellular stress," she explains. "If you can better respond to these stresses, this ameliorates the damage it can cause."
Berger and her team looked for chromatin-associated genes that could influence longevity by searching for genes that already were implicated in epigenetic regulation that might extend lifespan when deleted in the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. One such gene improved lifespan by about 25 percent this would correspond to an increased lifespan in humans from 75 years to about 95 years a substantial benefit to longevity, notes Berger. The research, conducted by postdoctoral fellow Weiwei Dang, PhD, aimed to unravel how this increase in longevity was achieved and if it was related to cellular stress.
First, the team asked whether the gene ISW2 is part of previously identified longevity pathways, especially those associated with caloric restriction, a well-known strategy for extending lifespan. But pathways involving a form of chromatin modification (histone acetylation) came up empty, as did an alternate pathway involving growth control, suggesting ISW2 functions through a never-before-seen mechanism.
The team then looked for answers in the function of the ISW2 protein, and found that its absence alters the expression of genes involved in protecting cells from such stresses as DNA damage. Deletion of ISW2 increases the expression and activity of genes in DNA-damage repair pathways an effect also seen during calorie restriction.
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Machina explores the repercussions of a man uploading his consciousness to a social network. Photo: Supplied
A man with a desire to expand his mind has his consciousness uploaded to the cloud. His physical body dies, and the loved ones he leaves behind must wrangle with the ethical dilemmas sparked by this brave new world.
It sounds like the plot of Transcendence, the recent film that received mixed reviews and saw Johnny Depp portray a brilliant scientist who achieves god-like powers after transforming from flesh and blood to binary code.
But it is also the same springboard for Brisbane playwright Richard Jordans Machina, premiering on Friday night as part of the La Boite Indie program.
Brisbane playwright Richard Jordan explores the internet as a new spirituality in Machina. Photo: Supplied
The 31-year-old, who also penned the award-winning 25 Down, spent two years writing his work, and was relieved to discover Hollywood went down a different path.
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I thought there were some interesting ideas in Transcendence, but I thought they were quite clumsily executed, he said.
Everyone was so po-faced and terribly serious, and sometimes I feel like movies can hide behind the special effects... I cringed through most of it.
Machina takes place a month after its central character, David Sergeant, uploads his consciousness to the eponymous social network in a process called going inside.
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