Kerbal Space Program #3 – New Space Station – Video

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I #39;ve been playing KSP alot lately and decided to construct a new and more complex space station. Saw an image of one Google and thought I #39;d make one like it but with a few more additions of my own, with only vanilla parts. It took me 11 successful missions (dozens of failed missions!!!!) to bring all the parts into orbit and assemble them there one by one. I installed the Mechjeb v1.96 plugin today and boy I wish I had it earlier. It would #39;ve made launching, orbiting and docking processes ALOT easier. The first part to go up was obviously the 4 orange jumbo fuel tanks (as a single unit), which are to be used as refueling points for later interplanetary missions as they are the heaviest and hardest to handle. Next was a tug I built to move the parts around and after that, the containers then the solar panel masts then finally the manned mission. It took me 2 days to complete everything. All in all, I think it #39;s a pretty decent station. One thing about building a space station : you become pretty good at docking by the end of it. 🙂 Although Mechjeb makes everything alot easier, the whole process of matching orbit and relative velocity with your target then docking with it is still manual labor. For anyone having trouble with docking, here #39;s a really good tutorial on how to do it. youtu.be Thanks for watching.

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-Teaser- Space Station Clean-Up Crew (Killing Floor) – Video

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Alpha Station: plans for an inflatable space station

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The formal unveiling Jan. 16 of a NASA deal to add an inflatable room developed by commercial company Bigelow Aerospace to the International Space Station is a forerunner of things to come. The private space firm has its eyes on setting up its own commercial space outpost, which it is calling Alpha Station.

The new room to be attached to the International Space Station a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will remain part of the orbiting laboratory for at least two years. During that time, astronauts will monitor the environment inside the module, recording a variety of parameters including temperature, pressure and radiation levels.

According to company details provided to SPACE.com, Bigelow Aerospace officials intend to use the BEAM to further validate the promise and benefits of expandable space habitats.

Space industry in orbit

The benefits of an expandable space habitat would be fully manifested by the Bigelow Aerospace's BA 330 module, far larger than the BEAM. A single BA 330 expandable habitat would offer 330 cubic meters of internal volume and be able to support a crew of up to six astronauts, Bigelow says. [Photos: Bigelow's Inflatable Space Station Idea]

- Bigelow Aerospace documents

Bigelow Aerospace is pushing forward with Alpha Station, which it bills as the "historic first commercial space station." The station initially would consist of two BA 330s. The company plans to have the two BA 330s ready by late 2016.

Alpha Station would be the first of a number of commercial Bigelow space stations deployed as demand grows and the on-orbit industry matures.

Bigelow Aerospace is open to entering into joint ventures with interested partners, be they governments, corporations or even individuals, for future stations.

"Nations such as Japan, Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Sweden could secure the future of their human spaceflight programs and dramatically increase the size of their astronaut corps. Smaller countries with no human spaceflight experience such as Singapore or the United Arab Emirates could take their first bold steps into space in a rapid and affordable fashion," according to a Bigelow Aerospace document.

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A bounce-house addition to the International Space Station?

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NASA and Bigelow Aerospace plan to add a $17.8 million inflatable room to the International Space Station. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, will house astronauts, and is built to withstand heat, radiation, debris and other assaults.

NASA is partnering with a commercial space company in a bid to replace the cumbersome "metal cans" that now serve as astronauts' homes in space with inflatable bounce-house-like habitats that can be deployed on the cheap.

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A $17.8 million test project will send to the International Space Station an inflatable room that can be compressed into a 7-foot tube for delivery, officials said Wednesday in a news conference at North Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace.

If the module proves durable during two years at the space station, it could open the door to habitats on the moon and missions to Mars, NASA engineer Glen Miller said.

The agency chose Bigelow for the contract because it was the only company working on inflatable technology, said NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver.

Founder and President Robert Bigelow, who made his fortune in the hotel industry before getting into the space business in 1999, framed the gambit as an out-of-this-world real estate venture. He hopes to sell his spare tire habitats to scientific companies and wealthy adventurers looking for space hotels.

NASA is expected to install the 13-foot, blimp-like module in a space station port by 2015. Bigelow plans to begin selling stand-alone space homes the next year.

The new technology provides three times as much room as the existing aluminum models, and is also easier and less costly to build, Miller said.

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Space Station Balloons — Literally

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NASA, building the International Space Station over the last two decades, ran into ballooning costs. One solution it's now embraced is ballooning -- literally -- in orbit.

NASA has signed a $17.8 million contract with Bigelow Aerospace, a firm based near Las Vegas, to build an inflatable habitat that could be added to the space station by 2015. The new compartment is called BEAM, short for Bigelow Expandable Activity Module.

In announcing the deal, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said a lightweight, inflatable compartment could be dramatically cheaper than the metal cylinders that make up most of the space station's living area.

"Let's face it; the most expensive aspect of taking things in space is the launch," she said. "So the magnitude of importance of this for NASA really can't be overstated."

Bigelow's mastermind is Robert Bigelow, an entrepreneur who made his fortune in construction and hotels -- the Budget Suites chain of extended-stay hotels is his. Now he's taken extended stays to higher levels; since 2006 Bigelow has successfully launched two inflatable prototype spacecraft into orbit.

BEAM would be folded up in the nose of a rocket -- perhaps one supplied by Elon Musk's SpaceX company -- and inflated after it is attached to a port on the space station. The prototype would be 13 feet across, but later versions could be three times as roomy as the cylindrical chambers that now make up the station -- at less cost.

When Bigelow says "inflatable," don't think of something like a balloon. The outer skin has multiple layers, some of them made of bulletproof Vectran fibers. It might have a little give, but it would be as tough as snow tires. Bigelow has suggested that micrometeoroids might actually bounce off instead of puncturing a ship's metal walls.

The technology, actually, was originally NASA's. It made plans for inflatable living quarters for the space station, but canceled them in the face of budget cuts, and licensed its patent to Bigelow.

Robert Bigelow has a colorful reputation, but when ABC News spoke with him a few years ago, he spoke about space exploration as dispassionately as one might about, say, extended-stay hotels. His company has plans for affordable habitats in the cosmos, perhaps to be rented out to countries or companies that cannot afford their own space programs.

"Think of us as if we were building an office building in space," he said. "Other countries or corporations would be our tenants."

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Next Space Station Crew Faces Out-of-This-World Final Exams

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An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are preparing to join the crew of the International Space Station in March, but before they blast off, they'll have to face the thing all students dread: final exams.

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, along with Alexander Misurkin and Pavel Vinogradov of Russia, are due to launch toward the space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on March 28. They will lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and join the station's Expedition 35 crew a few days later. The spaceflyers plan to spend about six months in space performing experiments and keeping the $100 billion space laboratory in tip-top shape.

But for now, the crew is spending its final weeks before launch cramming for a critical two-day exam that will take place in the Russian town of Star City. The test is one all space station crews must pass before they are cleared to launch.

"We're honing in on the end of a two-and-a-half-year process, which is culminating with some intense training here in Houston," Cassidy said in a NASA briefing today (Jan. 17). "We'll soon be in Star City where we'll have our final exams."

The three men will spend their first exam day inside a life-size simulator of the Russian segment of the space station, carrying out typical tasks and responding to simulated malfunctions that test their abilities to cope in a crisis. [Space Jet Lag: How Astronauts Cope (Video)]

On the second day, they'll tackle the same challenges inside a Soyuz simulator, carrying out mock launch, rendezvous and undocking sequences while clad in their Russian Sokol spacesuits. All this will be observed by a Russian state commission that includes veteran cosmonauts and officials.

"It sounds scary and it is intimidating the first time you do it," Cassidy told SPACE.com. "When you're sitting in a big gigantic room with a lot of experienced Soyuz commanders, and they're asking questions about why you put your hand in a certain place, it can be intimidating. But in my opinion it is a good process. It can really make you step up your game."

Crews must pass the exams before they are allowed to launch to space, but if at first they don't succeed, they do get a second chance to try again.

"Recently there have been some crews that have made a critical mistake," Cassidy said. "And what theyll do is make you redo that section and just fine-tune it."

Cassidy, Vinogradov and Misurkin will be taking their test March 6 and 7. The first two spaceflyers have some experience under their belt, as both have flown to space before: Cassidy flew on NASA'sSTS-127 mission of the space shuttle Endeavour in 2009, while Vinogradov is a veteran of two previous spaceflights, including a trip to Russia's space station Mir in 1997 and the International Space Station's Expedition 13 mission in 2004.

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NASA Making Strides In Tracking Near-Earth Asteroids – Video

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Humanity has made substantial progress in the hunt for near-Earth asteroids that could potentially pose a grave threat to the planet, NASA #39;s chief space rock hunter said Monday (Jan. 14). Don Yeomans, head of NASA #39;s Near-Earth Object Program, told a crowd here at the American Museum of Natural History that it is the smaller asteroids, not giant space rocks, that are difficult to spot. "It #39;s unlikely that we #39;d miss a big one," said Yeomans, who has written a new book on near-Earth asteroids "Near Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us" (Princeton University Press 2013). "It #39;s the small ones that sneak up on us." Yeomans #39; office at NASA #39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is devoted to finding near-Earth objects (which includes asteroids and comets) and plotting their positions over time. A few of the more notable asteroids NASA has placed on the "cleared" list in the past year include such high profile space rocks as the asteroid Apophis, which will swing extremely close to Earth in 2029 and return in 2036. All told, astronomers have found 90 percent of the large asteroids whose orbits bring them close to our planet. Apophis was cleared of concern last week when it made a distant flyby of Earth, which allowed astronomers to make new observations that helped complete rule out an impact threat in 2036. Previous observations had already ruled out the 2029 flyby. [See Photos of Giant Asteroid Apophis] In the near-future, as in this year, there will be ...

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Visit my website at http://www.junglejoel.com - here #39;s an animation of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module being extracted and attached to the International Space Station. Once attached, the module is then inflated. Please rate and comment, thanks! Video Credits NASA

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NASA WB-57, 50000ft. over Las Vegas – Video

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NASA to try inflatable housing in space

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This artist's rendering shows a Bigelow inflatable space station. NASA is testing an inflatable room that can be compressed into a 2m tube for delivery to the International Space Station. Source: AP

NASA is partnering with a commercial space company in a bid to replace the cumbersome "metal cans" that now serve as astronauts' homes in space with inflatable bounce-house-like habitats that can be deployed on the cheap.

A $US17.8 million ($16.9 million) test project will send to the International Space Station an inflatable room that can be compressed into a two-metre tube for delivery, officials said in a news conference at North Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace.

If the module proves durable during two years at the space station, it could open the door to habitats on the moon and missions to Mars, NASA engineer Glen Miller said.

The agency chose Bigelow for the contract because it was the only company working on inflatable technology, said NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver.

Founder and President Robert Bigelow, who made his fortune in the hotel industry before getting into the space business in 1999, framed the gambit as an out-of-this-world real estate venture. He hopes to sell his spare tyre habitats to scientific companies and wealthy adventurers looking for space hotels.

Bigelow Aerospace founder Robert Bigelow speaks near a scale model of an inflatable habitat. NASA has partnered with the company to try the cheaper inflatable accomodation for astronauts in space.

NASA is expected to install the 4-metre, blimp-like module in a space station port by 2015. Bigelow plans to begin selling stand-alone space homes the next year.

The new technology provides three times as much room as the existing aluminum models, and is also easier and less costly to build, Mr Miller said.

Artist renderings of the module resemble a tinfoil clown nose grafted onto the main station. It is hardly big enough to be called a room. Mr Miller described it as a large closet with padded white walls and gear and gizmos strung from two central beams.

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