Let’s Play!: Kerbal Space Program #22 – "Kerbal-Lab" – Video

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Heya Everyone! This is the first of my away videos so I do hope you don #39;t think they are crap O_o In today #39;s episode of KSP we aim to set a simple, single stage Space Station in orbit around Kerbin for experiments and such like to be done... or something... Everything will go great!... You #39;d be surprised... Enjoy! Get Kerbal Space Program 0.13.3 (Demo) at: http://www.mediafire.com Get the latest version and all future updates of Kerbal Space Program for $23/14.27 at:www.kerbalspaceprogram.comFrom:TheDunntistViews:3 1ratingsTime:21:35More inGaming

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STS-134 Endeavour May 16 2011 – Video

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Launch of STS-134 STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6) was the penultimate mission of NASA #39;s Space Shuttle program. The mission marked the 25th and last spaceflight of Space Shuttle Endeavour.[8] This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station. Mark Kelly served as the mission commander. STS-134 was expected to be the final space shuttle mission if STS-135 did not receive funding from Congress; however, in February 2011, NASA stated that STS-135 would fly "regardless" of the funding situation. The Launch On Need mission, a contingency mission to rescue a stranded STS-134 crew, would have been the STS-135 flight (formerly STS-335), flown by Atlantis. Changes in the design of the main payload, AMS-02, as well as delays to STS-133, led to delays in the mission. The first launch attempt on 29 April 2011 was scrubbed at 12:20 pm by launch managers due to problems with two heaters on one of the orbiter #39;s auxiliary power units (APU). Endeavour launched successfully at 08:56:28 EDT (12:56:28 UTC) on 16 May 2011, and landed for the final time on 1 June 2011.From:wingman011111Views:0 0ratingsTime:02:26More inScience Technology

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Ford Fighting for Irish Football From Space! – Video

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Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford, an Indiana native and 1982 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, discussed the upcoming BCS college football championship game between the Irish and the University of Alabama Jan. 7 and life and work aboard the orbital laboratory with the University of Notre Dame #39;s Office of Communications during an in-flight interview Dec. 26, 2012.From:NASAtelevisionViews:301 25ratingsTime:10:30More inScience Technology

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A Brief History of Making Music in Space

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Colonel Chris Hadfield recently recorded the first original song written for and performed on the International Space Station. He joins a long and venerable tradition of astromusicians.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield plays Christmas carols while orbiting over the Mediterranean. (@Cmdr_Hadfield/Twitter)

Astronaut Chris Hadfield has a new song out, a sweet Christmas melody laid over some solid guitar strumming. But if you listen carefully, you'll hear something else: a soft whir of fans in the background. Why? Because this song wasn't recorded in the constructed silence of a recording studio, but on the International Space Station as it orbited Earth at about 17,000 miles per hour, some 260 miles overhead.

It seems that this is the first song written specifically for the International Space Station to be recorded there. But that's a pretty specific accomplishment -- and that's because humans have been playing music in space for about five decades. The first song we have a recording of from space was also a Christmas tune, this one a bit better known: Jingle Bells. Astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford snuck some bells and a harmonica (now housed at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum) onto Gemini 6 in 1965. As they prepared to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on December 16, they played a little joke on those listening down below.

The prank, captured in the video below, is a little hard to make out verbatim, but Schirra's later recollections give the joke's flavor. He wrote: "We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, probably in polar orbit.... Looks like he might be going to re-enter soon.... You just might let me pick up that thing.... I see a command module and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit." And then they began to play:

Stafford told Smithsonian Magazine in 2005 that it was Schirra who originally came up with the idea. "He could play the harmonica, and we practiced two or three times before we took off, but of course we didn't tell the guys on the ground....We never considered singing, since I couldn't carry a tune in a bushelbasket."

It seems that no one heard the recording of that moment-- the first musical instruments played in space, according to Margaret A. Weitekamp, a curator at the Air and Space Museum -- for decades, but last year a YouTube user by the name buzzlab, and identified by Boing Boing as "Patrick," ferreted it out of NASA's Media Resource Center in Houston Texas, who provided him with 33 hours of audio files from the mission with a note that promised, "It's in there somewhere."

On the International Space Station and Mir, where astronauts have lived for long periods and therefore have had more leisure time, instruments have been fixtures of space-station living. On a space station, NASA explains, the instruments don't sound any different, but they are all thoroughly checked to make sure they will not threaten the safety of the astronauts (if they were to, say, emit some noxious gases, or perhaps combust). Astronauts too have to adapt to playing without gravity, figuring out clever ways of holding themselves in place while they strum or tap the keys.

Over the years of space-station living there have been many firsts: Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko wrote 20 songs while living on Mir in the late '80s though it seems he did not record them there. Hadfield brought a modified, foldable electric guitar to Mir in the '90s, and he and astro-guitarist Thomas Reiter used to play Russian folk ballads and Beatles songs. Several astronauts have shlepped keyboards with them (such as Carl Walz, pictured at right), Don Petit turned a vacuum tube into a workable didgeridoo, and two astronauts, Cady Coleman and Ellen Ochoa, have both brought flutes with them into space. In 2011, recording of Coleman playing Bach's Bouree was merged with another from Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull, for the first ever Earth-space duet.

But there is one first that was planned and never happened, and that story is a reminder of the tough path that space exploration has sometimes been. And that is the story of Ron McNair, who was the first person to bring an instrument into space (not counting the bells and harmonica of the Gemini pranksters). In 1984 he brought his saxophone with him on a shuttle mission. The tape of that music was sadly recorded over.

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Astronauts Celebrate Christmas on Space Station

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Christmas in orbit might not look exactly like the holidays on Earth, but the astronauts living on the International Space Station this holiday season try to make the orbiting science laboratory as homey as possible.

The six members of the station's Expedition 34 crew, three of whom just arrived last week, will all be spending Christmas and New Years Day aboard the spacecraft, but that doesn't mean they don't get to celebrate. Hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface, the spaceflyers will eat, exchange gifts, and be merry during Christmas and when welcoming in the New Year.

The space station crew will be off duty for both Christmas Eve and Christmas. That means that they won't need to work on any of the 110 experiments aboard the station, and they can take as much time for meals as they want, NASA spokeswoman Nicole Cloutier-Lamasters told SPACE.com.

The space station residents have a few different decorating options available to them. An earlier expedition left the crewmembers a Christmas tree and stockings made from nomex, a flame resistant fiber that's safe to stow onboard. [Holidays in Space: Astronaut Photo Album]

The week before Christmas was an eventful one for the orbital crew as well. Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko arrived on Friday (Dec. 21), joining Kevin Ford of NASA, and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin to fill out the $100 billion science laboratory to its usual 6-person capacity.

The spaceflyers also have some presents to look forward to. The Progress 48 cargo freighter a robotic Russian supply ship that launched in early August of this year carried more than just basic supplies to the ISS. The Progress also brought holiday presents for the spaceflyers who'd be spending Yuletide in space.

As well as a traditional meal complete with turkey and candied yams, the crewmembers will also get the chance to video conference with their families. This is a particular treat because video chatting is usually possible only once a week, and involves a lot of planning for mission control and the spaceflyers.

Despite NASA's best efforts to make the holidays in space as warm as they are on Earth, that doesn't mean astronauts won't get homesick.

Marshburn, for example, has a 10-year-old daughter.

"That'll be tough, thinking about her waking up in the morning, enjoying things," said Marshburn during a preflight interview with NASA, "but the fact is we've got some technology that'll allow me, hopefully through an internet or I guess an internet protocol session, to be able to join in with them and see their faces and they can see me. It'll be a little tough for me, as it would be for anybody, but I think the price is certainly well worth it, to be up there."

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NASA: The polar jet stream – Video

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The polar jet stream can travel at speeds greater than 100 mph. Here, the fastest winds are colored red; slower winds are blue. The polar jet stream is strongest in winter when the temperature difference between warm and cold air in the Northern Hemisphere is at its highest. Meandering around the planet like a rollicking roller coaster in the sky, the Northern Hemisphere #39;s polar jet stream is a fast-moving belt of westerly winds that traverses the lower layers of the atmosphere. The jet is created by the convergence of cold air masses descending from the Arctic and rising warm air from the tropics. Deep troughs and steep ridges emerge as the denser cold air sinks and deflects warm air regions north, giving the jet stream its wavy appearance. This pattern propagates across the mid-latitudes of North America, Europe and Asia, as pockets of cold air sporadically creep down from the Arctic mdash;creating contrasting waves and flows that accelerate eastward due to Earth #39;s rotation. The visualization below uses weather and climate observations from NASA #39;s MERRA dataset to model 30 days of the jet stream #39;s whirling journey over North America. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterFrom:ClimateProgressWorldViews:2 1ratingsTime:00:28More inEducation

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EXTREMI Pozorisni festival u Mladenovcu – Video

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Najbolje 3 predstave sa Pozorisnog festivala EXTREMI u Mladenovcu odrzanog 05.-10. Oktobra 2012. Ceo svet je pun extrema i mi se, ovakvi kakvi smo - extremno amoralni, extremno nemoralni i extremno utilitaristicki nastrojeni - kao deo tog sveta, extremno potrudili da ga popunimo extremnim sadrzajem. A, vele da je ceo svet nasa pozornica. Pozornica extrema nije nas izbor, vec nas usud. U vremenu extremno male produkcije, pravimo Festival koji je posvecen praizvedbama. Extremno, zar ne? I obecavajuce... Director/Editor/Production: http://www.facebook.com Music: Parov Stelar - Booty Swing (Original Mix) Sherlock Holmes Theme song A Tea Ballad [Chinese Music] Shot with the CANON PowerShot SD140IS in Serbia. ______________________________________ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FOR THIS VIDEO MUSIC COPYRIGHT NOTICE: We would really appreciate if You find Audio track used in this video upload inappropriate, so if You are having the Rights to this or more Tracks: Please leave us a Message with the YouTube Link through Private Messaging or find us on Facebook. Just instead of contacting YouTube about Copyright Infringements, Thank You!From:YugollacViews:1 0ratingsTime:07:04More inEducation

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How Some Galaxies Are Formed in Space – Report by John D. Villarreal, the Super Genius! – Video

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Scientists have discovered some new information about how disc galaxies (like our Milky Way Galaxy) are formed in space. It turns out they become more ordered later than perhaps previously thought. John D. Villarreal, the Super Genius, reports and gives his comments on this science news story. What do you think about it? ________________________________________________________________ **Video Credit** Note: The outside video used in my video is courtesy of NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight Center. The NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight Center video I used is NOT copyrighted: http://www.nasa.gov video credit: NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight Center Please also see here: http://www.nasa.gov and here: http://www.copyright.gov Note: NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight Center DOES NOT in any way endorse me, my video, my channel or anything else I am involved in, and had NOTHING to do with my video, nor am I affiliated with them in ANY WAY.From:ConservativeNewMediaViews:0 1ratingsTime:03:04More inScience Technology

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Old Shuttle Facilities Being Remodeled for NASA’s New Partners | KSC Boeing CST-100 Video – Video

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Visit my website at http://www.junglejoel.com - old facilities at NASA #39;s Kennedy Space Center are being remodeled, and will be used by NASA #39;s private partners. Please rate and comment, thanks! Video Credits NASAFrom:CoconutScienceLabViews:1 0ratingsTime:02:17More inScience Technology

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Need for Speed World were having free cars in month – Video

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NASA check the date of December 21, 2012 going to be normal day, and the world didn #39;t end. This month, Need for Speed World made it half-million on Facebook, the code to get free rally car, and on Christmas code to get free custom dragster. The codes will on Facebook, hurry before expired. Happy Holiday to everybody.From:Gulli OchothowViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:14More inAutos Vehicles

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NASA Reveals New Spacesuits – Video

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NASA reveals news spacesuits. NASA has revealed the designs for their new space suit. The new Z-1 Prototype Spacesuit and Portable Life Support System from NASA looks reminiscent of the Buzz Lightyear character #39;s outfit from the Disney movie Toy Story, but it comes with many advantages over the previous designs. One of the many advantages is the rear entry capability, which allows the user to put on the suit and close it from the back rather than having to put on the top and bottom separately and attach them. The suits have an increased field of vision thanks to an improved helmet design and flexible joints built into the suit allow for better movement capabilities. The suit is also lighter and more efficient at retaining air and protecting the astronauts from the hostile environment of space. This is the first improvement on the spacesuit design since 1992, and it comes on the heels of NASA #39;s other plans including sending astronauts to land on asteroids for longer periods, and another moon mission, along with all of the hoopla surrounding the latest Mars rover and potentially sending humans to live on Mars. What do you think of the new space suit?From:GeoBeatsNewsViews:1 0ratingsTime:01:04More inNews Politics

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NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Report #18 — December 21, 2012 – Video

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NASA #39;s Mars Curiosity Rover Report #18 -- December 21, 2012
A NASA #39;s Mars Curiosity rover team member gives an update on developments and status of the planetary exploration mission. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft delivered Curiosity to its target area on Mars at 1:31:45 am EDT on Aug. 6, which includes the 13.8 minutes needed for confirmation of the touchdown to be radioed to Earth at the speed of light. The rover will conduct a nearly two-year prime mission to investigate whether the Gale Crater region of Mars ever offered conditions favorable for microbial life.From:NASAtelevisionViews:1396 138ratingsTime:01:49More inScience Technology

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