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E-05- Refueling Mission – Kerbal Space Program 018 – Video
E-05- Refueling Mission - Kerbal Space Program 018
Now that the station is in place and the first module attached, it #39;s time to do something about those empty fuel tanks. For this flight I #39;ve got a much better design which means that the fuel will actually get there and I won #39;t have to take hours doing a thrusters only approach. donate to Child #39;s Play charity: tinfoilchef.com This chart It makes orbital rendezvous a lot easier to calculate. Orbital Rendezvous Made Easy kerbalspaceprogram.com This website is VERY useful in deciding when planets are in the right position for an interplanetary transfer. Interactive illustrated interplanetary guide and calculator for KSP 0.17 ksp.olex.biz Kerbal Space Program is a new game still under development with a ton of potential. Get Kerbal Space Program here: http://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com Twitter: twitter.com TFC Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com My minecraft World Map (updated 1-6-12) tinfoilchef.com "space station" docking kerbal space program 0.18 rockets explosions crash "kerbal space program adventure" "lets play kerbal space program" gameplay gaming "kerbal space program gameplay" "lets play" playthrough "video game" commentary tinfoilchef selif1 .From:selif1Views:0 0ratingsTime:50:44More inGaming
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Kerbal Space Program: Docking Module Delivery – Video
Kerbal Space Program: Docking Module Delivery
A quick launch of the newest module for my space station. This module is meant to serve as a space plane docking port (particularly for ones using the lateral docking port aka the "Hull-mounted Clamp-O-Tron").From:Kyle SmithViews:0 0ratingsTime:21:11More inGaming
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Next space station crew to write history for Canada
The next international crew destined to live aboard the space station, including the first Canadian that will command the complex, flew to the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday to begin final preparations for launch.
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Canadian astronaut packs new wedding ring for space station trip
So what exactly does an astronaut bring with him on a visit to the International Space Station that could last up to six months? If you're Chris Hadfield, a newly minted wedding band is at the top of the list.
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Space is calling
Astronaut on the International Space Station answers 20 Kline School students' questions about being in orbit.
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Russia completes new space station module
MOSCOW, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The Russian company building a science module intended for the International Space station says assembly of the unit has been completed.
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Chris Hadfield ready for 'surreal' space station odyssey
When Chris Hadfield was a southern Ontario farmboy dreaming of being an astronaut, it just couldn't happen.
Canada had no astronaut program and no Canadian could realistically expect to follow in the American footsteps Neil Armstrong had planted as the first man on the moon in that steamy summer of 1969.
Forty-three years later, the trail-blazing Hadfield is in quarantine in Kazakhstan, waiting to blast off in a Soyuz capsule for the International Space Station, making history again when he takes over as its first Canadian commander in March.
"For me, it is just surreal," the 53-year-old astronaut said in an interview this week from Star City, Russia, where he spent several weeks training ahead of the Dec. 19 liftoff.
Hadfield talks thoughtfully of the professional and national significances of his upcoming command.
"As an astronaut, it's a pinnacle," he says. "It is the highest level of responsibility of an astronaut to command a spaceship because of course, the lives of the people on board are my responsibility."
As a Canadian, he sees it as the latest notable step in the country's 50-year-old space program, which began when a 145-kilogram Alouette-1 satellite piggybacked on a U.S. rocket.
"It did very well, but still was, in perspective, a fairly small thing to the point now where you go through all of the satellites, the technologies, Radarsat, Canadarm, Marc Garneau, the other astronauts that have flown, now to the point that a Canadian is commanding a spaceship," he says.
But when Hadfield considers the personal significance of his upcoming command, that giddy schoolboy enthusiasm he had in Milton, Ont., in the late 1960s seeps out again.
"To be able to command the space station, yes, it's professional, and yes I'll take it seriously and yes it's important for Canada, but for me as just a Canadian kid, it makes me want to shout and laugh and do cartwheels."
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Space Station Crew Grow Plants Without Gravity
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online An experiment reported in the journal BMC Plant Biology studied the effects of growing plants without gravity, helping to disprove one theory about how gravity kick-started plant behaviors on Earth. Astronauts growing Arabidopsis plants on the International Space Station tried to determine what plant growth patterns could be influenced by ...
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SpaceX Launches Sales of Falcon, Dragon Space Patches
The company responsible for the first private spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station introduced a different type of space supply for sale mission patches.
Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, updated its online shop on Friday (Dec. 7) to offer embroidered emblems for its rocket and spacecraft flights for the first time. Based in Hawthorne, Calif., SpaceX is led by millionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who also co-founded PayPal and Tesla Motors.
"The limited-edition mission patch collection includes a full set of all SpaceX mission patches, a total of 9," SpaceX wrote on its website at shop.spacex.com. "From the first launch of the Falcon 1 rocket to the most recent Falcon 9 mission to the International Space Station, you can review and relive SpaceX's historic launches."
The colorful, 4-inch wide (10.2 centimeters) cloth patches are based on the official emblems that were created by the company for each of its launches, from its ill-fated first Falcon 1 launch in March 2006 through its history-making Falcon 9 launch in October that lofted the first of a dozen NASA-contracted Dragon capsules to deliver to and return cargo from the space station. [Photos: Dragon's 1st Space Cargo Delivery]
The insignias also include the patch for the June 2010 maiden flight of the Falcon 9 the booster's first stage nine Merlin engines are highlighted on the emblem and the company's first flight of the Dragon in December 2010 that established the capsule as the world's first private craft to orbit the Earth and be safely recovered.
The gumdrop-shape Dragon, which from its start has been designed to eventually carry astronauts to space, too, is one of two commercial spacecraft contracted by NASA for resupply services and one of three such vehicles currently being developed for the space agency's commercial crew program.
The Dragon is currently the only cargo craft that launches from the United States, and the only vehicle worldwide that can return significant amounts of cargo to Earth, after the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet in 2011.
All but three of the nine SpaceX patches share a common design element: a four-leaf clover. It wasn't until the fourth flight of SpaceX's Falcon 1 in September 2008 that the company achieved its first successful spaceflight and as that mission's emblem included the small green icon, all of the company's flight patches have since included a clover for good luck.
SpaceX is offering just 200 of the nine-patch sets for $30 each through its website. The package ships with a color information card embossed with a metallic Dragon logo.
Previously, only one of the patches in the set, that of the emblem for the May 2012 second test flight of the Dragon spacecraft, was authorized for sale to the public.
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Earth at Night NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center – Video
Earth at Night NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight Center
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Fermi’s GBM Finds Radio Bursts from TGFs – Video
Fermi #39;s GBM Finds Radio Bursts from TGFs
Lightning in the clouds is directly linked to events that produce some of the highest-energy light naturally made on Earth: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). An instrument aboard NASA #39;s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was recently fine-tuned to better catch TGFs, and this allowed scientists to discover that TGFs emit radio waves, too. Credit: NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight Center Related story: http://www.nasa.govFrom:nvdktubeViews:3 2ratingsTime:03:42More inScience Technology
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Space Flight LITE live wallpaper
Space Flight LITE. Demo play of live wallpaper for android smartphones.From:Dmitry KorjViews:1 0ratingsTime:00:42More inScience Technology
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Fermi Improves its Vision for Thunderstorm Gamma-Ray Flashes – Video
Fermi Improves its Vision for Thunderstorm Gamma-Ray Flashes
Lightning in the clouds is directly linked to events that produce some of the highest-energy light naturally made on Earth: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). An instrument aboard NASA #39;s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was recently fine-tuned to better catch TGFs, which allowed scientists to discover that TGFs emit radio waves, too. Credit: NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight CenterFrom:SpaceFellowshipViews:6 1ratingsTime:03:42More inScience Technology
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Global Deforestation Trends Animation © 2012 Dana Vion – Video
Global Deforestation Trends Animation 2012 Dana Vion
This animation uses images from NASA (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) to create an animation which shows global trends in deforestation from 2000 to 2012. It is part of my masters work in zoology in the Global Field Program at Miami University, Oxford,Ohio.From:Dana VionViews:38 1ratingsTime:00:40More inMusic
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NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night – Video
NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night
In daylight, our big, blue marble is all land, oceans and clouds. The night, on the other hand, is electric. This video provides a narrated tour of some highlights of the new Suomi NPP Earth at night imagery. Credit: NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight Center http://www.nasa.gov twitter.com http://www.facebook.comFrom:An0nYm0u5r3v0lut10nViews:1 0ratingsTime:02:12More inNonprofits Activism
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NASA infrared data shows Typhoon Bopha re-strengthened in South China Sea
( NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ) The deadly typhoon that caused almost 300 deaths in the southern Philippines is making a loop in the South China Sea, and infrared NASA satellite data indicated that Bopha re-intensified.
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Apollo's 1970s lunar dust data recovered
Washington, December 7 (ANI): Forty years after the last Apollo spacecraft launched, scientists with the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md have restored readings from the Apollo 14 and 15 dust detectors.
The newly available data will make long-term analysis of the Apollo dust readings possible. Digital data from these two experiments were not archived before, and it's thought that roughly the last year-and-a-half of the data have never been studied.
"This is the first look at the fully calibrated, digital dust data from the Apollo 14 and 15 missions," said David Williams, a Goddard scientist and data specialist at NSSDC, NASA's permanent archive for space science mission data.
The recovery of these data sets is part of the Lunar Data Project, an ongoing NSSDC effort, drawing on researchers at multiple institutions, to make the scientific data from Apollo available in modern formats.
The Lunar Dust Detectors that were placed on the lunar surface during Apollo 14 and 15 measured dust accumulation, temperature and damage caused by high-energy cosmic particles and the sun's ultraviolet radiation. The same kind of instrument had flown earlier on Apollo 11 and 12 (Later, Apollo 17 carried a different type of dust detector).
Restoring the data was a painstaking job of going through one data set and separating the raw detector counts from temperatures and "housekeeping" information that was collected to keep an eye on how healthy the Apollo instruments were.
A second, less complete data set indicated how to convert the raw counts into usable measurements. But first, the second data set had to be converted from microfilm, which had been archived at NSSDC in the 1970s, and the two data sets had to reconcile because their time points didn't match up exactly.
Most of this meticulous work was carried out by Marie McBride, an undergraduate from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne who was working with Williams through a NASA internship.
Newer missions, such as NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have continued to study lunar dust.
"Just last week, LRO did some important measurements seeking dust profiles in the lunar atmosphere," said Rich Vondrak, the LRO deputy project scientist at NASA Goddard. LRO has been orbiting the moon since June 2009, and the mission was recently extended through 2015.
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NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 07 December 2012
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.
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NASA Human Space Flight Industrial Base in the Post-Space Shuttle/Constellation Environment
From 1981 to 2011, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) operated the Space Transportation System, commonly known as the Space Shuttle Program (Shuttle), with the world's first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into orbit.
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NASA Human Space Flight Industrial Base in the Post-Space Shuttle/Constellation Environment