First Circumferential Weld
Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., conduct their first circumferential weld of the "pathfinder #39; version of the adapter design for SLS and Orion. (NASA/MSFC)From:ManoharT439Views:0 8ratingsTime:01:49More inScience Technology
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NASA | TRMM at 15: The Reign of Rain
TRMM Project Scientist Scott Braun looks back at the legacy of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and a few of the major scientific milestones the satellite has helped achieve. This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Like our videos? Subscribe to NASA #39;s Goddard Shorts HD podcast: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Or find NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on facebook: http://www.facebook.com Or find us on Twitter: twitter.comFrom:NASAexplorerViews:0 45ratingsTime:03:17More inScience Technology
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Star Wars - Transformer Space Flight (FANTASTY-Soundtrack)
Star Wars - One Day on Tatooine (Domino - Animation FANTASTY-Soundtrack) First Greenscreen - Project together with my sons! Soundtrack by me FANTASTY - 7-string Gothic-, Symphonic-Progressive - Procject TOM #39;s GUITAR - CORNER Guitarstudio Thomas Schulte-Ebbert Facebook - TOM http://www.facebook.com Facebook - TOM #39;s GUITAR - CORNER http://www.facebook.com Facebook - FANTASTY http://www.facebook.comFrom:Thomas Schulte-EbbertViews:0 1ratingsTime:00:34More inFilm Animation
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The Reign of Rain
TRMM Project Scientist Scott Braun looks back at the legacy of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and a few of the major scientific milestones the satellite has helped achieve. Credit: NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight Center Related story: http://www.nasa.govFrom:nvdktubeViews:0 0ratingsTime:03:17More inScience Technology
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MHG plays FTL - Normal Kestral Cruiser
Hope you enjoy the first part of my FTL playthrough. I love this game and hopefully you will over time as well. Also if you could leave a like that would really help me out so thank you. FTL, a space flight simulator game incorporating elements of roguelike games is developed by Subset Games. In the game, the player controls a single space craft, attempting to deliver critical information to its allies across several sectors of space while avoiding rebel forces that seek the information for themselves and other hostile entitiesFrom:Masshalogear91Views:10 0ratingsTime:26:26More inGaming
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NASA #39;s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
The Reign of Rain TRMM Project Scientist Scott Braun looks back at the legacy of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and a few of the major scientific milestones the satellite has helped achieve. Credit: NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight CenterFrom:okrajoeViews:0 0ratingsTime:03:17More inScience Technology
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The future of America's space program is at a critical point in time; decisions are being made that will affect our ability to successfully maintain our leadership in human space flight, our national security and our capability to successfully compete with the international community in the commercial use of space.
What does the future hold for U.S. human spaceflight (HSF)? The United States had been the undisputed leader in space exploration for several decades, until recently.
With the completion of its last flight in July of 2011, the Space Shuttle has been arbitrarily retired. And today, Russia is the only partner in the International Space Station (ISS) program that is able to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to and from Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
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The Space Shuttle amassed an impressive record of achievement during its lifetime, culminating in the very successful assembly of the International Space Station (ISS). It was a very versatile spacecraft that allowed the crews to perform Extra-Vehicular Activities (EVAs), assemble structures in space, repair satellites, and perform spacecraft retrieval missions.
In addition, the Shuttle was also a superb research platform, especially when equipped with a Spacelab or Spacehab module. It could carry a cargo of 60,000 pounds (27,000 kilograms) to orbit or return a cargo of equal weight to Earth.
In its place the U.S. is developing Orion, referred to as a Multipurpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). Orion returns the nation to flying capsules that return to Earth via parachutes using technology from the 1960s. It has no capability to carry cargo, support EVAs, do structural assembly in space, accomplish satellite repair or retrieval missions. It returns to Earth by parachute, landing in the water, as Orion is too heavy to be recovered on land.
The MPCV is supposedly being developed for exploration missions beyond Earth orbit but it provides no protection from space radiation for the crew. The first planned human flight is currently scheduled for 2021. That date is dependent upon the availability of a new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that is yet to be developed.
Currently, only funds for research, development, and risk mitigation have been awarded for SLS which, raises the question of whether or not the launch system will ever be developed at all.
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize the Red Planet, flying pioneers into space for $500,000
By Rob Coppinger and SPACE.com
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Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers to the Red Planet for perhaps $500,000 a trip.
In Musk's vision, the ambitious Mars settlement program would start with a pioneering group of fewer than 10 people, who would journey to the Red Planet aboard a huge reusable rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane.
"AtMars, you can start a self-sustaining civilization and grow it into something really big," Musk told an audience at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on Friday (Nov. 16). Musk was there to talk about his business plans, and to receive the Societys gold medal for his contribution to the commercialization of space.
Mars pioneers
Accompanying the founders of the new Mars colony would be large amounts of equipment, including machines to produce fertilizer, methane and oxygen from Mars atmospheric nitrogen and carbon dioxide and the planet's subsurface water ice.
The Red Planet pioneers would also take construction materials to build transparent domes, which when pressurized with Mars atmospheric CO2 could grow Earth crops in Martian soil. As the Mars colony became more self sufficient, the big rocket would start to transport more people and fewer supplies and equipment. [Future Visions of Human Spaceflight]
Musks architecture for this human Mars exploration effort does not employ cyclers, reusable spacecraft that would travel back and forth constantly between the Red Planet and Earth at least not at first
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A team of researchers has demonstrated a new concept for a reliable nuclear reactor that could be used on space flights.
The research team recently demonstrated the first use of a heat pipe to cool a small nuclear reactor and power a Stirling engine at the Nevada National Security Sites Device Assembly Facility near Las Vegas.
The Demonstration Using Flattop Fissions (DUFF) experiment is said to have produced 24W of electricity. A team of engineers from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), NASAs Glenn Research Center and National Security Technologies LLC (NSTec) conducted the experiment.
A heat pipe is a sealed tube with an internal fluid that can transfer heat produced by a reactor with no moving parts, while a Stirling engine converts heat energy into electrical power using a pressurised gas to move a piston. According to LANL, using the two devices in tandem allowed for creation of an electric power supply that can be adapted for space applications.
Researchers configured DUFF on an existing experiment, known as Flattop, to allow for a water-based heat pipe to extract heat from uranium. Heat from the fission reaction was transferred to a pair of free-piston Stirling engines manufactured by Sunpower Inc, based in Athens, Ohio. Engineers from NASA Glenn designed and built the heat pipe and Stirling assembly, and operated the engines during the experiment. Los Alamos nuclear engineers operated the Flattop assembly under authorisation from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
DUFF is the first demonstration of a space nuclear reactor system to produce electricity in the US since 1965 and the experiment confirms basic nuclear reactor physics and heat transfer for a simple, reliable space power system.
The nuclear characteristics and thermal power level of the experiment are remarkably similar to our space reactor flight concept, said Los Alamos engineer David Poston in a statement. The biggest difference between DUFF and a possible flight system is that the Stirling input temperature would need to be hotter to attain the required efficiency and power output needed for space missions.
The heat pipe and Stirling engine used in this test are meant to represent one module that could be used in a space system, said Marc Gibson of NASA Glenn. A flight system might use several modules to produce approximately one kilowatt of electricity.
Current space missions typically use power supplies that generate about the same amount of electricity as one or two household light bulbs. The availability of more power could potentially boost the speed with which mission data is transmitted back to Earth, or increase the number of instruments that could be operated simultaneously aboard a spacecraft.
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To collect data on how the human body reacts and adapts to the space environment, a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut will spend a full year aboard the International Space Station.
Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, both veterans of long-duration space flights, will spend a full year aboard the International Space Station to help scientists learn more about how the body reacts and adapts to weightlessness and other aspects of the space environment.
The research is aimed at helping scientists and engineers develop possible countermeasures for future manned missions to deep space destinations including the moon, nearby asteroids and, eventually, Mars.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly.
"Congratulations to Scott and Mikhail on their selection for this important mission," William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space flight, said in a statement. "The one-year increment will expand the bounds of how we live and work in space and will increase our knowledge regarding the effects of microgravity on humans as we prepare for future missions beyond low-Earth orbit."
The mission also could free up two seats aboard Russian Soyuz ferry craft for station visits by wealthy space tourists, providing needed cash to the Russian space program.
The Russians launched eight "spaceflight participants" to the station between 2001 and 2008, including one who flew twice. Seven of those were considered space tourists, paying between $20 million and $50 million per flight. The flights were arranged by Space Adventures of Vienna, Va.
Tourist flights have been on hold in recent years with all available Soyuz seats booked for professional astronauts and cosmonauts making up the station's six-member crew.
In early October, however, NASA and the Russians announced plans for an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut to spend a full year aboard the space station, freeing up two Soyuz seats in the normal crew rotation matrix.
Soprano Sarah Brightman announced on October 10 that she was booking a flight to the station through Space Adventures and Roscosmos, the Russian federal space agency. Russian space officials said late last week that a final decision is expected next year. If the flight is approved, Brightman likely would fly in the mid to late 2015 timeframe.
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Principles Of Community Organizing | Organizing Shelves For Kitchen | Ideas On Organizing A Garage
amaon.net Principles Of Community Organizing | Organizing Shelves For Kitchen | Ideas On Organizing A Garage Remember when I told you it was so hard to collect Barbie dolls and the sense of knowing exactly all the different Barbie #39;s that are out there. One of the things that is difficult to do is remember which Barbie dolls you have when shopping so the best way to do that is to create your own list. I have my own tracking list that I actually have on Microsoft excel on my computer and I keep up with the Barbie doll and the value of what the Barbie doll is worth. For example, you can look at name of my doll where that doll is so for example my first one Kelly Club Santa Clause and then it will say the year that it was made which I found on the bottom of my box. The third column consist of the nationality so for instance you get buy certain Barbie dolls like Caroling Fun actually come in African American doll the same as a blonde doll. So you need to know specifically which one you have so I would mark as 2003 Caucasian blonde cause some of them might be brunette, as well as red heads. So you have to keep track of that and then if it #39;s a series I put that on there it it #39;s a pink label, or some set of series at if 5 dolls came in that you want to track and keep that there as well. And then the doll type because sometimes I say more than just Barbie I save here friends as well like Ken, Kelly, and Christy and all those people that come as her friends. So you need to keep ...From:Emily SicaViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:31More inPeople Blogs
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Red Nichols - Feelin #39; No Pain (1927)
Feelin #39; No Pain (Fud Livingston) Performed by Red Nichols and His Five Pennies August 15, 1927 Brunswick 3623 Red Nichols, Leo McConville, Mannie Klein (trumpet)/ Miff Mole (trombone)/ Pee Wee Russell (clarinet)/ Fud Livingston (tenor sax)/ Adrian Rollini (bass sax, goofus)/ Lennie Hayton (piano)/ Dick McDonough (guitar)/ Vic Berton (drums) Red Nichols and Miff Mole became a fixture in New York #39;s jazz scene, recording frequently with a regular band that included Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Schutt and Vic Berton. On Brunswick, the band was christened Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, a name that stuck with Nichols throughout his recording career regardless of the actual number of musicians in the band. On Columbia the band was given a standard house band pseudonym The Charleston Chasers. On Columbia #39;s budget Harmony label the band was The Arkansas Travellers. On the Perfect label they were The Red Heads. On the OKeh label they were Miff Mole and his Little Molers. When they recorded for Edison or Victor they were Red and Miff #39;s Stompers.From:bsgs98Views:56 6ratingsTime:03:00More inMusic
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Let #39;s Play Operation Raccoon City Mission 7
The last and final mission, mission 7. In this one, we work our way through a train yard, meet some lovely red heads, and chat with some spec ops. Includes special guest appearance of Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield, and Sherry Birkin.From:XenoriddleyViews:0 0ratingsTime:33:24More inGaming
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Ann-margret- a tribute to her, Rita Hayworth and other REALLY great red heads
A tribute for entertainment purposes only under the Fair Use Act Section 107. No copyright infringement intended, all rights reserved to all proper ownership.From:Slone RestingViews:3 0ratingsTime:02:23More inEntertainment
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The Red heads to the Brandeis Invitational this weekend in Waltham, Mass. to close out the semester of competition for the 2012 year.
Its a lot harder competition than we had in the past two competitions. The schools are a lot harder. There are more fencers who competed in the world circuit and the national circuit. We have been continuing the pace, said senior sabre Audrey Speer. I am excited.
Cornell will face off against Boston College, UNC, Johns Hopkins, St. Johns, MIT and the host school Brandeis.
[The Brandeis] tournament is going to be really exciting for us. It is our first real challenge of the year. I think that we have all shown really great results, so I think we have a lot to look forward to that weekend, said junior foilist Christine McIntosh. It has always been the kick-off to our really difficult part of the season.
According to the team, the tournaments have been increasing in difficulty this season and will culminate at Brandeis. The hardest competitor that the Red plans to compete against is St. Johns, who was ranked No. 3 last year.
In the history of Cornell, against these specific teams that the Red will face this weekend, the team has a 72-40 record overall.
In the last tournament at Sacred Heart, Cornell had a perfect 8-0 record going 173-43 in individual bouts.
In the last tournament, both the foil and sabre squads went undefeated, while the epees went 6-2 for the day. On the individual front, freshman foilist Angelica Gangemi had a perfect day, 19-0, while senior sabrist Audrey Speer and McIntosh had only one loss.
The Red will return to action after winter break with the Philadelphia Invitational on Jan. 26 where the team will face Duke, Temple, Northwestern, Drew and NJIT. The team will then head to the Ivy League Championship first and second rounds which will provide the athletes with tough competition across the board.
We have been practicing a lot [and] we have a pretty solid group this year. We felt at the last competition that we were pretty cohesive so hopefully it will just get better with each tournament we do, said sophomore epee Olivia Weller. [The season] is going to get more challenging and we are going to progressively fence harder schools but as long as well all back each other up ... it should go [well].
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November 26, 2012
Image Caption: Rocknest 3 relayed by Mars Express. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online
The European Space Agencys Mars Express has relayed scientific data from NASAs Curiosity rover for the first time.
The data from Curiosity included detailed images of Rocknest 3 taken by the rovers ChemCam Remote Micro-Imager camera.
ChemCam consists of the camera along with a Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectrometer, which fires a laser at targets and analyzes the chemical composition of vaporized material.
Curiosity transmitted scientific data up to the ESA satellite for 15 minutes, and a few hours later Mars Express pointed its high-gain antenna toward Earth and began downlinking the information to the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany.
The data was then immediately made available to NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, helping them prove that Curiosity was able to talk with ESAs satellite as well.
The first image was taken before a series of five ChemCam laser blasts, while the second image was taken after. The images were first taken early in the morning on October 6.
The quality of these images from ChemCam is outstanding, and the mosaic image of the spectrometer analyses has been essential for scientific interpretation of the data, said Sylvestre Maurice, Deputy Principal Investigator for ChemCam at Frances Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP).
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Washington, November 27 (ANI): ESA's Mars orbiter has for the first time relayed scientific data, including detailed images of 'Rocknest3', from NASA's Curiosity rover on the Red Planet's surface.
The data were received by ESA's deep-space antenna in Australia.
Early on the morning of 6 October, ESA's Mars Express looked down as it orbited the planet, lining up its lander communication antenna to point at Curiosity far below on the surface.
For 15 minutes, the NASA rover transmitted scientific data up to the ESA satellite. A few hours later, Mars Express slewed to point its high-gain antenna toward Earth and began downlinking the precious information to the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, via the Agency's 35 m-diameter antenna in New Norcia, Australia.
The data were immediately made available to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California for processing and analysis, proving again that NASA's amazing new rover can talk with Europe's veteran Mars orbiter.
The information included a pair of tremendously interesting images acquired on 4 October by Curiosity's ChemCam Remote Micro-Imager camera.
"The quality of these images from ChemCam is outstanding, and the mosaic image of the spectrometer analyses has been essential for scientific interpretation of the data," said Sylvestre Maurice, Deputy Principal Investigator for ChemCam at France's Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP).
"This combination of imaging and analysis has demonstrated its potential for future missions," he noted.
A third image, relayed separately by NASA, indicates the locations of the laser target points on Rocknest3, as seen by the RMI camera.
'Rocknest' is the area where Curiosity stopped for a month to perform its first mobile laboratory analyses on soil scooped from a small sand dune. Rocknest3 was a convenient nearby target where ChemCam made more than 30 observations using 1500 laser shots.
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News for J-2X Enging hot-fire testing
A J-2X power pack assembly burns brightly during a hot fire test Nov. 27 at NASA #39;s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Engineers pulled the assembly from the test stand in September to install additional instrumentation in the fuel turbopump. The test, which ran for 278 seconds, verified the newly installed strain gauges designed to measure the turbine structural strain when the turbopump is spinning at high speeds that vary between 25000 and 30000 rotations-per-minute. The J-2X engine - built by Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne of Canoga Park, Calif. -- will power the upper stage of NASA #39;s Space Launch System, managed at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The new heavy-lift rocket system will launch the Orion spacecraft and enable humans to explore new destinations beyond low Earth orbit. Credit: NASA/SSCFrom:VideoLifeWorldViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:51More inScience Technology
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NASA Super Guppy (2012)
Video by Staff Sgt. Vanessa Reed 4th Combat Camera Squadron Air Force members from March ARB, CA, support the arrival of the NASA Super Guppy. The Super Guppy is a large, wide-bodied cargo aircraft used for ferrying oversized cargo components and equipment. Video by Staff Sgt. Vanessa Reed. Super Guppy Makes Brief Appearence NASA http://www.nasa.govFrom:airboydViews:302 23ratingsTime:06:34More inAutos Vehicles
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Nasa: Planet Nibiru Trailer Official
Nasa #39;s Official trailer for Nibiru #39;s arrival ! Shocking news we all hoped will not come true. Anunnaki, elenin, Planet x, Planet Nibiru, today, this, week, monthFrom:TubeMasterToolsViews:17 3ratingsTime:00:47More inEntertainment
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