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April 7, 2015
The first items ever manufactured in space with a 3-D printer were unboxed on April 6, 2015 in the Additive Manufacturing Laboratory at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The parts were made on the International Space Station and returned to Earth for testing at Marshall. (Credit: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given)
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Engineers atNASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, unboxed some special cargo from theInternational Space Station on April 6: the first items manufactured in space with a 3-D printer.
The items were manufactured as part of the3-D Printing in Zero-G Technology Demonstration on the space station to show that additive manufacturing can make a variety of parts and tools in space. These early in-space 3-D printing demonstrations are the first steps toward realizing an additive manufacturing, print-on-demand machine shop for long-duration missions and sustaining human exploration of other planets, where there is extremely limited ability and availability of Earth-based resupply and logistics support. In-space manufacturing technologies like 3-D printing will help NASA explore Mars, asteroids, and other locations.
A cool plate on the inside of the Made In Space 3D printer. If you know code, you may be able to translate what all those 1's and 0's mean. But if not, according to Made In Space, they say, "Make it so," which was one of Jean Luc Picard's catchphrases in "Star Trek". (Credit: redOrbit)
The technology demonstration got underway when NASA astronaut Barry Butch Wilmore installed the printer in the stationsMicrogravity Science Glovebox in November 2014. Before the end of the year, the crew manufactured 21 items including awrench, the first tool built in space. To make the items, the printer heated a relatively low-temperature plastic filament to build parts, layer on top of layer, in designs supplied to the machine. The printer remains on aboard the station for continued use later this year. The station provides a one-of-a-kind laboratory for demonstrating additive manufacturing in the microgravity environment where NASA wants to use the technology.
The aforementioned wrench. (Credit: redOrbit)
The printer used 14 different designs and built a total of 21 items and some calibration coupons. The parts returned to Earth in February on the SpaceX Dragon. They were then delivered to Marshall where the testing to compare the ground controls to the flight parts will be conducted. Before the printer was launched to the space station, it made an identical set of parts. Now, materials engineers will put both the space samples and ground control samples literally under a microscope and through a series of tests. Project engineers will perform durability, strength and structural tests on both sets of printed items and even put them under an electron microscope to scan for differences in the objects.
To build and operate the printer, NASA worked with Made In Space Inc., a northern California company that is building anAdditive Manufacturing Facility the next-generation printer that will be operated on the station. This printer will be available to both commercial and government users, including NASA, through theCenter for the Advancement of Science In Space, or CASIS.
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Billionaires in space: Jeff Bezos company to launch test flight this year
Jeffrey P. Bezos space company said Tuesday it is a step closer to taking tourists into suborbital space where they would have the rare chance to experience weightlessness and glimpse the Earth from more than 60 miles away.
Executives from Blue Origin, based in Kent Washington, said they had reached a significant milestone with one of its rocket engines and would begin test flights with the company'sreusable New Shepard spacecraft later this year.
In a statement, Bezos, the founder of amazon.com who also owns The Washington Post, said the engine, known as the BE-3, had undergone rigorous testing and soon well put it to the ultimate test of flight. It wouldbe the first hydrogen engine developed in the U.S. in more than a decade.
In a call with reporters, Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson declined to say when exactly that flight would take place, but that it would be later this year. The companys New Shepard capsule can carry three or more astronauts and scientific payloads, he said.
Flights to suborbital space would last between 10 and 15 minutes, he said. But the company still has a long way to go, he cautioned, saying there would be a lot of testing before the company flies test pilots and eventually customers, a prospect that is still years away.
Bezos is among a new vanguard of ultra-wealthy entrepreneurs who have turned their interest in space into businesses. Richard Bransons Virgin Galactic is also working to fly tourists into space. And Elon Musks SpaceX has contracts with NASA to fly cargo, and eventually astronauts, to the International Space Station.
Blue Origin was also chosen to develop an engine forUnited Launch Alliance,ajoint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. That engine, the BE-4, would be more powerful than the BE-3.
Like Musk, who wants to colonize Mars, Meyerson said Blue Origins has a long-term vision to extend humankind beyond our planet.
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NASA: We'll find alien life in 10 to 20 years
Are we alone in the universe? Top NASA scientists say the answer is almost certainly no.
"I believe we are going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth in the next decade and definitive evidencein the next 10 to 20 years," EllenStofan,chiefscientist for NASA, said at a public panel Tuesday in Washington.
"We know where to look, we know how to look, and in most cases we have the technology," she said.
Jeffery Newmark, interim director of heliophysics at the agency put it this way: "It's definitely not an if, it's a when."
However, if visions of alien invasions are dancing in your head, you can let those go.
"We are not talking about little green men," Stofan said. "We are talking about little microbes."
Over the course of an hourlong presentation, NASA leaders described a flurry of recent discoveries that suggest we are closer than ever to figuring out where we might find life in the solar system and beyond.
For example, Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA, cited a studythat analyzed the atmosphere aboveMars' polar ice caps and suggests that 50% of the planet's northern hemisphere once had oceans up to a mile deep, and that it had that water for a long period of time -- up to 1.2 billion years.
"We think that long period of time is necessary for life to get more complex," Stofan said.
She added that getting human field geologists and astrobiologists on Mars would greatly improve the chances of finding fossils of past life on our nearest planetary neighbor.
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NASA, IBM team up on global hackathon to solve Earths problems
What if the same drones designed to deliver packages to online shoppers could be used to help astronauts move equipment aboard the international space station?
NASA is challenging developers, scientists, artists and engineers across the world to design apps for these and other futuristic ideas in the space agencys fourth annual space apps hackathon this weekend.
The three-day event takes place at more than 135 locations across the world, including the Washington region. New York City plays host to the global competition.
What started out as a way for NASA to harness innovative ideas from outside its walls has turned into a platform for the agency, academic institutions and technology companies to scour global tech talent.
This year, IBM is teaming up with NASA to provide cloud services to participants during the hackathon, the company said Tuesday.
Participants will be given access to IBMs Bluemix platform as well as the companys signature tools, such as the analytical power of supercomputer Watson to crunch NASA data. IBM employees will provide technical support during the event.
Microsoft, Google, Intel and other tech companies are among dozens of collaborators on the competition.
For IBM, the decision to partner with NASA fits in with a three-fold strategy to raise awareness about Bluemix, connect with the developer community and encourage interest in technology careers, said Sandy Carter, general manager of the companys cloud division.
We want to provide developers access to the top technology trends to spur innovation, she said.
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NASA Scientist: Signs of Alien Life Will Be Found Soon
Humanity is on the verge of discovering alien life, high-ranking NASA scientists say.
"I think we're going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we're going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years," NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan said Tuesday (April 7) during a panel discussion that focused on the space agency's efforts to search for habitable worlds and alien life.
"We know where to look. We know how to look," Stofan added during the event, which was webcast live. "In most cases we have the technology, and we're on a path to implementing it. And so I think we're definitely on the road." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Former astronaut John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, shared Stofan's optimism, predicting that signs of life will be found relatively soon both in our own solar system and beyond.
"I think we're one generation away in our solar system, whether it's on an icy moon or on Mars, and one generation [away] on a planet around a nearby star," Grunsfeld said during Tuesday's event.
Recent discoveries suggest that the solar system and broader Milky Way galaxy teem with environments that could support life as we know it, Grunsfeld said.
For example, oceans of liquid water slosh beneath the icy shells of the Jupiter moons Europa and Ganymede, as well as that of the Saturn satellite Enceladus. Oceans covered much of Mars in the ancient past, and seasonal dark streaks observed on the Red Planet's surface today may be caused by salty flowing water.
Further, NASA's Curiosity rover has found carbon-containing organic molecules and "fixed" nitrogen, basic ingredients necessary for Earth-like life, on the Martian surface.
Farther afield, observations by NASA's Kepler space telescope suggest that nearly every star in the sky hosts planets and many of these worlds may be habitable. Indeed, Kepler's work has shown that rocky worlds like Earth and Mars are probably more common throughout the galaxy than gas giants such as Saturn and Jupiter.
This is a condensed version of a report from Space.com. Read the full report. Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow Space.com @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+.
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NASA Collaborates With IBM For Annual Space Apps Challenge
NASAs ambitious International Space Apps Challenge is taking place this weekend in over 160 nations across the globe. The space agency, which is collaborating with IBM for the fourth edition of the annual event, is looking to seek the involvement of scientists and entrepreneurs across the globe to create software that can attack a range of problems -- from climate change to manned space flight.
The aim of the event is to design innovative solutions for global challenges through the involvement of technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, developers and students across the globe, according to a statement published on the event website. The main themes for this years challenge are Earth, Outer Space, Humans and Robotics.
For example, one of the challenges asks participants to plan, design and simulate a mission to explore an asteroid, while another seeks to improve the technology used for mapping drinking water resources on Earth.
During the competition, participants would have access to 200 NASA data sources and IBMs cloud services through its Bluemix Platform. The idea behind the challenge is to use analytics tools on Bluemix to develop tools to efficiently utilize publicly available data.
There's this huge mass of people all around the world who are incredible fans of NASA and space in general, Sean Herron, a member of the original NASA team that started the challenge in 2012, reportedly said, adding that the event aims to tap all of this genius and bring them together, and have one big event to try andsolve what we call problems of a global nature.
Ultimately, two projects from each city will qualify for global judging. IBM, which has recently been involved in hackathon events at Howard University and is also a part of Citibanks financial technology innovation event, will offer30 awards for the most innovative use of Bluemix.Moreover, winning apps might be used in future NASA projects.
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NASA TV Coverage Set for Sixth SpaceX Resupply Mission to Space Station
The sixth SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract is scheduled to launch on Monday, April 13, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA Television coverage of the launch begins at 3:30 p.m. EDT.
The company's Falcon 9 rocket will lift off at 4:33 p.m., carrying its Dragon cargo spacecraft. Dragon is filled with more than 4,300 pounds of supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support about 40 of the more than 250 science and research investigations that will occur during Expeditions 43 and 44.
In addition to launch coverage, NASA also will host a series of prelaunch news conferences on Sunday, April 12, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. All briefings, which are subject to a change in time, will air live on NASA TV and the agency's website.
During panel discussions Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., scientists and researchers will discuss the onboard science and research studies. The series of briefings will conclude with a prelaunch news conference at 5 p.m. A post-launch briefing will be held approximately 90 minutes after liftoff Monday.
Science payloads will study new ways to possibly counteract the microgravity-induced cell damage seen during spaceflight, the effects of microgravity on the most common cells in bones, gather new insight that could lead to treatments for osteoporosis and muscle wasting conditions, continue studies into astronaut vision changes and test a new material that could one day be used as a synthetic muscle for robotics explorers of the future.
A Monday launch will result in the Dragon spacecraft arriving at the space station Wednesday, April 15. Expedition 43 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency) will use the station's 57.7-foot robotic arm to reach out and capture Dragon at approximately 7 a.m.Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA will support Cristoforetti as they operate from the station's cupola. NASA TV coverage of grapple will begin at 5 a.m.Coverage of Dragon's installation to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module will begin at 9:15 a.m.
If the launch does not occur on Monday, the next launch opportunity would beat approximately 4:10 p.m.Tuesday, April 14.
After about five weeks at the space station, Dragon will return to Earth filled with more than 3,000 pounds of cargo including crew supplies, hardware and computer resources, science experiments, and space station hardware.
Media may request accreditation to attend the prelaunch news conferences, events and launch online at:https://media.ksc.nasa.gov
The deadline for U.S. media to apply for accreditation is noon on April 9. The application deadline has passed for international media. Media credentials will be valid for mission activities from launch through splashdown at Kennedy and at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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NASA code-a-thon uses IBM cloud to build space tech
NASA is pulling together more than 10,000 developers, scientists, students and entrepreneurs from 62 countries for a code-a-thon.
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NASA this weekend is pulling together more than 10,000 developers, scientists, students and entrepreneurs across 62 countries for a code-a-thon aimed at building technology for space exploration.
Using IBM's cloud development platform, Bluemix, participants will be tasked with developing mobile apps, software, hardware, data visualization and platform solutions. The technology being developed will address one of 35 different challenges across four research topic areas -- outer space, Earth, humans and robotics.
The individual challenges include areas like designing a spacecraft for an asteroid mission, creating a robotic asteroid-hunting machine, and creating a drone to be used on a spacecraft.
Called the NASA Space App Challenge, the three-day code-a-thon will offer participants more than 200 NASA data sources, including data sets, services and tools, supplied through real-life missions and technology.
"IBM is supporting the NASA Space App Challenge because we saw a great opportunity to contribute to an important cause," said Sandy Carter, general manager of IBM's Cloud Ecosystem and Developers. "Not only are we helping participants build applications that will be used to improve space exploration and life on earth - two initiatives that impact all of humanity - but we're also helping them build their skills for cloud development while helping to cultivate an interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields."
By working with IBM's Bluemix, developers should be able to use more than 100 cloud-based development tools, ranging from services for Watson analytics to tools for managing data of Internet of Things technologies. They'll also have access to NASA's data via the cloud, as well as being able to quickly compose, test and deploy their apps.
Carter noted that this weekend's challenge is a good opportunity - not just for NASA to get some important coding done - but for IBM to show off its cloud platform.
"The challenge is all about data and speed," said Cartner. "NASA is opening more than 200 data sources and asking participants -- some of which are on the same team but based in different cities around the world -- to leverage that data as they build solutions to some of the most daunting challenges facing our civilization in just two days.... Bluemix provides a global platform for these developers to collaborate on as they mine and make sense of that data and ultimately put it to work."
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Five questions to help marketers solve the metasearch dilemma
By Wei Xia (VP of new product and services) and Quentin Moores (VP of marketing Services) of DerbySoft.
Metasearch continues to be one of the hottest topics for the hospitality industry. We have already written two articles about metasearch this year and hosted a webinar with Tnooz to give greater insight to the challenges and solutions available to hoteliers.
The rapid growth and changing landscape of metasearch means that the "old" rules of metasearch marketing no longer apply. Marketers are facing many new problems and dilemmas.
Is metasearch a marketing channel or distribution channel?
Metasearch used to be a simple concept to grasp when it was defined simply as a marketing channel. Now it is getting more complicated. Increasingly, many major metasearch sites like TripAdvisor are promoting booking and payment functions, similar to an OTA, despite many differences.
Many hotel marketers may balk at the idea that a booking would be completed on a metasearch site. To solve this dilemma, we have to step back to understand what the business objective is?
If the ultimate objective is to get more bookings at a reasonable cost, then we should embrace this change. Metasearch is no longer just a marketing channel, nor is it simply an OTA type of distribution channel. Perhaps it should be called a direct distribution-marketing channel, through which you can get bookings from direct customers on your branded site or app?
How much budget should be allocated for metasearch?
Consider this example, recently one of our clients was having a great month, its metasearch traffic and booking volume reached an all time high with a targeted ROI. Then we got a call from the client telling us it had consumed its entire monthly marketing budget for metasearch and asked us to pause its metasearch campaign for the remainder of the month.
In the meantime, OTAs continued to generate and deliver bookings from metasearch and as a result the hotels paid higher commissions, on the same bookings that could have already been generated from our metasearch campaign.
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The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, April 8
Microsoft will offer a peek at new Office apps next week
A Microsoft event on April 16 promises an advance look at how the next version of Office will work with Windows 10, PC World reports. Demonstrations are expected to include applications that run across all platforms from mobile to desktop, and some new features in Office 2016, optimized for a touch interface.
Intel shrinking RealSense 3D camera
Intel has shrunk its RealSense 3D camera and is in China pitching it to smartphone makers. In Shenzhen on Wednesday, CEO Brian Krzanich showed off a 6-inch prototype phone built with the new camera, which will be available in devices later this year.
US drug agency collected bulk phone records way before the NSA
Bulk collection of U.S. citizens phone records by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency started earlier and may have amassed more data than a similarly reviled program carried out by the National Security Agency, a report Tuesday by USA Today suggests. The secret program started in 1992 and collected information on virtually all international calls made by Americans to about 116 countries. Some operators were hesitant to supply the data, but none went to court to contest the blanket subpoenas.
SingTel eyes managed security with TrustWave buy
Singaporean communications provider SingTel is paying US$810 million to acquire TrustWave Holdings, the largest U.S. independent provider of managed security services. TrustWave will continue as a separate business unit in Chicago, focused on addressing the managed security services market that Gartner expects will grow to $24 billion in the next three years from $14 billion last year.
Russians crack the White House
Hackers working for the Russian government got access to sensitive parts of White House computer systems, CNN reported. Investigators believe they gained access via compromised systems at the State Department, which has spent months trying to purge its email servers of lurkers. The hackers apparently had access to sensitive information such as real-time, non-public details of the presidents schedule.
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