Space Station Crew Discusses Life in Space With Students and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA discussed their mission and life and research on the complex during an...
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SpaceX, Elon Musks start-up space company, announced on Friday that it would drop its lawsuit against the Air Force protesting the award of a lucrative contract to launch military satellites.
In a joint statement, the Air Force and SpaceX said that the California-based company agreed to drop the suit because the Air Force "has expanded the number of competitive opportunities for launch services."
SpaceX filed the suit in the Court of Federal Claims in spring of last year, arguing that the contract, which was awarded to the United Launch Alliance, should have been competitively bid.
The announcement comes after months of acrimony between the parties. Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and PayPal, had accused the Air Force of improperly awarding a sole-source contract and said it was taking too long to certify his company for the launches.
SpaceX had hoped that it would be certified by the end of last year. But earlier this month, the Air Force said that was not likely to happen until the middle of this year.
In an interview with Bloomberg Business Week, Musk accused military procurement officials of holding up the certification to curry favor with the ULA, the joint venture of defense contracting giants Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
"Essentially were asking them to award a contract to a company where they are probably not going to get a job, against a company where their friends are," he said. "So theyve got to go against their friends, and their future retirement program. This is a difficult thing to expect."
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James called his remarks "rather unfortunate" and said the service was working diligently to get SpaceX certified for the launches. She also appointed retired Gen. Larry Welch, a former chief of staff, to lead an independent review of the certification process, which would explore whether there are "ways that we can streamline, speed it up, do things a little bit differently."
In the joint statement, the parties said that "under the agreement, the Air Force will work collaboratively with SpaceX to complete the certification process in an efficient and expedient manner."
The multibillion-dollar contract is for 36 rockets to launch defense payloads, including satellites. By 2030, the Pentagon expects to spend almost $70 billion on the program.
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Piloted space flight programs will be the focus of cooperation between the Russian and US space agencies, new Roscosmos head, Igor Komarov, said Thursday. According to Komarov, NASA is interested in continuing cooperation with Russia in manned space exploration despite the difficult geopolitical situation.
"It will be the key area of our cooperation with NASA," Komarov said.
"I believe that [joint] exploration of deep space, Earth's protection from the asteroids and piloted space flights should not be affected by political factors," he added.
Komarov was appointed on Wednesday as the head of Roscosmos until the establishment of a state corporation under the same name on the basis of the current federal agency and the United Rocket and Space Corporation.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who introduced Komarov in his new capacity, reiterated the importance of continued cooperation in space exploration, current problems notwithstanding.
Earlier on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced support for the parliament's proposal to reform Roscosmos.
The decision to reform Roscosmos is intended to consolidate and increase the effectiveness of government and business efforts to solve accumulated problems in the industry.
The former head of Roscosmos, Oleg Ostapenko, is expected to chair one of the holding companies' boards of directors under the new state corporation.
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On the survival course, Brightman has to spend 72 hours outside and construct a wigwam shelter using branches and a parachute, while knee-deep in snow
SPACE TOURIST IN TRAINING. A handout picture released by the press service of the Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) on January 20, 2015 shows British singer Sarah Brightman attending a press conference at the GCTC in Star City outside Moscow, Russia, January 19, 2015. File photo by GCTC Press Service/Handout/EPA
MOSCOW, Russia British singer Sarah Brightman has started a grueling 72-hour survival course in a snowy Russian forest to train for her upcoming role as a space tourist, Russia's cosmonaut training center said Friday, January 23.
The soprano known for her starring roles in West End musicals composed by ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber, is due to spend 10 days in space in September after paying $52 million to become the eighth space tourist in a flight arranged by US firm Space Adventures.
This month she began training at the legendary Gagarin cosmonaut training center in Star City outside Moscow.
In pictures of the survival course released by the training center, Brightman is shown in a snowy forest of fir trees, lashing tree trunks together to make a shelter while wearing waterproof jacket and trousers and a winter hat.
Temperatures fell to -16 degrees Celsius (3 Fahrenheit) in Moscow this week, followed by heavy snowfall Friday.
Brightman, 54, is in training with cosmonauts and astronauts from NASA, the Russian space agency and the Japanese space agency, as well as with a Japanese businessman who will take over as her replacement on the space flight if she has to drop out.
At a briefing Monday, January 19 at the cosmonaut training center, Brightman said: "I would like to say how proud and honored and excited I am to be part of the Russian space program and to be a cosmonaut in training."
"I hope.... I can do as good a job as possible and come up to expectations and I will try as hard as I can," she added.
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Moon Express (MoonEx) has signed an agreement to begin using the historic Space Launch Complex 36 (SLC-36) at Cape Canaveral for its lunar lander development and flight test operations, according to a statement released by the company and Space Florida.
SLC-36 is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Brevard County, Florida, that was used for Atlas launches from 1962 until 2005 with a total of 145 launches, including those that sent Surveyors to the Moon, Mariners to Mars and Pioneers to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond. The complex was decommissioned in 2007. In March 2010, the USAF 45th Space Wing issued Real Property Licenses to Space Florida for SLC-36 under a plan to make the facility available to commercial players.
Moon Express and Space Florida have signed an agreement that will lead to Moon Express spacecraft development and flight test operations at SLC-36 starting early this year. The agreement allows Moon Express and the state of Florida to make investments into the refurbishment of SLC-36, leading to a revitalized range and the immediate creation of 25-50 new jobs and potentially hundreds of direct and indirect new jobs over the next 5 years. Moon Express will be making an initial capital investment of up to $500K into SLC-36, which will allow initial operations to transfer over from the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility where the company's MTV-1X vehicle has been undergoing flight testing in partnership with NASA under the Lunar CATALYST program. It is anticipated that capital investments will grow into the millions, some of which may become eligible for reimbursement through the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) matching funds program.
"This historic site, from which U.S. lunar exploration began, is beginning a new mission as a commercial facility that will help take us back to the Moon," said Space Florida President Frank DiBello. "We are proud to partner with Moon Express on the development of SLC-36 and a new generation of exploration technologies in Florida."
Moon Express plans to send a series of robotic spacecraft to the Moon for ongoing exploration and commercial development. The company has explained that its opportunity is driven by exponential advances in technology that have brought complex systems and missions within reach of private enterprise. Moon Express is pursuing a long-term vision of exploring and unlocking the value of lunar resources, while developing innovative spacecraft designed to introduce new cost effective access to space beyond Earth orbit, including the Moon, the asteroids and the moon of Mars.
"We are honored to have an opportunity to establish permanent operations at Cape Canaveral SLC-36, at the place where the U.S. first went to the Moon," said Bob Richards, Moon Express co-founder and CEO. "The Moon is rising again in Florida thanks to the unequivocal support of Space Florida, NASA and the USAF 45th Space Wing in helping us create a home for manufacturing, integrating and testing our lunar lander test vehicles and spacecraft."
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Washington, Jan 24 (IANS): Robotic flight controllers have successfully installed NASA's Cloud Aerosol Transport System (CATS) aboard the International Space Station.
The feat was achieved with the help of a robotic hand-off - the first time one robotic arm on station has worked in concert with a second robotic arm, the US space agency said in a statement.
CATS will collect data about clouds, volcanic ash plumes and tiny airborne particles that can help improve our understanding of aerosol and cloud interactions, and improve the accuracy of climate change models.
Ground controllers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in the US used one of the space station's robotic arms, called the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, to extract the instrument from the capsule.
The NASA-controlled arm then passed the instrument to a second robotic arm - like passing a baton in a relay race.
This second arm, called the Japanese Experiment Module Remote Manipulator System, is controlled by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The Japanese-controlled arm installed the instrument on the ISS' Japanese Experiment Module, making CATS the first NASA-developed payload to fly on the Japanese module.
CATS is currently sending health and status data back to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where the instrument's data would be analysed.
CATS is a LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), remote-sensing instrument designed to last from six months to three years.
It is specifically intended to demonstrate a low-cost, streamlined approach to developing science payloads on the space station.
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British singer Sarah Brightman has started a gruelling 72-hour survival course in a snowy Russian forest to train for her upcoming role as a space tourist, Russia's cosmonaut training centre says.
The soprano known for her starring roles in West End musicals composed by ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber, is due to spend 10 days in space in September after paying US$52 million (NZD$69 million) to become the eighth space tourist in a flight arranged by US firm Space Adventures.
This month she began training at the legendary Gagarin cosmonaut training centre in Star City outside Moscow.
In pictures of the survival course released by the training centre, Brightman is shown in a snowy forest of fir trees, lashing tree trunks together to make a shelter while wearing waterproof jacket and trousers and a winter hat.
Brightman, 54, is in training with cosmonauts and astronauts from NASA, the Russian space agency and the Japanese space agency, as well as with a Japanese businessman who will take over as her replacement on the space flight if she has to drop out.
At a briefing Monday at the cosmonaut training centre, Brightman said: "I would like to say how proud and honoured and excited I am to be part of the Russian space program and to be a cosmonaut in training."
"I hope.... I can do as good a job as possible and come up to expectations and I will try as hard as I can," she added.
On the survival course Brightman has to spend 72 hours outside and construct a wigwam shelter using branches and a parachute, while knee-deep in snow.
The aim of the course is to teach survival skills in case the astronauts drift off course when they fall to Earth in their landing capsule and are forced to seek shelter in rough terrain.
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Space Station Live: Biochemically Profiling Astronauts in Space
NASA Commentator Brandi Dean speaks with Dr. Scott M. Smith of the Biomedical Research and Environmental Sciences Division at NASA #39;s Johnson Space Center in Houston about his nutritional...
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IHMC NASA JSC X1 Exoskeleton Powered with UT-SEA Ankles
The Human Centered Robotics Laboratory at UT Austin has collaborated with IHMC and NASA to integrate the high performance UT-SEA actuator in the X1 Exoskeleton assistive exoskeleton. The high.
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NASA | Greenland #39;s Ice Layers Mapped in 3D
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-data-peers-into-greenlands-ice-sheet/ Peering into the thousands of frozen layers inside Greenland #39;s ice sheet is like looking back in time. Each...
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NASA unveils stunning 100-millionth picture of the sun
An instrument onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured NASA #39;s 100-millionth image of the sun. Four telescopes work parallel to capture eight images of the sun and cycle through 10 different.
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