StarMade: Creative Space – "FGHTR-15" (Ship Build & Combat Testing) – Video

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CREATIVE SPACE is a new BUILD SERIES. Every episode we will be building something in a Creative World, and if it is a ship... we put it to the test! StarMade is an open-universe space simulation...

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ThirdPhaseOfMoon Caught Faking UFO Videos Again! "ISS Flying Saucer Visits ISS" January 2015 – Video

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Not only is this footage years old/// but once again ThirdPhaseOfMoon attempt to con their viewers and subscribers that a real UFO intercepts the International Space Station, when in reality...

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Earth From Space – HD Views of Earth from the International Space Station ISS – Video

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Earth From Space - Views of Earth from the International Space Station ISS Pre-recorded footage from the ISS , watch the earth roll by.

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Let’s Play Star Wars: The Old Republic | Ep.32 | Cat’s Got Claws – Video

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Finding our target Admiral, we discover the true identity of the Major #39;s Cathar companion and finally leave Balmorra to attack a Hutt space station. Subscribe for more Wretch Plays! ...

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Sunrise over Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, as seen from the International Space Station @17000 MPH. HDEV Stream sites: http://columbuseye.uni-bonn.de/ ...

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Best Space Stories of the Week – Jan. 18, 2015

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From a false alarm on the International Space Station, to finding a long-lost lander on Mars, this has been a big week for news. Here are Space.com's picks for the biggest space stories of the week:

The European Space Agency's long-lost lander Beagle 2 was found on Mars after it lost contact with Earth in 2003. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the probe from its place in orbit around the Red Planet. [Full Story: UK's Lost Beagle 2 Mars Lander, Missing Since 2003, Found in NASA Photos]

NASA's New Horizons probe has started observing Pluto as it approaches the dwarf planet. The spacecraft is scheduled to make its much-anticipated flyby of Pluto on July 14, potentially revealing new findings about the small cosmic body. [Full Story: NASA Pluto Probe Begins Science Observations Ahead of Epic Flyby]

The huge asteroid 2004 BL86 will make its close flyby of Earth on Jan. 26. The space rock will be about 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers), from the planet when it passes by, marking the asteroid's closest approach to Earth fro the next 200 years. [Full Story: Big Asteroid to Zoom by Earth on Jan. 26]

Officials from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency are now saying that many of the UFO spotted by people in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States were actually high-flying space planes. [Full Story: CIA About UFOs of the 1950s and '60s: 'It Was Us']

China's first moon lander called Chang'e 3 is still operational on the lunar surface. The probe has captured a nice picture of the Pinwheel Galaxy after more than a year on the moon. [Full Story: Chinese Moon Lander Spots Pinwheel Galaxy from Lunar Surface (Photo)]

SpaceX's fifth Dragon cargo ship made it to the International Space Station on Monday (Jan. 12) in the early morning. The spacecraft carried tons of supplies under a contract with NASA. [Full Story: SpaceX Dragon Capsule Delivers Fresh Supplies to Space Station]

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently orbiting the Red Planet captures an image of a relatively new crater created on Mars in the last few years. [Full Story: Fresh Crater on Mars Spied by NASA Spacecraft (Photo)]

The sun shot out its first significant solar flare of 2015 on Monday night (Jan. 12). NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an amazing image of the M-class solar flare. [Full Story: Sun Fires Off First Strong Solar Flare of 2015 (Video)]

Crewmembers on the International Space Station had a scare when an alarm that sometimes indicates an ammonia leak sounded on the orbiting outpost Wednesday (Jan. 14). It turned out to be a false alarm, but astronauts on the U.S. side of the station did evacuate to the Russian side as a precaution. [Full Story: Space Station Astronauts Return to US Side After Leak False Alarm]

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After 17 years in orbit, how durable is the International Space Station?

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FILE- In this April 20, 2014, image made from a frame grabbed from NASA-TV, the SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule begins the process of being berthed on to the ISS.(AP Photo/NASA-TV, File)

Even though the ammonia leak that forced a partial evacuation of the International Space Stations U.S. section on Wednesday proved to be a false alarm, the news did raise questions on the stations durability.

Since the stations inception in 1998, the habitable satellite has endured a multitude of maintenance issues, from pump failures to damaged panels. Weve had other, what have turned out to be more serious, problems on the space station, NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz told FoxNews.com. For example, there was an actual ammonia pump failure [in 2010], and so it had to be replaced and required space walks. The actions we took [Wednesday] were for a worst-case scenario like that.

The now 17 year-old International Space Station (ISS) has been occupied for 5,187 days and circled the Earth 92,357 times, so a little wear-and-tear would seem unavoidable. While the station has been in orbit since 1998, it actually wasnt completed until recently.

The first piece of the space station was put in orbit [in 1998], but the assembly actually took quite a bit of time, and wasnt completed until 2011, Schierholz said. We were using the space shuttle to complete the building of the ISS, because we would bring pieces of the station up in the space shuttle, so every time we brought up a new piece itd change the configuration. So the building of the space station took quite a bit of time.

The road to the stations assembly saw more than its fair share of bumps along the way. Following the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, there was a two-and-a-half year suspension of the U.S. shuttle program, leading to a large waste accumulation aboard the ISS that held up operations in 2004. A computer failure in 2007 left the station temporarily without thrusters and oxygen generation, followed by a torn solar panel that same year which required astronaut Scott Parazynski to make a daring impromptu spacewalk on the end of the space shuttles OBSS inspection arm. In 2010 there was the aforementioned ammonia pump failure, which, according to Schierholz, would be the top [maintenance issue that has come up] from an unexpected work/volume of work-required [standpoint]. The interesting thing about all these [problems] is that theyre anticipated failures -- we train the astronauts for them. We do plan space walks to replace parts that we expect or are at the end of their life cycle. This failed sooner than we expected it to.

The following year saw the station almost collide with what is becoming a rapidly rising threat: orbital debris. With more and more dead satellites in orbit, the possibility of one of them hitting the ISS is a growing one. These satellites sometimes slam into one another, the ensuing blast creating thousands of pieces of orbital debris.

They are an issue, Schierholz said, because if something were to hit the space station - the ISS is traveling at 17,500 mph, a piece of debris could be travelling at the same speed, and theres going to be some damage thats caused as a result of that. The U.S. Air Force tracks any piece of debris thats bigger than a golf ball, and theres a certain amount of protection from micrometeroid debris, which is natural stuff in the universe that is too small to cause any real problems. But any debris that was put there as a result of an accident is a concern to us, especially because we have people on board. To avoid disaster, thrusters are fired to adjust the stations orbit out of harms way.

So after 17 years of dodging space junk and enduring technical problems, the question remains: how much longer can the ISS stay operational? According to NASA, for as long as the U.S. and its international partners pay to maintain it.

The space station is certified for a particular lifetime, Schierholz said. So thats how we assess the future lifespan of the space station."

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Astronaut, a native of Cohasset, Mass., shares love of space with school kids

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FALL RIVER, Mass.

The space shuttle is gone, but optimism and ambition for the future of U.S. manned space flight is alive in people such as NASA astronaut Steven Bowen.

Returning to his home state Saturday, Bowen gave more than a hundred local children and their parents aboard the battleship Massachusetts a sense of excitement for space exploration and his experience on three shuttle missions.

The occasion was the 50th anniversary of the Gemini space capsule recovery by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a destroyer that sits docked a few feet away from the Massachusetts in Fall Rivers Battleship Cove.

But the message was one of wonder at the adventure of exploring space and the science, engineering and mathematics that makes it possible.

Everywhere I go its always there, Bowen said in a post-talk interview about peoples interest in space. We have the ability [to explore further], and we have the personal will, we just need the national will to do it.

A native of Cohasset and former Navy submariner, the 50-year-old Bowen grew up during the latter end of the space-race era and argues sending men to the moon paid dividends in a generation interested in science and innovation.

With the shuttle gone and the United States transitioning from NASAs singular role in space travel to one of partnership with private companies, Bowen said future missions to the moon, an asteroid or Mars would surely do the same for another generation.

At some point it will become important again, Bowen said.

To kindle that interest in a new generation, Bowen provided his young audience Saturday with the kind of simple, behind-the-scenes details of a shuttle flight that bring a distant down to earth.

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Astronauts prepare for year-long stay on space station

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In a little more than two months, American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will depart from Earth, not to return for an entire year. Their mission aboard the International Space Station will be the longest in more than a decade, twice as long as the normal six-moth stay.

As NASA continues to gear up for its next generation of manned deep space missions -- to the moon, asteroids and eventually to Mars -- scientists at the space agency are keen to better understand the long-term impacts of microgravity on the human mind and body.

According to NASA, the investigations "are expected to yield beneficial knowledge on the medical, psychological and biomedical challenges faced by astronauts during long-duration space flight."

Scientists will observe Kelly and Kornienko before, after and during their year-long mission in order to gain a better understanding of long-term isolation and exposure to microgravity -- including effects on behavioral health, vision, metabolism, physical stamina, microbiome makeup and more.

"What we don't know right now is what that six- to 12-month period looks like," Julie Robinson, NASA's space station program scientist, recently told reporters. "We're talking about it scientifically, but we're not really having deep discussions about it until we have the first information from the first two."

Astronauts with NASA have been calling for more one-year missions for some time now, but officials have been reluctant to plan additional 12-month stints.

"If we see something dramatic, that's going to change how everybody looks at having additional one-year missions," she added.

A recent study of space station astronauts showed that a six-month stay on ISS had a much more dramatic affect on the body's blood than previously thought. Returning astronauts showed a profound blood shift from the lower to the upper half of the body, and also had considerably lower blood pressure.

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WOMENS BASKETBALL | Red Heads Into Ivy Play On Hot Streak

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By OLIVA MATTYASOVSZKY

Though most Cornell fans were home for the holidays, the womens basketball team did not let a smaller home crowd affect its play. The Red played a total of seven games since classes ended, including its first Ivy League competition. Out of those seven games, the squad won six, beating Robert Morris, Loyola, Vermont, Youngstown State, Howard and Ivy rival Columbia. The teams only loss was to a tough Syracuse team on the road.

Sophomore Kerri Moran attributed the recent bout of strong play to the teams uninterrupted focus.

I think our games over break went really well. We got to really focus on basketball without having to worry about schoolwork or anything else, which really helped us work on ourselves, she said. We got a huge win in Vermont and continued to play well in our final non-conference games.

On December 20, the Red had its first competition at Newman Arena after finals against Robert Morris University. The home team walked away with an 11-point margin of victory. Sophomore forward Nia Marshall continued her stretch of top-notch performances, scoring 20 points while grabbing 10 rebounds. In the first half the Red shot 100 percent from beyond the three point line, making all three attempts. Shooting in the second half fell sharply, and the Red was 0-3 from beyond the arc and only 16.7 percent from within. However, the team out-rebounded RMU, snagging 42 boards compared to the oppositions 39.

Two days later Cornell traveled to Loyola in Baltimore and came out with another win, despite being on the road. Marshall once again scored 20 points, this time accompanied by five rebounds. Moran led the team in rebounding with six, all of them defensive. This time, the Red had a strong second half, shooting better in the period from outside the three point line as well as inside, with 28.6 percent and 58.6 percent, respectively.

The one loss of the stretch since classes ended came when the Red traveled to Syracuse to play the Orange. The home team ousted Cornell 76-59, improving to 9-3, while Cornells record stayed just above .500 at 6-5. Seven different Red players put points on the board, but nobody shot above 50 percent. The team as a whole was 32.3 percent from inside the arc and 30.8 percent from the three-point line. The Orange grabbed twelve more rebounds than the Red with 50 off the boards, while the Red only had 38.

The Red traveled to Burlington next for a nail-biter of a game against Vermont, walking away with a 90-87 victory. The Catamounts outshot the visitors in the first half, but Cornell came out of halftime hot, shooting better than the Catamounts both inside and outside the three point line. The trend continued in overtime. allowing the Red to squeak out a win.

Our games against Syracuse and Vermont were certainly highlights with Vermont allowing us to really come together as a team and exhibit a refuse to lose mentality, while the Syracuse loss really showed us what we are capable of despite the final score not being in our favor, said sophomore forward Nicholle Aston. The two final non-conference games came on January 2 against Youngstown State and on January 7 against Howard. Cornell scored 75 points in both games, beating Youngstown State by 12 and Howard by 19.

The Red opened its Ivy League competition with a home match against Columbia on Saturday. The home team held the Lions to less than 40 points with a stellar defensive performance. Sophomore guard Megan LeDuc had eight steals and eight assists, as well as six rebounds, making a bid for a triple double. The frontcourt tandem of Aston and Marshall dominated the Lions paint, scoring a combined 24 points and grabbing thirteen rebounds.

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