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Globs of Doom Soundtrack (NDS) - World 5: Space Station
Spongebob Squarepants Featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom (NDS) Soundtrack: Full soundtrack download link (In MP3 format): http://www.mediafire.com This place was a bit annoying, but whatever. Traloc, Tralok or however you spell his name was kinda cruddy in this level. He only has a stun, no range. I hate no-ranged characters except for Beautiful Gorgeous.From:KikirisuKViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:50More inMusic

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Chris Hadfield Interview Windsor 2011
Chris Hadfield is heading back into space this week. The first Canadian to walk in space, flown two shuttle missions, STS-74 in 1995 and STS-100 in 2001 has also served as CAPCOM for both Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) expeditions. This time Chris is now ready for a long duration stay on board the ISS, which will include command of Expedition 35 and he will become the first Canadian to command the ISS. I talked to Chris along the air show circuit many times and he #39;s been a guest on my radio show. Watch this interview from the Windsor International Air Show in 2011 in which he describes what he #39;ll be going through in his next big adventure. Later that night he would meet the Rocket Man himself and join Elton John backstage after a concert for a chat on space, music and raising children. God speed Chris!From:Ric PetersonViews:0 0ratingsTime:06:59More inScience Technology

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Earth : Amazing Night View Images from Space
Earth : Amazing Night View Images from Space. This Images of Earth at night is a cloud-free view from space as acquired by the International Space Station and Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Satellite. A joint program by NASA and NOAA, Suomi NPP captured this nighttime images by the day-night band of the satellite #39;s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite VIIRS. It combines the Earth at night view created by NASA #39;s Earth Observatory with data processed by NOAA #39;s National Geophysical Data Center. Credit: NASA Goddard/NASA #39;s Earth Observatory/NOAA/DODFrom:ramthamediaViews:2 0ratingsTime:01:54More inScience Technology

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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Soyuz craft was placed into launch position at a Russian-leased facility in the freezing, windswept southern Kazakhstan steppe Monday ahead of the start to a five-month mission for Canadian Chris Hadfiled and two other astronauts at the International Space Station.

The craft was rolled out of its hangar on a flatbed train at exactly 7 a.m. local time in strict accordance with tradition.

Hadfield, American Tom Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko will blast off Wednesday and travel for two days before reaching three other astronauts working at the orbiting laboratory.

Colleagues, friends and family withstood temperatures as low as -30 degrees Celsius, worsened by chilly wind, to watch the Soyuz being hoisted up at the site where Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin began the first voyage to space in 1961.

Although the temperature was lower in other parts of Kazakhstan it was -42 degrees Celsius in the capital, Astana locals assert with a hint of pride that the exposed steppe makes it far more uncomfortable in Baikonur.

Space insiders say the glacial conditions have little effect on the Soyuz, however.

"There are very few weather requirements or restrictions for the launch of the Soyuz vehicle," veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fossum said, just ahead of the Soyuz being winched into position. "We launch a couple of days from now in similar conditions and we are without any concerns."

The current Soyuz craft is a variation on the vehicle that has been in constant use by the Soviet and then Russian manned space programs since 1967. The entire structure erected into place Monday consists of Soyuz TMA-07M craft sitting on top of a Soyuz-FG rocket.

The three-man crew, who have been in Baikonur for almost two weeks making final preparations, took a tour Sunday of the hangar where the craft was being kept.

"Incredibly impressive to see the final assembly of the rocket that will throw us into orbit. This is one excited crew!" Marshburn wrote on his Twitter account.

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Soyuz in place for mission to space station; will carry Chris Hadfield

When astronaut Chris Hadfield blasts off in a tiny Soyuz capsule for the International Space Station this week, it will be the latest accomplishment and one of the loftiest in Canada's 50-year-old space age.

Hadfield's goals are clear over the next six months, particularly when he becomes the first Canadian commander of the station in March, but much less certain is the country's future in space in the coming years.

Wednesday's launch from the Russian cosmodrome in Kazakhstan comes less than a month after a review commissioned by the federal government found that Canada's space industry has been lacking direction and falling behind other countries for the past decade or so.

Even smaller countries such as Belgium, Israel and Luxembourg spend more of their GDP on space than Canada does, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

At the same time, the federal aerospace review suggests that the significance of space is growing, extending beyond spacewalks and high-tech rovers to everything from national security and economics to digital communications via satellite.

For example, satellites up to 100,000 kilometres above Earth have become increasingly significant in everything from monitoring weather, crops and climate change to telecommunications, national defence and sovereignty.

For industry players such as Iain Christie, president of Neptec Design Group Ltd., an Ottawa-based space engineering company, Canada's space policy is at a crossroads.

"We have been a space-faring nation for a long time and we're used to thinking of ourselves as being in the top tier of space nations," he said in an interview. "But we do run the real risk of losing that status if the kind of decay that we've been seeing in the last little while isn't stopped."

The review, led by former cabinet minister David Emerson (a Liberal who crossed the floor to the Conservatives in 2006), urges Ottawa to boost spending on the development of space technology, and to establish 10-year, five-year and one-year priorities for the Canadian space program at the cabinet level.

"Canada was a pioneer in space," Emerson said in an email statement to CBCNews.ca.

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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) A Soyuz spacecraft atop a towering rocket was placed into launch position Monday at Russia's manned-space facility in the freezing steppes of Kazakhstan ahead of a five-month mission for three astronauts to the International Space Station.

The craft was rolled out of its hangar on a flatbed train at exactly 7 a.m. in strict accordance with tradition and crawled for two hours at a walking pace to the launch pad. Colleagues, friends and relatives of the astronauts withstood temperatures as low as minus-30 C (minus-22 F), worsened by wind, to watch the procedure.

NASA's Tom Marshburn, Russian Roman Romanenko, and the Canadian Space Agency's Chris Hadfield will blast off Wednesday and travel for two days before reaching three other astronauts working at the orbiting laboratory.

Although the temperature was lower in other parts of Kazakhstan it was minus-42 C (minus -44 F) in the capital, Astana locals assert with a hint of pride that the exposed steppe makes it far more uncomfortable in Baikonur.

But officials say the glacial conditions have little effect on the Soyuz.

There are very few weather requirements or restrictions for the launch of the Soyuz vehicle," veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fossum said. "We launch a couple of days from now in similar conditions and we are without any concerns."

The current Soyuz craft is a variation on the vehicle that has been in constant use by the Soviet and then Russian manned space programs since 1967.

The three-man crew, which has been in Baikonur for almost two weeks making final preparations, took a tour Sunday of the hangar where the craft was being kept.

"Incredibly impressive to see the final assembly of the rocket that will throw us into orbit. This is one excited crew!" Marshburn wrote on his Twitter account.

Marshburn, 52, is making his second trip to space. During his maiden voyage in 2009, he logged more than 376 hours in space, which included 19 hours of extravehicular activity over the course of three spacewalks.

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NASA plans a new weapon in the fight against space insomnia: high-tech light-emitting diodes to replace the fluorescent bulbs in the U.S. section of the International Space Station.

About half of everyone who flies to space relies on sleep medication, at some point, to get some rest. For $11.2 million, NASA hopes to use the science of light to reduce astronauts' dependency on drugs.

According to NASA flight surgeon Smith Johnston, studies in Anchorage, Alaska showed that hospital staff made more medical errors during the darkest times of the year. The finding demonstrates that people have a day-night cycle that must be respected, even when they're doing the demanding work of space exploration.

"When you have normal light coming through the windows of stores, and schools, and hospitals, people do better. They function better," said Johnston, the lead physician for NASA's wellness program. [Video: Do AstronautsDreamof WeightlessSheep?]

Tough sleep in space

Sleep is no trivial matter in space. Astronauts generally get about six hours of shut-eye in orbit despite being allowed 8.5. Demanding schedules and unusual environments are among the factors that cause insomnia.

"The station is noisy, carbon dioxide is high, you don't have a shower, there's a lot of angst because you've got to perform. Imagine if you have a camera on you 24 hours a day," Johnston said.

Over time, sleep deprivation can cause irritation, depression, sickness or mistakes. Any of these problems can be dangerous in the close, confined, pressurized quarters of the space station.

In an effort to address the problem, NASA plans to replace the orbiting laboratory's fluorescent bulbs with an array of LEDs switching between blueish, whitish and reddish light, according to the time of day. The changes can be programmed in by the ground, or the astronauts. The new light bulbs are due to be swapped in by 2016.

Blue light stimulates the human brain best because people evolved to respond to the color of Earth's sky, experts say. When an astronaut's eyes are exposed to blue light, his or her body suppresses melatonin, a sleep-inducing hormone. Blue also promotes the formation of melanopsin, a "protein pigment" that keeps people awake.

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