Daily Archives: March 12, 2013

New generation space station construction KSP
My old KSS space station was the first thing I built with the docking update and it #39;s been sitting in orbit for 13 game years, time to retire the old bucket and build me a new one!

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NASA Makes it Easier to Spot Space Station
NASA is making it easier to spot the International Space Station (ISS) with the naked eye. The US space agency is offering a new service which alerts people a few hours before the space station is visible flying overhead. Enthusiasts who sign up the new service, Spot the Station, will receive notifications via email or text message. The program coincides with the Nov. 2 12-year anniversary of ISS crews living and working continuously aboard the orbiting space station. "It #39;s really remarkable to see the space station fly overhead and to realize humans built an orbital complex that can be spotted from Earth by almost anyone looking up at just the right moment," says NASA #39;s William Gerstenmaier. "We #39;re accomplishing science on the space station that is helping to improve life on Earth and paving the way for future exploration of deep space." The Expedition 1 crew, the first humans aboard the International Space Station in November 2000, enjoy a snack. From left, cosmonaut Yuri P. Gidzenko, Soyuz commander; astronaut William M. Shepherd, mission commander; and cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, flight engineer. (NASA) The ISS, which flies about 322 km above us, is usually best glimpsed either at dawn or dusk. Next to the moon, it is the brightest object in the night sky. On a clear night, NASA says the space station can be seen as a point of light traveling at about the speed of a fast-moving airplane. The space station #39;s size and brightness are about the same as the planet Venus ...

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LP Metroid Prime 001: Derelict Space Station
Decided to re-upload this to YouTube because why not. Blip and Baldurdash shouldn #39;t have all the fun. Try to spot how many things I #39;d make fun of myself for in Retsupurae! (Also, birth of the Ridley voice.)

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Australian Students Contact Space Station
Commander Kevin Ford aboard the International Space Station answers questions from students at Mt. Ousley Public School, Fairy Meadow, New South Wales, Australia via ham radio.

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Crew of the International Space Station doing a flip in zero G
I was watching the stream from nasa and hit record in the right time 🙂 linkt to stream http://www.ustream.tv

By: gedzik1

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[ISS] Space Station Flys over Active Volcano, Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy
The International Space Station flew over the active volcano Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy earlier providing fantastic views of smoking volcano.

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Published: March. 11, 2013 at 8:32 PM

CHICAGO, March 11 (UPI) -- NASA says it's giving $4.4 million to five U.S. universities to help the agency build a telescope for deployment on the International Space Station in 2017.

University scientists along with researchers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama will join an international project to build an 8-foot ultraviolet telescope, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory, to search for the mysterious source of the most energetic particles in the universe from the space station's Japanese Experiment Module.

The origin of these energetic particles, called ultra high-energy cosmic rays, has remained a mystery since they were discovered more than 50 years ago, researchers said.

"The science goal is to discover the sources of ultra high-energy cosmic rays by observing their traces in the atmosphere looking 248 miles from the ISS down to the surface," said astronomy and astrophysics Professor Angela Olinto of the University of Chicago, one of the participating institutions.

Olinto said the believes the Extreme Observatory could be the first step toward using the entire Earth atmosphere for studying subatomic particle interactions at energies far exceeding what the most powerful man-made particle accelerators on Earth can currently produce.

"In my opinion it's the way to the future," said Olinto, who leads the U.S. collaboration on the project.

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