Daily Archives: June 14, 2013

Space Station Live: June 10, 2013
The Space Station Live recap video for June 10, 2013. Watch the full Space Station Live broadcast weekdays on NASA TV at 10 a.m..

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ISS - International Space Station Footage from the Space Shuttle! Video
ISS - International Space Station Footage from the Space Shuttle! Video From NASA: "ISS Configuration This fly-around video shows the International Space Station from space shuttle Endeavour...

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Call of Duty Ghosts: Space Station Hacking, Shoot while Mantling, WiiU, Lean (COD Ghost E3M13 )
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LONGUEUIL, Quebec With two flicks of the wrist, Simon Rocheleau sent a lunar rover spinning in the dirt.

The Juno rover prototype operated by a remote control in Rocheleau's hand was skidding here at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) headquarters Mars Yard, a backyard playground of dirt and rocks where robots can simulate missions to the Red Planet.

At the Mars Yard, university students regularly take rovers out for a spin to learn how operators perform similar work on Mars and, perhaps one day, the moon. [Photo Tour: Canadian Space Agency Headquarters]

"They learn some of the thought processes of the scientists, and how they go about selecting targets," Rocheleau, a member of the CSA's robotics and engineering group, told a visiting group of journalists from the Canadian Science Writers' Association on June 6.

Rovers like Juno could play a prominent role in the future of the CSA, which is looking beyond the expiration of its commitment to the International Space Station in 2020. Although Canada could remain active on the station project long beyond that date, the agency is cultivating its options. Rovers and robotics appear to be among the most promising directions, officials said.

Stimulating robotics and rovers

In 2009, the CSA received a onetime boon from the federal government: 110 million Canadian dollars ($108 million) in stimulus funding to develop promising space technologies. By inviting the private sector to bid for contracts, the agency hoped to assist struggling companies until other business picked up again.

Most of that funding went to two projects: one to develop a successor to the Canadarm series of robotic arms used on the space station and space shuttle, and another to create rover prototypes. Both of those projects were finished in 2012, and the agency is now shopping for buyers of the technology.

External money will likely be needed for further development, as the agency's budget has been dropping steadily. The Canadian federal government, conscious of the deficit racked up in the wake of the recession, has been slashing more and more money from many of its departments to address the gap.

Next year, the CSAs budget could fall to as low as CA$258 million to CA$260 million ($253 million to $255 million). In comparison, the agency's budget for 2013-2014 is about CA$309.7 million ($304 million), down 20 percent from 2012-2013.

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Canada Seeks to Rove Beyond the Space Station

Its always a chore when, at home, a big hulking piece of equipment needs to be dumped. Do you break it up and put it in the trash? Try to sell it for space parts on eBay? Refurbish it? Recycle it? Make special arrangements with a hazardous waste company? Leave it in your front lawn in the hope someone might pilfer it?

On the International Space Station, however, the choices for disposing outdated equipment are few, inevitably ending with the ultimate garbage disposal technique: atmospheric reentry.

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Thats exactly the fate waiting for the faithful old space station treadmill a.k.a. the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System, or TVIS that kept the first 34 astronauts resident in the orbital outpost fit and healthy for the past 12 years. Superseded by the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) so named in honor of comedy talk show host Stephen Colbert the TVIS will be loaded on board the returning Progress M-18M (50P) cargo vehicle. Progress will then detach on July 26 and commence its fiery reentry over the Pacific Ocean.

The TVIS went into operation on November 2000 but it ran its last lap in March 2013, so now its just taking up space. Although this piece of kit would likely fetch quite an impressive bid on eBay, the astronauts and cosmonauts have no means of delivering the piece of keep fit kit to any prospective buyer, so theyll just have to toss it into the atmospheric incinerator with the rest of their junk. Oh well.

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Image: Keep fit memories: Leroy Chiao, Expedition 10 commander and NASA ISS science officer, equipped with a bungee harness, exercises on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station (ISS) on April 10, 2005.

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Old Space Station Treadmill to be Dumped from Orbit