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Challenger Learning Center Space Station

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Astronaut Mike Hopkins: Workout in Space 2
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Soyuz Simulator
Learning to fly the Soyuz with ESA astronauts Andreas Mogensen and Thomas Pesquet in the Soyuz simulator at Star City, near Moscow. Latest installment from A...

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[ENG] KSP Space Station - Ep 7: Emergency Vessels Cosmonauts
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Elysium 2013
http://bit.ly/1fmbimP Watch Elysium 2013 1080p BluRay Online http://bit.ly/1fmbimP In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a manmade space station while t...

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Why Are Astronauts Weightless?
I have been working with Catalyst on ABC1 to bring some Veritasium to Australian TV. In this segment I ask wh. A simple explanation to why astronauts feel we...

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Space Station Live: Student Science Reaches Higher Orbits
NASA Public Affairs Officer Brandi Dean speaks with Michelle Ham, U.S director of ISSET and president and founder of Higher Orbits, about opportunities for s...

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Minecraft: Deadly Orbit with IronStoneMine - 10 - Totally Safe! [F]
F tackle their first custom map together; Deadly Orbit! Fabe and I are stranded in the deserted space station and need to gather supplies to survive, and es...

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Astronaut Scott E. Parazynski works with cables associated with the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) or Canadarm2. NASA/Courtesy of Apercu.

About 100 representatives from industry, academia and government are meeting at the Canadian Space Agency for whats being billed as the countrys first annual space conference.

The Tuesday event is taking place just a few weeks after Industry Minister James Moore unveiled Canadas new space policy framework.

Space agency boss Walt Natynczyk opened the conference and it continued with presentations from several senior government officials who are in charge of the use of Canadian space assets.

The federal policy framework makes sovereignty and security the top priority and one presentation focused on the Department of National Defences involvement in space activities.

Federal officials with Defence Research and Development Canada, the National Research Council and Environment Canada also spoke.

The conference is taking place under tight federal budget restraints. Moore said earlier this month the Canadian Space Agency under Natynczyk has plenty of money to achieve its goals.

The current CSA budget is $260 million.

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Space agency boss speaks about future of space program

Fire, water and the threat of exploding chemicals are an astronauts biggest worries aboard the International Space Station, where NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy spent March to September last year.

The experience was the latest in his almost a decade of space flight for NASA, and Cassidy shared some of the highlights Monday with an audience of medical personnel in a conference room at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.

Cassidy, 45, a former Navy SEAL, was keeping a promise to his uncle, Bill Monscko of Monmouth, when he spoke in the morning to local students at Ash Creek Elementary School in Monmouth about his time in space, and also addressed the group from Samaritans Graduate Medical Education program in the afternoon.

With a witty, self-deprecating air, Cassidy, 45, said he took a roundabout route to membership in two of the nations most elite groups: He applied to the Navy SEALs program at 21, after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.

Yes, he said, the training at the SEALs facility on Coronado Island off San Diego and at the SEALs facility in Norfolk, Va., was tough but it was the down time that was brutal.

SEAL doesnt stand so much for Sea, Air and Land as it does for Sleep, Eat and Lay around.

He applied to become an astronaut, and in May 2004 reported to NASAs facilities in Houston for rigorous training.

He flew the Space Shuttle Endeavor to the space station July 15-31 in 2009 and performed three space walks, totalling 18 hours and five minutes.

It was during a space walk, he said, that he actually got nervous.

You have a box in your hands labeled 001, and you know that if something goes wrong, the space station isnt going to work right. Never mind the whole problem of what would happen if you let go and float off into space. The main preventative strategy there, he said, is hang on.

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