Monthly Archives: April 2014

[ISS] SpaceX Dragon CRS-3 Hatch Opened
After a successful launch, arrival, capture and berthing to the International Space Station the crew onboard opened up the hatches to gain access to the freshly delivered cargo.

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Earth Day 2014 Space Station Live: Earth Observation From Space #GlobalSelfie #EarthRightNow
Space Station Live commentator Kyle Herring interviews Dr. William Stefanov from the Earth Science Remote Sensing Unit at Johnson Space Center about Earth Observations from space and methods...

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Space station cargo craft undocks to test automated rendezvous system
An unpiloted Russian Progress cargo ship left the International Space Station for a two-day test on an upgraded automated rendezvous system. After undocking from the aft port of the Zvezda...

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Raw: ISS Astronauts Tackle Urgent Repair Job
Space station astronauts are taking a spacewalk to replace a dead computer and get their orbiting home back up to full strength. The two Americans on board, Rick Mastracchio and Steven Swanson,...

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The Little Space Station that Could, Episode 6
In which I talk about episode 105, "The Parliament of Dreams."

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Space Station viewing City Lights ~Thailand to the Pacific
Eastern Asia at night, as seen from the International Space Station interesting,... So, some say space is fake,..? Credit: NASA JSC/EOL.

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Super Mario Star Road - Part 28 [ELITE SPACE STATION]
To be honest I didn #39;t expect another whole new area in this game! But I #39;m excited to see it! 😀 We begin on our epic journey to stop Bowser from taking over the world once again in this ROM...

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Astronauts Replace Backup Computer During Spacewalk
Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 39 Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson of NASA conducted a spacewalk April 23 to replace a backup computer relay box on the...

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KSP - Stock ISS - Part 10: Thermal Radiator Trusses
Adam #39;s KSP Stock International Space Station Craft Download Video Series This series is still in the making so your comments could make all the difference! Another big step towards the final...

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In a spacewalk lasting less than an hour, two members aboard the International Space Station successfully restoreda critical computer system.

A pair of NASA astronauts replaced a dead backup computer on the International Space Station during a short spacewalk Wednesday (April 23) to restore a critical computer system back to full strength.

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NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson made quick work of their repair during the spacewalk, removing the faulty station computer and installing a spare less than an hour after floating outside the orbiting laboratory at 9:56 a.m. EDT (1356 GMT).

"It looks like a good day for you guys to take a walk in space," Mission Control radioed the astronauts as the spacewalk began. The spacewalk was slated to last only 2.5 hours. [See photos from today's spacewalk]

Mastracchio and Swanson replaced a computer known in NASA parlance as a Multiplexer-Demultiplexer, or MDM. The device is a backup computer for routing commands to systems supporting the space station's solar arrays, robotic arm rail car and other critical systems along the station's backbone-like main truss.

The 10-year-oldMDM computer failed on April 11during a standard test. The primary computer in the system is working fine, but NASA station flight controllers ordered today's repair spacewalk to restore redundancy in the system.

"Looks like we've got a new MDM," Mastracchio said as he finished the job.

A quick test showed the new computer was working fine.

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