Daily Archives: December 30, 2014

Birthday Wishes to Space Station Commander Wilmore
Flight Director Chris Edelen and the Houston Flight Control Team gathered in Mission Control on Monday, Dec. 29, to wish Space Station Commander Barry Butch Wilmore a happy fifty-second...

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International Space Station Build EP.13 Tranquility Cupola (KSP)
I bring the last permanent module up to the ISS.

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Cosmic ray impacts on International Space Station camera at South Atlantic Anomaly
Recorded on December 30, 2014, at 1:40am Central European Time from Ustream Live ISS stream and ISStracker.com. More info here: ...

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The fifth SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract now is scheduled to launch about 6:18 a.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 6, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA Television coverage of the launch begins at 5 a.m.

The new launch date will provide SpaceX engineers time to investigate further issues that arose from a static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket on Dec. 16, and will ensure proper sun angles for thermal and operational conditions to berth Dragon.

The prelaunch news conferences also have moved to Monday, Jan. 5, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. All briefings, which are subject to a change in time, will air live on NASA TV and the agency's website.

The first briefing of the day will air at noon and cover the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) Earth science instrument headed to the space station. Participants for this briefing will be:

Julie Robinson, ISS Program chief scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston

Colleen Hartman, deputy director for science at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland

Robert J. Swap, program scientist with the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington

Matthew McGill, CATS principal investigator at Goddard

The second briefing will air at 1:30 p.m. and cover some of the numerous science investigations headed to the space station. Participants for the science briefing will be:

Julie Robinson, NASAs ISS Program chief scientist

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NASA Updates Pre-Launch Briefings for Upcoming Resupply Mission to Space Station

46 species of bacteria, fungi and arthropods were delivered by a Progress supply ship to the Station in July Cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev attached the package to the outside of the Zvezda module on 18 August Somecompartmentsrecreate theMartianatmosphere by filtering some sunlight and retaining some pressure Will remain for 18 months to study how creates deal with space radiation

By Mark Prigg for MailOnline

Published: 19:07 EST, 29 December 2014 | Updated: 19:32 EST, 29 December 2014

It is the most remote zoo known to man.

Orbiting 340km above Earth, the tiny enclosures contain46 species of bacteria, fungi and arthropods.

Strapped to the outside of the International space stations, residents must deal with temperatures ranging from -12C to 40C several times a day - as well as huge amounts of radiation.

The Expose-2 experiment on the International Space Station, which is home to 46 ddifferenttypes ofbacteria, fungi and arthropods

The vacuum of space is sucking out the water, oxygen and other gases in the samples.

Their temperature can drop to 12C as the Station passes through Earth's shadow, rising to 40C at other times, and undergoing a similar process to the freeze-drying used to preserve foods.

'As you celebrate the end of the year in the warmth of your home, spare a thought for the organisms riding with a third-class ticket on the International Space Station bolted to the outside with no protection against open space,' the European Space Agency, which runs the experiment, said.

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The animals kept on the OUTSIDE of the international space station