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Tag Archives: ISS
NASA Links
As the end of the space shuttle program draws nearer, I think it important to watch and observe this moment in our nation’s history.
So here are a collection of links to NASA resources, which can also be found on the main website NASA.gov.
Information on NASA programs is available at the NASA Public Affairs Home Page
NASA TV information has schedules and links to streaming video.
NASA Television Schedule features key mission events and media briefings during the mission.
Status reports and timely updates on launch countdown, mission progress, and landing operations will be posted at: nasa.gov/shuttle
Information on the International Space Station is [...]
Posted in NASA, Space Exploration
Tagged International Space Station, ISS, NASA TV, Space Flight, Space Shuttle
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Final Spaceflight of Space Shuttle Discovery
Due to last minute technical issues, the final launch of space shuttle Discovery has been delayed until at least Thursday. If the shuttle does launch this Thursday, a mid-afternoon liftoff is scheduled.
Discovery’s final spaceflight is scheduled to last 11 days, which includes two scheduled spacewalks. It’s the 39th flight for the space shuttle, which has flown more times than any other orbiter in NASA’s shuttle fleet.
This last mission is known as STS-133; it’s crew members will carry several important components to the International Space Station, such as the Italian-built Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM,) and the Express Logistics [...]
STS-131 Mission Update from the ISS
Space Shuttle Discovery is docked at the International Space Station, with astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson spending their fifth day in space working outside the ISS.
They’ve retrieved a science experiment on the Japanese Kibo Laboratory, replaced a rate gyro assembly on the center segment of the station’s truss, and removed an ammonia tank used to help cool the station.
The accuracy and co-ordination between the astronauts while working in space is amazing. Imagine floating weightless in space for six-and-a-half-hours, while orbiting the earth at 17,000 miles an hour. Often they have to use the grappling robotic arm from [...]
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-131
Space Shuttle Discovery is set to lift-off tomorrow morning at 6:21 AM EDT on mission STS-131.
Follow NASA’s Launch Blog beginning at 1:15 AM.
Commander Alan Poindexter, Pilot Jim Dutton, Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio, Clay Anderson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Naoko Yamazaki will execute the 33rd shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
Discovery will carry a multi-purpose logistics module filled with science racks for the laboratories aboard the ISS. The mission has three planned spacewalks, with work to include replacing an ammonia tank assembly, retrieving a Japanese experiment from the station’s exterior, and switching out a rate gyro assembly [...]
Posted in NASA, Space Exploration
Tagged Discovery, International Space Station, ISS, Launch Blog, NASA TV, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Discovery, Spacewalk, STS-131
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Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130
Space Shuttle Endeavour has completed it’s latest mission, STS-130, and has safely landed at the Kennedy Space Center. It’s one of the few remaining shuttle flights left in NASA’s aging fleet of space vehicles.
The International Space Station is 98 percent complete, following NASA’s last big construction project, known as the Tranquility connecting node and cupola. The project added a new room and observation deck to the space station, giving the ISS crew a 360 degree view of earth through it’s seven windows.
Astronauts Bob Behnken and Nicholas Patrick conducted three spacewalks for a total of eighteen hours [...]
Space Shuttle Program
It was February 1st, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. All seven crew members aboard STS-107 were tragically lost.
Now seven years later, NASA’s Space Shuttle program is almost over. There’s only five more shuttle flights planned before the space shuttle fleet is retired from service. U.S. astronauts will then have to hitch a ride with the Russian Space Agency, whose Soyuz and Progress spacecraft have been participating in the International Space Station program for years.
President Barack Obama is calling for drastic changes in the U.S. space program, taking the [...]
NASA: Ten Years of Space Exploration
The past decade has been pretty exciting in the realm of space exploration. Here’s my look at NASA’s milestones in the past ten years.
NASA 2009 Year in Review
October 2009: water discovered on the moon by the LCROSS mission.
July 2009: 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing
May 2009: Hubble Space Telescope upgraded and repaired. Space walking astronauts from the Atlantis space shuttle gave the aging space telescope several new updated systems. Two new instruments, the Wide Field Camera 3 and Cosmic Origins Spectrograph were installed, while repairs were made to the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Space [...]
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Tagged Apollo11, Atlantis, David M. Brown, Expedition One, Hubble Space Telescope, Ilan Ramon, International Space Station, ISS, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, LCROSS, Mars, Mars Rover, Michael P. Anderson, Opportunity, Phoenix Lander, Rick D. Husband, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Columbia, Spirit, William C. McCool
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NASA 2008 Year in Review
NASA has a great end-of-year review on their website nasa.gov. The space agency achieved some great accomplishments in 2008: A Mars landing with the Phoenix Lander, stunning photographs from other planets in our solar system, major additions to the International Space Station, a joint lunar science mission with India, progressed toward the goal of returning astronauts to the moon, and celebrated two important anniversaries.
NASA celebrated the tenth year in operation of the International Space Station (ISS), and also celebrated their fifty years of operation as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Apollo lunar program also hit the forty year [...]
Space Shuttle & ISS Visible in Night Sky
Found on Google’s Hot Trends:
Source: www.google.com/trends
Official First Day of Summer ~ June 21, 2007:
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