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Mickes Space Is The Place.

StationLIFE: Cardiovascular Health.

Tracy Dyson hosts a focus on cardiovascular health in space.

Learn the important habits for maintaining a healthy cardiovascular system, both in space and on the Earth.

Leonard Nimoy 1931 - 2015

NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke and ESA European Space Agency Astronaut Luca Parmitano reflect on the inspiration that actor Leonard Nimoy’s character Mr. Spock in the television series Star Trek had on scientists, engineers, space explorers and fans around the globe.

Buran: The Space Shuttle That Almost Was.

Did you know the Soviet Union had its own Space Shuttle? Learn all about the Buran, what happened to it, and what innovations set it apart from its NASA counterpart.

Add to your calender.

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3D Printing in Space, and When Venus Meets Mars.

SciShow Space News gives you the latest from a batch of experiments on the Space Station, a new mission to forecast space weather, and a guide to this year’s conjunction of Mars and Venus!

Russia to Build Its Own Orbital Station After 2024.

Russia will continue using the International Space Station (ISS) until around 2024 and is planning to build its own orbital outpost using the existing ISS modules, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Tuesday.
"The configuration of a multi-purpose lab module, a docking module and a scientific-energy module allows us to build an orbital station to ensure Russia's access to outer space," Roscosmos Science and Technology Board said in a statement.
In addition, Russia will actively study the Moon using robotic equipment in the next decade with the goal of sending manned missions to the Earth's satellite around 2030, the board said.
The Science and Technology Board will convene again in March to discuss the development of space vehicles that will be used to put payloads into higher-altitude orbits, as well as help explore the Moon and the outer space.
Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said last May Russia was considering whether to drop out of the international space station program to save funds for more promising space projects.
Media reports about a Russian orbital station started emerging last fall, with sources close to Rosatom citing 2017 as the program's projected launch year.
The plan to build a high-altitude space outpost was eventually confirmed last December by the chief of the state-run space agency, Oleg Ostapenko, who said it could also serve as a base for Russia's lunar program.
Reports have it that spacecraft will first be delivered to the new Russian space station, before continuing to the Moon.

Spacewalk continues prepping of ISS for new docking ports.

Working outside the International Space Station for the second time in four days, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA conducted a spacewalk Feb. 25 to continue rigging cables for the future installation of new docking ports that will greet U.S. commercial crew vehicles in the years ahead. Working around Pressurized Mating Adapter-2 at the forward end of the Harmony module, Wilmore and Virts completed the deployment of the final cables to provide power and data for the new docking adapters that will begin arriving at the station later this year.

Back from the Moon, Apollo Astronauts Had to Go Through Customs.

                                          Credit: NASA/U.S. Customs and Border Patrol

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Kennedy Space Center: A New Era.

MMS Mission Overview.

Nasa is Preparing Solid Rocket Booster Avionics for Mission Success.

U.S. Space Station Crew Members Begin Spacewalk Trilogy To Prepare For Commercial Crew Vehicles.

Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA conducted a spacewalk Feb. 21 to begin rigging cables and other equipment as the precursor to the installation of new docking ports to which U.S. commercial crew vehicles will link up to in the years ahead. The docking ports, called International Docking Adapters, will be delivered to the station later this year on SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicles for attachment to Pressurized Mating Adapters 2 and 3. The spacewalk was the 185th in support of space station assembly and maintenance, the second in Wilmore’s career and the first for Virts. The two astronauts will venture outside the Quest airlock again on Feb. 25 and March 1 to continue the routing of cables for the new docking ports and to install communications gear for the new commercial crew vehicles.

Amazing Space Photos

Amazing Space Photos by NASA Astronaut Terry Virts

This Week @NASA

Space to Ground

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Today's spacewalk.

Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes into today's spacewalk, astronauts Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts finished attaching several new cables on the port side of the International Space Station's Pressurized Mating Adapter-2. The duo will reinstall a debris shield before moving to attach another new cable on the starboard side and route additional cables during their remaining time outside the International Space Station.

The crew is routing more than 300 feet of cable during today’s spacewalk and a second one planned for Wednesday as part of a reconfiguration of the station to enable NASA Commercial Crew Program vehicles under development to dock to the space station in the coming years.

World View One Step Closer To Manned Near-Space Voyages With Record-Breaking Flight.

World View, the commercial balloon spaceflight company, is one step closer to launching manned voyages after successfully flying the first parafoil from the edge of space at a record-breaking height of 102,200 feet this morning.

With extremely limited air pressure and density at this high altitude, flying a parafoil is an incredible feat. This achievement signifies a major milestone for World View as this is the same altitude at which future manned flights will transition to the parafoil, which will be responsible for easing passengers gently down to Earth from the stratosphere. While World View has flown high-altitude balloons to this height before, this is the first time a parafoil has been flown at the edge of space.

With this flight, World View announces a partnership with United Parachute Technologies (UPT) in conjunction with Performance Designs, which co-designed the breakthrough technology and will provide parafoil systems for both unmanned research flights and journeys to the edge of space. As the global leader in parafoil and recovery systems, UPT brings decades of experience and expertise to help World View accelerate forward and continue to make breakthroughs in technology. In the months ahead, UPT will work closely with World View's aerodynamic systems team to design and build an advanced descent system capable of returning payloads of increasingly higher masses.

"The accomplishments of this flight further our two main objectives of manned spaceflight and advancing research," said Taber MacCallum, World View's Chief Technology Officer. "The successful flight of the parafoil at this altitude brings us closer to flying private citizens safely to the edge of space and also allows us to continue our research and education program by providing safe access to the near-space environment."
This flight's payload contained experiments from two universities. Montana State University tested a computer system designed to achieve increased reliability in extreme environments as well as a low-cost tracking and high-definition video link, which they hope to use to capture the 2017 solar eclipse on video. The University of North Florida flew experimental technology to measure the ozone gas profile in the stratosphere using a nanocrystalline gas sensor array. All three experiments are a result of student efforts over multiple years. The research and education payloads flown by World View are part of the company's commitment to opening routine access to high-altitude balloon flights as well as its dedication to advancing STEM programs in schools.

Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts spacewalks.

This narrated 3D animation shows the tasks NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts will perform Saturday when they exit the International Space Station beginning the first of three spacewalks.

Space Shuttle The Final Mission.

News from Space to Ground.

This Week @ NASA.

The new SOLARIUM art exhibit opened at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015

 Imagine being surrounded by golden waves and currents flowing along the sun as it turns. Watch the sun rotate from Earth’s perspective. “Solarium,” a permanent exhibit at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, brought this experience to visitors on Feb. 11. Visitors witnessed awe-inspiring imagery from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, on a floor-to-ceiling projection.
SDO observes the sun almost once every second, in wavelengths ranging from extreme ultraviolet (invisible to the human eye) to visible light. After datasets reach the ground, a NASA team processes them multiple times to produce images for projection, 4,096 pixels square. Images at this extremely high resolution could fill the screens of nine HD televisions. These images become time-lapse videos for Solarium, which displays enhanced views of enthralling solar events, selected for their aesthetic quality.
Not only does Solarium highlight the artistic side of heliophysics (the study of the sun and its interactions with Earth), but it provides visitors with visuals to show how materials travel throughout the solar atmosphere. Viewers observe solar flares, sunspots and eruptions as material and gas flow along the sun’s magnetic field lines. Fiery explosions of energy, projected in combination with soothing sounds, captivate audiences.

Megadroughts Projected for American West.

NASA scientists used tree rings to understand past droughts and climate models incorporating soil moisture data to estimate future drought risk in the 21st century.

Curiosity Rover Report

Curiosity wraps up an investigation at Mars' Pink Cliffs while trying out a style of exploration used by geologists on Earth called “the walkabout.”

DSCOVR Launches Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9

 

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. DSCOVR is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force, and will maintain the nation's real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities.