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Jenny On Console: Episode 17 - Changes @ NASA JSC Mission Control.

ESA's active debris removal mission: e.Deorbit.

ESA's Clean Space initiative is studying an active debris removal mission called e.Deorbit, which will target an ESA-owned derelict satellite in low orbit, capture it, then safely burn it up in a controlled atmospheric reentry. e.Deorbit will be the world's first active debris removal mission, and will provide an opportunity for European industries to showcase their technological capabilities to a global audience.

Juno Mission.Time to Jupiter Arrival: 35 days.

Juno Mission.Time to Jupiter Arrival: 37 days.

Planetary scientist Dr. Fran Bagenal of the University of Colorado discusses the Juno mission to Jupiter. Scheduled to arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, Juno’s principal goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter.

Amy Shira Teitel. Does the Moon Sound Like a Bell?

SciShow Space.

At the International Space Station, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was expanded to its full volumetric size May 28.

At the International Space Station, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was expanded to its full volumetric size May 28 through the introduction of air by the Expedition 47 crew onboard the station. BEAM, which was launched on a SpaceX/Dragon cargo craft April 8 and installed on the aft port of the Tranquility module April 16, is the first expandable component to be attached to the station and a prototype of structures that may be used in the future for habitats associated with deep space exploration. Measuring 11.6 x 10.5 feet, BEAM is expected to remain attached to the station for two years with crew members making occasional visits inside to check its systems.

Earth from Space: Chile’s salt flat.

Earth from Space is presented by Malì Cecere from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The one hundred eighty-sixth edition features a Sentinel-2A image of Chile's salt flat.

This Week @NASA.

Space Station Live: Wise Eye in the Sky.

The International Space Station will soon host a new instrument to measure ozone, aerosols and other trace gases in Earth’s atmosphere: SAGE III (Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment) is scheduled to launch on a Dragon cargo ship later this year, and project scientist Dr. Joseph Zawodny of NASA’s Langley Research Center discusses the mission to provide crucial long-term measurements that should help people understand and care for Earth’s atmosphere.

Space to Ground.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

Retired Astronaut Scott Kelly Reflects on Year-Long ISS Mission.

An agency wide All-Hands event on May 25 at NASA Headquarters featured Deputy Administrator Dava Newman and retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, reflecting on Kelly’s one-year mission aboard the International Space Station. The event, shown on NASA TV and the agency’s website, also featured video highlights of the mission and questions from employees watching at NASA centers around the country. During the unprecedented ISS mission, Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos collected critical data on how the human body responds to long duration space flight.

Expanding BEAM.

NASA Commentator Brandi Dean speaks with Heidi Brewer, the NASA operations lead for this week’s scheduled expansion of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module. Delivered to the International Space Station on a commercial cargo ship and installed on the aft port of the Tranquility module using the Canadarm-2, BEAM will be expanded to its full size later this week to begin a two-year test of its ability to maintain a safe environment, with sensors monitoring temperature, radiation levels, and impacts from orbital debris.

Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency discussed the accomplishments of his half-year mission on the orbital laboratory, during an in-flight interview with CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour on May 24.

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency discussed the accomplishments of his half-year mission on the orbital laboratory, during an in-flight interview with CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour on May 24. Peake, who is the first British citizen to fly on the space station, will be returning to Earth June 18 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a landing in south central Kazakhstan.

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ScienceCasts: Red and Golden Planets at Opposition.

This Week @NASA.

SciShow Space. 1,284 New Exoplanets, and Tsunamis on Mars!

Using a new technique, astronomers with the Kepler space telescope have confirmed a whole bunch of new exoplanets. And other astronomers have announced that mega-tsunamis were probably involved in shaping Mars' terrain.

NASA’s Global Tour of Precipitation in Ultra HD.

Precipitation (falling rain and snow) is our fresh water reservoir in the sky and is fundamental to life on Earth. This video shows the most detailed and worldwide view of rain and snowfall ever created and uses satellite measurements from the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory, or GPM, a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Tracking precipitation from space with satellites provides information of where, when, and how much it rains and snows anywhere in the world and gives insight into the behavior of our weather, climate, and ecological systems.

Public Talk: Replicating Titan & Mars.

See how JPL is exploring other worlds using laboratory and field analogues on Earth, specifically: recreating Titan’s lakes in the lab to discover new chemical interactions, and taking field expeditions to Iceland to study microbial diversity in areas with geology similar to Mars. Speaker: Dr. Morgan Cable

Time to Jupiter Arrival: 46 days.

Planetary scientist Dr. Fran Bagenal of the University of Colorado discusses the Juno mission to Jupiter. Scheduled to arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, Juno’s principal goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. This was the fourth presentation in the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s 2015–2016 Cosmic Exploration Speaker Series — Solar System Exploration Today and Tomorrow.

ESA Euronews: Growing food in space.

Is is possible to produce food to eat and air to breathe while in space? The short answer: it's not easy, but it can be done. Right now, if you're an astronaut, you're given pre-prepared food that was cooked on Earth and sent into space on a rocket. But if humankind wants to realise its ambition of travelling much further into the solar system it needs to find ways to create food and air while surrounded by the nothingness of space.

Hubble’s New View of Mars and Planets.

The Hubble Space Telescope is more well known for its picturesque views of nebulae and galaxies, but it's also useful for studying our own planets, including Mars.

Space to Ground.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

Time to Jupiter Arrival: 47 days.

In this episode of the groundbreaking web-series Why With Nye, legendary educator Bill Nye gives you the inside scoop on NASA Juno's historic Earth Fly By. On October 9th 2013 the Juno spacecraft will re-enter Earth's orbit, and use the Earth's gravity to sling shot it all the way to Jupiter. Watch as Nye uses his trademark wit and charm to breathe life into the science behind this unprecedented event.

D-News. Why Haven't Meteoroids Killed Us All?

If space is full of rocks and other debris, why aren't they colliding with us all the time? How does our atmosphere protect us?

Time to Jupiter Arrival: 48 days.

Juno spacecraft Jupiter arrival animation

SciShow Space. Project Orion: The Spaceship Propelled By Nuclear Bombs.

Before the Orion of today, the Orion of the 1950s was propelled by nuclear bombs exploding behind it. Hosted by: Hank Green

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Galileo Sat 13 and 14 overview.

Another pair of Galileo navigation satellites is scheduled for launch by a Soyuz rocket this 24 May from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, bringing the Galileo system a step closer to operational use. The European Commission asked ESA to speed up the deployment of the constellation and to increase it’s robustness for delivering initial services. A total of 12 satellites has been deployed into orbit during the last four years –six in the last year alone. This video gives an overview of Galileo and shows Galileo 13 and 14 in preparation in Kourou. It includes an interview with Paul Verhoef, ESA Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation-related Activities.

Planetary Post - A Visit to JPL.

Welcome to the fourth installment of The Planetary Post, our monthly newsletter from Robert Picardo featuring the most notable space happenings. This month we head to JPL for a tour with two young friends.

Time to Jupiter Arrival: 49 days.

In this episode of the groundbreaking web-series Why With Nye, legendary educator Bill Nye will explore Jupiter's mysterious core. Watch as Nye shows you how NASA's Juno spacecraft will use a combination of cutting edge technology and the good old Doppler effect to take a peek deep inside Jupiter.

Time to Jupiter Arrival: 50 days.

Bill Nye takes a look at the similarities and differences between Jupiter and the Sun. Is Jupiter really like a piece of the Sun? Watch Nye shed some light on this tricky conundrum.

2016 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction.

The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame welcomed astronaut inductees Brian Duffy and Scott Parazynski to its ranks during a May 14 ceremony at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, in Florida. Parazynski, who retired from NASA in 2009, flew on five spaceflights and performed seven spacewalks during his career. Duffy, retired from the Air Force and NASA in 2001. He logged more than forty total days in space during his four spaceflights. The pair join an elite group of well-known space explorers, including Alan Shepard, John Glenn, John Young, Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride.

Satellites Are Helping To Feed Tired And Hungry Birds.

This spring, migrating shorebirds came across roughly 7000 acres of temporary wetland habitat to feed on during their stopover in California’s Central Valley. The BirdReturns program, created by The Nature Conservancy of California, is an effort to provide "pop-up habitats" for some of the millions of shorebirds, such as sandpipers and plovers that migrate along the Pacific Flyway, a route that spans from Alaska to South America. Birds flying on this journey seek out the increasingly rare wetlands teeming with tasty insects to fuel their long-distance flights. Over the last century, California's Central Valley has lost 95% of the wetlands habitat to development, agriculture, and other land use changes. As a solution, scientists use big data, binoculars, and rice paddies. The Nature Conservancy works closely with two other organizations, who are using NASA data to enable the program. Point Blue Conservation Science is using data from the NASA/USGS Landsat satellite to map surface water in the Central Valley and determine the likelihood a given spot will have water any given month. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is using data from Landsat and NASA’s MODIS instrument to expand their network of citizen science observations. With the NASA data, the Cornell Lab is able to take individual bird observations and predict how abundant a given bird species will be at any location.

Time to Jupiter Arrival: 51 days.

In this episode of the groundbreaking web-series Why With Nye, legendary educator Bill Nye gives you the inside scoop on NASA Juno's historic Earth Fly By. On October 9th 2013 the Juno spacecraft will re-enter Earth's orbit, and use the Earth's gravity to sling shot it all the way to Jupiter. Watch as Nye uses his trademark wit and charm to breathe life into the science behind this unprecedented event.

Mickes space flowers.

These Zinnia seeds flew to the edge of space  30 km above Earth’s surface aboard an helium balloon on Feb. 17, 2016. The seeds were exposed to comic ray doses more than 100x Earth normal, temperatures as low as -63C, and air pressures only 0.3% of sea level. Zinnias also have  been grown on the International Space Station.
Seeds were planted in my home on April30. Growing incredibly well.:

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Time to Jupiter Arrival: 52 days.

Discovery Channel - Journey To Jupiter | Space Documentary National Geographic 2016 - An Atlas V rocket launches with the Juno spacecraft payload from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Friday, August 5, 2011. The Juno spacecraft will make a five-year, 400-million-mile voyage to Jupiter, orbit the planet, investigate its origin and evolution with eight instruments to probe its internal structure and gravity field, measure water and ammonia in its atmosphere, map its powerful magnetic field and observe its intense auroras.

SciShow Space. Another SpaceX Landing, and New Horizons's Next Stop.

SpaceX has done it again! It's landed the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon capsule has returned from the ISS. Now, what's next for New Horizons? It has its sights set an another tiny world in the Kuiper Belt.

Space to Ground.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

This Week @NASA.

The planet Mercury’s transit of the sun on May 9 provided an opportunity for sky-watchers throughout the U.S. to witness a rare celestial event that happens only about 13 times a century. Mercury’s transit, as it passed between Earth and the sun, made it appear as a small dark dot against the face of the sun. NASA’s coverage of the event included a televised roundtable of NASA science experts discussing the exceptional opportunity presented to learn more about the atmospheric makeup of our solar system’s smallest planet. Mercury’s next transit of the sun occurs in 2019. But, those of us in the U.S. have a big celestial event to look forward to even before that – a total solar eclipse, on August 21 of 2017. Also, Kepler Confirms More Than 1,200 New Planets, Dragon Leaves ISS with Science, Canadian Wildfires Seen from Space, Two Martian Years for Curiosity, and Vehicle Assembly Building Platforms!

Curiosity Rover Report (May 11, 2016)

After two Martian years, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is more than a geologist, scientist and explorer. It’s a weather reporter, too! See the changing seasons on Mars, and find out about clouds, frost and methane on the Red Planet.

SpaceX Dragon Heads Home from ISS with Valuable Science Data.

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 47 Flight Engineers Tim Peake of the European Space Agency and Jeff Williams of NASA used the Canadarm2 robotic arm to release the SpaceX/Dragon cargo vehicle May 11 after it was unbolted and unberthed from the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module, ending a month-long stay at the complex. Dragon is bringing home some 3,600 pounds of experiments and precious biomedical samples, including material from the recently completed year-long mission of NASA’s Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos.

Time to Jupiter Arrival: 54 days.

Jupiter: The Giant Planet Half a billion miles from earth exists a mini solar system of over 60 moons rotating around a powerful planet of gas. Its flowing colors . In Jupiter, we journey half a billion miles from the earths surface to a mini solar system of over 60 moons rotating around a powerful planet of gas. Its flowing . Great video explaining the science of Jupiter and the exciting Juno mission. Features interviews with scientists and engineers working on the probe with . Earthlings may one day develop the technology to visit other planets, but could we survive their hostile environments? This hour examines the extreme surface .

Time to Jupiter Arrival: 55 days.

Launched in August of 2011, the Juno spacecraft will reach Jupiter in July of 2016. Jupiter is by far the largest planet in our solar system, with more than twice the mass of all the other planets combined. It was almost certainly the first planet to form, and understanding Jupiter's formation is key to understanding how our solar system began. It has the strongest magnetic field of any known planet, and its magnetosphere is arguably the largest structure in our solar system. Despite Jupiter's importance, and despite the fact that it was one of the very first astronomical objects to be studied with a telescope, some major aspects of the giant planet remain a mystery. We don't yet understand its interior structure, including the size or even existence of a central core. The global atmospheric abundance of water, perhaps the most important component from a planetary origin point of view, remains unknown. Fundamental aspects of Jupiter's atmospheric dynamics remain to be explained. Its magnetic field is understood to originate in the swirling motions of an enormous interior ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen, but the specific workings of that dynamo remain a mystery. From a highly elliptical polar orbit, Juno will investigate these and other scientific questions. Juno is expected to survive Jupiter's dangerous radiation environment for over a year, long enough to make over 30 close perijove passes. Skimming a few thousand kilometers above the cloud tops, Juno will measure the magnetic and gravitational fields, use microwave radiometry to determine the global water abundance, image the planet at visible, infrared, and ultraviolet wavelengths, and measure the fields and particles in the Jovian magnetosphere. Improving our understanding of Jupiter will enable us to better understand the history of our solar system and our own origin story.

Speaker:
Dr. Steven Levin, Project Scientist, JUNO.

Space Station Live: Rodent Research Flies Again.

NASA Commentator Amiko Kauderer talks with Dr. Rosamund Smith of Eli Lilly, the principal investigator of the latest version of the Rodent Research experiment underway on board the International Space Station. The research uses mice as stand-ins for humans to assess how well a new compound works to prevent skeletal muscle wasting and weakness, a condition that effects astronauts who spent long periods of time in weightlessness, as will the future crew members on journeys of exploration beyond low Earth orbit. This research might also return results that could impact people on Earth who suffer similar conditions.