| ISS (International Space Station) IRIDIUM FLARES and more! | | Check out the ISS when it comes by your neighborhood. Watch the spectacular Iridium flares as the multi million dollar Iridium satellites burn up on re-entry. AND MORE! This web site can tell you when and where to look. It is free!http://www.heavens-above.com/What do you think? Is this a neat web site or what? | |
| | See the International Space Station & the Atlantis Space Shuttle! | | Did anyone see it last night? They both flew over our area at 9:31pm last night and it was SPECTACULAR! It was just so incredibly awesome. Didn't even need our binoculars, although we used them anyway.If you live in the Northwest Indiana area, they are going to be flying by AGAIN at 9:52pm tonight!And if you don't live in the Northwest Indiana area and wonder where in the sky and at what time you'll be able to see them, check out the website www.heavens-above.com.
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| | Dry New Year On Board The International Space Station | | The crew on board the International Space Station (ISS) are to ring in the new year without any alcohol, Russian reports said Saturday.
"Last year the ISS crew had a surprise in the form of cognac beans, but this year there is a total ban on alcohol," food expert Alexander Agureyev of the Russian Academy of Sciences said in Moscow.US astronauts Michael Lopez-Allegria and Sunita Williams and their Russian colleague Mikhail Tyurin will be able to experience the arrival of January 1, 2007 16 times on board humanity's furthest outpost in space as the station orbits the Earth that many times a day.According to the Russians, the alcohol party-poopers are the Americans from the NASA space authorities."This time the new year presents were flown out with the US Space Shuttle Discovery under the control of NASA. The alcohol ban is strictly observed there," the Russian expert said.The Russians know that the fundamental "njet" to spirits in space occasionally has loopholes: last year, a Russian Progress freighter transported the cognac beans into space, Agureyev said.The ISS crew have adopted the habit of celebrating the new year... | |
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| The international space station | | building the international space station is it good or bad y?coz itsa huge budget ....when there are poorer people here on land besides u y do u wanna invest on something thats beyond reach to everyone and available to one or a few if u invest that money here for wthe welfare of people...everyone will be happy...when the people are happy so will the nation be too ........wat do u say | |
| | Did you know there is no anti-virus in outer space? | | The laptops on the International Space Station don't have any anti-virus software installed, and have been infected by a virus, which steals user login information for various online games! NASA believes the laptops were infected from a USB flash drive or memory stick taken onboard by one of the astronauts.I think they are lucky it was not a serious virus that closed down all the systems! It has caused a lot of embarrassment for NASA, rather than any real harm.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7583805.stmAfter all their training how can astronauts be so dumb?
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| | NASA to outsource space travel? | | Outsourcing is one of the great ideas of this age. Competition fueled outsourcing to be one of the prime business strategies for companies to survive and stay in the marketplace. The global economy is pushing everyone to consider the concept, even the US government.The Augustine commission suggested that NASA's space travel be handled by a private entity. It means that the manufacture of spacecrafts and astronaut's space flight would be outsourced. The aim is to relieve NASA of doing space flight and concentrate on research and study earth with better satellites.Judging on what the government is doing right now, it is evident that it has began it's plan. After the Columbia accident of 2003, NASA paid Russia to use Soyuz in bringing the astronauts to the International space station. THAT IS OUTSOURCING.The cargo transport function of the space shuttle was awarded to SpaceX. It is a $1.6 billion contract of 12 flights to the International space station. TAHT IS OUTSOURCING.Regards[em]lol[/em]
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| Space Station | | A friend sent me this link to a site that shows the development of the international space station. I thought it was pretty cool. Hope you do too.http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm | |
| | Mushrooms In Space | | As we all learned by watching the iconic Star Wars films space can get a tad grimy. Astronauts who often spent weeks up in orbit in capsules the size of bathrooms minus showers or proper toilets will attest to that.
But it is the International Space Station that just brings grime home in unexpected flower. Cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov called down to the Russian control room from the International Space Station to report something unexpected in a corner of the space station: mushrooms.
These grungy fungi were not an experiment. They were in fact growing in an untended, dark, nasty corner of the station.
Aleksandr Sprin with the Russian mission control said "If there’s not enough ventilation in the bathroom then, because it’s damp, the bacteria grows into a fungus. The cosmonauts were apparently hanging their wet towels in the bathroom and then they noticed that on the back wall there were fungi (or mushrooms) growing. The fungi are now being removed with some chemical cleaner."Massive eww factor going on here... | |
| | endeavour astronauts clean joint on ISS | | A pair of space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts are on a mission outside the international space station, performing an unprecedented cleaning and lube job.
They're repairing the power system of the orbiting outpost so the space station's solar power panels can track the sun.
NASA astronauts Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Stephen Bowen stepped outside the space station. | |
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| Do you have an interesting goal in life? | | I'd like to promote an active and successful international space program. I think it would be beyond cool to create a collegiate fraternal organization that actually stands by and enforces its principles. I'd like to write at least one book. I'd like to become a practicing psychologist. I'd like positively help as many people as possible. If I could, I'd like to change the world for the better. I'd like to promote Love and peace. Those are some dreams I have. What about yours? | |
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