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The new Russian Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM2), also known as Poisk, launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan Tuesday at 9:22 a.m. EST. Thursday at 10:44 a.m., the MRM2 will dock to the space-facing port of the Zvezda service module. Poisk is a Russian term that translates to search, seek and ...explore.
Poisk will provide an additional docking port for visiting Russian spacecraft. It also will serve as an extra airlock for spacewalkers wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits. Cosmonauts Roman Romanenko and Maxim Suraev were reviewing procedures with ground specialists for entering Poisk after it arrives.Read More
Poisk will provide an additional docking port for visiting Russian spacecraft. It also will serve as an extra airlock for spacewalkers wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits. Cosmonauts Roman Romanenko and Maxim Suraev were reviewing procedures with ground specialists for entering Poisk after it arrives.Read More
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Technicians on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue final checks of systems in the aft section on space shuttle Atlantis.
Installation work also continues for the shuttle's engine acoustic environment testing equipment. The equipment will record the sound pressure and vibration at liftoff -- which recently were determined to be stronger than originally thought.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Have you downloaded your STS-129 Mission Patch yet? It's not too late! Go to: http://apps.facebook.com/nasa_patches/
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One Week to Launch! At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the work week begins with the installation of new equipment at Launch Pad 39A.
Technicians will install instruments in both the mobile launcher platform's tail service mast and in space shuttle Atlantis' aft section. The equipment will record the sound press...ure and vibration at liftoff -- which recently were determined to be stronger than originally thought.Read More
Technicians will install instruments in both the mobile launcher platform's tail service mast and in space shuttle Atlantis' aft section. The equipment will record the sound press...ure and vibration at liftoff -- which recently were determined to be stronger than originally thought.Read More
Source: www.nasa.gov
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Test Stand A-2 Peering Out from the Fog: At Stennis Space Center, three large engine test stands were built the early 1960s to test the first and second stages of the Apollo Saturn V rocket that carried Americans to the moon. Since 1975, the test stands have supported testing of the Space Shuttle main engines. The last... planned test was conducted in July of 2009.
In this photo, the A-2 Test Stand peered out from a thick blanket of fog during the early morning hours of Oct. 28, 2009. This photo was taken from the top of the B Test Stand.
The A-1 and A-2 test stands are transitioning to support J-2X engine testing for the Constellation Program, while the B-1/B-2 test stand will support stage testing. For the first time since the 1960s, a new test stand, called A-3, is under construction with a scheduled completion date of 2011. The A-3 test stand will be 300 feet tall and will enable engineers to conduct simulated high-altitude testing up to 100,000 feet.
Photo Credit: NASA/SSC/Allen Forsman, Pratt and Whitney RocketdyneRead More
In this photo, the A-2 Test Stand peered out from a thick blanket of fog during the early morning hours of Oct. 28, 2009. This photo was taken from the top of the B Test Stand.
The A-1 and A-2 test stands are transitioning to support J-2X engine testing for the Constellation Program, while the B-1/B-2 test stand will support stage testing. For the first time since the 1960s, a new test stand, called A-3, is under construction with a scheduled completion date of 2011. The A-3 test stand will be 300 feet tall and will enable engineers to conduct simulated high-altitude testing up to 100,000 feet.
Photo Credit: NASA/SSC/Allen Forsman, Pratt and Whitney RocketdyneRead More
National Aeronautics and Space Administration We're still laughing at this tweet. "Funniest Tweet of the Year." http://mashable.com/owa
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Getting re-adjusted to gravity, let go of a small bag of groceries and must have expected it to float, luckily no damage
National Aeronautics and Space Administration How about this one for "Tweet of the Year" in the Open Web Awards @ http//mashable.com/owa?
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From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!
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If you like what you see here, you can nominate http://www.facebook.com/nasa.gov for "Best Brand Use of Facebook." For you Twitter fans, you might consider @NASA for the "Best Brand Use of Twitter" or @Astro_Mike for "Twitter User of the Year." (Yes, this is shameless self-promotion...but it's a BIG social media univer...se out there. We need help from fans like YOU to get the word out.)Read More
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NASA will brief the crew with the latest information about today's passing space debris and let them know if they'll need to enter their Soyuz capsules tonight as a precautionary measure while the debris passes.
If the tracking data indicates any extra precautions are needed updates will be provided on the web and NASA TV as appropriate.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Take me out to the Ballpark - On Mars! Students in fourth through seventh grade will work to create the ultimate baseball experience "on Mars," even designing the rules for how to play a game on the Red Planet. NASA and JPL have partnered with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum to host a workshop for kids on Sat., Nov. 7, in Cooperstown, N.Y.
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NASA and JPL have partnered with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum to host a workshop for kids on Sat., Nov. 7, in Cooperstown, N.Y.
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Less Than Two Weeks to Launch!! At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Launch Pad 39A technicians are loading space shuttle Atlantis' two, mass-memory units today. Located in the middeck's two avionics bays, each reel-to-reel digital magnetic tape storage device holds basic flight software for the shuttle's general... purpose computers and can store additional data.
Preparations for final ordnance installations and connections at the pad will begin today and are expected to wrap up this weekend.Read More
Preparations for final ordnance installations and connections at the pad will begin today and are expected to wrap up this weekend.Read More
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Poisk Poised for Live NASA TV Space Station Docking: NASA Television will air the docking of the newest Russian module to the International Space Station starting at 9 a.m. CST Nov. 12.
The Mini Research Module-2, known as "Poisk," which means "explore" in Russian, will deliver 1,800 pounds of cargo to the station. Poi...sk is scheduled to automatically dock to the station's Zvezda Service Module at 9:44 a.m.Read More
The Mini Research Module-2, known as "Poisk," which means "explore" in Russian, will deliver 1,800 pounds of cargo to the station. Poi...sk is scheduled to automatically dock to the station's Zvezda Service Module at 9:44 a.m.Read More
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration We just went over 11,000 fans for our Facebook fan page! You guys are out of this world! Thanks again! Keep spreading the word and telling your friends - space is cool!!
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Approximately
98 percent of Mercury's surface now has been imaged by NASA
spacecraft. One of the spacecraft's instruments conducted its most extensive observations to date of Mercury's ultrathin atmosphere or "exosphere." Material in the exosphere comes mainly from the surface of... Mercury, knocked aloft by solar radiation, solar wind bombardment and meteoroid vaporization. This wispy gaseous envelope is stretched by solar radiation pressure into a long, comet-like tail, which seems to be changing as Mercury moves around the sun.Read More
98 percent of Mercury's surface now has been imaged by NASA
spacecraft. One of the spacecraft's instruments conducted its most extensive observations to date of Mercury's ultrathin atmosphere or "exosphere." Material in the exosphere comes mainly from the surface of... Mercury, knocked aloft by solar radiation, solar wind bombardment and meteoroid vaporization. This wispy gaseous envelope is stretched by solar radiation pressure into a long, comet-like tail, which seems to be changing as Mercury moves around the sun.Read More
Source: science.nasa.gov
Nov. 3, 2009: The MESSENGER spacecraft's third flyby of the planet Mercury has given scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and revealed some dramatic changes in Mercury's comet-like tail.
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Off the east coast of New Zealand, cold rivers of water that have branched off from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current flow north past the South Island and converge with warmer waters flowing south past the North Island. The surface waters of this meeting place are New Zealand's most biologically productive. This image ...of the area on October 25, 2009, from the MODIS sensor on NASA’s Aqua satellite shows the basis for that productivity: large blooms of plantlike organisms called phytoplankton.Read More
Source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov
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