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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.
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Source: www.nasa.gov
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Susan
Susan
Yay for MRM2! I need to get back to work now...doing MRM1 stuff!! Launches in May 2010. :-)
4 hours ago
Christian Comia
Christian Comia
please take care of our planet
3 hours ago
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration 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.

Source: www.nasa.gov
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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/

Jeffrey
Jeffrey
It is a beautiful patch, but as a veteran I thought STS-107 would be appropriate for Veterans Day. It would be great to be able to display more than one mission patch.
10 hours ago
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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

Source: www.nasa.gov
NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America’s space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, subscribe to blogs, RSS feeds and podcasts, ...
Beverly
Beverly
I love to watch the missions from lift off to landing...best show in town. NASA-TV is simply great!!!
Yesterday at 12:37pm
Joanna Anwar Madanat
Joanna Anwar Madanat
cool, i've just wrote the days left for lift off on my notebook, i've just counted 5 days left!
13 hours ago
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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 Rocketdyne
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Photo Credit: NASA/SSC/Allen Forsman, Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne
17 hours ago
Joanna Anwar Madanat
Joanna Anwar Madanat
cool, i really like it!
13 hours ago
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration We're still laughing at this tweet. "Funniest Tweet of the Year." http://mashable.com/owa

Source: twitter.com
Getting re-adjusted to gravity, let go of a small bag of groceries and must have expected it to float, luckily no damage
Adam Wesley Herd
Adam Wesley Herd
Ha sounds like something I would do and someday I hope to become an astronaut and hopefully not do this.
Sun at 5:17pm
Phil Conner
Phil Conner
I've done the wobbly walk on shore after time at sea myself. Best "adjustment" tho was after a year in Bahrain, where you barter in stores and taxis and such, coming back home and trying, without thinking, bartering at the KMart!
Sun at 8:51pm
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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!
Adam Wesley Herd
Adam Wesley Herd
I so invy you right now but hopefully one day i will become and astronaut
Sun at 5:20pm
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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

Source: mashable.com
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Joanna Anwar Madanat
Joanna Anwar Madanat
i wish i could help but i dont have twitter!
Sun at 8:21am
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
You can sign in through facebook....
Sun at 11:58am
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration 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.

Source: www.nasa.gov
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Matt West
Matt West
I hope they get the "all clear" signal from Houston today.
November 6 at 2:30pm
Joanna Anwar Madanat
Joanna Anwar Madanat
i hope nothing happends to anyone, i heard that space debris can be very dangerouse!
Sat at 11:54am
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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.

Source: www.nasa.gov
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.
Joanna Anwar Madanat
Joanna Anwar Madanat
i wish i could join!
Sat at 11:56am
Pamela Pennington
Pamela Pennington
no, to create baseball at reduced gravity.
Sat at 5:38pm
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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.
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Source: www.nasa.gov
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Matt West
Matt West
Reel-to-reel digital magnetic tape storage device does sound archaic. I think Noel Liu would agree. These mass-memory units need a swap upgrade if practical.
November 6 at 11:52am
Joanna Anwar Madanat
Joanna Anwar Madanat
wow, i wish colombia and chalenger were here to be used again!
Sat at 11:59am
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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

Source: www.nasa.gov
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John
John
Nothing definite either way yet. I'd think he'd have to factor in the Florida and Texas voters in 2012 and whether he wants to lose them...We'll see... Meanwhile I suggest all write, email or call your Reps and Senators and tell them what you think....Ad Astra!
November 6 at 11:51pm
Joanna Anwar Madanat
Joanna Anwar Madanat
i really like the iss, i hope everything goes well!
Sat at 12:03pm
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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!!

November 5 at 10:15am
Joanna Anwar Madanat
Joanna Anwar Madanat
wow, this is soooo great!!!
i'm glad to help!
November 6 at 4:42am
Cecilia Marotto
Cecilia Marotto
I love watching NASA TV too! Keep Astro Mike Massimino doing those interviews - he's wonderful! Go NASA!!!!
November 6 at 6:12am
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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

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.
Joanna Anwar Madanat
Joanna Anwar Madanat
cool, now i can see google earth with mercury, keep taking pictures!
good job!
November 6 at 4:44am
Resa
Resa
oooooooooooooooooooooooooohhh
14 hours ago
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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
Current information about climate and the environment.
Larry Darrah
Larry Darrah
I always loved the algae bloom images... the REAL food and oxygen source of the planet without it we wouldn't be :-)
November 5 at 8:38am
Joanna Anwar Madanat
Joanna Anwar Madanat
cool, really nice!
November 6 at 4:45am
Resa
Resa
wow!
14 hours ago