Aviation and Space Blog

See the ongoing discussion at nasaspaceflight.com, here: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/threadview.asptid4678amp;posts14amp;start1 Im advised that a pressure drop in the freon loop, possibly caused by a leak from an impact, would have triggered an automatic isolation of that loo ..
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The Hinode (formerly Solar-B) satellite, a joint Japan/NASA/PPARC mission launched on 22nd September 2006, has today (October 31st) reported its first observations of the Sun with its suite of scientific instruments. The satellite was renamed ‘Hinode’ which is Japanese for Sunrise, which is most appropriate since Hinode will watch at close hand massively explosive solar flares erupting from the Sun’s surface and rising into interstellar space.

Hinode has three instruments: the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT), the X-Ray Telescope (XRT), and the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) which has been led by University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL).
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The ISS crew spent the week getting ready for an upcoming spacewalk, performing scientific research.
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Is it possible to start any of the linux planetarium programs so that when it starts it is pointing at a specific object Lets say m57, if I can give it its coodinates.
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The President’s Space Policy: The Facts, The Truth, and The Myths, Washington Space Business Roundtable

“*Please note all parts of this presentation are to be strictly off the record.”

SPEAKER: Damon R. Wells, Senior Policy Analyst Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

Editor’s note: It sure looks like Damon Wells and the rest of OSTP are afraid that taxpayers will be able to learn about what they have to say about the nation’s space policy – you know, the one they developed. Small wonder that Mike Griffin and Shana Dale (who used to work at OSTP) never mention it – or that the White House never mentions the VSE in their new space policy. What I simply do not understand is how a civil servant, speaking in an official capacity, can talk to a group of people about what they are paid to do (with tax dollars) – yet their comments cannot be relayed to the tax paying public. There’s an ethical issue here, folks. Indeed, this is the height of arrogance as far as this Administration is concerned. For the Washington Space Business Roundtable to agree to such conditions calls their own ethics into question. This is abject cowardice on the part of Damon Wells and the White House.

A space policy that cannot be discussed in public is one that is doomed to fail.

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This enhanced-color view shows gullies in an unnamed crater in the Terra Sirenum region of Mars
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Members of the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATs, also known as the “Mercury 13″), these seven women who once aspired to fly into space stand outside Launch Pad 39B near the Space Shuttle Discovery in this photograph from 1995
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NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery completed one milestone and is nearing another as workers prepare the orbiter for a December launch to the ISS.
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I had posted awhile back looking for a laptop and hard drive that could work at 30,000ft. I found a suitable hard drive at www.mtoptech.com…..just wanted to post in case anyone else ever ran into the same problem. There might also be an issue with the LCD screen in the laptop working at 30000ft ..
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NASA Increment Definition and Requirements Document for ISS Increment 15 SSP 54015

NASA Increment Definition and Requirements Document for ISS Increment 14 SSP 54014

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