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Showing posts with label ISS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISS. Show all posts
Friday, May 30, 2014

Flying Droids a Reality on ISS

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Space station's flying droids embrace Google smartphone tech The free-flying Spheres, inspired by "Star Wars" and now aided b...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Space Weather: Aurora as seen from Space

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Recent solar weather has been stimulating Aurora's on earth. This video from the International Space Station shows us the view from abo...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Japanese "HAL" to Tweet from Space

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Japan to Send Talking, Tweeting Robot Into Space Japan's space agency is looking into the possibility of sending a Twitter-using humanoi...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Space pics from Shuttle Discovery's mission

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The current mission, which is also the last mission for space shuttle Discovery: See more photo's posted daily on flickr by one of the a...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Final shuttle mission brings robot to the ISS

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Robot Butler Hitching Ride to Space on Shuttle Discovery [...] Robonaut 2, which will become the first humanoid robot in space, looks a bit...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Ham Radio Contacts with Astronauts on board the International Space Station

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I had heard that commander Wheelock was making lots of contacts from the International Space Station. I had looked up the times when the IS...
Monday, March 08, 2010

The real ISS "Room with a View" is installed

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A while back I did a post about the new viewing window that was being installed onthe International Space Station. I posted a picture at th...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Space shuttle delivers viewing window to ISS

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Endeavour to Deliver a Room With a View The International Space Station has been moving steadily closer to completion for the past several y...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

ISS with new solar panels & full power capacity

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Thanks to the crew of the recent Space Shuttle Discovery Mission, STS-119: Space Shuttle Mission: STS-119 Space shuttle Discovery and its c...
Monday, November 17, 2008

New "bedrooms" and a 2nd bathroom for the ISS

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I keep reading news reports about the "home makeover" for the International Space Station, talking about adding two new bedrooms a...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Space Shuttle Endeavour to dock with ISS today

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In fact, it's happening right now: This mission is about expanding the International Space Station's capacity to hold a larger full ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

ISS Crew Changeover and a Space Tourist

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Space Tourist Richard Garriott paid 30 million dollars for his 10-day space journey A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying space tourist Richard G...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

NASA, Russia, and The Space Travel Dilemma

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America's Orion Spacecraft; to launch in 2013 2014? When the space shuttle fleet is retired in 2010, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft is su...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

Discovery Returns, Mission Accomplished

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So what did they get done, besides the usual goofy zero gravity pics? Plenty! They installed the main components of the Kibo science lab, th...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Kibo Lab attached, to be activated today

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Yesterday, the Discovery crew unloaded the pressurized Kibo space lab from Discovery's cargo bay, and attached it to the station. The sp...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

A busy day at the International Space Station

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The Shuttle Discovery docked yesterday, and today their work begins: STS-124 Commander Mark Kelly works inside the Quest airlock with Expedi...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

Seeing the International Space Station from Earth

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I've been collecting photos of the ISS. This one is currently my desktop wallpaper: I believe it's taken from the shuttle, from a f...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

ISS is now about 70% completed

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Here are some photos taken from the Shuttle Endeavour recently, when it departed the ISS: Above is a close-up of the Kibo lab storage unit, ...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Clarissa: a HAL type computer for the ISS?

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Much of the technology portrayed in the famous science fiction film "2001: A Space Odyssey" has failed to materialize by the year ...
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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Dining in Space, Playing with Food

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Trying to eat in zero gravity can be weird, and comical too. I read that the astronauts on the ISS have a kitchen where there is no real coo...
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