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Showing posts with label astronauts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astronauts. Show all posts
Friday, February 13, 2015

The mental/emotional effects of isolation

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An article by Felicity Aston, the first woman to ski cross-country across the Antarctic continent, completely alone. She talks about her ex...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

R.I.P. Neil Armstrong

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From Wikipedia: Neil Armstrong Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engi...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012

NASA's internal culture and bureaucracy problem

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Are the problems that caused the destruction of two space shuttles and their crews still ongoing? Here's one man's opinion: Roger B...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

The Future of American Manned Space Flight

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What will it look like, especially with all the budget cutting going on? Space.com asked the question of some people who might know: What O...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Monday, April 21, 2008

All three astronauts appear at news conference

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Even after a grueling re-entry and rough landing, they all appear to be well: Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko, left, American astro...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

Soyuz spacecraft has rough landing on Earth

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A new crew has taken over the ISS, and the old crew returned to Earth, but not without some problems. From NASA: Expedition 16 Soyuz Lands ...
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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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Rocket Spaceliner now more fact than fiction

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Recently in another post, I lamented that it seemed unlikely that I would, in my lifetime, see an elegant spaceship like the Orion Space Cli...