NASA News, Apr 04, 2012

NASA Seeks Hosts For Space Station Interactive Education Events MarketWatch (press release) WASHINGTON, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NASA is seeking formal and informal education organizations to host live in-flight interactive conversations between the next generation of explorers and astronauts aboard the International Space... See all stories on this topic »

Patience of Congress wearing thin for NASA's private space taxi plan msnbc.com It's taking too long to develop commercial spaceships to deliver cargo and crews to the International Space Station, members of Congress told seniorNASA officials Wednesday. NASA is working with private space companies to develop robotic vehicles ... See all stories on this topic »

The human factor: Space station as a social laboratory Spaceflight Now File photo of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA The exercise will lead to a voice communications delay, expanded autonomy for thespace station crew, and, eventually, the extension of orbital crew flights from six months to one year or ... See all stories on this topic » Spaceflight Now

NASA To Hold Briefing Previewing SpaceX Mission To Space Station Space Ref (press release) HOUSTON -- NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will hold a media briefing on Monday, April 16, to preview the SpaceX demonstration mission to the InternationalSpace Station, currently scheduled for launch April 30. The briefing will immediately ... See all stories on this topic »

Salmonella Research in Space Yields Breakthroughs on Earth Voice of America Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said some of the work conducted on the International Space Station is making its way to the US Food and Drug Administration, or FDA. See all stories on this topic »

Patience of Congress Wearing Thin for NASA's Private Space Taxi Plan Space.com by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor It's taking too long to develop commercial spaceships to deliver cargo and crews to the International Space Station, members of Congress told senior NASA officials Wednesday March 28). See all stories on this topic »

NASA, SpaceX Invite Social Media Followers to Dragon Launch Space.com (SpaceX) will invite 50 of their Twitter, Facebook and Google+ followers to a two-day event at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., expected to culminate with the April 30 Falcon 9 launch of SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station. See all stories on this topic »

SPACE.com Staff Space.com The private spaceflght company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is aiming to launch the first crewed commercial spaceship to the International Space Station and has assembled a team of experts and former astronauts to help make it happen. See all stories on this topic »

This space station photo is one in a million msnbc.com The photo features a part of the Earth that is just west of the southern tip of South Island, New Zealand, according to a NASA description. It was taken on March 7 and was released by the space agency on March 27. Morespace news from msnbc.com ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

Astronauts snap 1 millionth photo from Space Station Fox News "Not sure who took it, Dan Burbank or myself. We can't remember." - American astronaut Don Pettit American astronaut Don Pettit of NASA posted the photo online via Twitter to mark photo No. 1000000 from the International Space Station. See all stories on this topic »

Astronauts Snap 1 Million Photos from Space Station Space.com It was taken on March 7 and was released by the space agency on March 27. American astronaut Don Pettit of NASA posted the photo online via Twitter to mark photo No. 1000000 from the International Space Station. It was captured as part of a time-lapse ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA, SpaceX Announce NASA Social For Falcon 9 Launch Attempt RedOrbit SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is targeted to lift off at 12:22 pm EDT on April 30, in an attempt to become the first commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. Registration opens at noon EDT Thursday, April 5, and closes at ... See all stories on this topic » RedOrbit

Conflict of Interest Concerns: NASA, CASIS, and the International Space Station Space Ref (press release) By Keith Cowing Increased scrutiny has been focused on The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the non-profit organization chosen by NASA to manage its research assets aboard the InternationalSpace Station. See all stories on this topic » Space Ref (press release)

(update) SpaceX mission to space station faces a big day on April 16 al.com (blog) If those maneuvers go well, the plan is for astronauts aboard the station to grab the Dragon with an onboard grapple and bring it to the station for a docking. The capsule would then be released for a return to Earth and recovery. Monday, NASA, space ... See all stories on this topic » al.com (blog)

GOP elders conflicted about future NASA, commercial space projects Daily Caller (AP Photo/NASA) Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recently sent a number of conservatives into orbit with his comments about building a US space colony on the moon. But despite the jokes, Gingrich, some science policy analysts told The Daily ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Caller

Space savings for station science samples PhysOrg.com This is true whether packing for vacation or, in NASA's case, when stowing research samples for travel to and from the International Space Station. To make things even more complex, these traveling samples can have strict temperature requirements. See all stories on this topic » PhysOrg.com

NASA to Brief Press for SpaceX Mission to International Space Station Newstar Media NASA managers, along with space station partners and SpaceX officials are scheduled to perform a Flight Readiness Review (FRR) in the morning just prior to the start of the media briefing. The FRR should be complete by the early part of the afternoon. See all stories on this topic » Newstar Media

ATV production terminated as decision on follow-on nears Spaceflight Now ATV 3, christened Edoardo Amaldi after an Italian physicist, arrived at the International Space Station on March 28. Credit: NASA The huge cargo freighters, weighing more than 20 tons fully loaded, will stop flying in 2014 when the fifth resupply craft ... See all stories on this topic » Spaceflight Now

European cargo vessel docks with space station Reuters European Space Agency (ESA) officials said the docking of Europe's third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) was flawless when it eased into place without any intervention from astronauts in the space station. They put the official docking time with the ... See all stories on this topic »

Half-ton of cargo on Dragon's space station manifest Spaceflight Now BY STEPHEN CLARK Technicians will load more than 1000 pounds of food and clothing into SpaceX's Dragon capsule next month for delivery to the International Space Station on the commercial craft's first flight to the outpost. NASA astronaut Megan ... See all stories on this topic » Spaceflight Now

Senate appropriators offer rebuke of commercial crew Spaceflight Now But because of the funding hit in fiscal 2012, the start of manned commercial flights to the International Space Station will likely not begin until 2017. Until then, NASA will purchase round-trip flights for US astronauts on Russian Soyuz capsules. See all stories on this topic » Spaceflight Now

NASA faces serious challenges keeping the International Space Station relevant Network World The International Space Station might be a case of "if you build it they may not come" according to a government watchdog report out this week. The report states that thespace agency has done a credible job of helping build the ISS (with a $50 billion ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA, SpaceX To Co-host Social Media Confab During Dragon Launch Space News By Brian Berger Dragon capsule approaching the international space station. Credit: NASA artist's concept courtesy of SpaceX Enlarge Image WASHINGTON — NASA and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) will invite 50 of their Twitter, Facebook ... See all stories on this topic » Space News

Video, photos of star trails taken from International Space Station WPTV (EndPlay Staff Reports) - Stargazing takes on a whole new meaning when it's done from the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took some amazing long-exposure photos of star trails. You get a strong sense of the Earth's rotation as ... See all stories on this topic » WPTV

One Millionth Photo from Space Station Z6Mag The International Space Station Astronauts have been snapping pictures from space. The one millionth photo was taken on March 7, 2012, but wasn't released by NASA until March 27, 2012. The one millionth picture taken from space was taken just west of ... See all stories on this topic »

News Trend Now: Back to the drawing board for NASA By Keith Stein U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison told NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to go back to the drawing board so the agency will meet its goal of developing a new spacecraft that will go to the space station within a couple of years. Hutchison ... News Trend Now

Disney donates space-flown Buzz Lightyear toy to Smithsonian ... A 12-inch (30.48-centimeter) action figure of the animated astronaut, which previously spent 15 months orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station, was donated on Thursday (March 29) to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in ... "We are pleased to welcome Buzz Lightyear into the National Collection; very soon space shuttle Discovery — his ride to space — will join him," Dailey said, referencing next month's delivery of NASA's most-flown spacecraft to the ... collectSPACE Space History News

Space Station to go Dark for Earth Hour - Earth911.com By Mary Mazzoni international, space, station, orbit, orbiting, orbits, earth, nasa,. Photo: NASA. On March 31 from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. local time, hundreds of millions of people, organizations, corporations and governments around the world will come together and ... Earth911.com » news

Amazon CEO's moon engine recovery plan piques NASA's, salvage ... Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com and Blue Origin, the latter a commercial spaceflight company competing to launch astronauts to the International Space Station, wrote on his Bezos Expeditions website that his team had found the five ... collectSPACE Space History News

What Can Be Done About Space Fender Benders? Plenty ... By Graham Martin According to Kelly O. Humphries, NASA Public Affairs Specialist for the InternationalSpace Station, the consequences of even a small piece of debris traveling at over 17000 miles per hour and colliding with the ISS could be “catastrophic. ... Video courtesy of EPFL News. Given that the $100 billion International Space Station has had to dodge space debris several times in the past decade – the need for these systems is being viewed as increasingly critical. Crews on board the ... AmericaSpace

New Face of New Space? By Guy Norris Aviation, Defense and Space News, Jobs, Conferences by AVIATION WEEK the premier provider of aviation news, information, and data tools for the global aerospace and defense industry. ... If ever there was a more powerful message of the growing influence of social media in space news coverage then surely NASA and SpaceX's decision to invite 50 'followers' to the launch of the COTS demo flight is probably it. ...Space Station Crew Hustles to Overcome ATV-3 Power Problem ... On Space

European Robot Cargo Ship Docks at Space Station | Stock Market ... By Editor - Science News A huge, unmanned cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station today (March 28), delivering tons of fresh supplies for the six-man crew of the. ... European Robot Cargo Ship Docks at Space Station. Written on March 28, 2012 by Editor - ScienceNews. A huge ... Dutch astronaut André Kuipers and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko were on hand to monitor the docking operations from inside the Zvezda module, NASA officials said. “The capture was soft,” one of the ... Rocket News

Episode 410: Impressive Station Stories | Portal to the Universe By Talking Space Podcast We then move onto a news briefing for the International Space Station talking the next Expedition to the station, SpaceX updates, as well as an update on a pump brought back on STS-135. On our second go-around, we discuss the YouTubeSpace Lab winners and their experiments. ... Lastly, we discuss some technologies being used fromNASA technology right back here on planet Earth. To see the NASA press conference on YouTube, visit http://youtu.be/16rfcTbU_D4. To see the ... PTTU Podcast Episodes

NASA review of space astrophysics missions extends all 9! | Bad ... By Phil Plait Astronomy | exoplanets | Well, this is some very welcome and happy news: NASA's2012 Senior Review for Operating Missions has recommended to NASA that eight of the nine operating space- ... He did say the ISS now has “one real science experiment” on the ISS, in the form of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, but that experiment largely runs autonomously from the activities of the station's crew. He also blamed the ISS in part for the SSC's demise, as the Clinton Administration ... Bad Astronomy

FLORIDA SPACErePORT: March 29, 2012 By ellegood Three are former astronauts, one is a former NASA medical officer, and one is a formerNASA Ames Center Director. (3/29) Europe's Largest Cargo Ship Docks With International Space Station (Source: Voice of America) The European Space ... FLORIDA SPACErePORT

NASA - Texas Students to Chat Live with Space Station Crew ... ... will learn about living and working in space by speaking with Expedition 30 ... Pettit and Andre Kuipers aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, April 3. ...NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by ... www.nasa.gov/.../HQ_M12-056_Texas_Students_ISS_Downli...

Touching Lives via International Space Station Benefits - Blogs - NASA Others, such as the knowledge gained for exploration or basic scientific discovery , are found on the space station results and news websites. It can be a bit ... blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/.../posts/post_1332880376134.html

CASIS and Using the Space Station - NASA Watch References to CASIS in House Hearing on Space Station Utilization ... Wolf suggested that NASA needs to look at CASIS carefully saying "if they are not with it in 30-45 days we should pull it and give it to NSF". Bolden ... Categories: ISS News ... nasawatch.com/archives/2012/03/casis-and-using.html

Debris prompts space station crew to seek shelter - Yahoo! News UK Explore news, videos, and much more based on what your friends are ... With enough advance notice, NASA will maneuver the space station, which orbits about ... en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/debris-prompts-space-station-cre...

NASA keeps eye on space junk near International Space Station ... NASA has warned six International Space Station residents that they may need to take shelter ... Thumbs up, thumbs down: Brevard's winners, losers in the news ... www.floridatoday.com/.../NASA-keeps-eye-space-junk-near-I...

Hearing Airs Concerns with Sustaining Space Station and Fulfilling ... Hearing Airs Concerns with Sustaining Space Station and Fulfilling ... on Science ,Space, and Technology today held a hearing to review NASA's plans for ... science.house.gov/.../hearing-airs-concerns-sustaining-space-st...

Space debris forces station crew to take shelter in ... - CBS News Breaking Space News Space Today ... NASA Spaceflight.com ... 03/24/2012 03 16 AM Filed in: Space News | International Space Station | Russian Space ... www.cbsnews.com/.../1a370dae93560091e7a1f4cb0be35a66-...

Debris prompts space station crew to seek shelter - Technology ... This May 23, 2011 photo released by NASA shows the International Space Station at... With enough advance notice, NASA will maneuver the space station, which ... SINA English is the English-language destination for news and information ... english.sina.com/technology/p/2012/0325/452083.html

Space Junk Misses Space Station Early Saturday | wltx.com 4:00 PM, Mar 24, 2012 | comments. The International Space Station. (NASA). Tweet; Share ... FILED UNDER; National/World News. WASHINGTON (AP) - A ... www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=180567

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