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23 Apr 2014, 20:36 UTC
Getting your “space legs” in Earth orbit has taken on new meaning for NASA’s pioneering Robonaut program. Thanks to a successful launch of the SpaceX-3 flight of the Falcon 9/Dragon capsule on Friday, April 18, the lower limbs for Robonaut 2 (R2) are aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Safely tucked inside the Dragon resupply vehicle, R2’s legs are to be attached by a station crew member to Robonaut’s torso already on the orbiting outpost. R2’s upper body arrived on the space station back in February 2011 during the last flight of the space shuttle Discovery. That event signaled the first human-like robot to arrive in space to become a permanent resident of the laboratory.Jointly developed by NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations and Space Technology mission directorates in cooperation with with General Motors, R2 showcases how a robotic assistant can work alongside humans, whether tasks are done in space or on Earth in a manufacturing facility.“NASA has explored with robots for more than a decade, from the stalwart rovers on Mars to R2 on the station,” observes Michael Gazarik, the associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD). “Our investment in robotic technology development is helping us to bolster ...
A Step Up for NASA’s Robonaut: Ready for Climbing Legs
23 Apr 2014, 20:36 UTC
Getting your “space legs” in Earth orbit has taken on new meaning for NASA’s pioneering Robonaut program. Thanks to a successful launch of the SpaceX-3 flight of the Falcon 9/Dragon capsule on Friday, April 18, the lower limbs for Robonaut 2 (R2) are aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Safely tucked inside the Dragon resupply vehicle, R2’s legs are to be attached by a station crew member to Robonaut’s torso already on the orbiting outpost. R2’s upper body arrived on the space station back in February 2011 during the last flight of the space shuttle Discovery. That event signaled the first human-like robot to arrive in space to become a permanent resident of the laboratory.Jointly developed by NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations and Space Technology mission directorates in cooperation with with General Motors, R2 showcases how a robotic assistant can work alongside humans, whether tasks are done in space or on Earth in a manufacturing facility.“NASA has explored with robots for more than a decade, from the stalwart rovers on Mars to R2 on the station,” observes Michael Gazarik, the associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD). “Our investment in robotic technology development is helping us to bolster ...
Astro Watch
23 Apr 2014, 19:37 UTC
NASA and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) marked the beginning of a new testing partnership with a ceremony at the Stennis Space Center on Monday (April 21). SpaceX will test components of its methane-fueled Raptor rocket engine on a test stand at Stennis. SpaceX is developing the Raptor as a reusable engine for a heavy-lift launch vehicle. The engine program encompasses the most recent advancements in propulsion technology and is designed to spawn the largest methane-fueled engines in U.S. history, according to media reports.The technologies corporation signed a Space Act Agreement with the space agency, a move aimed at continuing to propel America's burgeoning commercial space program forward while enhancing utilization of NASA's advanced test facilities, according to a news release from Stennis.Several SpaceX representatives and elected officials were on hand at Stennis on Monday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, including Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, (R-Ms.) and U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Ms.)."This is a great partnership between NASA and SpaceX," Stennis Center Director Rick Gilbrech said in the release. "These types of activities are opening new doors of commercial space exploration for companies. SpaceX is another example of the outstanding progress America's commercial space industry is making, ...
Rocket Testing Program Launched at Stennis Space Center
23 Apr 2014, 19:37 UTC
NASA and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) marked the beginning of a new testing partnership with a ceremony at the Stennis Space Center on Monday (April 21). SpaceX will test components of its methane-fueled Raptor rocket engine on a test stand at Stennis. SpaceX is developing the Raptor as a reusable engine for a heavy-lift launch vehicle. The engine program encompasses the most recent advancements in propulsion technology and is designed to spawn the largest methane-fueled engines in U.S. history, according to media reports.The technologies corporation signed a Space Act Agreement with the space agency, a move aimed at continuing to propel America's burgeoning commercial space program forward while enhancing utilization of NASA's advanced test facilities, according to a news release from Stennis.Several SpaceX representatives and elected officials were on hand at Stennis on Monday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, including Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, (R-Ms.) and U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Ms.)."This is a great partnership between NASA and SpaceX," Stennis Center Director Rick Gilbrech said in the release. "These types of activities are opening new doors of commercial space exploration for companies. SpaceX is another example of the outstanding progress America's commercial space industry is making, ...
SPACE.com
23 Apr 2014, 19:26 UTC
Two Michigan-based photographers, Terry Hancock of Fremont and Robert Fields of Howell Township, captured this brilliant image of three nebulas and a star cluster on April 11. See how they did it.
Amateur Astronomers Capture Magnificent Mix of Celestial Delights in Amazing Photo
23 Apr 2014, 19:26 UTC
Two Michigan-based photographers, Terry Hancock of Fremont and Robert Fields of Howell Township, captured this brilliant image of three nebulas and a star cluster on April 11. See how they did it.
AmericaSpace
23 Apr 2014, 18:42 UTC
In completing EVA-26, Rick Mastracchio has established himself as the World No. 5 on the list of most experienced spacewalkers. Photo Credit: NASA TV Expedition 39 astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson have successfully removed and replaced a failed Multiplexer-Demultiplexer (MDM) on the central S-0 truss of the International Space Station (ISS). In one [...]
Mastracchio Becomes World No. 5 Spacewalker After Successful EVA-26
23 Apr 2014, 18:42 UTC
In completing EVA-26, Rick Mastracchio has established himself as the World No. 5 on the list of most experienced spacewalkers. Photo Credit: NASA TV Expedition 39 astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson have successfully removed and replaced a failed Multiplexer-Demultiplexer (MDM) on the central S-0 truss of the International Space Station (ISS). In one [...]
The Planetary Society Blog
23 Apr 2014, 17:55 UTC
LADEE ended its mission as planned with a crash into the lunar surface on April 17. Just days prior, it turned its star tracker camera toward the lunar horizon and captured a striking series of images of the lunar sunrise and zodiacal light.
Days before its crash, LADEE saw zodiacal light above the lunar horizon
23 Apr 2014, 17:55 UTC
LADEE ended its mission as planned with a crash into the lunar surface on April 17. Just days prior, it turned its star tracker camera toward the lunar horizon and captured a striking series of images of the lunar sunrise and zodiacal light.
Astronomy.com Blog
23 Apr 2014, 16:48 UTC
In March, we introduced Cosmic Origins, a tablet app you can download and then purchase four fabulous interactive products that lie within. Three of these article packages focus on different categories of objects in the cosmos, like planets, stars, and galaxies. The fourth focuses on the universe itself. Each of the four products — essentially digital special issues — is chock-full of new research and fun ways to learn more about that science. In the product How galaxies came to be, you can learn how black holes affect their host galaxies, watch as spiral galaxies collide, test your knowledge about galaxy types, separate galaxy clusters by how far from Earth they lie, and more. The first galaxies grew by the gravitational force from tiny seeds imprinted in the universe’s earliest moments. Hundreds of millions of years later, those conglomerates developed into protogalaxies that combined to build up larger structures, eventually forming galaxies like our Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Along the evolutionary cycle, supermassive black holes that live at the centers of all large galaxies also influence their hosts. While the process of galaxy formation hinges on gravity, it includes many more details and has taken decades ...
Explore galaxy formation and evolution with Cosmic Origins
23 Apr 2014, 16:48 UTC
In March, we introduced Cosmic Origins, a tablet app you can download and then purchase four fabulous interactive products that lie within. Three of these article packages focus on different categories of objects in the cosmos, like planets, stars, and galaxies. The fourth focuses on the universe itself. Each of the four products — essentially digital special issues — is chock-full of new research and fun ways to learn more about that science. In the product How galaxies came to be, you can learn how black holes affect their host galaxies, watch as spiral galaxies collide, test your knowledge about galaxy types, separate galaxy clusters by how far from Earth they lie, and more. The first galaxies grew by the gravitational force from tiny seeds imprinted in the universe’s earliest moments. Hundreds of millions of years later, those conglomerates developed into protogalaxies that combined to build up larger structures, eventually forming galaxies like our Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Along the evolutionary cycle, supermassive black holes that live at the centers of all large galaxies also influence their hosts. While the process of galaxy formation hinges on gravity, it includes many more details and has taken decades ...
astrobites
23 Apr 2014, 15:40 UTC
Earth and its Solar System compatriots all have nearly circular orbits, but many exoplanets orbit their stars on wildly eccentric paths. Is our home system strange? Or is our sense of the data skewed? Title: The Solar System and the Exoplanet Orbital Eccentricity – Multiplicity Relation Authors: Mary Anne Limbach, Edwin L. Turner First Author’s Institution: Department of Astrophysical Sciences and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Paper Status: Submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Earth and its Solar System compatriots all have nearly circular orbits, but many exoplanets orbit their stars on wildly eccentric paths. Is our home system strange? Or is our sense of the data skewed? The nearly circular orbits in our solar system, not drawn to scale. VERY not-drawn-to-scale. (Source: NASA) In looking for and learning about planets beyond our solar system, there is always the question: are we special? On the one hand, per the Copernican Principle, the history of science is practically just a string of discoveries about how we’re not unique: we’re not the center of the Solar System, the Solar System isn’t the center of the universe, our galaxy is one of many, and heck, this might ...
How Weird Is Our Solar System?
23 Apr 2014, 15:40 UTC
Earth and its Solar System compatriots all have nearly circular orbits, but many exoplanets orbit their stars on wildly eccentric paths. Is our home system strange? Or is our sense of the data skewed? Title: The Solar System and the Exoplanet Orbital Eccentricity – Multiplicity Relation Authors: Mary Anne Limbach, Edwin L. Turner First Author’s Institution: Department of Astrophysical Sciences and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Paper Status: Submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Earth and its Solar System compatriots all have nearly circular orbits, but many exoplanets orbit their stars on wildly eccentric paths. Is our home system strange? Or is our sense of the data skewed? The nearly circular orbits in our solar system, not drawn to scale. VERY not-drawn-to-scale. (Source: NASA) In looking for and learning about planets beyond our solar system, there is always the question: are we special? On the one hand, per the Copernican Principle, the history of science is practically just a string of discoveries about how we’re not unique: we’re not the center of the Solar System, the Solar System isn’t the center of the universe, our galaxy is one of many, and heck, this might ...
collectSPACE.com: Space History News
23 Apr 2014, 14:45 UTC
Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon, is selling a small treasure trove of souvenirs he brought back from his 1969 lunar voyage. Bean has entrusted his moon memorabilia to Heritage Auctions of Dallas for their May 14 sale.
Apollo 12 astronaut's moon mementos up for auction
23 Apr 2014, 14:45 UTC
Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon, is selling a small treasure trove of souvenirs he brought back from his 1969 lunar voyage. Bean has entrusted his moon memorabilia to Heritage Auctions of Dallas for their May 14 sale.
Centauri Dreams
23 Apr 2014, 13:44 UTC
How we conceive of distant worlds is important. After all, we want to be scientifically accurate even as we deal with subjects that fire the public imagination. Thinking about planets in the habitable zones of other suns invariably makes us think of ‘Earth 2.0’ and the prospect of green and blue planets filled with life. But each situation will be different, which is part of the great fascination of this quest. Billions and billions of worlds, each of them sui generis. Science fiction has offered us glimpses of many worlds tantalizingly like the Earth but in some major respect different. Here, for example, is a prose description of a planet circling the star 82 Eridani, as envisioned by Stephen Baxter in his 2011 novel Ark. We are looking at it from the starship that has taken a band of colonists/refugees from a drowning Earth to what could be their new home: A big strip of land stretching north to south across the equator was “the Belt,” a kind of elderly Norway with deep-cut fjords incising thousands of kilometers of coastline. The northern half of the Belt was currently ice-free, but its southern half, stretching into the realm of shadow, was ...
Envisioning Alien Worlds
23 Apr 2014, 13:44 UTC
How we conceive of distant worlds is important. After all, we want to be scientifically accurate even as we deal with subjects that fire the public imagination. Thinking about planets in the habitable zones of other suns invariably makes us think of ‘Earth 2.0’ and the prospect of green and blue planets filled with life. But each situation will be different, which is part of the great fascination of this quest. Billions and billions of worlds, each of them sui generis. Science fiction has offered us glimpses of many worlds tantalizingly like the Earth but in some major respect different. Here, for example, is a prose description of a planet circling the star 82 Eridani, as envisioned by Stephen Baxter in his 2011 novel Ark. We are looking at it from the starship that has taken a band of colonists/refugees from a drowning Earth to what could be their new home: A big strip of land stretching north to south across the equator was “the Belt,” a kind of elderly Norway with deep-cut fjords incising thousands of kilometers of coastline. The northern half of the Belt was currently ice-free, but its southern half, stretching into the realm of shadow, was ...
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