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Marcus Maertens

50-years-exploration-huge.jpg (3861×1706) - 2 views

www.infographicsonly.com/...50-years-exploration-huge.jpg

space

shared by Marcus Maertens on 24 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 24 Aug 12
     
    Nice overview about past missions to other bodies of our solar system.
annaheffernan

Initial problems with first space toilets revealed :) - 1 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...asa-transcripts_n_3054324.html

fun

shared by annaheffernan on 27 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • annaheffernan on 27 Sep 13
     
    On a lighter note: Decades after NASA's Apollo missions, people are having some laughs over transcripts of astronauts' humorous conversations aboard the spacecraft. For all their technological sophistication, the Apollo command module had a relatively primitive system for managing human waste.
Beniamino Abis

Wanted: Volunteers for Yearlong Mock Mars Mission in Canadian Arctic - 2 views

www.space.com/mission-arctic-volunteers.html

shared by Beniamino Abis on 31 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Beniamino Abis on 31 Oct 13
     
    Mars Society, which advocates for manned exploration of the Red Planet, has released its requirements for the six volunteers who will be expected to spend 12 months at the society's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Canada's Devon Island, which is about 1,450 kilometers from the North Pole, beginning in July 2014. Crewmembers will spend most of their time doing science, studying things such as carbon release from the permafrost and human performance in extreme conditions. If they want to go outside their base, they'll have to wear a spacesuit. If something breaks, they're the ones who are going to have to fix it.
H H

Asteroid Redirect Mission Concept Animation - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

shared by H H on 23 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • H H on 23 Aug 13
     
    Concept animation featuring notional crew operations during NASA's proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission. Very cool video.
jmlloren

Public Service Broadcasting: 'The Other Side,' - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

shared by jmlloren on 25 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • jmlloren on 25 Aug 15
     
    The sound track of Apolo mission. They have a full album devoted to the space race.
andreiaries

NASA Face in Space - 4 views

faceinspace.nasa.gov

space face

shared by andreiaries on 08 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jun 10
     
    Even after reading this sentence: "NASA wants to put a photograph of your face on one of the remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit." it's not clear to me what exactly they plan to do... anyone?
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  • Joris _ on 08 Jun 10
     
    I guess it is a symbolic way of flying the space shuttle for the last time! as JAXA does it with your name - if you want to - for all their scientific missions. Nice initiative indeed!
  • Ma Ru on 09 Jun 10
     
    Wow, they even mentioned it in the news on the Polish radio yesterday... What I am curious is if they really take the physical (or at least digital) photo and name to the orbit, or is this just, as you called it, "symbolic" ...
  • Joris _ on 09 Jun 10
     
    It is usually for real. Sometimes it is on a plate or slab, sometimes on a DVD, ... I will have my name on STS-134 :-)
Joris _

Six days left for Hayabusa: A recap of the mission - The Planetary Society Blog | The P... - 1 views

www.planetary.org/...00002530

MAD

shared by Joris _ on 09 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Joris _ on 09 Jun 10
     
    a nice recap' of Hayabusa mission
Joris _

Space capsule probed for asteroid dust : Nature News - 1 views

www.nature.com/...466016a.html

asteroid MAD

shared by Joris _ on 30 Jun 10 - No Cached
  • They have clearly shown us the path forward to the inevitable large-scale exploration of the near-Earth asteroid population
  • Interest in asteroid missions has also been on the rise in the United States. In June, US President Barack Obama called for a manned trip to an asteroid. And late last year, the OSIRIS-REx project, also a sample-return mission targeting a carbon-rich asteroid, was selected as a finalist in NASA's New Frontiers Program,
Juxi Leitner

Mission Idea Contest - 3 views

www.axelspace.com/...index.html

mission mad fun science space prizes

shared by Juxi Leitner on 05 Jul 10 - Cached
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  • Juxi Leitner on 05 Jul 10
     
    so any ideas from us here?! :)
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  • LeopoldS on 05 Jul 10
     
    fantastic - they launched it! he mentioned this already some time ago ... I really like it.
  • LeopoldS on 05 Jul 10
     
    btw: have been discussing something similar with Roger ... a bit less ambitious but still ...
  • Juxi Leitner on 06 Jul 10
     
    presentations from the related nanosatellite event http://www.nestra.jp/NS_sympo/information_e.html (DLR, SSTL and european unis were there but no ESA...)
Juxi Leitner

Hayabusa Sample Return Capsule Entry - Airborne Observing Campaign - 0 views

airborne.seti.org/hayabusa

re-entry mission live video jaxa nasa

shared by Juxi Leitner on 10 Jun 10 - Cached
  • An attempt will be made to provide a live video feed of the Hayabusa Re-Entry in the minutes around the re-entry at 13:51 UT, Sunday June 13. The video will be chosen from cameras operated onboard NASA's DC-8 Airborne Laboratory
  • Ma Ru on 10 Jun 10
     
    After reading the Hayabusa's story posted by Joris a while ago, I think that the only adequately epic final to conclude this awesome mission is that the capsule will land safely. And empty.
Joris _

OpenLuna Picks Up Where NASA's Moon Mission Leaves Off - 0 views

ostatic.com/...-nasas-moon-mission-leaves-off

MAD Open science

shared by Joris _ on 18 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The ambitious project will tap the resources of private enterprise to build several small scout rovers that will be shipped to the south pole of the moon via a single lander. Rock and earth samples will be returned to Earth for testing, then auctioned off to secure funding for the next phase of the plan
Joris _

NASA's next destination: a near-Earth asteroid? | National | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle - 0 views

www.chron.com/...7188211.html

NEO Human_Exploration

shared by Joris _ on 07 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • At a workshop last month in Washington, D.C., NASA canvassed the scientific, human spaceflight and planetary defense communities about their priorities for a mission to a near-Earth asteroid.
  • an asteroid mission is possible as early as 2019 using a pair of enhanced Orion spacecraft with a two-person crew.
  • November 2019 and spend three months flying more than 7 million miles to an asteroid that's about 33 feet across.
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  • he crew would "park" their vehicle nearby and spacewalk over
  • After about five days the crew would climb back into one of the capsules and spend three months flying home.
duncan barker

Apollo 15' Titanium Tank NASA Space Program Astronaut - eBay (item 290487095168 end tim... - 1 views

cgi.ebay.com/...290487095168

shared by duncan barker on 03 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • duncan barker on 03 Nov 10
     
    Here you can buy the actual titanium fuel tank from the Apollo 18 mission ........... on ebay   :)
  • Ma Ru on 04 Nov 10
     
    Hmmm... could one fill it up, say, with beer?
Joris _

NASA budget for 2011 eliminates funds for manned lunar missions - washingtonpost.com - 3 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010013101058.html

shared by Joris _ on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • NASA's grand plan to return to the moon, built on President George W. Bush's vision of an ambitious new chapter in space exploration, is about to vanish with hardly a whimper
  • a commercial spacecraft that could taxi astronauts into low Earth orbit
  • Obama budget as disastrous for human space fligh
  • Francesco Biscani on 01 Feb 10
     
    Personally I think this is great.
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  • Joris _ on 01 Feb 10
     
    what is great exactly ? No human beings will put a foot on the Moon, or Mars, in the next 22 yrs and more ... what an awful waste!
  • Francesco Biscani on 01 Feb 10
     
    Well, the constellation program was a waste of money in its current form, overrun by delays and insufficient budget. We would have had Apollo 2.0 sixty years later, for what? At least now they are talking about going to asteroids, martian moons and stuff like that.
  • Joris _ on 01 Feb 10
     
    I agree that Constellation was a mistake. It is though a pity that now human Mars missions would certainly happen even later than initially hoped.
nikolas smyrlakis

UNITED KINGDOM SPACE AGENCY UKSA (fake website) - 3 views

www.uk-space.com

space united kingdom fun

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 24 Mar 10
     
    according to the normal website (http://www.bnsc.gov.uk/): "The UK Space Agency website will officially launch on 1 April 2010. Until then, the BNSC website will be in a state of transition " the guys above i think just take the piss coz theres no official website. Mission statement: TOGETHER WE ARE GOING TO EMBARK ON A JOURNEY INTO SPACE. ..........................THE MISSION IS......MARS................................."
  • Ma Ru on 24 Mar 10
     
    I've just read a blog entry about this on New Scientist, and while the entry itself is not interesting, I learned from it where the UKSA and ESA's UK establishment are going to be based. Answer: it's even more in the middle of nowhere than Plymouth! BTW does anyone (Leo?) know what is the basis on which new ESA establishments locations are chosen (if this info is classified, you can send it on priv ;) [Edit] Esa has released a news item about it... Whatever one can say about the British Space Agency, they certainly have a fantastic logo!
Joris _

SPACE.com -- Venus Probe's Problems May Cause Japan to Scale Back - 0 views

www.space.com/...suki-japan-rethink-101217.html

space MAD

shared by Joris _ on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • We have to be more conservative to plan our next planetary mission, so it will never fail in any aspect."
  • the probe's initial failure will have a big impact on how JAXA plans future planetary missions
  • hew to more conservative ideas in the near future
  • Joris _ on 20 Dec 10
     
    what a shame! ambition and innovation have not been fairly rewarded ...
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  • Ma Ru on 20 Dec 10
     
    Did you try to run your algorithm on their problem as Dario suggested? I'm very curious!
  • Joris _ on 20 Dec 10
     
    I didn't have time yet. But formulating the failure with a MTBF or a FIT, you can easily imagine a more robust solution. Instead of one single burn, you would make several smaller burns - It will take more time and require more fuel though. Another "robust" approach is to consider weak stability boundary capture. Again it takes time, but chances of failure are lessen.
  • LeopoldS on 21 Dec 10
     
    would be a pity indeed!
Luís F. Simões

Europe's Plan to Move An Asteroid - Technology Review - 3 views

www.technologyreview.com/...27028

asteroid deflection

shared by Luís F. Simões on 02 Aug 11 - No Cached
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  • In 2002, the European Space Agency began a program called Don Quijote to find out how best to perform such a deflection.
  • Now, Stephen Wolters at the Open University in the UK and a few friends have published a new analysis of the mission saying that measuring the change in orbit is not enough. Instead, the spacecraft needs to characterise the impact in detail, determining the density of the material near the asteroid's surface, the size of the surface grains as well as the mass and speed distribution of the impact ejecta.
  • Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1107.4229: Measurement Requirements For A Near-Earth Asteroid Impact Mitigation Demonstration Mission
LeopoldS

Science/AAAS: Science Magazine | Hot Topics | Hayabusa-Dust from Itokawa - 3 views

www.sciencemag.org/...hayabusa2011

NAN science space technology

shared by LeopoldS on 26 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 26 Aug 11
     
    fantastic mission - proved once more!!!
LeopoldS

The Senate has "saved" JWST? Hang on a sec, folks… | Bad Astronomy | Discover... - 2 views

blogs.discovermagazine.com/...saved-jwst-hang-on-a-sec-folks

science space politics NASA

shared by LeopoldS on 16 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 16 Sep 11
     
    JWST apparently saved but what has been cancelled (Mars mission in 2018???? :-(      )
Juxi Leitner

Real-Life Cyborg Astrobiologists to Search for Signs of Life on Future Mars Missions - 0 views

www.dailygalaxy.com/...e-on-future-mars-missions.html

technology novelty detection inf science

shared by Juxi Leitner on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
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  • EuroGeo team developed a wearable-computer platform for testing computer-vision exploration algorithms in real-time at geological or astrobiological field sites, focusing on the concept of "uncommon mapping"  in order to identify contrasting areas in an image of a planetary surface. Recently, the system was made more ergonomic and easy to use by porting the system into a phone-cam platform connected to a remote server.
  • a second computer-vision exploration algorithm using a  neural network in order to remember aspects of previous images and to perform novelty detection
  • Juxi Leitner on 03 Nov 09
     
    well a bit misleading title...
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