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On Oct. 7, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (pictured here) and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst completed the first of three spacewalks for the Expedition 41 crew aboard the International Space Station. The spacewalkers worked outside the space station's Quest airlock for 6 hours and 13 minutes, relocating a failed cooling pump to external stowage and installing gear that provides back up power to external robotics equipment. Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA operated the Canadian robotic arm, maneuvered Gerst during the course of the spacewalk and served as the spacewalk coordinator. A second U.S. spacewalk is set for Oct. 15. Wilmore will don a U.S. spacesuit and follow Wiseman outside the Quest airlock for a 6-1/2 hour excursion. Gerst will serve as the spacewalk choreographer. The goal of the excursion is to replace a failed voltage regulator component on the starboard truss of the station. They will also move external camera equipment in advance of a major reconfiguration of station modules next year for the arrival of new docking adapters for commercial crew vehicles. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Alexander Gerst via NASA ift.tt/1sePzrB
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SOFIA is the largest airborne observatory in the world, and makes observations that are impossible for even the largest and highest of ground-based telescopes. NASA and the German space agency, DLR, are working together to operate SOFIA - a Boeing 747-SP aircraft modified to accommodate a 2.5 meter gyro-stabilized telescope. SOFIA officially began its operational phase in May 2014.
SOFIA is based at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) in southern California. SOFIA's science operations center is at NASA's Ames Research Center in northern California.
SOFIA is studying many different kinds of astronomical objects and phenomena, but some of the most interesting are:
Star birth and death
Formation of new solar systems
Identification of complex molecules in space
Planets, comets and asteroids in our solar system
Nebulae and dust in galaxies (or, Ecosystems of galaxies)
Black holes at the center of galaxies
There are six first generation instruments, four U.S. made and two German made. All six of the instruments have now flown on SOFIA. The instruments — cameras, spectrometers, and a photometer — operate across a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum, from the optical to the far infrared. Two second generation instruments, one U.S. made and one German made, will be added by early 2016. Some of the instruments are special purpose instruments designed to study a particular phenomenon, while others are general purpose instruments capable of acquiring data from a broad range of astronomical objects.
Because of the ease with which SOFIA instruments can be changed as well as the hands-on nature of observing with SOFIA, the observatory provides a unique platform for the demonstration of new observational techniques, the development of new instruments, and the education of young scientists and teachers in the discipline of infrared astronomy.
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this image from the International Space Station and posted it to social media on Sept. 28, 2014, writing, "The Milky Way steals the show from Sahara sands that make the Earth glow orange." Aboard the space station, the six-person Expedition 41 crew is currently preparing for two spacewalks set for Oct. 7 and 15. During the first six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk, slated to begin on Oct. 7 around 8:10 a.m. EDT, Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst will transfer a previously uninstalled pump module from its temporary stowage location to the External Stowage Platform-2. The two spacewalkers also will install the Mobile Transporter Relay Assembly that adds the capability to provide “keep-alive” power to the system that moves the station’s robotic arm between worksites. NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore will join Wiseman for the second Expedition 41 spacewalk on Oct. 15. Image Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman via NASA ift.tt/1xBGsV8
On June 8, 2017, the UC Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities Lab was visited by the Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk of the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate. Dr. Alice Agogino gave a summary of our research, followed by Space Technology Research Fellow graduate students Drew Sabelhaus and Mallory Daly. Demos of all of our tensegrity robot prototypes were successful.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses with Goddard Space Flight Center interns at the 51st Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium. The Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium is an annual event the brings together leaders in government, industry, and academia to discuss the space program in general and NASA’s strategic plan. The symposium was held at the Greenbelt Marriott, located in Greenbelt, MD.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s next Mars bound spacecraft sits atop Launch Complex 41 (LC-41) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN's
(MAVEN) prime mission is to study the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet. Launch is set for November 18 at 1:28pm.
What could cause a nebula to appear square? No one is quite sure. The hot star system known as MWC 922, however, appears to be embedded in a nebula with just such a shape. The featured image combines infrared exposures from the Hale Telescope on Mt. Palomar in California, and the Keck-2 Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A leading progenitor hypothesis for the square nebula is that the central star or stars somehow expelled cones of gas during a late developmental stage. For MWC 922, these cones happen to incorporate nearly right angles and be visible from the sides. Supporting evidence for the cone hypothesis includes radial spokes in the image that might run along the cone walls. Researchers speculate that the cones viewed from another angle would appear similar to the gigantic rings of supernova 1987A, possibly indicating that a star in MWC 922 might one day itself explode in a similar supernova. via NASA ift.tt/1TuXUo7
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses with students from the University of Illinois at the 51st Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium. The Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium is an annual event the brings together leaders in government, industry, and academia to discuss the space program in general and NASA’s strategic plan. The symposium was held at the Greenbelt Marriott, located in Greenbelt, MD.
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I got to give a talk at Goddard and take a tour of their facility. Wow what a cool place they have there.
Photo taken by my boss on a cell phone.
Striking atmospheric features in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere are captured in this series of color-enhanced images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. via NASA August 27, 2018
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March 14, 2012.
This image appeared on my Flickr site four times, since 2006, when it was made with Photoshop.
Ever since, i have waited and hoped to get NASA's take on it.
After six years, NASA CONTACTED ME YESTERDAY !
It started with a Flickr email and then a call with Emily Hoehn, who is designing the use of the space in the upcoming Shuttle Museum at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral.
They want this image for the museum display !
It's the next day, now, and I'm still on Cloud Nine, showing off and bragging all over town.
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In the image, the shuttle is descending at about 16,000 miles per hour as it enters the atmosphere and starts to slow down. It is out of fuel. By design, it is a glider now.
It is pitched at 40 degrees, presenting its tile surface to the threatening air. The friction heat we see is hotter than fire. It is known as 'plasma'.
The bright white is the array of tiles, protecting the shuttle from the intense plasma attack.
See this page on the tiles:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/186537499/in/set-720575...
The only shuttle reentry image I found was from the BBC. It showed the whole shuttle, lit up like an iron poker. That's not so good- it is what would happen to the shuttle without the tiles.
Photo from ground shows the intensity of the shuttle re-entry:
www.space.com/8247-space-shuttle-rare-landing-approach-vi...
Click on the picture to see it bigger.
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In this stylized image, you can see the shuttle: the plasma is only shown to rise around the nose and tail.
In fact, the ship may not be visible at all, given that it is surrounded on all sides by the blast of the atmosphere. You might see a bit of the tail, now and then
The image is similar to a cutaway view, devised to show how the tiles cause the heat to wrap around the craft without hurting it.
The image on this page is a Photoshop painting, copyright 2006 by Donald Cochrane.
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[ don- between March 14 and 20, the image on this page was the wrong one: the second one i sent to Emily. it did not have the shadow detail of the tail and engine area that we see in the original.
March 21.
- this is from the new 12 inch version with all elements restored to the original state.
Here is where i brag to Amy Shira Teitel about this.:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/51223616980/in/photolis...
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Trying not to lose this:
www.flickr.com/photos/doneastwest/134533794/in/photostream/
It seems an odd page to find the letter requests for the use of the Reentry image.
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NASA photo August 3, 2011
Building 10 walkthru at Goddard Space Flight Center.
NASA GSFC hosted a briefing and tour for Kareem Dale, Associate Director, White House Office of Public Engagement & Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy and his assistant Sara Feuerstein. Senior staff from GSFC’s Offices of Human Capital Management and Equal Opportunity Programs highlighted GSFC’s efforts to recruit and retain people with disabilities. Three engineers with disabilities led a tour of Goddard’s Spacecraft Test & Integration Facilities. Christyl Johnson Deputy Director for Science & Technology greeted Mr. Dale and provided an overview of GSFC missions.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Nina Harris
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