Archive for April, 2010
One of the choices in the cafe…
by Tony on Apr.26, 2010, under manned spaceflight
One of the choices in the cafeteria at work today: Split Pea & Hot Dog Soup.Who would eat that?
Why spend tax money on space?
by Tony on Apr.23, 2010, under commentary, manned spaceflight
Astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson on What NASA means to America, and why he feels it is underfunded.
Shuttle landing visible in NC, SC, GA & FL
by Tony on Apr.19, 2010, under manned spaceflight
If all goes well with the weather, Discovery should be visible leading up to it’s landing at KSC tomorrow morning. Ashville, NC and the I95 corridor through SC, GA, & FL should have a good view.
groundtrack from NASA.
As of a couple hours ago, I’m …
by Tony on Apr.17, 2010, under manned spaceflight
As of a couple hours ago, I’m an uncle.
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Launching Balloons to Study Space Weather
In Antarctica in January, 2013 – the summer at the South Pole – scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories tall, into the air to help answer an enduring space weather question: when the giant radiation belts surrounding Earth lose material, where do the extra particles actually go? This NASA-funded mission is called BARREL, for Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses. Each balloon launched by the BARREL team floated for anywhere from three to 40 days, measuring X-rays produced by fast-moving electrons high up in the atmosphere.BARREL works hand in hand with another NASA mission called the Van Allen Probes, which travels directly through the Van Allen radiation belts. The belts wax and wane over time in response to incoming energy and material from the sun, sometimes intensifying the radiation through which satellites orbiting Earth must travel. Scientists need to understand this process better, and even provide forecasts of such space weather, in order to protect our spacecraft.› Read MoreImage Credit: NASA
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NASA News- Massachusetts Students Speak Live With Orbiting NASA Astronaut May 21, 2013NASA Expedition 35 astronaut and flight engineer Chris Cassidy will speak live from the International Space Station with students at Talbot Innovation Middle School in Fall River, Mass., at 10:05 a.m. EDT, Thursday, May 23. […]
- NASA Calls For Phase II Visionary Advanced Concepts May 21, 2013NASA is looking for far-out ideas. NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program is seeking Phase II proposals for continuation of promising studies selected during the first phase of the visionary program. […]
- Massachusetts Students Speak Live With Orbiting NASA Astronaut May 21, 2013
