Archives for the 'NASA' Category
Chamber training
Published on 11 Jan 2009 at 3:47 pm.
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Filed under NASA, microgravity flight.
Prior to our flight, we have to have training in a low pressure environment. The explanation given is two fold. First, we are not going to be in a normal commercial airliner. Yes, it is an airframe of a design that had been designed for commercial airliners, but it has been modified. […]
Hangar 990
Published on 8 Jan 2009 at 10:47 pm.
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Today started in typical Houston area fashion: extremely humid with low fog. As we drove to Ellington Field, I saw a rather dense layer of fog about 7 feet deep around the airfield. The fog burned off pretty quickly, though. Ellington was an active air force base for many years — […]
Zero G without a spacecraft
Published on 7 Jan 2009 at 9:46 pm.
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Filed under NASA, aeronautics, microgravity flight, physics.
Everyone is familiar with images sent back to Earth of astronauts frolicking in the weightless environment of a spacecraft. When John Glenn was in orbit around Earth, he radioed back to mission controllers on the ground that he was experiencing “Zero G and I feel fine.” But, do you really have to go […]
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NASA Logos
Published on 1 Oct 2008 at 4:04 pm.
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On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law. That piece of legislation dissolved the old National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and transferred the assets of that agency, along with those of several Army facilities, to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA). But, […]
JSC closed for at least one week
Published on 14 Sep 2008 at 5:40 pm.
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The team that rode out the storm at the Johnson Space Center continues to assess the damage and is beginning to work on repairs to infrastructure at the space center. The space center will not resume operations right away. It appears that it will take at least a week for recovery operations to get things […]
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Update on JSC
Published on 13 Sep 2008 at 6:10 pm.
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This will be a short posting today. Hurricane Ike has moved on past Houston. The storm surge is draining. There are plenty of news sources out there reporting on the conditions in the Houston/Galveston area after the hurricane, and I’ll let them tell the story. However, many of my readers would be interested in what […]
Houston, you have a problem
Published on 12 Sep 2008 at 10:21 am.
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Filed under NASA, Uncategorized, atmosphere, space station.
When an explosion blew out the side of the Apollo 13 Service Module and threatened the lives of three astronauts on the way to the Moon, they radioed back to Earth that they had a problem. Scientists and engineers in the Johnson Space Center’s Mission Control worked tirelessly to come up with a […]
