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Mir
Published on 19 Jul 2007 at 11:19 am.
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My sixth suggestion for the 7 wonders of space exploration is the Mir space station. Currently, the International Space Station gets all the press, and some reporters that I’ve heard talking about it on TV have made it sound like the ISS is the first space station to orbit Earth. That couldn’t be […]
Genesis II in Orbit
Published on 2 Jul 2007 at 8:53 am.
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Last week, a Russian Dnepr rocket lifted off carrying an American company’s space station early prototype module. Bigelow Aerospace’s Genesis II seems to be doing quite well. Bigelow has an interesting idea. They are using inflatable modules. The idea is that a collapsed module can be launched on heavy launch vehicles […]
STS-117 Atlantis Rollout (again)
Published on 15 May 2007 at 4:10 pm.
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis is again on the launch pad. This morning, it was rolled about to Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. It’s been there before. Atlantis was moved to the launch pad three months ago in preparation for a mid-March launch to the International Space Station. However, […]
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215 Days
Published on 21 Apr 2007 at 4:21 pm.
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Early this morning, 12:31 UT (7:31 am CDT), a Soyuz spacecraft touched down in Kazakhstan carrying space tourist Charles Simonyi and ISS Expedition 14 crew members Michael Lopez-Alegria (commander) and Mikhail Tyurin (flight engineer). A lot of people are writing about Simonyi’s trip, but I wanted to focus on Lopez-Alegria. He had been […]
ISS 14 EVA 8
Published on 9 Feb 2007 at 1:59 pm.
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Lost in the news about astronaut personal lives was a bit of news of a NASA milestone. The International Space Station Expedition 14 crew performed EVA 8, the latest in a series of spacewalks to do maintenance on the space station. A little before 8:30am, Michael Lopez-Alegria, the space station commander, and […]
Artificial Gravity
Published on 3 Dec 2006 at 10:36 pm.
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Filed under physics, space exploration, space station.
One day we hope to send manned missions to Mars, or perhaps establish mining colonies on asteroids. We would even like to have a permanent moonbase. However, all of these ideas have one big problem. Gravity is weaker at all these places. In fact, the only place in the Solar System […]
Golf from the Space Station
Published on 25 Nov 2006 at 4:18 pm.
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Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin got to make a golf shot that many golfers might dream of this past Wednesday. Not being a golfer, though, I don’t get what was such a big deal about it. He hit a golf ball from the International Space Station.
Actually, a spacewalk, or an extravehicular actvity (EVA), as it […]
