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• Google Hangout Hosts ISS and Star Trek Into Darkness Crews

  14 May 2013

  

  (Source NASA) –  Science fiction meets science fact this week as members if the ISS team meet the cast of Star Trek. The director, a writer and some actors in the film “Star Trek Into Darkness” will join NASA as it hosts a Google+ Hangout from noon to 12:45 p.m. EDT, May 16, about how work aboard the International Space Station is turning science fiction into reality. Google+ Hangouts allow as many as 10 people or groups to chat face-to-face, while thousands more can tune in to watch the conversation live on Google+ or YouTube. The hangout also will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Participating in the hangout will be NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, who currently is living and working aboard the space station; astronauts Michael Fincke and Kjell Lindgren at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston; director J.J. Abrams, screenwriter and producer Damon Lindelof; and stars of the film, Chris Pine, Alice Eve and John Cho. The participants will ask questions of each other and take questions from the [...]

• NASA 1961 goal Man on Moon in decade, 2013 goal Man in Orbit in four years

  2 May 2013

  

  NASA just signed a deal with Russian for almost one half billion dollars to launch astronauts to the space station, 424 million to be exact. This deal will assure we can get to the International Space Station in 2016 and have emergency support in 2017. How thrilling….. If you were not alive in the 1960′s to hear it first hand, you must have heard the John Kennedy Moon speech at some point. In that speech before a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, he stated we would go to the Moon before the end of the decade. To think we have allowed our capability to digress from that to having the lofty goal 40 years later of being able to send a man into low earth orbit in four years is rather…well…pathetic. We have done some exciting things, landing a rover on Mars, exciting discoveries of possible Earth like planets by Kepler and more. But on the other hand we have fallen woefully behind in our manned space program and have taken giant steps [...]

• Virgin Galactic takes significant step, breaking speed of sound under rocket power

  29 April 2013

  

  Have your bought your ticket yet from Virgin Galactic to fly into space on Space Ship2? If not now is the time as they just had the first rocket powered flight, the long line will start forming soon! Having succesfull completed glide tests last year this was the first time the rocket was fired while in flight.  In this test flight the craft did not go into space but did manage to break the speed of sound achieving Mach 1.2 and reached an altitude of 55,000 feet. The engine ran for a total of 16 seconds after Space Ship2 was dropped from the mothership, WhiteKnightTwo, at an altitude of 47,000 feet.  “The first powered flight of Virgin Spaceship Enterprise was without any doubt, our single most important flight test to date,” said Virgin Galactic Founder Sir Richard Branson, “For the first time, we were able to prove the key components of the system, fully integrated and in flight. Today’s supersonic success opens the way for a rapid expansion of the spaceship’s powered flight envelope, with a very realistic goal of full [...]

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