http://www.ted.com/talks/
The Shuttle Endeavour finally launched after six tries, so the ISS should soon be complete and we can start planning to de-orbit it in 2016.
http://www.nasawatch.com/
http://www.nasawatch.com/
http://www.universetoday.com/
Hmmm, Shuttles to be decommissioned in 2010 and no replacement until 2015-16.
Ooops - What did you say you were going to use the replacement for?
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Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov
Candrea Thomas
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov
July 15, 2009
RELEASE : 09-160
NASA's Shuttle Endeavour Launches to Complete Japanese Module
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew launched at 6:03 p.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will deliver the final segment to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and a new crew member to the International Space Station.
Endeavour's 16-day mission includes five spacewalks and the installation of two platforms outside the Japanese module. One platform is permanent and will allow experiments to be directly exposed to space. The other is an experiment storage pallet that will be detached and returned with the shuttle. During the mission, Kibo's robotic arm will transfer three experiments from the pallet to the exposed platform. Future experiments also can be moved to the platform from the inside of the station using the laboratory's airlock.
Shortly before liftoff, Commander Mark Polansky thanked the teams that helped make the launch possible.
"Endeavour has patiently waited for this," said Polansky. "We're ready to go, and we're going to take all of you with us on a great mission."
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Well we now have a new NASA Administrator, Charles Frank Bolden, Jr.
Wonder where he will lead NASA and whether his marching orders include developing the resources on the Moon.
Would be nice to have an ISS in an equatorial orbit and assisting in building space tugs.
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Michael Cabbage
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
mcabbage@nasa.gov
July 15, 2009
RELEASE : 09-165
Bolden and Garver Confirmed by U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON -- Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as the twelfth administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lori Beth Garver was confirmed as NASA's deputy administrator.
As administrator, Bolden will lead the NASA team and manage its resources to advance the agency's missions and goals.
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Do you remember those Apollo missions 40 years ago?
Did you listen to the mission conversations or were the news sound bites just too short?
http://www.apolloarchive.com/
Remember back in 2001 when Glen Swanson was at JSC and getting the Apollo air-to-ground transmission transcripts turned into PDF files and put on a CD collection? It was interesting checking the Apollo 13 transcript and trying not to spend time reading them. Did you get the CD set?
http://www.ehartwell.com/
http://www.ehartwell.com/
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/
Glen was working on getting the audio copied to mp3 files and then his contract wasn't renewed.
Time has passed and I have been out of the loop. Maybe the work continued.
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John Yembrick
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0602
john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov
James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov
July 15, 2009
MEDIA ADVISORY : M09-131
Apollo 11 Conversations Earth Didn't Hear Now Online at Nasa.Gov
HOUSTON -- You're in a spacecraft, on a mission to land on the moon for the first time in history, and the microphone to Earth is off. What do you say?
Now you can listen in on a NASA Web site and find out.
As Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins flew on Apollo 11 to a lunar landing in July 1969, the world heard communications between the crew and Mission Control live as they happened. But Earth did not hear the private conversations between Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, although they were recorded aboard the Command Module Columbia and Lunar Module Eagle.
Those conversations now are available on the Internet. All the Apollo spacecraft had onboard voice recorders, activated during much of each mission to record the crew's conversations. The transcripts of those recordings were publicly released in the mid-1970s. Only recently were the actual onboard audio recordings from Apollo 11 digitized and made available on the Web.
To listen to the recordings and view the transcript, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_
For more information about the history of onboard recorders on the Apollo spacecraft and full transcripts of all mission recordings, visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/
For a detailed list of NASA events that celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/apollo40th
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Thanks for looking up with me.
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