NASA Spinoff Publication

What good could come from NASA if we went to the MOON?
What good came from NASA because of the Apollo missions?
What good comes from NASA and its various missions?

Often the research that is done can also be used in our everyday life.
The transfer of that technology is known as a NASA Spinoff.

You might think of Tang and the Apollo missions.
Sorry wasn't a NASA Spinoff.
The product just became familiar with the Apollo missions.

Never mind, there are a lot of items that fit the category of a NASA Spinoff.

Maybe you would like to read about some of them, that is if you have a lot of free time.
NASA says that since 1976 there are over 1600 articles. Not included in that are over 100 stores in the 1973 and 1974 reports.

The current issue of NASA Spinoff Publication can be found here:
- http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2008/index.html

Here is the home page for STI, Scientific and Technical Information which you may well want to look at.
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http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/
NASA Spinoff

Spinoff is NASA's annual premier publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. For more than 40 years, the NASA Innovative Partnerships Program has facilitated the transfer of NASA technology to the private sector, benefiting global competition and the economy. The resulting commercialization has contributed to the development of commercial products and services in the fields of health and medicine, industry, consumer goods, transportation, public safety, computer technology, and environmental resources. Since 1976, Spinoff has featured between 40 and 50 of these commercial products annually. Spinoff maintains a searchable database of every technology published since its inception. If you think you have the makings of a spinoff, please contact us through the contributor form.
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More information about the history of NASA Spinoff.
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http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinhist.html
History of Spinoff

As a result of a 1958 congressional mandate, NASA, in 1962, created the Technology Utilization Program. It was supported by Technology Utilization Offices at each of the field centers and four Industrial Applications Centers (IACs). The number of IACs grew rapidly to seven by the early 1970s and ten in the early 1980s.

Early studies of Tech Briefs, the publication dedicated to informing the scientific community about available NASA technologies, and ongoing requests received for supporting information, indicated a strong need in the private sector for new technology to aid in the development of commercial products and services.

When spinoff products began to emerge from space technologies, NASA considered the possibility of an annual report to present at congressional budget hearings. The result was a black and white “Technology Utilization Program Report,” published in 1973, followed by another one in 1974. The technologies in these reports created interest in the technology transfer concept, its successes, and its use as a public awareness tool. The reports generated such keen interest by the public that NASA decided to make them into an attractive publication. Thus, the first four-color edition of Spinoff was published in 1976.

Each year since, a new issue has highlighted the transfer of NASA technology to the private sector. The Agency distributes copies to politicians, economic decision makers, company CEOs, academics, professionals in technology transfer, the news media, and the general public.

NASA’s Spinoff publication accomplishes several goals. First, it is a convincing justification for the continued expenditure of NASA funds. It serves as a tool to educate the media and the general public by informing them about the benefits and dispelling the myth of wasted taxpayer dollars. It reinforces interest in space exploration. It demonstrates the possibility to apply aerospace technology in different environments. It highlights the ingenuity of American inventors, entrepreneurs, and application engineers, and the willingness of a government agency to assist them. And finally, it continues to ensure global competitiveness and technological leadership by the United States.

The total number of stories published since 1976 is over 1,600, which does not include approximately 100 stories featured in the 1973 and 1974 reports.

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Well are you ready to sit back with your favorite drink and read on.
Just a few issues to catch up on.
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http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/back_issues_archives.html [1976 - 1995
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff1996/index.html
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff1997/spin97.html
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff1998/spin98.htm
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff1999/index.htm
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff2000/index.htm
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff2001/index.htm
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff2002/index1.html
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff2003/index.html
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2004/index.html
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2005/index.html
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2006/index.html
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2006/index.html
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2008/index.html

Alright, who wants to copy all 1700 items to a list that you can pull out of your mouth like a magician, just pull the ribbon out slowly, sounding off each of the items that have had their begging with NASA and now find a place with us. That would be a mouthful wouldn't it?

How many more could you speak to when we set up shop on the Moon and solve the problems in doing so?
What technology will transfer to use down here on Earth?

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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NASA Instruments Reveal Water Molecules on Lunar Surface

Well the word is out, THERE IS WATER on the Moon.
The press is getting the word. Web sites are echoing.

Did Congress and the President here?
Now all we need is $$$$$$$$$$$
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http://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/moon20090924.html
NASA Instruments Reveal Water Molecules on Lunar Surface

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater than predicted, but still relatively small. Hydroxyl, a molecule consisting of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom, also was found in the lunar soil. The findings were published in Thursday's edition of the journal Science.

NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, or M3, instrument reported the observations. M3 was carried into space on Oct. 22, 2008, aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. Data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, or VIMS, on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, and the High-Resolution Infrared Imaging
Spectrometer on NASA's Epoxi spacecraft contributed to confirmation of the finding. The spacecraft imaging spectrometers made it possible to map lunar water more effectively than ever before.

The confirmation of elevated water molecules and hydroxyl at these concentrations in the moon's polar regions raises new questions about its origin and effect on the mineralogy of the moon. Answers to these questions will be studied and debated for years to come.

"Water ice on the moon has been something of a holy grail for lunar scientists for a very long time," said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "This surprising finding has come about through the ingenuity, perseverance and international cooperation between NASA and the India Space Research Organization."

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Pass it on, Talk it up. Get the ball rolling, we want to go drilling on the Moon.
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http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24sep_moonwater.htm?list965414
Water Molecules Found on the Moon
09.24.2009

September 24, 2009: NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the Moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater than predicted, but still relatively small. Hydroxyl, a molecule consisting of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom, also was found in the lunar soil. The findings were published in Thursday's edition of the journal Science.

The observations were made by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, or M3 ("M-cubed"), aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. NASA's Cassini spacecraft and NASA's Epoxi spacecraft have confirmed the find.

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I would really like to have ground proof. Boil that regolith for my coffee water. :-)

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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The $3-billion-a-year question - Can you answer the question - Why?

Do you want to go to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond?
Why?

I know, you think, yes go, go.
How do you convince those in charge of the pocket book that they should fund?
Just saying, "Because ...." may not be enough.
You might want to read what Jeff Foust has written and see what you think.
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http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1472/1
The $3-billion-a-year question
by Jeff Foust
Monday, September 21, 2009

It’s little surprise that, since the Review of US Human Space Flight Plans Committee (aka the Augustine committee after its chairman, Norm Augustine) released its summary report nearly two weeks ago, that its contents have dominated the debate about the future of NASA’s exploration plans. The options included in the report were in line with what the committee considered during its public hearings, but the report’s language, starting with its initial sentence—“The U.S. human spaceflight program appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory”—made its contents particularly stark. NASA’s current program, with its current budget and its current schedule, just isn’t possible; something would have to change.
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The debate over options and funding, though, is missing a bigger, more strategic question. It’s a question that, if answered completely and convincingly, makes it much easier to resolve the issues of the options to pursue and funding needed to accomplish them. It’s a question of childlike simplicity but can be difficult to answer. It can also be summarized in a single word: why? As in, why should the US have a human spaceflight program?
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What some have offered as reasons we should go to space.
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http://www.nssnyc.org/amillionreasons.html
A Million Reasons To Go To Space
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Some more thoughts.
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http://cygo.com/why_space.html

Adventure, exploration, learning what's out there

Wealth, opportunities, jobs
-- Most everything made on earth can be made in space at less cost. Manufacturing facilities can be made quickly using a few mold forms, asteroid materials, sand casting, and assembly of molded pieces into modules that interconnect.
-- Business means jobs and space has everything the bright entreprenuer wants and the additional advantage of the flexibility in controlling G-forces from many times that of earth down to zero-G and the added increased productivity and any new product possibilities discovered therefrom.
-- The world's oil and gas reserves are running out. We must deal with the energy crisis and the depletion of natural resources. The resources of space are essential to any serious effort to tackle these problems.
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And if you would like to live in space.
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http://groups.google.com/group/space-renaissance-initiative?hl=en&pli=1
Space Renaissance Initiative

Space Renaissance is a new, global philosophy, having its basic ground on Earth, and its natural development in the extraterrestrial space. Our founding concepts are New Humanism and Astro Humanism. We look at the past Renaissance (1500) as an inspiration for patronage and capability to aim high, and to make great projects by means of good will and mutual cooperation.
Among our scopes:
- to give birth to a Foundation
- to build a great school for graduates and post-graduate doctorates and masters
- to build the philosophy and the culture of the Space Age, to help
the New Renaissance of Humanity in Space
The Space Renaissance Initiative published a call for a world wide
forum -- the Space Renaissance Forum -- to be held one week before the
next G20!
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Well it will be interesting to see what develops in the next 30 years,
that is if I live to be 101. :-)

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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NASA's new lunar mapper begins primary mission

LRO has started mapping the Moon and being in a polar orbit lets it
cross the poles on each orbit.
Already data is starting to fill in what the poles have to offer for
finding Hydrogen and possibly water in those dark craters.
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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av020/090917mapping.html
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: September 17, 2009

After two months of checkout and calibration, NASA's $504 million Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was maneuvered into a circular 31-mile-high mapping orbit Tuesday and scientists said Thursday the spacecraft's instruments are delivering intriguing clues about the possible presence of water ice.

"The moon is starting to reveal her secrets, but some of those secrets are tantalizingly complex," said Michael Wargo, NASA's chief lunar scientist.
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Check out the LRO information and the results of the briefing.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/south_pole.html
LRO Early Results Press Conference Visuals
09.17.09

GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA showcased new images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's seven instruments and provided updates about the topography of the moon's south pole during a news conference on September 17. NASA also provided an update about the spacecraft's status and mission plans. The briefing took place at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
› NASA press release
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/sep/HQ_09-215_LRO_First_Light.html

Briefing Speakers

› Craig Tooley, LRO project manager, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
› Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
› Richard Vondrak, LRO project scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
› David Smith, Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter principal investigator, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Images and Multimedia in Support of the News Conference
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More information and links, images, videos.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA's First Step Back to the Moon

Mission News
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LRO has a Twitter account if you want to keep up with what they have to say.
http://twitter.com/LRO_NASA

I hope not only the press but the general public gets the word that we are at the Moon and getting good data.
Hopefully we will have some good decisions on where would be a good place to land with humans.

AND, that we do indeed land humans on the Moon with the goal to understand it and develop it.
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Successful Berthing of the Demonstration Flight HTV at the ISS

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/09/20090918_htv_e.html

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http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/

The HTV-1’s berthing was complete at 10:49 a.m. September 18, as the HTV FCT confirmed the power and data transmission between the HTV-1 and the ISS. The hatch opening of the HTV's Pressurized Logistics Carrier (PLC) is expected in the early morning of September 19. The next HTV-1 Mission update will be posted on September 19.
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So Japan is happy that flying to the ISS was successful and then it looks like China is happy about what they are doing in space.
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d250ad11b26dc10b20fcd37105b9e552.71&show_article=1
China says will push space programme to catch up West
Sep 17 04:27 AM US/Eastern

China said Thursday its rapidly growing space programme was the crowning achievement of the nation's high-tech transformation and pledged to continue to develop it to close the gap with Western countries.
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Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium [So go read the article, especially the part where it says, "I believe...." - LRK -]
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_says_will_push_space_programme_to_catch_up_West_999.html
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Alright, I am waiting to hear how happy our Congress is with what we are doing in space.
OK, we are getting ready to make a big splash (hopefully) at a lunar pole and mapping is started with LRO.

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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/sep/HQ_09-215_LRO_First_Light.html
RELEASE : 09-215
Sept. 17, 2009

NASA Lunar Satellite Begins Detailed Mapping of Moon's South Pole

GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA reported Thursday that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon. The spacecraft already has made significant progress toward creating the most detailed atlas of the moon's south pole to date. Scientists released preliminary images and data from LRO's seven instruments.

"The LRO mission already has begun to give us new data that will lead to a vastly improved atlas of the lunar south pole and advance our capability for human exploration and scientific benefit," said Richard Vondrak, LRO project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

LRO is scheduled for a one-year exploration mission in a polar orbit of about 31 miles above the lunar surface, the closest any spacecraft has orbited the moon. During the next year, LRO will produce a complete map of the lunar surface in unprecedented detail, search for resources and safe landing sites for human explorers, and measure lunar temperatures and radiation levels.
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Is that enough to cheer about or do you want someone to say, "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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Armadillo Aerospace won the second level Lunar Lander Challenge on Monday!

Up, up, and back down in a prescribed manner.

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http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home
Welcome to Armadillo Aerospace!

Armadillo Aerospace is a leading developer of reusable rocket powered vehicles. We are focused on VTVL (vertical takeoff, vertical landing) suborbital research and passenger flights, with an eye towards eventual paths to orbit.
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http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=367
2009 Lunar Lander Challenge: Level 2 -- Done!

2009-09-14 update:

It has been a long time since I did an update, but it hasn't been because nothing has been going on. Quite the opposite, in fact -- things have been incredibly busy. Outside of Armadillo, the big new for me personally was that Id Software, my video game company, was acquired by Zenimax Media. This doesn't have any real impact on my relative time commitment to Armadillo, since I expect to continue devoting the majority of my time to software for the foreseeable future, but it does mean that I have more personal resources to call on if necessary.
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This will be the technical update, I'll leave it to Phil and Matt to put together the media and color update. The X-Prize website has some early videos of the flights, but I expect that there will be some great footage from the NASA TV crew later.

http://thelaunchpad.xprize.org/2009/09/2009-ngllc-videos-of-armadillos.html
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You can read an article by Jeff Foust and view videos here.
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http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1467/1
Playing the waiting (and winning) game

by Jeff Foust
Monday, September 14, 2009

It’s easy to miss Caddo Mills Municipal Airport. About the only evidence of the airport visible from the highway leading north from Interstate 30, about 70 kilometers northeast of Dallas, is a highway sign just before an intersection and, at the intersection itself, a faded sign advertising a now-defunct glider business there. The first hint that something usual was happening there on Saturday was the police checkpoint on the side road leading onto the airport. At the checkpoint an officer asked simply, “Are you here to watch it?”

There was little chance of mistaking what “it” was. The little-used airport is home to Armadillo Aerospace, having taken over the hangar previously used by the glider business, and Saturday was the day that the team planned to fly its Super Mod vehicle, named Scorpius, on a flight profile for Level 2 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (LLC). (The Scorpius name is in honor of Microcosm, the company that provided the high-pressure lightweight composite tanks used on the vehicle; Microcosm proposed a class of launch vehicles called Scorpius a number of years ago.) A successful flight would put Armadillo in prime position to claim the $1-million first prize for Level 2 as part of NASA’s Centennial Challenges program.

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I am trying to catch up with the trials and tribulations of launching a VTVL by Armadillo Aerospace at there News Archive.
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News

You might like to see just how hard it is to break into the space business.
Check out the above News Archive.

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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Space Shuttle Discovery Returns to Earth After Successful Mission

Watched the landing on NASA TV (when it wasn't stalled)
Land now, no tomorrow, well skip KSC and land at Edwards.
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Space Shuttle Discovery Returns to Earth After Successful Mission
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/sep/HQ_09-212_Discovery_Lands.html

EDWARDS, Calif. -- Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 5.7 million miles with an 5:53 p.m. PDT landing Friday at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The mission, designated STS-128, delivered two refrigerator-sized science racks to the International Space Station. One rack will be used to conduct experiments on materials such as metals, glasses and ceramics. The results from these experiments could lead to the development of better materials on Earth. The other rack will be used for fluid physics research. Understanding how fluids react in microgravity could lead to improved designs for fuel tanks, water systems and other fluid-based systems.

STS-128 Commander Rick Sturckow was joined on the mission by Pilot Kevin Ford, Mission Specialists Pat Forrester, Jose Hernandez, Danny Olivas and European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang. NASA astronaut Nicole Stott flew to the complex aboard Discovery to begin a nearly three-month mission as a station resident, replacing Tim Kopra, who returned home on Discovery.

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How interesting, I am asked what kinds of science has been accomplished on the ISS and some reports over the years have talked about what hasn't and what has.

Two racks delivered to the ISS, here in 2009 when similar ones were desired long ago but were delayed with all of the adjustments to what would become the ISS.
One rack will be used to conduct experiments on materials such as metals, glasses and ceramics.
The other rack will be used for fluid physics research.

When I was at NASA Ames I remember the centrifuge that was going to be attached to the ISS and never happened. There was going to be a facility to load modules for experiments that never materialized either.
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Factors Affecting the Utilization of the International Space Station for Research in the Biological and Physical Sciences (2003)
Space Studies Board (SSB)

http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10614&page=8
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TASK DESCRIPTION AND HISTORY
This report represents phase II of a study requested by Congress and conducted by the Task Group on Research on the International Space Station to examine factors affecting the utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) for research. The phase I report, released in September of 2001, looked at the readiness of the scientific community to utilize the ISS1 and the benefits and costs of flying additional shuttle missions dedicated to science during the station build-up2 (NRC, 2001). During the course of that study, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that it would make major changes in the final ISS configuration in order to address construction cost overruns. These design changes (discussed
below) would reduce considerably the research capabilities of the ISS and therefore had to be taken into account when the task group made its phase I recommendations. While the task group concluded in that report that the research community was in fact ready to utilize the
ISS, it also pointed out that the uncertainty resulting from years of schedule delays, funding fluctuations, and lack of flight opportunities seriously threatened the continued viability of the ISS research community in many disciplines. The task group also noted that the planned reductions in ISS capabilities would exacerbate this problem considerably.
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[The above report can be read on-line and even down loaded if you care to register with The National Academies Press.]

For what is reported that has been accomplished on present ISS in its limited 3 person, no life boat version, see the recent report.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/sep/HQ_09-203_ISS_Science_Report.html
NASA Publishes Report about International Space Station Science
RELEASE : 09-203

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http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20090029998_2009030907.pdf
(5.8 MB, 262 pages, yrs 2000 - 2008)
International Space Station - Science Research Accomplishments During the Assembly Years: An Analysis of Results from 2000-2008
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So what happens now? Do we continue to take things up to the ISS and let some more science be done or does the ISS get dumped in 2016?
The Augustine Report is being presented and debated and decisions on what gets funded will appear and missions may disappear.

Did you read the LEAKED email that Mike Griffin has supposedly sent to unknown persons?
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http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2009/09/exnasa-chief-griffin-calls-augustine-panel-irresponsible.html
Ex-NASA chief Griffin calls Augustine panel "irresponsible"
posted by Robert Block on Sep 10, 2009 3:07:37 PM

CAPE CANAVERAL - Former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin apparently has sent a scathing memo to friends and supporters in Washington, lashing out at the work of the presidential committee reviewing NASA’s human space flight plans and calling some of its recommendations “irresponsible.”
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Clearly the battle lines in the looming fight over the future of human space flight at NASA are being drawn.

READ THE EMAIL HERE: Download Griffin's Augustine Email

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/files/griffins-augustine-email.docx
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Well at least I don't need to worry about my job, I don't have one. :-)

You may not feel the same and would really like to see us doing exciting things with space that you and your kids could take part in, and maybe even get paid for.

Do you know someone, who just might know someone, who knows someone, that could poke someone and say, hey we would like to continue looking
up. :-)

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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UP, UP, and Away (H-IIB TF1) - And a test too (Ares I rocket motor)

Hope Japan has a successful flight to the ISS.
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http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/09/20090911_h2bf1_e.html
Launch Result of HTV Demonstration Flight
aboard H-IIB Launch Vehicle Test Flight (H-IIB TF1)

September 11, 2009 (JST)

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) Demonstration Flight aboard the H-IIB Launch Vehicle Test Flight (H-IIB TF1) at 2:01:46 a.m. on September 11, 2009 (Japan Standard Time, JST) from the Tanegashima Space Center. The launch azimuth was 108.5 degrees.

The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and, at about 15 minutes and 10 seconds after liftoff, the separation of the HTV Demonstration Flight was confirmed.

We would like to express our profound appreciation for the cooperation and support of all related personnel and organizations that helped contribute to the success1ful launch of the H-IIB TF1.

At the time of the launch, the weather was cloudy, a wind speed was 1.3 meters/second from the west and the temperature was 24.5 degrees Celsius.
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Watched the test on NASA TV. A lot of smoke and a successful test.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/index.html
NASA and ATK Successfully Test Ares First Stage Motor

NASA and industry partners lit up the Utah sky today with the initial full scale, full-duration test firing of the first motor for the Ares I rocket. The Ares I is a crew launch vehicle in development for NASA's Constellation Program.

> News Release
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/sep/HQ_09-198_Ares_DM-1_test.html

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Watching Shuttle preparations for Discovery's first landing opportunity.
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http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Shuttle returning - watching NASA TV
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The trash is coming, the trash is coming - Discovery returning

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/space/08brfs-SHUTTLEASTRO_BRF.html?_r=1
NATIONAL BRIEFING | SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY
Shuttle Astronauts Prepare to Leave Space Station
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 7, 2009

The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station will soon part company. The 13 space travelers had a final job to accomplish together before the hatches between their spacecraft were closed, transferring a moving van holding a ton of trash and discarded equipment back aboard the Discovery. It was delivered by the shuttle, fully loaded with supplies, and moved onto the space station last week. The shuttle will undock on Tuesday and is due back at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday

A version of this article appeared in print on September 8, 2009, on page A16 of the New York edition

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The ISS is not self sufficient. A lot of items are brought up. Later what you don't want and can't use, has to go somewhere.

My garbage pickup is Wednesday and every other Wednesday there is a recycle pickup. On alternate Wednesdays the yard clippings get recycled.

What do you do if you live on a small island? Where do all the aluminum pop cans go? What about paper and cardboard and other unmentionables?

What will you do with your trash at a Lunar Base?

So far the Apollo missions just tossed their wrappers, tools, and other items.

Historically cities have been built on trash dumps. In Silicon Valley, here in California, there are gulf courses, event stadiums, and business buildings built over land fill.

You can tap the methane gas that is generated under the clay topping seal. Helps make electricity for a local baseball park.

Too bad I don't have a portable garbage plasma destructor that could reduce the plastics and organics to pure elements. Could use a lot of the hydrogen and carbon and constituents to make new compounds.
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http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/the-ultimate-garbage-disposal
The Ultimate Garbage Disposal
A power station eats up dirty landfill and churns out clean electricity.
by Tony McNicol
From the May 2007 issue, published online May 18, 2007

What could be better than a power station that eats up dirty landfill and churns out clean electricity? One facility in Utashinai, Japan, has been doing just that since 2003, using plasma—an electrically induced stream of hot, charged particles—to process up to 220 tons of municipal solid waste a day. Now a bigger and better $425 million plant is scheduled for completion by 2009 in Saint Lucie County, Florida. The operator, Atlanta-based Geoplasma, expects it to generate 160 megawatts of electricity—enough to power 36,000 homes—from a daily diet of trash.
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http://cleantechnica.com/2008/11/10/plasma-technology-turns-trash-into-gas/
Plasma Technology Turns Trash into Gas
Written by Ariel Schwartz
Published on November 10th, 2008 in alternative fuels

An Atlanta, GA-based company called Geoplasma is using trash to provide power to 50,000 homes in Florida. The company’s plasma refuse plant, which should be online by 2011, is a first for the United States. It will process 1,500 tons of garbage each day and send 60 MW of power to the grid.

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We live on spaceship Earth and even if we don't develop the Moon's resources, we can always do better with what we have at hand.
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Europeans hope to buy Soyuz spacecraft

hand into a pail of water and then pull it out.
Did you leave a hole in the water?
No!
Leave the market and someone will fill the void.
Quit flying the Shuttle and watch what takes its place.
Don't want to put humans on the Moon.
Stand by and see who does.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/02/space-race-china-america-india
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http://www.russiatoday.com/Sci_Tech/2009-08-29/esa-buy-soyuz-spacecraft.html
Europeans hope to buy Soyuz spacecraft
August, 2009, 03:00

The European Space Agency seeks to buy a Russian Soyuz rocket as European astronauts make their way into orbit. Europe has asked Russia to increase the number of spacecrafts they produce from four to five per year.

The Europeans hope to buy their own vehicle, perhaps with the Canadians who are also considering participating in the deal.

The prospects of the possible agreement were discussed at the International Aviation and Space Salon, MAKS 2009 last week.

With the retirement of the U.S. space shuttle program in sight, Russian craft might soon be the only way of getting to the International Space Station.

The station is likely to gain one extra ‘room’ as Europe plans to begin sending its astronauts to space from 2013 and onwards.
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http://www.esa.int/esaMI/ATV/SEMYM9R03EF_0.html
Jules Verne demonstrates key capabilities

29 March 2008
Jules Verne ATV today demonstrated its ability to navigate safely from a point 39 km behind the ISS to a stand-off point just 3.5 km away using relative GPS navigation. The vessel then executed an Escape manoeuvre commanded from the ATV Control Centre in which the craft flew off to a safe distance.

“All systems were completely nominal, which is very satisfying for this first day of really testing the rendezvous capability of the spacecraft,” said John Ellwood, ESA ATV Project Manager.

Today’s demonstration also confirmed Jules Verne is able to establish a continuous two-way data link with the ISS. Using the high-rate S-band communication link, which was switched on at a distance of 40 km from the ISS, Jules Verne for the first time conducted relative GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) measurements with the Station. Relative GPS is a navigation technique executed by computers between the ATV's GPS receiver and the ISS GPS receiver that enables ATV to navigate relative to the Station with very high accuracy.
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http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/HTV090309.xml&headline=HTV%20On%20Target%20For%20Sept.%2011%20Launch
TinyURL for above - http://tinyurl.com/klq9sj

HTV On Target For Sept. 11 Launch
Sep 3, 2009
By Jefferson Morris

Japan's unmanned H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) has passed a NASA flight readiness review and is in final preparations for liftoff from Tanegashima Space Center on its first mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 11 local time.

On Aug. 30, the encapsulated vehicle was transported to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Tanegashima, where it is being mated to the second stage of its H-IIB rocket and having the final elements of its pressurized cargo installed.

The 10-meter long spacecraft is capable of carrying 4.5 metric tons of internal cargo and 1.5 tons of external cargo. This first flight will carry 2.5 metric tons internally - which will mostly be station logistics, with about 20 percent of the pressurized volume being occupied by research hardware.

The HTV also carries two external scientific payloads - Japan's SMILES
(Superconduting Submillimeter-Wave Limb Emission Sounder) and NASA's HREP (HICO-RAIDS Experiment Payload) experiments. SMILES will study the effects of trace gases on the Earth's ozone layer, and HREP will study the oceans and map the ionosphere and thermosphere. Both will be installed on the Japanese Kibo laboratory's exposed experiment facility on the station.

Launch of the HTV is set for 2:01 a.m. Sept. 11 Japan time, or roughly noon Central U.S. time Sept. 10. It will be the first flight for the H-IIB. The launch window will be open until Sept. 30, and will include about seven liftoff opportunities, according to NASA ISS Program Manager Mike Suffredini. After that, the next opportunities for launch won't occur until early next year.
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http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20090901
Hawthorne, CA – September 1, 2009 – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces delivery of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Communication Unit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in preparation for launch on Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-129. The unit will be delivered by Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS) and integrated in preparation for SpaceX's future flights to the orbiting laboratory.

Developed by SpaceX, in collaboration with NASA, the unit allows for communication between the ISS, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, and ground-based mission control. The system also allows the ISS crew to monitor an approaching or departing capsule. As part of NASA's COTS competition, SpaceX will conduct flights of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, culminating in Dragon berthing with the ISS and then returning to Earth.

The unique public-private partnership created through the COTS program will allow SpaceX's Dragon to serve as a replacement for cargo transport to the ISS when the Space Shuttle retires. Upon completion of the COTS requirements, SpaceX will begin to fulfill the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract, awarded by NASA in late 2008. The contract includes 12 cargo flights between 2010 and 2015 and represents a guaranteed minimum of 20,000 kg to be carried to the ISS. Dragon will deliver pressurized and unpressurized cargo to the ISS and
return pressurized cargo back to Earth.

“SpaceX is pleased to have delivered the two-way communication system to the Cape in preparation for flight to the ISS,” said Gwynne Shotwell, President, SpaceX. “The unit had to pass NASA's strict ISS safety standards and reviews, demonstrating our progress under the COTS program and laying the groundwork for future F9/Dragon flights to resupply cargo and possibly crew to the ISS when Shuttle retires.”

Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for launch no earlier than November 12, 2009, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A.

For more information about the Falcon family of vehicles and the Dragon spacecraft, please visit http://www.spacex.com/.
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Well I wonder who will be going to space in the future?
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Will there be an International Space Station or some country wanting to go their own way?
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2009/03/03/chinas-tiangong-bargaining-chip-iss-cooperation/
Aviation Week article - TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/mkeff5
China's Space Station May Be Signal To NASA
Posted by Jeffrey Manber at 3/3/2009 7:45 AM CST

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