tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739592522227365772024-03-04T14:21:51.191-06:00The Aerospace and Rocketry BlogHere at Bayourat Aerospace we report on everything from commercial space launches and interplanetary missions to hobby and amateur rocketry. If it flies on a rocket we want you to know about it!Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.comBlogger359125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-68546959146945259422023-07-08T12:38:00.001-05:002023-07-08T12:38:26.634-05:00LDRS 41 Is Underway!<p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> The LDRS (Large, Dangerous Rocket Ships) rocket event is an annual gathering of rocket enthusiasts organized by the Tripoli Rocketry Association (TRA), one of the largest amateur rocketry organizations in the United States. The event is a platform for hobbyists to showcase and launch their custom-built rockets to high altitudes.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The event is typically held over several days. The event's highlight is the rocket launches, where rockets of various sizes ranging from a few inches to over 20 feet are launched to altitudes of several thousand feet.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The LDRS rocket event is held at different locations each year, with the venue being selected by the TRA based on factors such as the availability of launch sites, local regulations, and other logistical considerations. The event has been held in various locations across the United States, including California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Kansas.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Safety is a top priority at the LDRS event. The TRA has strict safety protocols to ensure all launches are conducted safely and responsibly. In addition, participants are required to adhere to the TRA's safety guidelines and comply with Federal Aviation Administration regulations.</span></p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />More details to follow, make sure to visit the <a href="http://www.ldrs41.com/" target="_blank">LDRS 41 website</a> for the latest news. </span><div><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='562' height='467' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxKnhpKjOQCuGMwm-J9pSrF9wcj_GYmFJLnMTdXwZTHIhe5mA2-ROnmq3AWlgx-03lvyYk0lW1E-a44N84_Ug' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div>Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-4998193020671862552023-05-21T14:22:00.006-05:002023-05-21T14:22:57.996-05:00🔴 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Axiom-2 Mission to the International Space St...<div><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: -webkit-box; font-family: "YouTube Sans", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="background-color: #20124d; color: #f3f3f3;">🔴 LIVE: SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Axiom-2 Mission to the International Space Station</span></yt-formatted-string></h1></div><div><span style="background-color: #20124d; color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: #20124d; color: #f3f3f3;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/RXkvQVSo6dA" width="480"></iframe></span>Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-25803422054464859972023-05-21T12:40:00.008-05:002023-05-21T12:46:48.572-05:00LAUCH COMPLEX 37b<font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #f3f3f3; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Launch Complex 37B. Canaveral Space Force Station. It’s now the Delta IV pad just over my shoulder in the first picture. With its sister pad complex 34. They launched the first rockets of the Apollo program. 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font-family: "Titillium Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 2em; padding-right: 2em; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><section class="collapsible opened ember-view" id="ember25" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: #252222; color: white;">Our Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, carrying the Orion spacecraft <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/liftoff-nasa-s-artemis-i-mega-rocket-launches-orion-to-moon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">launches on the Artemis I flight test</a>, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:47 a.m. EST.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: #252222; color: white;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Artemis I</a> is the first integrated flight test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and ground systems. The mission is a critical part of our Moon to Mars exploration approach—an important test before flying astronauts on the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-first-flight-with-crew-important-step-on-long-term-return-to-the-moon-missions-to/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Artemis II</a> mission.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzG1pG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: #252222; color: white;">View more photos of Artemis I.</span></a></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #252222; color: white;">Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls</span></em></p><div class="editor-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><div class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #252222; color: white;">Last Updated: Nov 16, 2022</span></div><div class="editor" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #252222; color: white;">Editor: Monika Luabeya</span></div></div></div><div class="fadeout" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: linear-gradient(to top, white, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Image of the Day</a><span class="comma" style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</span> <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Moon to Mars</a><span class="comma" style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</span> <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/index.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Orion Spacecraft</a><span class="comma" style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</span> <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Space Launch System</a></span></h5><div><span style="background-color: #252222; color: white;">Credit: NASA Gov Website.</span></div></div></div>Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-61744790162706276282022-11-16T09:22:00.001-06:002022-11-16T09:24:17.177-06:00X-37b Space Plane Returns <p><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> <span face="proximanova, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600;">The Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is shown at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022. The unmanned U.S. military space plane landed early Saturday after spending a record 908 days in orbit for its sixth mission and conducting science experiments. The solar-powered vehicle, which looks like a miniature space shuttle, landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Its previous mission lasted 780 days. (Boeing /U.S. Space Force via AP)</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHzp_XBxvHTcJul3Mjq0uezJcKtu7xfJz31BWKbY_PEYvXvALGepESBJh6i0We3XU4yQAr11C3qrv1HJsnUn_x6diVa3vp4Qhvg8-ClFrZU-I5Ml78kQ7cUXomqU_VrKZRDhevdVXh3HGjMGYaVtYFMUaL0fD_B2wPA6_qWnL5rtanWJz2NZDyOsG/s750/c6b344e7-e1cd-429b-bd9e-51b5c29cc7e1_750x422.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHzp_XBxvHTcJul3Mjq0uezJcKtu7xfJz31BWKbY_PEYvXvALGepESBJh6i0We3XU4yQAr11C3qrv1HJsnUn_x6diVa3vp4Qhvg8-ClFrZU-I5Ml78kQ7cUXomqU_VrKZRDhevdVXh3HGjMGYaVtYFMUaL0fD_B2wPA6_qWnL5rtanWJz2NZDyOsG/w551-h310/c6b344e7-e1cd-429b-bd9e-51b5c29cc7e1_750x422.jpg" width="551" /></a></div><br /><span face="proximanova, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #161616; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600;"><br /></span><p></p>Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-38773530326863914632022-10-09T15:19:00.001-05:002022-10-09T15:21:54.795-05:00L Motor Flight 4" Fiberglass Mania Rocket Sept. 24, 2022<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>The Motor Burnsim Data</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4 grain 3" x 16" L623 2833NS White Alligator Propellant. 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Stock Build. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNp22s3hAzvvo9R5kAI5MOJLLxmW8tUGVjo3rOELD8o9US1TOkXDTwa5X7qBA_UzP2eK64jORSACtjhU3T94OZhDMmkSvH684bQxPBJlopRwtUzX_RgyydE2nWOmhNk3M_H9v6VcGNM424M_LNJ_BlaZ-AdkCS05wl3mfIdgMVX7TXllfOHCJtKLpE/s1860/Screenshot%202022-10-09%20140050.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="1860" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNp22s3hAzvvo9R5kAI5MOJLLxmW8tUGVjo3rOELD8o9US1TOkXDTwa5X7qBA_UzP2eK64jORSACtjhU3T94OZhDMmkSvH684bQxPBJlopRwtUzX_RgyydE2nWOmhNk3M_H9v6VcGNM424M_LNJ_BlaZ-AdkCS05wl3mfIdgMVX7TXllfOHCJtKLpE/w638-h275/Screenshot%202022-10-09%20140050.jpg" width="638" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Flight Simulation RockSim 9</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><p style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The two U.S. military surveillance satellites lifted off today (July 1) atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) <a data-component-tracked="1" href="https://www.space.com/40250-atlas-v-rocket.html" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Atlas V</u></a> rocket, which rose off a pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:15 p.m. EDT (2315 GMT) on a mission for the U.S. Space Force called USSF-12.</span></p><span style="background-color: #444444; 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After two more Centaur burns, the two satellites were ready to be deployed into geosynchronous orbit, about 22,300 miles (35,900 kilometers) above <a data-component-tracked="1" href="https://www.space.com/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earth</u></a><u style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</u> That happened as planned about six hours after liftoff, ULA representatives <a data-component-tracked="1" data-url="https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1543115741595156480" href="https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1543115741595156480" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said via Twitter early Saturday morning<span class="sr-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">(opens in new tab)</span></a>.</span></p><br /></div><p><br /> </p>Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-52841983740634234452022-07-01T09:45:00.003-05:002022-07-01T09:47:30.078-05:00ULA Launch Scrubbed. 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The two-hour launch window opens at 5 p.m. CDT (2200 GMT).</span></span></span></span><p></p>Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-33201577018572745872021-09-22T07:41:00.001-05:002021-09-22T07:41:30.334-05:00CONGRATULATIONS INSPIRATION CREW<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixqu64gxJ9sWIA20TIFXI2DB7kQKTiUIVbiyxr7Iv-IkErJCI5kZVC_GRf_TLcvhXINg1k-Lydg63TMmKZqv_0QuM5N6th_PahFtqg70byIMXahBwT2RwOFppC7nT1GblpDHV3z5afCho/s600/InspirationReturn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="600" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixqu64gxJ9sWIA20TIFXI2DB7kQKTiUIVbiyxr7Iv-IkErJCI5kZVC_GRf_TLcvhXINg1k-Lydg63TMmKZqv_0QuM5N6th_PahFtqg70byIMXahBwT2RwOFppC7nT1GblpDHV3z5afCho/s320/InspirationReturn.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">Congratulations Inspiration Crew on a Successful Return. To a Successful Mission!</span><p></p>Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-34049443110411119292019-04-06T11:17:00.000-05:002019-04-06T11:17:02.022-05:00Falcon Heavy Ready To Launch For The Second Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Falcon Heavy has flown before, but now it’s got a payload that matters and competitors nipping at its heels. It’s the first of a new generation of launch vehicles that can take huge payloads to space cheaply and frequently, opening up a new frontier in the space race. Watch it lift off Sunday afternoon (we’ll post a reminder).</div>
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On the 7th, Falcon Heavy will fly for the first time<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/09/heres-what-it-was-like-to-be-there-when-spacex-launched-the-falcon-heavy/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a562; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s linear 0s;">since its inaugural test last February</a>, delivering the now-infamous Tesla Roadster and “Starman” into a trajectory that has taken them past Mars. That successful launch garnered SpaceX its first customer for the system, and Sunday’s launch will take Arabsat-6A, a Lockheed-built communications satellite, into geosynchronous orbit.</div>
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Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-1565868950380716882018-01-24T13:05:00.000-06:002018-01-24T13:09:15.956-06:00Falcon Heavy Ground Test is a Success<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a test fire in advance of SpaceX's upcoming Falcon 9 Heavy test launch. The test occurred on 1/24/2018 at Kennedy Space Center's LC-39 Pad A which is the same pad that many Apollo and Space Shuttle launches took place from. SpaceX is currently leasing the pad from NASA. Birds can been seen scattering near the area and the delayed rumble of the 12 second test can also be heard. No date has yet been announced for the test launch. This launch will be the first time SpaceX has launched a vehicle of this configuration and at 140,700 lb to low Earth orbit, it will represent the largest lift capacity of any currently available rocket. Although still short of the 150,000 to 290,000 lb capacity of NASA's upcoming SLS rocket (and well shy of Saturn V's 310,000 lb capacity), this rocket will more than double what is currently available from the Delta IV Heavy.</span><br />
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efforts to land humans on the Moon picked up speed in the mid-1960s, several
skills had to be mastered: spacewalking, rendezvous, docking, and long-duration
spaceflight. On Gemini IV, Ed White demonstrated NASA astronauts had the
know-how to function outside the spacecraft. Gemini V, NASA’s second
two-astronaut flight, which launched fifty years ago this week, kept the crew
in orbit for eight days, the projected length of an Apollo lunar landing
mission, and set a new space endurance record. Astronauts Gordon Cooper and
Pete Conrad are seen here just prior to being sealed in their Gemini capsule, which
Conrad likened to a “flying garbage can” because of its cramped quarters, which
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Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-72638652025621221862015-05-18T15:54:00.002-05:002015-05-18T15:59:56.750-05:00Fourth X-37B Spaceplane To Launch With An Advanced NASA Materials Science Experiment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The planned May 20 fourth launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with a Boeing/U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane comes as the Air Force is shifting to more military spaceplane payload development instead of X-37B flight testing of its own systems.<br />
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The upcoming flight is carrying a wide variety of military technology payloads including secret payload bay sensors like optics, but its manifest also includes an Air Force xenon thruster important to spacecraft longevity in geosynchronous orbit, along with three small U.S. Naval Academy satellites and two small Aerospace Corp. satellites demonstrating military technologies and several more secret National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) spacecraft.<br />
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Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-63580565455545586412014-12-20T15:29:00.000-06:002014-12-20T15:29:51.368-06:00Trip To The Huntsville Space and Rocket Center<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On the way back from Southern Thunder I stopped of at the Huntsville Space and Rocket Center. Here are the pictures. Enjoy!<br />
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Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-17085513736707398542014-02-24T09:33:00.000-06:002014-02-24T09:33:18.633-06:00 NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory Launch is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 27 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Preparations for the launch of the NASA-JAXA Global
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Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. Launch is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 27 U.S.
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The Core Observatory is now encapsulated in the fairing and
installed on the second stage of the H-IIA rocket in the Vehicle Assembly
Building. On Feb. 19 and 20 (JST), the Core Observatory and the launch vehicle
underwent the final functional test for two days. This test included power
on/off operation of the launch vehicle and the spacecraft as well as checkout of
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The GPM mission is the first coordinated international
satellite constellation to provide near real-time observations of rain and
snowfall around the globe. The Core Observatory anchors this network by
providing observations of all types of precipitation. The observatory's data
acts as the measuring stick by which observations by partner satellites can be
combined into a unified data set. The data will be used to study climate change,
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Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-87954146563386122902014-02-22T09:44:00.000-06:002014-02-22T09:44:07.634-06:00Launch Of A Delta IV Rocket With The Fifth GPSII Satellite.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/s1NiDhPKjZM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-90697029547914868422014-01-31T07:03:00.001-06:002014-01-31T07:03:24.260-06:00January 31,1971 Apollo 14 Launch43 years ago Apollo 14 launched 3 men on a trip to the moon. Here is the video of the launch. It was a clear day and you can see stage separation and tower jettison. Incredible!<div>
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Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-3350330812075344262014-01-09T12:44:00.001-06:002014-01-10T17:34:52.184-06:00Orbital Successfully Launches Cygnus Spacecraft<div>
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<br />Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-1046807614132284822014-01-07T08:00:00.001-06:002014-01-07T08:00:10.805-06:00SpaceX Pops The Cork On 2014 With A Successful Launch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida</strong> – Today, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully completed its first geostationary transfer mission, delivering the SES-8 satellite to its targeted 295 x 80,000 km orbit. Falcon 9 executed a picture-perfect flight, meeting 100% of mission objectives.</div>
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Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at 5:41 PM Eastern Time. Approximately 185 seconds into flight, Falcon 9’s second stage’s single Merlin vacuum engine ignited to begin a five minute, 20 second burn that delivered the SES-8 satellite into its parking orbit. Eighteen minutes after injection into the parking orbit, the second stage engine relit for just over one minute to carry the SES-8 satellite to its final geostationary transfer orbit. The restart of the Falcon 9 second stage is a requirement for all geostationary transfer missions.</div>
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“The successful insertion of the SES-8 satellite confirms the upgraded Falcon 9 launch vehicle delivers to the industry’s highest performance standards,” said Elon Musk, CEO and Chief Designer of SpaceX. “As always, SpaceX remains committed to delivering the safest, most reliable launch vehicles on the market today. We appreciate SES’s early confidence in SpaceX and look forward to launching additional SES satellites in the years to come.”</div>
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Today’s mission marked SpaceX’s first commercial launch from its central Florida launch pad and the first commercial flight from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in over four years. SpaceX has nearly 50 launches on manifest, of which over 60% are for commercial customers. </div>
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This launch also marks the second of three certification flights needed to certify the Falcon 9 to fly missions for the U.S. Air Force under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. When Falcon 9 is certified, SpaceX will be eligible to compete for all National Security Space (NSS) missions. </div>
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SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches the world's most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. Today, SpaceX is advancing the boundaries of space technology through its Falcon launch vehicles and Dragon spacecraft. SpaceX is a private company owned by management and employees, with minority investments from Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Valor Equity Partners. The company has more than 3,000 employees in California, Texas, Washington, D.C., and Florida. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.spacex.com/">www.spacex.com</a>.</div>
Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-72567760100051067462013-09-03T11:48:00.000-05:002013-09-03T11:48:58.950-05:00Analysis Of A Catastrophic Failure, AirFest 2013The pictures tell the story of my CATO at Airfest this weekend. Destruction was almost instantaneous with ignition. After examining what was left of my fuel grains. It was determined that I didn't get a complete mix of the propellant. My mixer had burned up during processing and I finished the mix by hand. It was evident that I still had pockets of AP and this weakened the grains. A chunk, or chunks of propellant probably clogged the nozzle throat and caused the case to over pressurize. I was pretty much one and done for the weekend. Since this was the rocket and motor case combo I was flying for the Moonburn drag race too.<br />
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Cape Canaveral - Nasa has selected Space Florida, a state-backed economic development agency, to take over operations, maintenance and development of the space shuttle's idled landing site at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, officials said on Friday. <br />
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Terms of the agreement, which have not yet been finalised, were not disclosed, but Space Florida has made no secret about its desire to take over facilities no longer needed by Nasa to develop a multi-user commercial spaceport, somewhat akin to an airport or seaport. <br />
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The state already has a lease for one of the space shuttle's processing hangars, and an agreement with Boeing to use the refurbished facility for its planned commercial space taxi. <br />
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The so-called CST-100 is one of three spaceships under development in partnership with Nasa to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, a permanently staffed, $100-billion research outpost that flies about 250 miles above Earth. <br />
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Nasa ended its 30-year space shuttle program in 2011, leaving Russia's Soyuz capsules as the sole means to transport crews to the station, a service that costs the United States more than $70-million per person. Nasa hopes to buy rides commercially from a US company by 2017. <br />
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The shuttle's retirement left the Kennedy Space Centre loaded with equipment and facilities that are not needed in Nasa's new human space initiative, which includes a heavy-lift rocket and deep-space capsule for journeys to asteroids, the moon and other destinations beyond the space station's orbit. <br />
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Last year, Nasa solicited proposals for agencies or companies to take over the shuttle landing facility and its 15 000-foot (4 572-meter) runway, one of the longest in the world. <br />
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Additional landing site infrastructure includes an aircraft parking ramp measuring 480 by 550 feet, a landing aids control building, a 90-foot (27-meter) wide shuttle tow way, an air traffic control tower and a 23 000-square-foot (2 137-square-meter) enclosure used by convoy vehicles that serviced the shuttles after landing. <br />
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In addition to shuttles returning from orbit, the runway is used by heavy transport aircraft, military cargo planes, T-38, Gulfstream G-2 and F-104 aircraft, and helicopters. <br />
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Space Florida would like that list to also include suborbital passenger ships, such as the two-seater Lynx space plane being developed by privately owned XCOR Aerospace, orbital vehicles like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's air-launched Stratolaunch Systems, and unmanned aircraft. <br />
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“We look forward to working with Nasa and KSC leadership in the coming months to finalise the details of this transaction in a way that will provide the greatest benefit to incoming commercial aerospace businesses,” Space Florida President Frank DiBello said in a statement. <br />
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Turning the shuttle landing facility over to a commercial operator will save Nasa more than $2-million a year in operations and maintenance costs, documents posted on the agency's procurement website show. <br />
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The landing facility also includes a 50 000-square-foot (4 645-square-meter) hangar that Space Florida already owns. A commercial flight services company, Starfighters Aerospace, currently operates there. <br />
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China's 5th manned space flight launched today, Shenzhou-10, on a Long March 2F rocket. Liftoff occurred at 09:38 UTC on June 11th 2013 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Shenzhou 10 will approach and dock with the Tiangong-1 Docking Target which launched in September 2011. They will be the last crew to dock with Tiangong-1 before it is de-orbited, Shenzhou-9 docked back in June 2012.<br />
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The crew of Shenzhou 10 are commander Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and second Chinese female astronaut Wang Yaping, they are scheduled to stay in orbit just over two weeks. by: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SpaceVidsNet" target="_blank">SpaceVidsNet</a>Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-9407072079358820132013-06-09T10:51:00.002-05:002013-06-09T10:51:24.145-05:00NASA Selects New Suborbital Payloads, Total Tops 100 ExperimentsWashington, DC - NASA has selected 21 space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft.<br />
This latest selection represents the sixth cycle of NASA's continuing call for payloads through an announcement of opportunity. More than 100 technologies with test flights now have been facilitated through NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate's Flight Opportunities Program. <br />
"This new group of payloads, ranging from systems that support cubesats to new sensors technology for planetary exploration, represent the sorts of cutting-edge technologies that are naturally suited for testing during returnable flights to near-space," said Michael Gazarik, NASA's associate administrator for space technology in Washington. "NASA's Flight Opportunities Program continues to mature this key technology development pipeline link, thanks to America's commercial suborbital reusable vehicles providers." <br />
Fourteen of these new payloads will ride on parabolic aircraft flights, which provide brief periods of weightlessness. Two will fly on suborbital reusable launch vehicle test flights. Three will ride on high-altitude balloons that fly above 65,000 feet. An additional payload will fly on both a parabolic flight and a suborbital launch vehicle, and another will fly on both a suborbital launch vehicle and a high-altitude balloon platform. These payload flights are expected to take place now through 2015. <br />
Flight opportunities currently include the Zero-G Corporation parabolic airplane under contract with the Reduced Gravity Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston; Near Space Corp. high-altitude balloons; and reusable launch vehicles from Armadillo Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, UP Aerospace and Virgin Galactic. Additional commercial suborbital flight vendors under contract to NASA, including XCOR and Whittinghill, also will provide flight services. <br />
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-- "Technology Maturation of a Dual-Spinning Cubesat Bus," Kerri Cahoy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge <br />
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-- "Testing Near-Infrared Neuromonitoring Devices for Detecting Cerebral Hemodynamic Changes in Parabolic Flight," Gary Strangman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston <br />
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-- "Resilient Thermal Panel: Microgravity Effects on Isothermality of Structurally Embedded Two Dimensional Heat Pipes," Andrew Williams, Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, N.M. <br />
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-- "Wireless Strain Sensing System for Space Structural Health Monitoring," Haiying Huang, University of Texas, Austin <br />
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-- "Monitoring tissue oxygen saturation in microgravity," Thomas Smith, Oxford University, United Kingdom <br />
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-- "Creation of Titanium-Based Nanofoams in Reduced Gravity for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Production," Kristen Scotti, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. <br />
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-- "Testing a Cubesat Attitude Control System in Microgravity Conditions," Eric Bradley, University of Central Florida, Orlando <br />
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-- "Demonstration of Adjustable Fluidic Lens in Microgravity," James Schwiegerling, University of Arizona, Tucson <br />
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-- "Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in Microgravity," Douglas Ebert, Wyle Laboratories, Houston <br />
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-- "DYMAFLEX: DYnamic MAnipulation FLight Experiment," David Akin of University, Maryland, College Park <br />
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-- "Characterizing Cubesat Deployer Dynamics in a Microgravity Environment," Kira Abercromby, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo <br />
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-- "Demonstration of Food Processing Equipment," Susana Carranza, Makel Engineering Inc., Chino, Calif. <br />
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-- "Advanced Optical Mass Measurement System," Jason Reimuller, Mass Dynamix Inc., Longwood, Fla. <br />
Payloads selected for flight on a suborbital reusable launch vehicle are: <br />
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-- "Planetary Atmosphere Minor Species Sensor," Robert Peale, University of Central Florida, Orlando <br />
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-- "Satellite-Based ADS-B Operations Flight Test," Russell Dewey, GSSL Inc., Tillamook, Ore. <br />
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-- "Low-Cost Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle (sRLV) Surrogate," Timothy Lachenmeier, GSSL Inc. <br />
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One payload will be manifested on a parabolic aircraft and a suborbital reusable launch vehicle: <br />
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-- "Real Time Conformational Analysis of Rhodopsin using Plasmon Waveguide Resonance Spectroscopy," Victor Hruby, University of Arizona, Tucson. <br />
One payload will be manifested on a suborbital reusable launch vehicle and a high altitude balloon: <br />
- "Test of Satellite Communications Systems on-board Suborbital Platforms to provide low-cost data communications for Research Payloads, Payload Operators, and Space Vehicle Operators," Brian Barnett, Satwest Consulting, Albuquerque, N.M. <br />
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NASA manages the Flight Opportunities manifest, matching payloads with flights, and will pay for payload integration and the flight costs for the selected payloads. No funds are provided for the development of the payloads. <br />
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NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, is dedicated to innovating, developing, testing and flying hardware for use in the agency's future missions. The Flight Opportunities Program is managed at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif. NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., manages the technology maturation activities for the program. <br />
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Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-24780109755781381022013-05-30T08:41:00.001-05:002013-05-30T08:41:48.346-05:00Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano Are Now Tweeting From Space
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Photographers take pictures of the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-09M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station. Photo: AP</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">An international trio flying in a Russian Soyuz capsule docked with the International Space Station on Wednesday with a busy schedule full of space walks and an encounter with a pioneering US cargo craft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The six-month mission of Russian commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and his two flight engineers — Karen Nyberg of NASA and Italian Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency — began once their craft sidled up to the orbiting lab six hours after blasting off from the Moscow-owned Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Soyuz took a shortcut that slashed the travel time from the usual 48 hours thanks to a special orbit that catapaults the astronauts directly to their destination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The abridged journey had rarely been tried in the past because it puts greater stress on the astronauts' bodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But one such trip was successfully completed earlier this year and Russia decided to repeat the experience with a view to making the six-hour journey the norm for future travel to the ISS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"It was a pretty cool ride," Nyberg told her husband on Earth via video linkup after the trio had reached the ISS and floated on board the station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Italy's Parmitano said he was especially excited because this was his first chance to experience space flight after years of gruelling training and practise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I feel the importance of performing well for all those people who have been working with me through all those years of training to get me to this point," he told reporters shortly before liftoff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Because of the training, you feel confident that you know you can do the job you've been trained for."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Past astronauts have made a habit of chronicling their experience with the help of social media websites such as Twitter - winning tens of thousands of followers as a result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Canada's Chris Hadfield took that social media experiment to new heights this month by releasing a link to his celestial performance of David Bowie's classic Space Oddity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The performance earned him nearly a million followers overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hadfield and his two fellow travellers returned safely to Earth on May 14. Left behind are Russian commander Pavel Vinogradov and his own two flight engineers - Chris Cassidy of NASA and the cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Both Parmitano and Nyberg have their own Twitter accounts that were filled with their emotions prior to liftoff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nyberg has already tweeted a link with a performance of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for her son back home in the United States.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She tweeted Wednesday that she enjoyed a walk along the Avenue of Cosmonauts in Baikonur just hours before she was due to suit up and rumble up to the ISS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The trio's six-month mission will include six space walks and a link-up with a pioneer US spacecraft called Cygnus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Cygnus is an unmanned resupply ship being designed by the private Orbital Sciences Corporation as part of a broader NASA effort to get commercial firms to fill the void left by the retired US space shuttle programme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The craft that will dock to the ISS some time in June will arrive empty and not deliver any cargo as part of its very first launch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The demo flight is due to be followed later in the year by an actual delivery of cargo using a more powerful upper-stage rocket.</span></div>
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Whitney Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924123383657436729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173959252222736577.post-21525602385535107882013-05-28T09:52:00.000-05:002013-05-28T09:52:59.406-05:00The Soyuz TMA-09M, Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 3:31:24 CST Blast Off<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, are set to launch to the International Space Station Tuesday night Eastern U.S. time, Wednesday in Kazakh time. Yurchikhin, Nyberg, and, Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November.<br />
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