Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts

6/12/14

Zero Gravity Sports - ISS Team Plays Soccer in Space

Mark Turner
Mysterious World
6/12/2014

We call it 'soccer', the British call it 'football', whatever you call it, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be watching the 2014 World Cup with the rest of the world. In celebration, United States astronauts Reid Wiseman and Steve Swanson, along with German astronaut Alexander Gerst, kicked around a soccer ball in the space station, 230 miles above the earth. Lets hope they don't get too rowdy up there.



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5/25/13

Private Firm Sets Sights on First Moon Base

Robert Bigelow discusses a model of a Bigelow Aerospace lunar outpost. BIGELOW AEROSPACE
IRENE KLOTZ
MAY 24, 2013 11:52 AM ET
Discovery News

NASA may not be going to the moon anytime soon, but private companies plan to do so, a study by space habitat developer Bigelow Aerospace shows.

The study, commissioned by NASA, is intended as a supplemental roadmap for the U.S. government as it charts human space initiatives beyond the International Space Station, a permanently staffed research complex that orbits about 250 miles above Earth.

“Instead of being the typical approach where we put together all the plans and we ask for participation, we wanted to look at it the other way and see what’s available,” NASA’s head of space operations, Bill Gerstenmaier, told reporters during a press conference on Thursday.

“This is a holistic kind of effort,” added Robert Bigelow, president and founder of the Nevada-based firm that bears his name. “It’s intended to encompass as much (information) as possible and it’s intended to evolve and to grow.”

The first part of the study surveyed about two dozen companies and research organizations about their ideas, plans, capabilities, schedules and costs for upcoming space initiatives. A draft report was submitted to NASA on Thursday -- 40 days ahead of schedule -- and has not yet been publicly released.

NASA intends to use the information to figure out where it can collaborate with private space initiatives and where it might, for example, entirely skip an expensive research and development program and just buy services or hardware commercially.

For example, after the International Space Station is removed from orbit, NASA could be a tenant aboard a Bigelow Aerospace-owned habitat for any microgravity research or technology development it wants to do.

Story continues here: news.discovery.com

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5/10/13

Mars One says 80,000 have applied for one-way mission to red planet (Video)


Dutch company plans to choose crew for private mission with reality TV show, in order to meet $6bn cost



The Guardian Adam Gabbatt

Almost 80,000 people have applied to take part in a one-way mission to Mars, each of them completing a rigorous application that stresses the need for a "Can Do!" attitude, asks individuals about their sense of humor and requires the submission of an application fee that can be as much as $75.

Mars One, the Dutch company behind the proposed mission, says it has received applications from more than 120 countries. It also says that the role of Mars explorer/guinea pig is "the most desired job in history". More than 17,000 of the applicants are from the US – the most of any country so far.

"These numbers put us right on track for our goal of half a million applicants," said the founder of Mars One, Bas Lansdorp. "Mars One is a mission representing all humanity and its true spirit will be justified only if people from the entire world are represented. I'm proud that this is exactly what we see happening."

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