NASA, poslednji let Space Shuttle klase - LIVE

[lilit]

kreće za 3 minuta. trenutak je istorijski.

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/135_splash/index.html

[lilit]

Atlantis in Orbit
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:42:18 PM GMT+0200

With solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank jettisoned, space shuttle Atlantis is now in orbit.

Atlantis and its four astronauts have left Earth for the final space shuttle mission, which will cap off an amazing 30-year program of exploration, which launched great observatories, built an International Space Station, and taught us more about how humans can live and work in space.

[mac]

Prosto mi je sumanuto da poslednjih 10 godina nisu mogli da smisle bolje rešenje od spejs šatla, i da od sada moraju da plaćaju Rusima za prevoz.

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Pa kad se sva lova usmerava na oružje. Obmana će, kažu, još više saseći svemirski program. To može značiti samo jedno.

[Boban]

Vidi, kada je Gagarin leteo u svemir, a to je bilo davno, Rusi su svoje kosmonaute spuštali na zemlju, na tlo, na fudbalsko igralište, a Ameri do dana današnjeg nisu rešili spuštanje na tlo Zemlje već svoje bacaju u more. OK, reći će neko, Ameri imaju dosta vode oko sebe a Rusi baš i ne, ali to je sekundarno.

[Melkor]

Lego Space Shuttle

[Meho Krljic]

Poslednji let Diskaverija:

Space shuttle Discovery makes final takeoff   

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After three decades of space service, NASA's oldest and most traveled shuttle, Discovery, began its new life as a museum relic Tuesday with one final takeoff.
Discovery departed Florida's Kennedy Space Center at daybreak Tuesday aboard a modified jumbo jet bound for Washington, where it will become a Smithsonian exhibit.
Nearly 2,000 people — former shuttle workers, VIPs, tourists and journalists — gathered along the old shuttle landing strip to see Discovery off. A cheer went up as the plane taxied down the runway and soared into a clear sky.
The plane and shuttle headed south and made one last flight over the beaches of Cape Canaveral — thousands jammed the shore for a glimpse of Discovery — then returned to the space center in a final salute. Cheers erupted once more as the pair came in low over the runway it had left 20 minutes earlier and finally turned toward the north.
A similar flyover was planned over the monuments in the nation's capital, later in the morning.
Discovery — the fleet leader with 39 orbital missions — is the first of the three retired space shuttles to head to a museum. It will go on display at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, taking the place of the shuttle prototype Enterprise. The Enterprise will go to New York City.
Endeavour will head to Los Angeles this fall. Atlantis will remain at Kennedy.
NASA ended the shuttle program last summer after a 30-year run to focus on destinations beyond low-Earth orbit. Private U.S. companies hope to pick up the slack, beginning with space station cargo and then, hopefully, astronauts. The first commercial cargo run, by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is set to take place in just another few weeks.
For at least the next three to five years — until commercial passenger craft are available in the United States — NASA astronauts will have to hitch multimillion-dollar rides on Russian Soyuz capsules to get to the International Space Station.
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Online:
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

[Gaff]

Fight for Space!

http://www.fightforspace.com/category/blog/

[Gaff]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTy9NpSLm0I&feature=player_embedded#!

[lilit]

ovo je predivno!

[дејан]

стално замишљам да се овакве ствари дешавају са нашим универзумом

[lilit]

da, i želim to da vidim s nekog mesta!
a onda se setim kolika je to utopija i koliko su katovani budzeti za spejs istrazivanja vs. ratnih pohoda i zakljucim da human race i nije za bolje.

[дејан]

онда је боље да не подсећам да је велика већина ствари данас измишљена, постигнута и досегнута, захваљујући буџетима за ратне походе...што људима даје сјајну прилику за ватрени епилог.

[Gaff]

Live coverage of the Mars landing!

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/marslanding

Nisam baš siguran da li će ovi u gornjem linku zaista da puste ono što kažu ali bi, svakako, trebalo da event bude na NASA TV-u.

August 4, Saturday
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. - NASA Science News Conference - Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity Rover Mission Status and Entry, Descent and Landing Overview - JPL (All Channels)

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html

Ovo u EST zoni. U kol'ko je to u nas?
Pola šest/pola sedam popodne, tako nekako, je l'?

[mac]

Otvorio sam novu temu za Curiosity, ali možda je i bolje da sve Nasino bude na jednom mestu.

[Josephine]

Live coverage of the Mars landing!

Super!

Uzdam se u tebe, Gaffe, za redovno informisanje i podsećanje o ovoj temi!

[Gaff]

Setio sam se da si otvorio topik za Curiosity kada sam već (od)postovao. My bad.

[Gaff]

Whisky space experiment

A rocket carrying vials of chemical compounds from Ardbeg's Islay distillery was blasted up to the International Space Station last year to test the effects of near zero gravity on the maturation process.
Ardbeg has now released "Ardbeg Galileo" to celebrate the event.
The experiment is believed to be the first of its kind.
The micro-organic compounds will spend up to two years in space interacting with charred oak in near zero gravity conditions.
The results will be compared with a control sample currently maturing on terra firma at Ardbeg's Islay distillery.

(via BBC)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-19456905

[Meho Krljic]

Space vs. poverty debate in India similar to one raging in the United States 

Mars Daily is reporting that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was obliged recently to defend his country's space program, which involves the spending of billions of rupees when India still has a large number of people living in abject poverty. The debate raging in India parallels a similar one that has simmered in the United States for decades.
India has already launched a successful lunar orbiter probe, the Chandrayaan-1. It is planning to launch a similar robotic probe to Mars and eventually begin manned space missions, similar to those now being conducted by China and which Russia and the United States have undertaken for decades.
Singh, while acknowledging India's persistent poverty problem, noted that technological development, which the Indian space program is part of, is a crucial element of that country's overall economic advancement.
The United States has grappled with the space vs. poverty question for decades. When the Apollo 11 mission lifted off to the moon, the event was protested by a small number of protestors led by the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, then considered the leader of the civil rights movement in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King. Demands that space exploration be scaled back have been a feature of rhetoric on the left since then. As recently as 2004, when President George W. Bush had proposed a space exploration program that would send astronauts back to the moon and beyond, Democratic presidential candidates demanded that the money instead be spent on poverty programs.
During the 2008 campaign, both presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, provided rhetorical support for NASA's space program, with the former promising support for Bush's space exploration goals before a crowd of aerospace workers at a speech in Titusville. Upon his election as president, Obama cancelled Bush's space exploration program, citing budget considerations. This occurred after his administration spent almost $900 billion on a stimulus package that was alleged to be designed to jump start the anemic economy.
Writing in The Space Review, Sam Dinkin suggested that arguments to defund the space program to pay for other priorities are "--rhetorically effective, but logically empty." The reason is that the relatively tiny amount spent on NASA – just over $17 billion a year currently – would not have a great effect on social programs, whose costs amount to the hundreds of billions a year. Thus the whole poverty vs. space debate is useful for unscrupulous politicians but is not very useful for crafting effective public policy. Nevertheless the debate has been one element in the fact that the dreams of settlements on the moon and expeditions to the planets remain unrealized.
On the other hand, the growth of a commercial space sector complicates the debate somewhat. While the government is spending billions subsidizing some rhetorically called commercial space efforts, there are some ventures that are truly commercial as generally understood. Virgin Galactic, Stratolauncher, and Planetary Resources come to mind in the latter category. If space becomes a venue for making money, and thus creating economic growth and jobs, how relevant will the poverty vs. space remain?

[Melkor]

http://framework.latimes.com/2012/10/12/space-shuttle-endeavour-2/#/31