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Ocean Winds To Be Monitored From The International Space Station

ISS Instrument Will Monitor Ocean Surface Wind Speed And Direction

2013-01-30 07:48:19

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2014. Reusing hardware built to test parts of the QuikScat satellite, the new instrument will measure ocean-surface wind speed and direction. ISS-RapidScat will help improve weather forecasts here on Earth, including hurricane monitoring, and will further scientific understanding of how ocean-atmosphere interactions influence Earth's climate....

NASA To Launch Ocean Wind Monitor To Space Station

2013-01-29 12:21:12

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean-surface wind speed and direction. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The ISS-RapidScat instrument will help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring, and understanding of how...

Space Station Science Challenge Winners Announced By NASA

2013-01-19 08:23:33

Students from two schools, one in Iowa and the other in New York, are the winners of the International Space Station (ISS) Science Challenge, NASA announced Friday. Challenge winners from North Tama Elementary in Traer, Iowa, and Madison Elementary in Massena, N.Y., are being inspired to learn more about the space station's cutting-edge research by designing programs to teach others about specific experiments and what scientists are hoping to learn. This pilot program was created by Darcie...

NASA Announces Space Station Science Challenge Winners

2013-01-18 20:20:15

HOUSTON, Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Students from two schools, one in Iowa and the other in New York, are the winners of the International Space Station (ISS) Science Challenge, NASA announced Friday. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Challenge winners from North Tama Elementary in Traer, Iowa, and Madison Elementary in Massena, N.Y., are being inspired to learn more about the space station's cutting-edge research by designing programs to...

Briefings For Space Station Science And Activities Preview Held By NASA Jan. 17

2013-01-09 10:53:53

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will hold two news conferences Thursday, Jan. 17, to preview the upcoming Expedition 35 and 36 missions aboard the International Space Station. NASA Television and the agency's website will carry the briefings live. At 11 a.m. CST (noon EST), the International Space Station Program and Science Overview briefing will cover mission priorities and objectives. These will include several visiting spacecraft, such as multiple Russian Progress resupply...

Briefings And Interviews For Yearlong Space Station Mission Held By NASA And Roscosmos

2012-11-28 16:40:28

NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will hold two briefings on Wednesday, Dec. 5, beginning at 8 a.m. CST, to preview the upcoming yearlong expedition by two crew members aboard the International Space Station. NASA Television and the agency's website will carry the briefings live. Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos will launch to the station in early 2015 to begin a yearlong stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. This will be the longest time an...

Yearlong Space Station Mission To Begin In 2015

2012-10-07 10:00:38

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online In order to collect scientific data needed to allow astronauts to depart for new destinations in the Solar System, two crew members will be spending an entire year living on the International Space Station (ISS). The project, which was officially announced by NASA officials on Friday, is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2015. As part of the mission, one American astronaut and one Russian cosmonaut will live on board the ISS...

NASA And International Partners Approve Year-long Space Station Stay

2012-10-05 10:20:28

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and its international partners have announced an agreement to send two crew members to the International Space Station on a one-year mission designed to collect valuable scientific data needed to send humans to new destinations in the solar system. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The crew members, one American astronaut and one Russian cosmonaut, will launch and land in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft...

SpaceX Dragon Capsule To Make Another ISS Trip In October

2012-09-21 11:17:20

John Neumann for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online With one successful launch and docking of a capsule to the orbiting science station under its belt, SpaceX is moving ahead quickly on the next planned mission to use its Dragon capsule to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) with half a ton of supplies, reports Zeenews and NASA. October 7 is the date penciled in by NASA for the first of twelve contracted US cargo resupply missions to the ISS, writes Shane McGlaun for...

NASA Selects Russian Language And Logistical Services Contract

2012-08-30 10:20:21

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected TechTrans International Inc. of Houston to provide Russian language and logistical services for the International Space Station Program at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Under the contract, TechTrans will provide Russian interpretation, translation and language training, as well as office management and administration, international...