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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online A pump controller box on the International Space Station’s far port truss (P6) believed to have been leaking ammonia coolant was inspected and replaced during a five-hour, 30-minute spacewalk on Saturday afternoon. According to NASA, Expedition 35 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn successfully completed the spacewalk at 1:14 pm CDT. They set out at 7:44 am CDT, and slightly over two and one-half hours into the...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online A spacewalk to inspect and possibly replace a pump controller box believed to be the source of an ammonia leak on the International Space Station’s (ISS) external cooling system has been approved and will take place on Saturday, NASA officials have confirmed. The decision to go ahead with the spacewalk, which will be conducted by Expedition 35 crewmembers Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn, was made by the ISS managers and their...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has exercised a second two-year award term option with Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston for continued services to support the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The contract is a cost-plus award-fee with award-term arrangements. The current potential value of the contract, including...
HOUSTON, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA managers will discuss the status of the International Space Station, including the latest on an external cooling loop leak that developed Thursday, during a televised briefing today at 3 p.m. CDT (4 p.m. EDT). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The news briefing will take place at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. It will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. Journalists may ask...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online After a month without contact with their rover, the Mars Curiosity team has selected their next target for drilling: a flat rock called Cumberland. According to a NASA statement, Cumberland is about nine feet west of Curiosity's first drilling target, a Martian stone they've dubbed John Klein. In February, Curiosity took the first rock sample ever collected on Mars from that rock. An on-board analysis of John Klein found signs of an...
NASA Google released more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space Thursday compiled into an interactive time-lapse experience. Working with data from the Landsat Program managed by the U.S. Geological Survey, the images display an historical perspective on changes to Earth's surface over time. NASA Associate Administrator for Communications David Weaver issued the following statement about the Google announcement: "The Landsat data record -- humanity's longest...
MIAMI, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BlueKite (http://www.bluekite.com) a leading provider of international bill-payment services, today announced that two of its Guatemala City-based developers Rodolfo Maldonado and Diego Figueroa, were nominated for NASA's International Space Apps Challenge - according to NASA, the "galaxy's largest mass collaboration ever." Over 9,000 individuals and 484 organizations from around the world came together over the weekend of April 21st, in 83 cities...
LISTEN TO AUDIO: [Commander Hadfield Reports Leak] | [Doug Wheelock Updates Status Of Leak] | [Crew Discusses Possible Spacewalk] Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Update (May 10 @ 10:45 a.m.) NASA said in an updated statement this morning that Expedition 35 crew will begin preparing for a potential spacewalk on Saturday to troubleshoot and possibly fix the ammonia leak discovered yesterday. A final decision on an external mission of the Space Station is not...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards. The National Aeronautic Association will present its Robert J. Collier Trophy to the Mars Science Laboratory Team of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., at an event in Arlington, Va., Thursday night. At an event in Washington on...
PASADENA, Calif., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Mars has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) This second drilling target, called "Cumberland," lies about nine feet (2.75 meters) west of the rock where Curiosity's drill first touched Martian stone in February. Curiosity took the...
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Stephanie Wilson is an American engineer, a NASA astronaut, and the second African American woman to go into space. She was born Stephanie Diana Wilson on September 27, 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts. An astronomy professor she interviewed during middle school became her first inspiration to pursue a career in space. She graduated from Taconic High School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1984, and then attended Harvard University, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering...
Stephen Nathaniel Frick is an American astronaut having flown two Space Shuttle missions. Frick was also appointed as a United States Naval officer and qualified as an F/A-18 fighter pilot. Frick was born on September 30, 1964 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Pine-Richland High School in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania in 1982. After receiving his high school diploma, Frick went on to the United States Naval Academy in 1986 to earn his Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace...
James Shelton Voss is a retired NASA astronaut as well as a retired United States Army Colonel. Voss now serves as the Vice President of Engineering at SpaceDev. On March 3, 1949, Voss was born in Cordova, Alabama but later moved to Opelika, Alabama to live and be raised by his grandparents. He went on to join the wrestling team at Opelika High School and after graduating, he went on to join the wrestling at Auburn University. There, he also was elected as Chapter President of the Theta Xi...
Janice Elaine Voss was a NASA astronaut as well as an American Engineer whom flew in space five times placing her at first for holding the record for American women. Voss was born on October 8, 1956 in South Bend, Indiana. She attended Minnechaug Regional High School in Wilbraham, Massachusetts and graduated in 1972. She then attended Purdue University to receive her bachelor’s degree in engineering while concurrently working at the Johnson Space Center. After Purdue University, Voss...
Lodewijk van den Berg is a naturalized American chemical engineer born in the Netherlands whom was rather dedicated to crystal growth and also rode aboard as a payload specialist on the 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission. He was born in Sluiskil, Netherlands on March 24, 1932. He worked to get his Engineer’s degree in chemical engineering at the Delft University of Technology in Netherlands from 1949 to 1961. After moving to the United States, Van den Berg continued his education to...
