Author: ChrisDMarshall
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Weekly Space Blog 7/20
ISS Space Walk This week’s space walk at the International Space Station was cut short due to a water leak problem in Luca P’s suit. Both astronauts where able to complete the first of there assigned tasks before the problem with the suit and due to the build up of water in the helmet of…
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Weekly Space Blog 7/13
Another week has come and gone and the stories continue to flow in, this week we have a number of exciting stories plus four Kickstarter projects related to space. Bold New Plan for first SLS/Orion Launch This week NASA managers announced the new plan which would see the first uncrewed mission named EM-1 travel to…
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Weekly Space Blog 7/6
Another busy week in space Cassini captures picture of Saturn Moon Janus This week Cassini returned a picture of one of Saturn’s small lumpy moon’s named Janus, the moon doesn’t have sufficient gravity to pull itself into a round shape as seen with most other moons. For more pictures of the moon check out the…
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Weekly Space Blog 6/29
Another busy week in space, here is this weeks blog. Saturn News Saturn was in the news twice this week, researches have discovered the mystery of the gigantic storm circling Saturn and a image capture by Cassini shows a propeller like structure in the rings. The researchers announced there findings based on analysis of images…
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Weekly Space Blog 6/22
Lots of great news this week Herschel ends operations This week the Herschel team send the final commands to shutdown the spacecraft following a series of tests that were performed on the spacecraft after the primary mission finished because of the depletion of the helium coolant that cooled the primary instruments. Since April the team…
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Weekly Space Blog 6/15
This week SpaceX sign military agreement, Chinese Astronauts, Chris Hadfield, Opportunity and Kepler keep giving, and much more. SpaceX This week SpaceX signed a framework agreement for potential Military launches in the future. Under the agreement the air force will evaluate the Falcon v1.1 rocket over at least three launches as well as all the…
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Touch Tomorrow festival
Yesterday we visited Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for the Touch Tomorrow festival, there were lots of activities for the kids to do and some fun exhibits for everyone to learn about advances in robotics. The event sponsored by NASA was an opportunity for people to learn about the Space Launch System (SLS), visit a Moon…
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This week we have a lot of news
This week we have a lot of news related to Space, enjoy. SpaceX Rocket Test This week SpaceX CEO tweeted that they had tested fired their most powerful Rocket yet, with 1.3m lbs. Here is a copy of the image, looking forward to seeing this vehicle in flight. Boeing Marching on with CCiCap milestones This…
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Soyuz launch, ARKYD Kickstarter, Astronaut Abby
Welcome to my new weekly blog on all things Space, this week we take a look at the latest Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, the ARKYD Kickstarter project and Astronaut Abby a 15 year old with an amazing vision for STEM and Space. Soyuz Launch On Tuesday this week Karen Nyberg, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Luca…
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The Dragon has been captured
Following the successful launch of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft a number of days of testing culminated in the successful capture and birthing of Dragon at the space station. Below are a number of pictures captured by NASA and the Astronauts of Dragon as it arrived.