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Dec 12 2005, 10:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Review of NASA Plans for the International Space Station
Review of NASA Strategic Roadmaps: Space Station Panel, National Research Council 80 pages (approximate), 8 1/2 x 11, 2005 In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space. In June 2004, the President s Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy issued a report recommending among other things that NASA ask the National Research Council (NRC) to reevaluate space science priorities to take advantage of the exploration vision. Congress also directed the NRC to conduct a thorough review of the science NASA is proposing to undertake within the initiative. In February 2005, the NRC released Science in NASA s Vision for Space Exploration, the first report of the two studies undertaken to carry out these requests. The second report focuses on NASA s plan for the ISS. This report provides broad advice on programmatic issues that NASA is likely to face as it attempts to develop an updated ISS utilization plan. It also presents an assessment of potentially important research and testbed activities that may have to be performed on the ISS to help ensure success of some exploration objectives. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11512.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 1 2006, 02:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
NASA Science News for June 1, 2006
A little droid is roaming the corridors of the International Space Station, and more are on the way. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/01....htm?list161084 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 13 2006, 01:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 180 |
NASA Science News for June 1, 2006 A little droid is roaming the corridors of the International Space Station, and more are on the way. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/01....htm?list161084 From the article: "If a solar flare zaps one satellite—no problem." So they want to launch more satellites, that are disposable to a degree. I just wonder how long until lower Earth Orbit will resemble a giant floating landfill, too dangerous for most spacecraft to safely navigate for prolonged periods. |
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Sep 21 2006, 02:59 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Sep 22 2006, 10:39 AM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
I just saw the ISS and it does indeed look brighter after the addition of the 2nd set of Solar Arrays.
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