Tethers Unlimited sent me this update on the installation of the Refabricator 3D printer on the International Space Station: Refabricator Installed on the ISS Tethers Unlimited Announces Successful Installation of the First Recycler-3D Printer On-Board the ISS Bothell, WA, 8 February […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Here is NASA’s latest Space to Ground report on activities related to the International Space Station: A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship has been berthed to the ISS since it arrived on November 19th following the launch from NASA Wallops Island […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA restarts the Space to Ground reports on activities related to the International Space Station: Here is an animation showing the assembly of the ISS: Assembling the International Space Station pic.twitter.com/yVCRL3HqhN — Universal-Sci (@universal_sci) December 24, 2018 Here is a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is this week’s Space to Ground report from NASA about activities related to the International Space Station: As mentioned in the Space to Ground video, ISS Expedition 57 crew members, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest episode of NASA’s weekly Space to Ground report on activities related to the International Space Station: ** More about the rather unusual EVA by two cosmonauts this week, which involved rough cutting of insulation on a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is this week’s episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities related to the International Space Station: This video describes an experiment launched to the ISS on the SpaceX Dragon that will test in-space refueling technologies: The Dragon […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station: ** A brief item about NASA astronaut Anne McClain: What does the game of rugby have to do with spaceflight? Former U.S. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is this week’s episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities related to the International Space Station: NASA promotes itself: ==== Check out the Best Selling Electronics at Amazon
Here is the latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station: On Wednesday, the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle “KOUNOTORI” (HTV) cargo module departed from the ISS. The module berthed to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities related to the International Space Station: An update on the latest NASA class of astronauts: ==== Telescopes and Binoculars at Amazon
Some of the presentations at the most recent International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2018) have been posted on Youtube. Here is a sampling: ** Reusability: The Key to Reliability and Affordability – Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX [ Oct.29.2018: For some reason, this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest episode of TMRO: Space is now available on line: How NanoRacks can put anything you want in space – Orbit 11.35 – TMRO NanoRacks CTO Mike Lewis joins us to talk about all of the different things they are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Videos: TMRO:Space – “3D Printing in micro gravity with Made In Space” + “Exploring Mars with VR”
The latest episode of the TMRO.TV Space webcast series looks at 3D Printing in micro gravity with Made In Space – TMRO – If humanity is to have a permanent presence in the cosmos, we will need to learn how to create […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the latest newsletter from the B612 Foundation, which is dedicated to protecting earth from a the disaster of a large asteroid or comet impact on earth : Sentinel and Beyond: The Sentinel Mission Newsletter! Vol. 15. The Sentinel Mission is their plan […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest weekly report from NASA on activities aboard the International Space Station:
Telerobotics, i.e. controlling a robot from a distance, could be useful in space for, say, asteroid sampling in which an astronaut in a nearby spacecraft controls a robot on the surface of the object. A mission to Mars might initially involve astronauts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We don’t yet have self-aware robots or low cost transportation to orbit but we do have iPhones and Google search. The latter two are just as sci-fi as the former two technologies for someone who grew up in the 1960s. The future […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An animation of the Island 3 type in-space cylindrical colony proposed by Gerard K. O’Neill in the 1970s: Island Three – An Animation by Steve Gunn – Project Ion
Catching up with recent presentations to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group. The presentation materials are posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive for the following 3 talks. * On-Orbit Servicing: Telepresence and the DEOS Simulator, Jordi Artigas , DLR – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Sunday May 25th, The Space Show will present a special video webinar program on the topic of using rotation to provide artificial gravity. Joe Carroll will discuss his ideas on using tethers for such rotating systems. WEBINAR: The Sunday, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…