The latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities aboard the International Space Station:
Category Archives: In Space Infrastructure
Video: Astronauts on spacewalk replace balky relay box outside the ISS
On Wednesday at the International Space Station:
… Expedition 39 Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson of NASA conducted a spacewalk April 23 to replace a backup computer relay box on the station’s S0 (s-zero) truss. The relay box, which failed April 11, is called a multiplexer-demultiplexer, and assists in providing insight and commanding for the station’s truss systems and associated hardware.
Here are some highlights of the EVA:
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FISO: Planetary exploration and the Plutonium-238 connection
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (ppt) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Planetary Exploration and the Plutonium-238 Connection, Ralph McNutt , APL/JHU – April.16.2014.
A sampling of the presentation slides:
FISO: International collaboration for human exploratin beyond LEO
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (pptx) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Evaluating International Collaboration for Human Exploration Beyond LEO by Emanuele Capparelli, Skolkovo Inst. & Natasha Bosanac , Purdue Univ. – April 9, 2014
FISO talk: Critical risks for extending human spaceflight
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (ppt) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Critical Risks for Extending Human Spaceflight by Mark Shelhamer, NASA JSC – FISO Lectures – April 2, 2014
Sample of his slides:
