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Instant Freeze Water – The Spangler Effect Extra
With freezing cold temperatures crossing the nation, The Spangler Effect takes a look at the phenomenon of instant freezing water and the dangers of leaving unopened soda bottles out in the cold.
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Invisible Soda – Sick Science! #169
Learn the Science behind this amazing experiment at: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/invisible-soda
Milk goes great with a lot of things: cereal, cookies, cake, and pie. You know what’s even more incredible to mix with milk? A big ol’ bottle of soda! We know what you’re thinking, “Soda and milk would be disgusting, together!” You’re absolutely correct, but you aren’t supposed to drink the mixture! Instead, watch the magic happen when you mix the two.
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How Rosetta wakes up from deep space hibernation
Visualisation of how the Rosetta spacecraft wakes up from deep space hibernation, 673 million kilometres from the Sun, on 20 January 2014.
Prior to entering hibernation on 8 June 2011, Rosetta was oriented so that its solar arrays faced the Sun, and it began rotating once per minute for stability. The only devices left running were its computer and several heaters.
Rosetta’s computer is programmed to carry out a sequence of events to re-establish contact with the Earth on 20 January, starting with an ‘alarm clock’ at 10:00 GMT. Immediately after, the star trackers begin to warm up. Around 6 hours later the thrusters are fired and the slow rotation stops. A slight adjustment is made to Rosetta’s orientation to ensure that the solar arrays now face the Sun. Then the star trackers switch on to determine its attitude. The spacecraft rotates towards Earth, and the transmitter is switched on. Then Rosetta’s high-gain antenna points to Earth and the signal is sent. The journey takes 45 minutes before the signal is received and mission controllers can begin to check Rosetta’s health, ready for the next phase of the mission.
The first opportunity for receiving a signal on Earth is between 17:30 GMT and 18:30 GMT.
Credits: ESA/ATG medialab; music: B. Lynne.
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#WakeUpRosetta – What do YOU do at 10am?
#WakeUpRosetta – What do you do Mondays at 10 am? At 10:00 UTC on 20 January 2014, ESA’s comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft will wake up from 31 months in deep-space hibernation. Save the date and join the adventure. More info at www.esa.int/rosetta.
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Mars 360: the north pole
Enjoy views of the martian north pole from all angles in this new animation from ESA’s Mars Express.
The ice cap has a diameter of about 1000 km and consists of many thin layers of ice mixed with dust that extend to a depth of around 2 km below the cap. The prominent gap in the ice cap is a 318 km-long, 2 km-deep chasm called Chasma Boreale.
The layers result from variations in the orbit and rotation of Mars that affect the amount of sunlight received at the poles, and thus the amount of melting and deposition of materials over time. Meanwhile, strong prevailing winds are thought to be responsible for shaping the spiral troughs.
The polar ice cap in this movie was constructed using data provided by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding instrument, MARSIS.
Low-frequency radio waves beamed towards the surface are reflected back to Mars Express from the planet’s surface and from interfaces between layers of different materials underground.
The strength and timing of the radar echoes are a gauge of the depths of different types of interfaces, such as between rock, water or ice. This information can then be translated into 3D views, as seen in this movie.
Credit: ESA/ASI/NASA/JPL/La Sapienza University/INAF (A. Frigeri)
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ISON update on This Week @NASA
With a more than ninety percent probability that Comet ISON broke apart from a major heating event on its approach to the sun Thanksgiving Day, the search is on for what’s left of it. NASA will use a variety of space and Earth based telescopes to monitor the comet over the next several weeks, before the fate of ISON can be confirmed. Also, Orion’s heat shield, Blue Origin milestone, Rover Challenge, Stone awarded medal and Celebrating Centaur.
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ESA Business Incubation Centre Harwell
Innovation through space, now in the UK – check out the ESA BIC Harwell. The ESA Business Incubation Centre – ESA BIC Harwell, is located in the UK, and is managed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
ESA BIC Harwell provides a unique opportunity to access world class scientific facilities and research including that of the Diamond Light Source and STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) — home to its internationally renowned space science department RAL Space, the world’s most powerful pulsed neutron source ISIS and the Central Laser Facility.
The BIC is also the location of the UK ESA Centre and the International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC), which brings together the best of the British space sector, industry and academia in collaboration with international partners.
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Google+ Hangout with NASA’s Cassini Solstice Mission to Saturn
NASA hosted a Google+ Hangout to discuss extraordinary new images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Participants in the hangout learned what’s ahead in the next few years of the Cassini mission from panelists Kunio Sayanagi, Cassini imaging team associate, Hampton University, VA., Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO., Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA., and Earl Maize, Cassini program manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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ESA Euronews: Űrkadétok
Íme az űrkadétok: három fiatal mérnök, akiknek a munkája a szó szoros értelmében földönkívüli élményt jelent. A szakértők olyan új generációjáról van szó, akiknek az űrutazásról szóló álmaikat sikerült kézzelfogható karrierre váltaniuk.
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There and back again: Luca Parmitano at the ISS
A reflection on ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano’s five-month mission to the International Space Station between May and November 2013.
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Insta-Snowball – Sick Science! #168
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Our Insta-Snow® powder has become pretty famous for being the most realistic faux snow on the market. What many people don’t know is that you can make instant snowballs from the fake snow! Insta-Snowballs might not work for snowball fights, but they’re remarkably easy to make, and ridiculously cool!
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#WakeUpRosetta – Save the date
#WakeUpRosetta – Save the date. At 10:00 UTC on 20 January 2014, ESA’s comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft will wake up from 31 months in deep-space hibernation. Save the date and join the adventure. More info at www.esa.int/rosetta.
#WakeUpRosetta
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ISON vs the Sun
The ESA/NASA SOHO satellite watched as Comet ISON made its closest approach to the Sun on 28 November, at a distance of around 1.2 million kilometres from the Sun’s visible surface. Did it survive? Early reports suggested that only the comet’s tail continued to follow along ISON’s orbit. Further observations will reveal if a chunk of the comet’s nucleus survived.
See the latest images: http://soho.esac.esa.int/hotshots/index.html/Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA)
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ISON inbound
Comet ISON on the approach to the Sun. It entered the SOHO LASCO C3 field of view at 01:41 UT on 27 November. This video covers over 24 hours of the journey so far. Will ISON survive its closest approach with the Sun? Stay tuned: http://soho.esac.esa.int/hotshots/index.html/
Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA)
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Floating Egg – Sick Science! #167
We’ve shown you how different sodas will either sink or swim in plain tap water, but what’s the deal with eggs? Drop as many eggs into plain tap water as you want, but they’ll all sink to the bottom. In the Floating Egg experiment, we’ll show you how the addition of something as simple as table salt, can drastically alter what happens to eggs in water.
Learn the science at: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/floating-egg
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Paxi experimenting in the ZARM Drop Tower
Paxi free falling in the ZARM Drop Tower and experimenting with weightlessness during 4.7 seconds.
Credit: ZARM
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MAVEN is on the way on This Week @NASA
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a 10-month journey to Mars. MAVEN will take critical measurements of the Martian upper atmosphere to investigate how loss of the atmosphere to space impacted the history of water on the planet’s surface. Also, Happy anniversary, ISS!, Asteroid Ideas, LADEE in science orbit, Orion progress, Rocket autopilot test, Commercial crew, and more!
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Magnetic field: why it matters
Earth’s magnetic field is continuously changing. Magnetic north wanders, and every few hundred thousand years the polarity gradually flips, so that a compass would point south instead of north.
This is the second of three videos:
Magnetic field: an introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7nhgX0ppek
Magnetic field: learning more with Swarm http://youtu.be/Wn-BV9Zp8Pk -
ESA Euronews: The real-life space cadets: Abbie, Marc and Maria
Meet the space cadets, three young engineers with enviable jobs that are quite literally out of this world. This edition of Space focuses on three professionals who’ve turned their dreams of working in space into real down-to- Earth careers.
In the UK, 26-year-old Abbie Hutty, a spacecraft structures engineer at Astrium, is a proud member of the ExoMars team. She is developing the structure of the mission’s rover, ensuring that the actual body of the vehicle and other components are all structurally strong enough to withstand the launch from Earth, and landing on Mars.
Twenty-seven-year-old Marc Costa Sitjà, Science Operations Engineer at the European Space Agency, uses the huge antenna at Cebreros, west of Madrid, to ‘drive’ ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft around the planet. Every day he sends commands and receives data to and from the spacecraft from the agency’s ESAC facility near the Spanish capital.
Maria Komu, a 27-year-old researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, works on Finnish mini satellite Aalto-1, and has a hands-on role developing a weather instrument for ESA’s ExoMars EDM mission.
Space is a childhood dream turned reality for all three. For Abbie the realisation that space wasn’t just science fiction came when she was still at school and she heard of the Beagle 2 mission to Mars, a lander that was developed in the UK by British engineers. Maria tells the story of a book about a school visit around the solar system that enchanted her as a young girl. Meanwhile Marc cites a vivid blue image of Venus as an inspiration to his career.
Abbie, Marc and Maria are all educated to masters level, while Maria continues studying towards a doctorate. They’re on the first steps of the career ladder, and that means plenty of learning ‘on-the-job’. Maria had to master soldering, programming, and testing, Marc developed his skills by creating software that helped a mission to better fulfill its purpose, while Abbie had to understand better the behaviour of particular materials in the cold vacuum of space.
The excitement of working in space is summed up by Abbie: “I think the space industry is quite a privileged industry to work in, because whilst you are still managing projects and meeting schedules and deadlines, and creating a product, at the end of the day that requires a certain amount of processes down on it, you can also come down to the clean rooms and look through the window and see your part of a spaceship, and think ‘that’s going to Mars, and I did that bit’, and you don’t get that anywhere else.”
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ESA Euronews: Δουλεύοντας στο διάστημα… από τη Γη
Η Μαρία, ο Μαρκ και η Άμπι είναι τρεις νέοι μηχανικοί κι έχουν τρεις διαφορετικές ιστορίες, αλλά με ένα κοινό γνώρισμα. Η δουλειά τους είναι στη Γη, αλλά φεύγει από τα όριά της. Και οι τρεις πραγματοποίησαν το όνειρό τους: δουλεύουν στη διαστημική βιομηχανία. Και δηλώνουν ευτυχισμένοι γι’αυτό.
Λίγο μετά τα είκοσί τους χρόνια, ήδη έχουν σημαντικές ευθύνες.
Η Μαρία εργάζεται σε έναν φινλανδικό μίνι δορυφόρο και σε εργαλεία πρόγνωσης καιρού για την αποστολή ExoMars της ESA. Η Άμπι αναπτύσσει τη δομή του οχήματος της αποστολής. Ο Μαρκ σχεδιάζει τις επιχειρήσεις του δορυφόρου Venus Express της ESA.
Η Άμπι και ο Μαρκ έχουν μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές, ενώ η Μαρία είναι υποψήφια διδάκτωρ. Και οι τρεις λένε πως εμπνεύστηκαν από την ιδέα της εξερεύνησης του ηλιακού μας συστήματος.
Πλοήγηση δορυφόρων, κατασκευή διαστημικών οχημάτων και μετεωρολογικών σταθμών για τον Άρη. Όλα αυτά απαιτούν δεξιότητες, γνώση και αφοσίωση.
Δυσκολίες υπάρχουν σίγουρα. Όμως κανείς εκ των τριών δεν χάνει από το βλέμμα του τη μοναδική φύση μιας καριέρας στο διάστημα.
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ESA Euronews: La nouvelle génération de l’espace
L’espace fascine bon nombre d’entre nous, mais bien peu ont la chance de travailler dans le domaine de la recherche spatiale. Nous avons rencontré trois jeunes ingénieurs qui ont entamé une carrière, la tête dans les étoiles et les pieds sur Terre.
A Helsinki, Maria Komu nous fait découvrir son lieu de travail : l’Institut météorologique finlandais qui dispose d’un laboratoire spatial. “Il y a à peine cinq ans, mon plus grand rêve, c’était simplement de pouvoir toucher quelque chose qui allait dans l’espace,” nous confie la jeune femme. “Aujourd’hui, je conçois des instruments qui vont dans l’espace, c’est incroyable !” s’enthousiasme-t-elle. Maria travaille sur un mini-satellite et des instruments météo pour le démonstrateur EDM de la mission ExoMars de l’Agence spatiale européenne (ESA).
Au nord de Londres, découvrons à présent, l’univers d’Abbie Hutty, ingénieur spatial structures chez Astrium. Son travail qui d’ailleurs, la passionne : s’assurer que “le corps du rover ExoMars est assez solide pour pouvoir supporter notamment le lancement, l’arrivée au sol et l’entrée dans l’atmosphère,” nous explique-t-elle.
En Espagne, à Cebreros, près de Madrid, Marc Costa Sitjà nous présente l’antenne à gain élevé qui permet à son équipe de communiquer avec le satellite Venus Express (ESA) pour gérer son pilotage. La parabole permet aux scientifiques d’envoyer des ordres de commande à l’engin et de recevoir des données en sa provenance comme une image de Vénus unique qu’ils ont réussi à constituer à partir de toute une série d’observations.
Nos trois jeunes ingénieurs ont choisi ces métiers pour explorer notre système solaire et peut-être éclaircir ses mystères. Une motivation qui les anime parfois depuis l’enfance. Chacun reconnaît avoir de la chance de mener une vie professionnelle dans un secteur qui les fascine. La Finlandaise Maria Komu aimerait poursuivre son rêve éveillé en visitant “d’immenses chambres à vide et peut-être des simulateurs solaires :c’est ce que je préfèrerais,” nous lance-t-elle avant de conclure : “et bien sûr, si je pouvais assister en vrai au lancement d’une fusée, ce serait vraiment cool !”
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MAVEN is on the way on This Week @NASA
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a 10-month journey to Mars. MAVEN will take critical measurements of the Martian upper atmosphere to investigate how loss of the atmosphere to space impacted the history of water on the planet’s surface. Also, Happy anniversary, ISS!, Asteroid Ideas, LADEE in science orbit, Orion progress, Rocket autopilot test, Commercial crew, and more!
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Guide to our Galaxy
This virtual journey shows the different components that make up our home galaxy, the Milky Way, which contains about a hundred billion stars.
It starts at the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way and with the stars that orbit around it, before zooming out through the central Galactic Bulge, which hosts about ten billion stars.
The journey continues through a younger population of stars in the stellar disc, home to most of the Milky Way’s stars, and which is embedded in a slightly larger gaseous disc. Stars in the disc are arranged in a spiral arm pattern and orbit the centre of the Galaxy.
The discs and bulge are embedded in the stellar halo, a spherical structure that consists of a large number of globular clusters — the oldest population of stars in the Galaxy — as well as many isolated stars. An even larger halo of invisible dark matter is inferred by its gravitational effect on the motions of stars in the Galaxy.
Looking at a face-on view of the Galaxy we see the position of our Sun, located at a distance of about 26 000 light-years from the Galactic Centre.
Finally, the extent of the stellar survey conducted by ESA’s Hipparcos mission is shown, which surveyed more than 100 000 stars up to 300 light-years away from the Sun. In comparison, ESA’s Gaia survey will study one billion stars out to 30 000 light-years away.
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3D virtual spacewalk outside the International Space Station
Get an idea of what it feels like to see the International Space Station from the outside, as an astronaut on a spacewalk. Put your 3D glasses on to appreciate the size of humankind’s orbital laboratory and watch a Soyuz spacecraft undock and a docking with ESA’s supply spacecraft Automated Transfer Vehicle.
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3D virtual tour of the International Space Station
Put your 3D glasses on for this virtual visit of the International Space Station’s modules. Float through the space laboratories and connecting modules from the perspective of an astronaut.
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British Airways – #lookup in Piccadilly Circus #DiscoverBA
Courtesy of a little digital magic, the young man in this poster really does know when it’s a British Airways plane. And that really is the actual flight number and where it’s flying in from. #DiscoverBA
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Burping Bottle – Sick Science! #166
Did you know that the majority of burps are simply caused by swallowed air? It’s true! Burping is a natural human phenomenon, but it’s also possible for a bottle to burp. Say what?! Believe it… bottles can belch just like a human. All it takes is a bit of science know-how, especially when it comes to the properties of air and water.
Learn the science behind this experiment at: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/burping-bottle
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Swarm: Understanding our life saver
Earth’s magnetic field is our life saver, protecting us from the energetic solar wind. The Swarm satellites will measure Earth’s magnetic field to allow us to understand it for a safer future.
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MAVEN Update on This Week @NASA
The MAVEN spacecraft is the latest NASA probe designed to help piece together a complete picture of The Red Planet’s past. MAVEN’s piece of the puzzle — to understand what happened to Mars’ upper atmosphere. Following its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station — MAVEN is scheduled to reach Mars in September 2014. Also, Getting to deep space, A stunning new view of Saturn, Commercial success, Earth science satellite, Antarctica campaign, Tail wing technology and more!
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Earth from Space: Hottest place on Earth
Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The eighty-fourth edition features an Envisat image of the Dasht-e Lut salt desert in southeast Iran.
See also http://spaceinimages.esa.int/Images/2013/11/Dasht-e_Lut_salt_desert_Iran to download the image.
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NASA News Conference on Completion of COTS Program
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden discusses the success of the agency’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) initiative during a televised news briefing at NASA Headquarters. Through COTS, NASA’s partners Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Orbital Sciences Corp., developed new U.S. rockets and spacecraft, launched from U.S. soil, capable of transporting cargo to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station. A successful Orbital Sciences demonstration mission to the space station was completed in October, signifying the end of COTS development. SpaceX made its first trip to the space station in May 2012 and completed its COTS partnership with NASA the same year. The agency now contracts space station cargo resupply missions with both companies.
The briefing participants were:
— Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator
— Alan Lindenmoyer, Manager of Commercial Crew and Cargo Program, NASA
— Gwynne Shotwell, President, SpaceX
— Frank Culbertson, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Orbital Sciences Advanced Programs Group
— Frank Slazer, Vice President of Space Systems, Aerospace Industries Association
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Balancing Glass – Sick Science! #165
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Table tricks are all the rage when it comes to post-dinner “oohs” and “ash.” That’s why you need to keep the hits coming! For instance, give the Balancing Glass Trick a try. All you need are some knives, bottles, and a drinking glass. Before you know it, you’ll be wowing your audience with a glass that seems to defy gravity and the laws of physics.
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Soyuz undocking, reentry and landing explained
How does an astronaut return to Earth from the International Space Station? What does it feel like to re-enter the atmosphere? How does the Soyuz capsule function? Watch and find out. This video is based on an actual lesson delivered to the ESA astronaut class of 2009 (also known as the #Shenanigans09) during their ESA Basic Training. It features interviews with astronauts who have flown on the Soyuz and dramatic footage of actual landings.
Produced by the ESA Human Spaceflight and Operations (HSO) Astronaut Training Division, Cologne, Germany, in collaboration with the HSO Strategic Planning and Outreach Office, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, with special support from Roskosmos.
Narration Voice: Bernard Oattes
Technical Experts: Stephane Ghiste, Dmitriy Churkin (HSO-UT)
Content Design: Stephane Ghiste, Dmitriy Churkin, Raffaele Castellano, Matthew Day (HSO-UT)
Animation & Video Editing: Raffaele Castellano (HSO-UT), HSO-K
Project Coordination: Matthew Day, Stephane Ghiste, Dmitriy Churkin (HSO-UT)
Special thanks to:
Martin Schweiger (Orbiter software: http://orbit/medphys.ucl.ac.uk/)
Nikita Vtyurin, Andrew Thielmann (Orbiter Soyuz model)
Lionel Ferra (HSO-UT)
Oleg Polovnikov (HSO-UT)
Frank De Winne (HSO-A)
Paolo Nespoli (HSO-A)
Antonio Rodenas Bosque (HSO-UT)
NASA
ROSCOSMOS
S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
Aerospace Search and Rescue Service of the Russian FederationParachute footage: Cambridge University Spaceflight
Surfer footage: copyright Red Bull Media House
Footage from inside Soyuz capsule courtesy of RSC Energia has limited rights:
a) These data are submitted with Limited Rights under Agreement among the Government of Canada, Governments of Member States of the European Space Agency, the Government of Japan, the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the United States of America concerning co-operation on the civil International Space Station.
These data may be used by the receiving co-operating agency and its contractors and subcontractors, provided that such data shall be used, duplicated or disclosed only for the following purposes, which are related to the Cooperating Agency Space Station Program for ISS:
1) Use for ESA astronaut training
2) Use for educational purposes
These data shall not be used by persons or entities other than the receiving Cooperating Agency, its contractors or subcontractors, or for any other purposes, without the prior written permission of the furnishing partner state, acting through its cooperating agency.b) This notice shall be marked on any reproduction of these data in whole or part.
Also watch:
Journey to the ISS Part 1: The launch sequence explained
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVvgpKt5uCAWatch Part 2: Soyuz rendezvous and docking explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2_NeFbFcSwCaptions available in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Romanian (with thanks to Alexa Mirel) and Spanish. Click on the CC button to switch between languages.
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Soyuz hooks up to the station
After launching earlier in the day in their Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 38/39 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency arrived at the International Space Station on Nov. 7; docking their craft to the Rassvet module on the Russian segment of the complex.
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Parrot vs Child: The Intelligence Test | Extraordinary Animals | Earth
It’s Griffin versus the nursery school children in another bird brain test for this Extraordinary Animal.
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This is a channel from BBC Studios who help fund new BBC programmes.
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Gaia technology
Our Galaxy the Milky Way is made up of a hundred billion stars. To truly understand its evolution we need to know exactly where we stand in this mass of constantly moving and changing celestial objects. To do this, astrometry, the science of measuring the position, distance and movement of stars around us, is just about to take a giant leap forward with the launch of ESA’s new space telescope, Gaia. Gaia will make it possible to measure a billion stars of our Milky Way.
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Newton’s Bottle – Sick Science! #164
Find out the science behind this trick here: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/newtons-bottle
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Mars Mission Briefed on This Week @NASA
During a news briefing at NASA headquarters officials and scientists discussed MAVEN, the agency’s next mission to Mars. Scheduled to launch November 18 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, MAVEN will study the history and change of Mars’ atmosphere, climate, and planetary habitability. Also, Bolden visits Langley, Power Up, Solar Flares, A busy time!, Free flight and Ice Flight!
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Edible Slime – Sick Science! #163
Slime is a staple of Halloween, chemistry, and science, in general. What could be better than stretching a glob of goo between your hands or letting it run between your fingers? Well, if you’re like us, you want to be able to eat it. With this Edible Slime recipe, that’s exactly what you can do. What are you waiting for? Mix up a batch of your own.
Find out how this awesome slime works here: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/edible-slime
Allergy Alert: This product may cause allergic reaction in people sensitive to inhaled or ingested psyllium.
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Steve Spangler is a celebrity teacher, science toy designer, speaker, author and an Emmy award-winning television personality. Spangler is probably best known for his Mentos and Diet Coke geyser experiment that went viral in. Spangler is the founder of www.SteveSpanglerScience.com, a Denver-based company specializing in the creation of science toys, classroom science demonstrations, teacher resources and home for Spangler’s popular science experiment archive and video collection. Spangler is a frequent guest on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and Denver 9 News where he takes classroom science experiments to the extreme. For teachers, parents or DIY Science ideas – check out other sources of learning:
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