With a Week to go, You Can Probably Use This About Now
With a hat tip to Esquire for linking to it, NASA has put together an 18 minute tour of the International Space Station in UHD 4K. If you’ve got decent bandwidth and a good-sized screen to view it,...
View ArticleAn American voted from space—what's your excuse, again?
It is hard to get out to vote, and run to work, or run to work and then rush over to vote. It can be exponentially harder to vote when you throw young children into that mix. But voting is an important...
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Jeanette Epps will be the first African-American crew member of the...
On Wednesday, NASA announced the upcoming International Space Station crew. Astronauts Jeanette Epps and Andrew Feustel will work aboard the International Space Station in 2018.Ms. Epps works on...
View ArticleACA Demonstration at Darrell Issa Office in Vista, CA Jan 31.
If you live in California 49th Congressional District — Darrell Issa’s district, plan to meet at his Vista office on January 31 in support of the Affordable Care Act. Here is the link with more...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 4/11/2017: ISS Watching
From the ISS: North Africa lighted by a full moon.Good evening, Kibitzers! Some weeks ago, when it was dark much earlier than it is in April, I was at my office late, working until the traffic died...
View ArticleWishing On A Satellite...
Tonight was a good night.The skies were clear, and the timing was good. I was outside and watched the International Space Station rise in the sky at 8:56pm. Max height 42°, appeared 25° above NNW,...
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SpaceX History-making Resupply Mission to the ISS
SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Dragon spacecraft into orbit for its 13th commercial resupply mission (CRS-13) to the International Space Station (ISS) around 11:46 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 12,...
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DNA Sequencing in Space - Another Giant Leap for Humankind
In a historic first, microbial DNA was sequenced in space, aboard the International Space Station (ISS), earlier this year. All steps from cell collection from surfaces inside the ISS to sample...
View ArticleTrump administration's budget wants to end NASA funding to the International...
The International Space Station (ISS) took about 10 years to create, after many years of discussion and diplomacy and hard work by people dreaming of a world better than the one we have here on Earth....
View ArticleOvernight News Digest February 11, 2018
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Doctor RJ, Magnifico,...
View ArticleNASA/SpaceX supply mission to ISS launches on Monday afternoon
Three days ago, a Falcon 9 rocket left Vandenberg Air Force Base, carrying ten satellites into orbit on a single trip. Today another Falcon 9 is departing from the East Coast, bringing supplies and...
View ArticleICYMI, International Space Station Crew Deals With Air Leak From Foreign...
The BBC reports Astronauts tackle air leak on International Space Station.Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are having to deal with an air leak from a possible collision.It has been...
View ArticleSoyuz carrying astronauts to ISS fails two minutes after launch, astronauts safe
A Russian Soyuz FG rocket malfunctioned two minutes after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday morning, forcing the two men on board—a Russian cosmonaut and NASA astronaut—to...
View ArticleYet another launch — the 102nd orbital launch of the year brings supplies to...
There’s nothing special about the Falcon 9 launch on Wednesday afternoon. Which makes it very special. This is the 102nd orbital launch of the year, and one of perhaps ten such launches that may take...
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Moroccan Rihab Sadik Contributes Her Biomed Skills to NASA’s ISS GroundCrew
As NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Haguespacewalked seven hours March 29 to upgrade the ISS solar power grid, they were monitored by an ISS Biomedical Flight Controller and Medical...
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Swedish-NativeAmerican Iraqi-Israeli CoPilot gal+ Russian & Arab...
“You know what they say: teamwork makes the dream work!”Group 21 portrait at the Johnson Space Center Space - the 8-member 2013 class of NASA astronaut candidates, in front of an Orion mock-up on...
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Sunday Bag o' Sputnik
People old enough to have watched the Moon landing on live TV have been sharing details of where they were and who they watched it with. My own memories are hazy. Of course I remember watching Neil...
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NASA Live: Oleg Skripochka, Jessica Meir & Hazza Al Mansouri Launch to...
UPDATE: NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, Cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and the UAE’s first space traveler, Hazzaa Ali Almansoori, on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft,...
View ArticleNASA's first all-women spacewalk gets second chance this October
Let’s try it again: NASA will finally have its first all-women spacewalk. Or at least, that’s the plan. You might remember that back in March of this year, NASA announced its plan to have an all-women...
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POTUS* flipped the bird at Astronaut Jessica Meir
Donald Trump, sad man-baby, had another episode of the continuing meltdown yesterday as he flipped the bird at a woman who showed him up. This display of passive-aggressive nonverbal anger is no way to...
View ArticleHow is your fall this year?
The days are getting shorter. Summer is gone; Indian summer is just a tease as the days and nights grow colder. Today a large storm system is passing through the U.S. northeast and it will drop a lot...
View ArticleThe whole world laughs at Trump. It looks something like this.
The amount of fun we get at Trump’s expense is, sadly, not enough to balance out all the terror we experience as a result of his governance.
View ArticleAstronaut Christina Koch returns from her record-setting 328-day trip in space
In October, NASA astronaut Christina Koch made history as a participant in the world’s first all-female spacewalk with fellow astronaut Jessica Meir. On Thursday morning, Koch made history again when a...
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Little Brown Dog is overjoyed to see astronaut on her return home after 328...
Here’s a happy story! The video is priceless and smile-bearing.Christina Koch happy to be back on Earth after 328 daysDog people know the wag-your-tail-off happiness that happens when we come home....
View ArticleWestcoast:Spot the SpaceStation Mon Apr 06 8:40-8:43pm MaxHeight 44° Appears...
Mon Apr 06 8:40 PM, Visible: 3 min, Max Height: 44°, Appears: 30° above W, Disappears: 25° above SJust to have something positive to look forward to this evening.https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/
View ArticleSpotTheSpaceStation WestKost again! Tue Apr7 7:53-57pm MaxHeight86°...
Tue Apr 07 7:53 PM, Visible: 4 min, Max Height: 86°, Appears: 35° above NW, Disappears: 11° above SEAgain, Just to have something positive to look forward to this...
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Back to Space - Thanks Obama
Falcon 9/Dragon — Getting ready to goIf all goes according to plan today, at 4:32 pm Eastern, astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center, and become the first...
View ArticleSpot the Space Station 6 mins.Sat Jul 18 8:32 pmLeftKost from 10° over WSW to...
Time: Sat Jul 18 8:32 PM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 40°, Appears: 10° above WSW, Disappears: 10° above NEHQ-spotthestation@mail.nasa.govTHANK YOU, NASA AND ALL ASTRONAUTS ON BOARD!
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 9/15/2020: The Green Flash, and the Milky Way
The Green Flash is not a superhero.Good evening, Kibitzers!A couple of weeks ago, we visited some videos of imaginary cozy spots with storms outside. This was enough to persuade the YouTube robot that...
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Spot the Space Station - Westkost, Wed 9/16 8:18-23pm, fr 10° over SW to 32°...
Time: Wed Sep 16 8:18 PM, Visible: 5 min, Max Height: 86°, Appears: 10° above SW, Disappears: 32° above NE THANK YOU, NASA, international space station community, and all astronauts EVER!Subscribe...
View ArticleTo boldly go where no man has gone before.
We needed a break from the usual politics last night, and NASA provided it. They launched a rocket from Wallops Island Virginia to re-supply the ISS — we watched the stream on my laptop, and about 30...
View ArticleIf she can do it, so can you. Vote!
If you still have your feet on planet earth, you have no excuse not to vote. Go find your nearest early voting location and cast your ballot asap. Make sure your progressive friends and family do...
View ArticleScotty Got Beamed Up
Well, not really beamed up, but pretty cool. He got smuggled aboard.Star Trek: James Doohan's Ashes Had to Be Smuggled Onto the International Space StationVideo game entrepreneur Richard Garriott...
View ArticleNASA/SpaceX successfully launch 4 Astronauts to the ISS
NASA and SpaceX successfully launched four Crew-2 astronauts into Earth orbit early morning today at 5:49 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Crew Dragon...
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It is solar panel installation day at the ISS today!
Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet are currently spacewalking outside the International Space Station (ISS), installing the first of two massive ISS Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs). A second...
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Postcard from France - June 17, 2021
The photo above, Paris at night, was tweeted on Tuesday by Thomas Pesquet, the French astronaut onboard the ISS. Pesquet is worth a follow on Twitter just for his marvelous photos. Yesterday, he...
View ArticleExciting day on the Space Station. Moscow we have a problem.
The Russian’s added a long delayed large module to the ISS this week. There have been a series of glitches since launch but it finally docked. But during the integration into the station the new module...
View ArticleSpace debris caused by Russian anti-satellite weapons test threatens...
As if we need news of another possible disaster this Monday morning, US Spacecom is reporting a “debris-generating event” in low orbit space. Preliminary reports suggest that the Russians used a ground...
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The International Space Station and Russia
With a full invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia imminent, there are many issues about to get serious. Sanctions against the Russian nation as well as Putin and his cronies are about to be imposed by...
View ArticleNASA says American aboard International Space Station will come back on...
Arguably the most visible and successful example of cooperation between the US and Russia over the last decades, the ISS of course was forged in the fires of the Cold War. The many launch pad disasters...
View ArticleRussia is pulling out of the International Space Station, but that's not the...
In December, President Joe Biden extended the operation of the International Space Station (ISS) through 2030 as part of the Space Frontier Act. A month later, NASA set an explicit end date for the...
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📌This Week In The War On/For Women: October 1 - Int'l Day of Older...
From the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights: <big>UN expertpraises older women’s [irreplaceable resilience and contributions] in the face of continuous emergency...
View ArticleRussian Rocket Dysfunction (RRD)
In addition to several space-related incidents (Soyuz leak, Progress leak, Zvezda Service module loss of pressure, Nauka module sending the ISS off course), Russia tried to test a Satan II ICBM during...
View ArticleLet this be the day Starliner, PLEASE!
Please Starliner! I am begging you! Please, finally launch today at 10:52. Every time we stand on the VIP viewing deck and wait out the countdown, I am praying that my girl, Suni Williams and Butch...
View ArticleMore Bad News from Boeing as Starliner Keeps Two NASA Astronauts...
Boeing just can’t seem to catch a break these days. What was supposed to be a short week-long test flight of their Starliner capsule system for delivering astronauts to and from the International...
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(Poll) Gilligan's Space Program
S. S. Minnow CST-100 Boeing StarlinerJune 5th, 2024, the CST-100 Boeing Starliner with Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched for a three hour tour eight day mission to the International Space...
View ArticleKitchen Table Kibitzing ~ 9.16.24 ~ Space, the final frontier
I don’t hear many people talk about it, but 2 astronauts went to the International Space Station for 8 days and now they are “stranded” there for 8 months or so. They are there hanging out with 9 other...
View ArticleTroubles Keep Piling Up at the ISS
A few days ago, there was this rather alarming story about the ISS from Live Science:NASA warns of potential 'catastrophic failure' on leaking ISS — but Russia doesn't want to fix itThe International...
View ArticleI Guess Musk Wants NASA's Budget Too
The International Space Station is a massive piece of hardware, painstakingly assembled in space by multiple countries over many missions and many years. It has been a place for research and...
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Welcome Home Astronauts!
NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov finally made it home to mother Earth as they splashed down in the blue waters of the Gulf of...
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