NASA Worker Falls to His Death… Monday, Mar 14 2011 

Truth , 1IDVET 13:57

My condolences to his family. This is truly a sad day for Kennedy Space Center.

Worker falls to his death at Kennedy Space Center, NASA says

(CNN) — A space shuttle contract worker fell to his death Monday morning while working at the launchpad, preparing the space shuttle Endeavour for its final flight, according to a NASA official.

United Space Alliance, the prime contractor for the U.S. space shuttle program, said in a press release that the victim was one of its employees, James Vanover.

“He fell at the pad, and NASA emergency medical personnel responded but were unable to revive him,” said Kennedy Space Center spokeswoman Candrea Thomas.

Vanover was a swing-arm engineer, United Space Alliance spokeswoman Kari Fluegel said. He supported work on the gaseous oxygen vent hood as well as the orbiter access arm, which is the passageway through which astronauts enter the space shuttle.

Fluegel said his body was found on another level of Launch Pad 39A at the space hub in northeast Florida. It was not immediately known what caused him to fall.

 

 

NASA News… Monday, Jul 26 2010 

Government and NASA , 1IDVET 18:50

NASA news.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)
Artist’s conception of Sedna, an exoplanet hiding on the fringes of our solar system.

NASA’s Deep Space Camera Locates Host of ‘Earths’
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Scientists celebrated Sunday after finding more than 700 suspected new planets — including up to 140 similar in size to Earth — in just six weeks of using a powerful new space observatory.

Early results from NASA’s Kepler Mission, a small satellite observing deep space, suggested planets like Earth were far more common than previously thought.

Past discoveries suggested most planets outside our solar system were gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn — but the new evidence tipped the balance in favor of solid worlds.

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Orion Pad Abort System… Thursday, May 13 2010 

Government and NASA , , 1IDVET 19:14

Here’s a little NASA news for your purview.

This is about the Orion Pad Abort System. Good shit.

Orion Pad Abort 1 Test a Spectacular Success

NASA conducted a spectacular though brief flight test of the Orion Launch Abort System early Thursday morning at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, N.M.

The 500,000-lb. thrust abort motor rocketed the boilerplate crew module and its launch abort stack away from launch pad 32E at White Sands on time at 7 a.m. MDT, and initial indications that all systems for steering, separation, stabilization, deployment of the parachutes and landing worked perfectly.

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NASA News: STS-1 Anniversary… Monday, Apr 12 2010 

Government and NASA , , , 1IDVET 16:22

Here’s a little history from NASA. The shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base two days later.

Cool stuff.

Some trivia; the shuttle booster is painted white here. They stopped doing that to lower the weight.

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The Boldest Test Flight in History

Early on the morning of April 12, 1981, two astronauts sat strapped into their seats on the flight deck of Columbia, a radically new spacecraft known as the space shuttle.

John Young, the commander, had already flown in space four times, including a walk on the moon in 1972. Bob Crippen, the pilot, was a Navy test pilot who would go on to command three future shuttle missions. But nothing either man had done or would do was quite like this.

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NASA News… Wednesday, Apr 7 2010 

NASA , 1IDVET 16:27

Since I work for NASA, I thought I’d start sharing news that I hear/see about NASA.

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NASA extends space contract with Russia on ISS

NASA announced Tuesday that it signed a contract with the Russian space agency to shuttle US astronauts to the orbiting International Space Station.

The 335 million dollar contract extension is for the “transportation, rescue and related services” of US crew bound for the ISS in 2013, NASA said in a statement.

The contract “covers comprehensive Soyuz support, including all necessary training and preparation for launch, crew rescue, and landing of a long-duration mission for six individual station crew members.”

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Another Slam on the Global Warming BS Monday, Aug 4 2008 

Global Whining , , 1IDVET 20:59

This article is by Physicist Walter Cunningham, NASA Apollo 7 Astronaut in the July/August 2008 Issue of Launch Magazine.

Award-winning Astronaut Slams Hansen – Urges NASA to ‘Debunk the current hysteria’ over Warming

Bottom line, global warming being caused by man, is a whole pile of horseshit. It is a scam, just follow the money trail and it is that simple an equation.

Here’s a clue, the sun. Here’s another, clouds. Oh, wait, another one, water. Add these three things with wind and you have a climate. I know it’s over simplification, but morons need their information condensed and made easy to understand.

Here’s a taste:

In Science, Ignorance is not Bliss

Written by Walter Cunningham

NASA has played a key role in one of the greatest periods of scientific progress in history. It is uniquely positioned to collect the most comprehensive data on our biosphere.

For example, recently generated NASA data enabled scientists to finally understand the Gulf Stream warming mechanism and its effect on European weather. Such data will allow us to improve our models, resulting in better seasonal forecasts.

NASA’s Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide (CO2). This information, contrary to the assumption used in all the warming models, is ignored by global warming alarmists.

Climate understanding and critical decision making require comprehensive data about our planet’s land, sea, and atmosphere. Without an adequate satellite system to provide such data, policy efforts and monitoring international environmental agreements are doomed to failure. Our satellite monitoring capability is being crippled by interagency wrangling and federal budget issues. As much as a third of our satellites need replacing in the next couple of years.

NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science. Advocacy is replacing objective evaluation of data, while scientific data is being ignored in favor of emotions and politics.

There are excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the Sun and the Earth’s temperature, while scientists cannot find a relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption, and global temperatures. But global warming is an issue no longer being decided in the scientific arena.

Saying the Earth is warming is to state the obvious. Since the end of the ice age, the Earth’s temperature has increased approximately 16 degrees Fahrenheit and sea levels have risen a total of 300 feet. That is certain and measurable evidence of warming, but it is not evidence of AGW—human-caused warming.

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