The astronauts on mission STS-126 continued yesterday, Wednesday, in transferring equipment and supplies from the shuttle to the International Space Station using the Leonardo Supply Module
At 22:50 p.m. Heidi-Marie Stefanshin-Piper and Steve Bowen participated in interviews for several media outlets. As I recall yesterday, they performed the first spacewalk designed to repair and lubricate the drive system of the Alpha solar collector that adjusts to follow the sun. during the spacewalk Piper lost the bag including the work tools and the lubricant, and had to share Bowen's equipment.
Today it became known that one of the spiders that 'participates' In an experiment of high school students From Colorado, lost on the ferry.
The rest of the crew continued to work on preparing the station for future crews and moving equipment and supplies to the station. The team members will install some cabinets in the Destiny lab, as well as build a new residential complex. The equipment installed during the STS-126 mission will provide additional capacity to the station to accommodate more astronauts and increase the station's permanent crew from three to six in spring 2009.
The team members will prepare for the second spacewalk on Thursday evening Israel time. This time you will join Piper Shane Kibamoru, on a journey outside the space station and repairing the solar collector engine.
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to the little brother I write my gut feeling about where the majority of the public is going from time to time in the "Haunted Country" section.
In any case, following the previous comment, I translated the short news and it will be uploaded tonight.
And to my question?
What is your gut feeling?
After all, the site received exposure from the connection with YNET, a Google search for astronomy topics brings up the most returns from 'Hidan'. Hence, every person with an affinity for science knows the site. The site is great but it also has no significant competitors in Hebrew.
Why don't professionals use the comments on the site as a bridge to the public? I don't remember from my days in the academy any 'clues' that make the site unworthy?
(During my studies I worked with delinquent youth, Prof. Shabib and Prof. Mario Livio lovingly made available to me their private means of illustration/training)
I saw the news in Universe Today. I hope for a translation soon, unfortunately it won't happen today.
Michael, Roy, Avi:
Here is another topic. Not long ago Shostak (the chairman of SETI) stated that he believes that within 20 years there will be first contact with extraterrestrials, an article about his statement was published in Universe Today. The SETI project manager responded to this article and said that we do not know what Shostak was basing himself on, but he promises to do it in 20 Next year 100% effort.
To me, this direct connection between the professionals and the science-seeking public is wonderful. Why is this not happening in Israel?
Does this happen in Israel?
little brother:
I do not agree with you.
Even before we get to other Saturn planets there are good reasons to check the possibility of reaching additional planets and moons that may be useful when the Sun moves to the next phase.
Issues that do not depend on the destination of the flight such as the creation of infrastructures that allow a prolonged stay in space are also important.
But, since neither of us is responsible for the budgets of the participating countries - maybe it's time to move on to another topic?
It's even more of a joke after you said what you said - international cooperation is nice, pathetic that it's for running after a spider.
It's also a joke that you ask me such important questions, who do you think I am? 🙂
But if you're here and I'm here... with current technology it would take a spacecraft to reach the nearest star (4.2 AU), well, throw out a number? 80,000 years. In short, we need to invest in basic research. For example, if there was another LHC, now it would back up the Swiss one. In any case, cuts research time in half and enables different approaches to solving a problem. I took 10 billion from the century. I would invest a little more in researching seas and oceans. You know the curiosity that there were more people in space than in the depths. I would promote ITER, which is the first attempt to build a fusion-based reactor. Another billion went .
I would double the tax on cars that consume more than a liter per 10 km - the money from the tax goes to the transportation of electricity-driven trains. I made another 100 billion.
I would invest the remaining 189 billion in gastric bypass surgery for obese Americans.
To the question: Another option, at the bottom of the group of four latest news and above the reference to "Space and Astronomy" there is a link called "All articles". This link leads to responses from the beginning of the current month (changes every month) with the option to browse to previous months or if you wish - also change the month and year in the URL and get directly to a specific month from 1996 onwards.
To the question:
On the left is a chapter called "Recent Articles".
If you log in every day, all the articles that interest you are voted from there.
If you missed a day or you want a summary before you get into the article - you can go to the "more articles" link in that chapter.
little brother:
The truth is, it's just a joke.
Don't you think that technology should be developed that will allow us to reach other planets?
Don't you think the space explorer is very important and useful in this regard?
And what about the station's contribution to international cooperation as a goal in itself?
Although I really didn't need to justify the conduct of governments all over the world that surprisingly, despite many conflicts of interest and despite the fact that they employ many serious professionals, reached the same conclusion, but nevertheless I thought it would be worthwhile to give some hints to those who think that all of the above are stupid.
Avi Shalom, on the one hand it is nice that all the articles are arranged on the main page according to categories, but on the other hand it makes it very difficult for those who enter the website daily and want to see only the new articles, it is very inconvenient to start going from category to category and check if a new article has appeared in it.
Is there any page on the website, as it was in the past, that presents all the articles in the science in one long list arranged by date, so that you can immediately see all the newest articles at the top of the page?
Thanks.
I just saw a program about it on station RT. The space budget is smaller, mind you, than the annual spending of Americans on chewing gum.
Read !
100 billion euros and the significant events that were done/achieved: hit a ball
Golf around the world, threw a paper plane and now chasing a spider.
By the way, did you read?
little brother:
If you read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
You will see that the station was not built to run after a spider.
The most stupid project done by the human race for generations...
Does anyone know of anything positive that came out of this station? to someone
Have an idea to do something positive with this station?
God knows how many billions have burned/are burning and will burn
To run after a spider.