![]() | Tour of the International Space Station Think know the International Space Station? Take this NASA tour to learn more about one of the most challenging projects in the history of exploration! There's more information at www.nasa.gov/station. |
![]() | INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION MAY BE IN BIG TROUBLE! JUNE 14, 2007 KEITH OLBERMANN |
![]() | International Space Station form the Earth The international space station recorded from the Earth. See the new P1 and S1 truss segments with radiators, soyuz, progress, mobile transporter with canadarm. From: http://www.iss-tracking.de/videos/videos.html |
![]() | STS-117 - ATLANTIS - ISS DOCKING (INSIDE SPACE SHUTTLE) STS-117 - ATLANTIS - ISS DOCKING (INSIDE SPACE SHUTTLE) NASA TV |
![]() | International Space Station This NASA produced film (4:25 min) describes the parts and functions of the International Space Station. It is an excellent movie for the Galaxy Explorers ISS Mission Plan. |
![]() | Atlantis' Acrobats: One backflip and a dock to ISS Watch the shuttle perform a back flip in space as it approaches the International Space Station. At about 600 feet below the station, the shuttle flips bass ackwards, exposing its underside to the station. As the shuttle bellies up to the station, the station crew has about 9 minutes to snap up as many photos as it can. The digital snapshots are downlinked to Earth to check for chips and dings on the surface of the tiles, which act as the vehicle's heat shield. Tiles range in thickness from a quarter-inch to four-and-a-half inches thick. The space shuttle leading edges and the nose cone are made of reinforced carbon-carbon material capable of withstanding temperatures up to 3,600 degrees, now that's a hottie! The Shuttle Atlantis, which launched Feb. 7, 2007 and flipped upside down before docking to the station Feb. 9, has 24,000 thermal protection tiles. |
![]() | ISS crew playing seriously. Video from the crew of expedition 13 inside the International Space Station orbiting above us. |
![]() | Hurricane Dean from the International Space Station/NASA Hurricane Dean from the International Space Station with the NASA STS-118 Shuttle Endeavour Crew - Saturday, August 18th, 2007 |
![]() | Mystery force baffles NASA Mysteriously, five spacecraft that flew past the Earth have each displayed unexpected anomalies in their motions. These newfound enigmas join the so-called "Pioneer anomaly" as hints that unexplained forces may appear to act on spacecraft. A decade ago, after rigorous analyses, anomalies were seen with the identical Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft as they hurtled out of the solar system. Both seemed to experience a tiny but unexplained constant acceleration toward the sun. A host of explanations have been bandied about for the Pioneer anomaly. At times these are rooted in conventional science — perhaps leaks from the spacecraft have affected their trajectories. At times these are rooted in more speculative physics — maybe the law of gravity itself needs to be modified. What's your theory? I have one |
![]() | ISS/Soyuz Undocking Undocking of Soyuz TMA-8/12S from the International Space Station on 28th September 2006. |