Videos of July 17 ARC Flight Opportunities Webinar online
Updated: 2012-07-30 21:01:30
: HOME ABOUT NEWS RESOURCES BLOG SIGN IN www.nasa.gov oct→ Opportunities Platforms Flights Payloads Blog Videos of July 17 ARC Flight Opportunities Webinar online Monday , July 30, 2012 We held a successful Flight Opportunities Webinar on Tuesday July 17 as a follow up to the introductionary Flight Opportunities Program Tour Webinar on June 26. The recorded videos of this latest Webinar are now available for viewing on Youtube by clicking on the links below . The videos have been broken down according to : speaker Flight Opportunities Program Introduction by Richard Mains also displayed above Flight Testing a Novel Biosensor Package by Ravi Komatireddy a payload that flew on the May 2012 parabolic flight week Suborbital Flights as a Method of Studying the Fundamental Physics of Particle
: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Mega ice avalanche on Saturn moon has liquid flow 17:15 30 July 2012 Picture of the Day Space Nicola Guttridge , contributor Image : NASA JPL Space Science Institute Icy peaks , moonquakes , squashed poles and towering mountain ridges taller than Everest chilly Iapetus , one of Saturn's many moons , is an odd place When the wall of the Malun crater broke and plummeted some 8 kilometres to the crater floor ,
Almost 100 aircraft were lost in the river during World War II alone, and it's not certain how many are still to be recovered.
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: , , Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Man goes to near-space , checks out view , and jumps 18:02 26 July 2012 Picture of the Day Catherine Brahic , environment news editor Image : Jay Nemeth Red Bull Content Pool Just moments after this picture of Felix Baumgartner was taken , the extreme skydiver was plumetting towards Earth at speeds reaching 862 kilometres per hour . His freefall from 29,455 metres lasted 3 minutes and 48 seconds . His
: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Emotional space voyage to deliver antimatter hunter 17:18 25 July 2012 Space Valerie Jamieson , features editor , CERN , Geneva Image : Martial Trezzini AP Press Association Images The five NASA astronauts who flew on the final space shuttle mission last year were at CERN near Geneva , Switzerland , today to hear a progress report about their precious cargo , a cosmic antimatter-hunting machine called the
Flying into London for the Olympics? Get in line.
Unlike many astronauts, Sally Kristen Ride did not dream of going into space since childhood. She was already in her mid-twenties, completing her Ph.D. in physics, when the idea dawned. NASA was recruiting women to apply to become astronauts for a spacecraft that had not yet flown: the Space Shuttle. She was well prepared to [...]
Astronauts and satellites get to watch the Games from Olympian heights.
As the world's athletes put on their game face, the British Army prepares for aerial attack. 
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In the course of her too-brief career, Sally Ride was many things: astronaut, educator, trail-blazer.
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: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Fantasy forest pulls focus from Singapore's skyline 15:50 17 July 2012 Catherine Brahic , environment editor Image : Chris McGrath Getty Images How do you make a garden stand out against a skyline dominated by towering glass skyscrapers Throw fluorescent lighting , climbing plants and fashionable neon colours at the . problem The new Bay South Garden on Singapore's waterfront open since 29 June , features 18
: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Peacock-feather cells at the heart of a death spiral 18:04 16 July 2012 Picture of the Day Nicola Guttridge , contributor Image : Evie Maifoshie , Imperial College London Reminiscent of a peacock's tail , these filamentous objects looks like they were plucked from an art gallery or fashion show but they are actually a cluster of reprogrammed cells , known as induced-pluripotent stem cells . These particular
The next three residents of the International Space Station are due to blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 10:40 pm U.S. Eastern time on Saturday.
Several space ventures have reported a variety of seemingly small steps that are moving them closer to giant leaps in spaceflight mdash; including the rise of new made-in-the-USA spaceships and commercial missions to the moon.
Here's a smorgasbord of space developments:
On July 11, 1897, 115 years ago today, Swedish explorer S.A. Andrée attempted to reach the North Pole by balloon.
The world's first transatlantic TV broadcast included a quip from President Kennedy and folk dancing in Quebec.
CURRENT MOONmoon phasesCURRENT PLANETS and brilliant stars in early July. Directions and times are for the northern subtropics and vary somewhat for other latitudes.• Bright & golden Mercury is close to the western horizon at dusk, sets WNW after dark.• Bright & orange Mars is SW at dusk, sets west near midnight.• Bright & yellowish Saturn is SSW at dusk, sets west after midnight and isaccompanied very closely by the bright and blueish star Spica.• Very bri...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/LowerCal/comment.html?entrynum=58">Read More</a>
When the AirBurr flying robot crashes into an obstacle, it rights itself and keeps going.