Nasa 2010

[irishspirit]

Hi Guy's,

I Came across this which I thought most strange.

As you are all aware, Wkileaks are planning to release a Video showing the US government involved in the killing of innocent people in Afgan on April the 5th at the National "Press" club. Nothing new, wikileaks are always breaking AMAZING stories. However, this has now come to the publics attention.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...tle-discovery/

Well, when NASA made this public knowledge, the openly talk about seal/leaks issues and so forth. Why would they do that?

Going by the content of this article, are NASA planning to upstage wikileaks on this day. Are NASA willing to destroy this shuttle in the hope that it takes away from wikileaks press conference because every major news outlet will cover this story for weeks to come?

Just speculation at this time, but will be interesting to watch.

Just putting it out there for debate.

[shybastid]

President Obama has announced he is cutting the budget for Nasa. Is it just me? Or do you think he has been told about the Black Op Space Capabilities and just does'nt see the need to continue the charade and expense?? I could be wrong. But that would explain a LOT.

[Humble Janitor]

Apparently, some former astronauts are upset with this as well. My question is, why do we need to go back to the moon when we have the black ops capable of getting us not only there, but Mars as well?

[Luke]

I would put wild speculation here: Who says this "secret space program" is American at all? (that is assuming it exists).

[xbusymom]

I heard on the radio last week that Nasa will have only 5 more (probably 4 by now) shuttle flights and then will be shut down to let someone else (country) take over and run with the space program.

[beyondmyctrl]

Obama NASA plan: Mars shot as next generation's Apollo mission
According to President Obama, NASA needs a goal beyond the space station and the moon for human spaceflight to inspire the nation as the Apollo mission did. He has chosen Mars. President Obama took the stage at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday, where he gave a speech about the future of the human spaceflight program and laid down a challenge for NASA to send an astronaut to Mars by the 2030s

2030's LOLOL!!!!! jesus ch**st ! somebody do something already !!!!

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/04...Apollo-mission

[shybastid]

It just seems there is more going on to our Space program then we're being told. The shuttle? It flys up...Drops off some astronughts...do some tests...grow some crystals.. Come home.
THATS IT?
Maybe we should ground it then.
Me? I think everyone in Space program knows more then us. Except Nasa.

They know less. At least the way they act and respond that way.

Hey!! Here's a secret after FORTY years.. There's water on the moon and mars!!!

I'm not kidding!

NASA said so..

They said NO for forty years. Guess what? They were wrong.
UFO sightings by different Apollo missions? Did'nt happen.. Oh wait! OK maybe a couple.
But just unidentified. So no cause for alarm something else may be up there. We'll let you know.
Ground the Amatuer liers.

[xbusymom]

Posted by beyondmyctrl (here)
...human spaceflight program and laid down a challenge for NASA to send an astronaut to Mars by the 2030s

2030's LOLOL!!!!! jesus ch**st ! somebody do something already !!!!

hahaha... he will probably just disclose the Mars jumprooms... (that already exist)...

Obama: "Hey.. looky at what I just found"

[Studeo]

The International Space Station, the $100 billion outpost that has steadfastly orbited the Earth for more than a decade, may get a chance to explore new horizons when it retires in 2020. NASA is considering using part of it to build a spaceship that would be sent to an asteroid, while also mulling more exotic artificial-gravity designs reminiscent of Arthur C Clarke.

President Barack Obama jettisoned his predecessor's plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 and in April proposed to send them to an asteroid by 2025 instead.

NASA is now trying to work out the details of how to carry out such a mission and is hosting a conference on the topic in Washington, DC, on Tuesday and Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Brian Wilcox of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, presented (pdf) some of the ideas generated by the agency's engineers during brainstorming sessions in January and June.

Mother ship Tranquility
One idea is to take apart the International Space Station, which is currently set to be retired in 2020, and use one of its crew compartments to build an asteroid-bound spacecraft in orbit instead of launching a similar capsule from Earth.

"These [asteroid] missions are going to occur at about the time that the space station is near retirement, so one has to wonder, 'Is it possible to use assets from the station as part of your mission complement?'" he said.

A space station compartment called Node 3 or Tranquility, which launched to the station aboard a shuttle mission in February, is particularly attractive for recycling because it has docking ports that could be used to attach to a pair of smaller, more nimble spacecraft. After arriving at the asteroid, astronauts could enter the smaller spacecraft and detach from the main ship in order to inspect the asteroid up close (see an illustration of the docked craft).

Spinning space odyssey
A separate idea is to use a rotating design in order to generate artificial gravity, a concept made famous in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. Two spacecraft would be tied to opposite ends of a tether a few hundred metres long and set rotating around each other at speeds of tens of metres per second (see illustration).

The rotation would make astronauts in the spacecraft feel a constant acceleration similar to Earth's gravity, preventing some of the bone and muscle loss that would otherwise occur over the months-long missions. "You can introduce quite a substantial equivalent gravity field ... [eliminating] the deleterious effects of microgravity," Wilcox said.

Wilcox described the proposals as concepts rather than part of a final design for an asteroid mission. Further discussion of how to carry out such a mission is scheduled to take place at the conference on Wednesday.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...-asteroid.html

[Eric J (Viking)]

Does anyone know what this is about??? Could be just a simple explanation!!

IMPORTANT NASA press conference 08-26-2010

Are invited to the event:

1) Jon Morse, Director, NASA Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington.

2) William Borucki, Kepler Mission Science Principal Investigator, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field,California.

3) Matthew Holman, Associate Director, Theoretical Astrophysic Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.

4) Alycia Weinberger, Departament of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington.


NOTE: a guest is an expert in solar activity and geomagnetic activity. Coincidence? so all what I see........

Anyone heard anything....?

viking

[watchZEITGEISTnow]

http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html

[Richard]

"NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Aug. 26, to discuss new findings from the Kepler Telescope."

The Kepler mission is to find habitable Earth like planets....

[HURRITT ENYETO]

NASA are supposedly making a major announcement today. I think it will involve the discovery of another earth like planet. However i dont know how major this could be as they have already discovered lots.Or maybe a waterworld?

[tone3jaguar]

They probably found a couple hundred of them.

[frank samuel]

Ha ha the pressure is on and they have to say something . Even it is half lies or half truth.

[Fredkc]

Please note neoemc2's thread over here:
"Alien Solar System looks strikingly like ours "
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...6517#post46517

[frank samuel]

[Please note neoemc2's thread over here:
"Alien Solar System looks strikingly like ours "
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...6517#post46517

Thanks for the info guys waiting on the NASA press conference.

[freespirit]

For some reason I can't seem to load the Nasa homepage unless I use a proxy server ?

[frank samuel]

Well if we expected then to announce that they found life on the Kepler 9 system, good luck. NASA would never do that without official clearance. Anyway a scientific term of measure was mention multiple times , Transit Timing Variation. Here's a web link that talks a little bit about that.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0708192842.htm

[frank samuel]

Posted by freespirit (here)
For some reason I can't seem to load the Nasa homepage unless I use a proxy server ?

Here's another link they are now on the question and answer session.

http://www.nasa.gov/333091main_NASA_...io_Windows.asx