"Da nyet, navernoe" to the Russians - US will buy local supply the international space station

[Bob]

No more Russian rockets delivering cargo (for now) to the International Space Station

Orbital Sciences Corp. (NYSE:ORB) has completed its third cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in the past 10 months, including the initial demonstration flight completed in October 2013 and the first two operational missions under the company’s $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA.

Its third CRS mission of 2014 is currently scheduled to take place in mid-October.

(Source (http://www.intelligent-aerospace.com/articles/2014/08/orbital-completes-cargo-delivery-to-iss-plans-next-mission-praises-public-private-partnership.html))


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Live video Feed link:
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Q: Who brings the Astronauts back and sends up replacement crews these days?

[avid]

That is an 'above and beyond' agreement, as everything is shared 'up there'. Above top secret? They have shared space and advanced technologies for years - and have advanced transportation devices- which are shared, so what goes on down on the earth is just monetary sabre-rattling, to keep us in fear, and at profitable wars. I do believe that Russia wants to keep some sort of peace, but the Zio-banksters are still rattling cages everywhere, with the Soros betting one against the other and being implicit in intervening everywhere for profit. Check his latest scams and bets anywhere on Google.

[Bob]

Expedition 41 will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

Expedition 41 crew members take a break from training at NASA's Johnson Space Center to pose for a crew portrait.


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Pictured on the front row are Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev (left), commander; and NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore, flight engineer.

Pictured from the left (back row) are NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova, all flight engineer.

Expedition 41 will begin in September 2014. The remainder of the crew is scheduled to launch in September 2014.

Launch: Sept. 25, 2014, 4:23 p.m. EDT
Landing: March 2015


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Previous Mission #40 statistics:
Launch: March 25, 2014, 5:17 p.m. EDT
Docking: March 27, 2014, 7:53 p.m. EDT
Landing Scheduled: Sept. 10, 2014, 10:24 p.m. EDT

[Bob]

~ Rats in Space ~

Sounds like a bad "b" grade movie, but NASA is saying that studying rats for long periods of time is important to understand key elements such as how the immune system actually is weakened over time being in a low gravity environment.

(Source (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/08/21/rats-in-spaaace-nasa-wants-to-put-rodents-on-space-station/))

An experiment on the station can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 140 hours for astronauts to perform, Robinson said. There are about 200 experiments active on Expedition 40 right now. Those that take longer tend to be human body-related experiments, and combine multiple investigators to get the most return for the science.

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[Bob]

Immune system weakens in lower gravity

(Source (http://www.voanews.com/content/study-human-immune-system-weakens-in-space/1647088.html))

During the final flight of the US space shuttle Atlantis in the summer of 2011, one of the most important pieces of scientific cargo on board was a medical experiment designed to test how the human immune system responds to stress and disease in the microgravity conditions of Earth orbit.

The experiment contained samples of living human cells housed in a sterile, temperature-controlled module.

Astronauts pushed a button to infect the cells with a common bacterial toxin that causes sepsis, a severe and potentially lethal skin infection.

Cells in space didn't fight infection

The cell samples that went into space showed a diminished ability to activate a normal immune response, according to Hammamieh.

“This means that the cells are not able to respond to a pathogen anymore," she said.

"For an astronaut, that means that it will be easier to get sick because their immune system is weakening.”

The cells in the space shuttle experiment were so busy dealing with microgravity that they barely put up a fight against infections, said Marti Jett, director of the Integrative Systems Biology Program at the Medical Command.

Researchers found the reduced gravity also activated certain genes in the human tissue involved with rheumatoid arthritis and tumor growth, raising additional health concerns for human space flight.


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S.R. Hadden: "The powers that be have been very busy lately, falling over each other to position themselves for the game of the millennium. Maybe I can help deal you back in. " from Contact

And Hadden went up into space to deal with his cancers.. maybe not the best thing to do..

[Bob]

Griffin urges government to reduce dependence on Russia, proactively pursue space, and clearly define goals and policy

(Source (http://www.intelligent-aerospace.com/articles/2014/08/former-nasa-administrator-griffin-urges-government-to-reduce-dependence-on-russia-proactively-pursue-space-and-clearly-define-goals-and-policy.html))

"We need better definition of what the government aerospace sector intends to do. We have a rather poorly defined set of space policies, both civil and military. They’re not what they were in previous years but, at the same time, are not clearly defined. What [the U.S. Congress expects] NASA to be doing is not that clear, nor is a long-term commitment to space programs.

"In the U.S., the aerospace community is in the midst of a study on what are we going to do about engines to power Atlas rockets given difficulties with Russia over the Ukraine situation. We buy our engines for the Atlas rocket from Russia. Most of Congress was not aware of that until recently. A study on alternatives is ongoing. It is late to be thinking about that. Nonetheless, what the U.S. wants to do in the aerospace arena is more than a little uncertain. It would be helpful if that were clarified. What do we need? Government constitutes a very large portion, the largest portion, of what this nation does in aerospace; yet, it is difficult for commercial aerospace entities to know where they should be investing."

Dr. Michael Griffin was interviewed, and had served as the 11th Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), from April 2005 to January 2009 and most recently was Eminent Scholar and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

He could be considered qualified and expert in the fields.

Prior to his nomination as NASA Administrator, Griffin was the Space Department Head at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, President and Chief Operating Officer of In-Q-Tel, Inc., and served in several positions within Orbital Sciences Corporation, including Chief Executive Officer of Orbital’s Magellan Systems division and General Manager of the Space Systems Group.

Earlier in his career, Griffin served as Chief Engineer and as Associate Administrator for exploration at NASA, and as Deputy for Technology at the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University, where he taught courses in spacecraft design, applied mathematics, guidance and navigation, compressible flow, computational fluid dynamics, spacecraft attitude control, Astrodynamics and Introductory Aerospace engineering.

Griffin holds seven academic degrees, including: a B.S. in Physics from Johns Hopkins University; a M.S. in Aerospace Science from Catholic University of America; a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland; a M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California; a M.S. in Applied Physics from Johns Hopkins University; a M.A. in Business Administration from Loyola College; and a M.S.E. in Civil Engineering from George Washington University.


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