Astronaut

If you are looking for a career that combines cool technology, interesting science and great adventure, you could hardly make a better choice than becoming an astronaut. And there is potential for growth in the field. With the construction of the International Space Station, there will be a permanent human presence in outer space and a need for astronauts. But becoming an astronaut in the U.S. space program is not easy, and the process can take several years. There are three types of astronauts in the U.S. space program: Commander/pilot Mission specialist Payload specialist The commander is responsible for the mission, the crew and the vehicle. The pilot assists the commander in operating the vehicle and deploying satellites. The mission specialist works with the commander and pilots

The new documents have finally been deciphered, and I have updates on the famed Sheriff versus Astronaut story (part 1 of which can be read here: -versus-astronaut-pt-1/ ) First, some background on the astronaut. From the photo, it’s very clear that Marvin Clusterfield is a legitimate psychic. It’s true that a number of psychics are indeed [...]

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We visited Portsmouth Children's Museum on Sunday. Some friends of ours were supposed to join us, but they were bitten by the flu bug:( Wesley and Lani had a great time exploring all three floors. When Lani started losing it we had already been there almost three hours. Click on Wesley's sweet face if you want to see more photos from our day! I am off to finish disinfecting my house. Lani and

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Astronaut Farmer is one of my favorite movie since it does tells us that dreams can be made possible. But for Richard Branson, it was more like a challenge! Thanks to Mr. Richard Branson and Burt Rutan, space tourism isn't a fantasy anymore. SpaceShipTwo is the vehicle unveiled by them which promises to take a handful of rich tourist into suborbital joy rides(something like roller coaster in

Science museums are really cool places with tons of wonderful learning experiences available to the public. You can walk through giant heart models, see dazzling laser displays, even gape at actual moon landers. But let’s face it, the best part of every science museum is normally in a bin near the cash register: freeze dried ice cream. Four of the tastiest words in the English language. But thanks to ThinkGeek.com, you can now get the ice cream astronauts eat without the risk of accidentally learning anything. Yay! ThinkGeek.com sells the famous freeze-dried ice cream at $2.99 a pop, and offers three flavor choices: Mint Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Chocolate Chip, and my personal favorite, Neopolitan. Space age strawberry is just so delicious! You also get 50 “Geek Points” for each ice cream bar that you buy, which adds up quickly (the geek points are redeemable for some seriously cool things, including the USB Snowbot which is now sitting on my desktop thanks to Geek P

Goodbye our first Malaysian astronaut, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor. He will make history when he goes into space on board the Russian Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft at 9.22pm (Malaysian time) on Wednesday.Read more at :

Sheikh Muszhapar Shukor the first Malaysian astronaut preps for his baptism of fire as he will have his first 12-day voyage into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft. Shukor will be accompanied by a woman astronaut, Peggy Whitson from Iowa and Yuri Melenchenko from Russia. The trio will be lifted into orbit courtesy of Soyuz-FG rocket this Wednesday night at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

I just received an e-mail that questions Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor’s position as the Malaysian Astronaut. This is due to the information on NASA website, where they are not calling him an astronaut but a Spaceflight Participant. While reading that e-mail, I realize that they’re still some people out there that strongly believe that they are so bloody smart but actually so goddamn stupid!! Keep complaining about almost everything just because it is not them. Or maybe he/she was also one of those people that had tried their luck during the selection but failed miserably!. In my opinion, whatever you would like to call him..or NASA called him…he is still going to space and he’s still going to be our first astronaut!! Why do I say that?… Based on Wikipedia, An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. While generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometime

FM: Ok everyone...if you're to choose between the two below to become Malaysia's first Astronaut, who will you pick? The answer is obvious isn't it? We'll pick the GOOD LOOKING ONE! That's the Malaysian way..hah hah hah. If we have a SMS contest to select the candidate...the answer will still be the same.It is official: Dr Sheikh Muszaphar is our astronaut PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has named Dr Sheikh Muszaphar as the “primary candidate” and Kapt Dr Faiz Khaleed as the “secondary candidate” to go to space. There has been a lot of speculation in the past few weeks with the foreign media naming Dr Sheikh Muszaphar as Malaysia’s first angkasawan (astronaut). The Malaysian Angkasawan will join American astronaut Peggy Whitson and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko in the flight to the International Space Station on board the Russian Soyuz TMA-11, which will blast off from Baikanur in Kazakhstan on Oct 10. Source: The Star Online 

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It was a fine Sunday morning that I received a letter from NASA saying that my name had been short listed in the top 10 candidates to go on the moon. Wow! I exclaimed rubbing my eyes with astonishment! Oh, I was just reading the really inspiring interviews of Sunita Williams! I hope you all have heard the name of Sunita Williams who had recently gone to space. You can see her picture here. After reading this article, my imagination went wild and I visualized my own journey to space which I describe below: I had never imagined in my best dreams that I would be selected!!! After this I had to join the training program for some days. At that great place they mainly taught us about American and the Russian type of space stations. You need to know about the heating system, all the energy, how to regulate that, power and motion control and how the space station orients itself.(Learnt all these by reading the interviews of Sunita Williams). It’s pretty fun actually if you are inte

The lawyer for Lisa Nowak — the former NASA astronaut accused of assaulting a romantic rival — is asking a judge this morning to throw out her statements to police, suppress evidence collected from her car and remove her ankle-bracelet monitor. More: continued here Bu Yazıyı Paylaşın

The 77 year old Buzz Aldrin, the same guy that walked on the moon, has recently went under the knife. The astronaut was spotted leaving Lasky Clinic In Beverly Hills all bandaged up post-op. If that’s what you look like after getting surgery, then remind me never to get a face-lift. Poor guy looks like he’s in a lot of pain.

It was a fine Sunday morning that I received a letter from NASA saying that my name had been short listed in the top 10 candidates to go on the moon. Wow! I exclaimed rubbing my eyes with astonishment! Oh, I was just reading the really inspiring interviews of Sunita Williams! I hope you all have heard the name of Sunita Williams who had recently gone to space. You can see her picture here. After reading this article, my imagination went wild and I visualized my own journey to space which I describe below: I had never imagined in my best dreams that I would be selected!!! After this I had to join the training program for some days. At that great place they mainly taught us about American and the Russian type of space stations. You need to know about the heating system, all the energy, how to regulate that, power and motion control and how the space station orients itself.(Learnt all these by reading the interviews of Sunita Williams). It’s pretty fun actually if you are inte

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Flashing a big smile, teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan climbed aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on Wednesday for liftoff on a mission she hopes will realize the unfulfilled dreams of her predecessor, Christa McAuliffe. Read more

This is a cowboy. This cowboy lived in the old west, where he was the sheriff of a small town. He routinely used a lasso to round up ne’er-do-wells and used his revolver to shoot horses. He hog tied dogs and chickens and left them in the road, so they could get run over by carriages. He jumped up and down on a trampoline. These compose the responsibilities of a sheriff back in those days. In one instance he was contacted by a man from space via telephone, who needed some jobs done from him. This man, an astronaut, had left his sandwich out on a table in his back yard, exposed to the elements. He knew that this sandwich would not last long before becoming inedible. It was critical that the sheriff, in a timely fashion, loaded the sandwich into a slingshot and shot it into space, so as to be received by the astronaut, who would proceed to eat it. Unfortunately, this proved to be a difficult task as the astronaut refused to give the exact location of the sandwich for “security reason

More in depth info on the inebriated astronauts issue. Considering the heritage of astronauts this should come as a shocker to no one. Most were either fighter or test pilots and theyre all hard charging, hard playing and hard drinking types. Thats just the way it has always been. ~RJH Washington Post story link NASA Ignored Warnings of Drunk Astronaut By Marc KaufmanWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, July 27, 2007; 4:46 PMNASA officials at least twice disregarded warnings from flight surgeons and astronauts that a crew member who was getting ready to go into space appeared to be drunk, the chairman of a panel appointed to examine the agency's handling of astronauts' physical and mental health said today.In one case, the apparently impaired astronaut went into space on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, while the other involved a scrubbed space shuttle flight and a subsequent flight on a NASA training aircraft."These two incidents of alcohol use were chosen to illustrate a larger prob

Laika Who was the first space traveler from earth? Believe it or not, he was a she, a female dog that is. Laika was an abandoned puppy who became the springboard to the space race. Nick Abadzis is a British comics creator who brings us this forgotten event that will celebrate 50 years this September when Laika became the first cosmonaut to orbit the earth. First Second the publishing house once again has a winner on their hands. Blast off into adventure with the canine cosomonaut. In the comic world it should be noted that Snowy was the first dog in space, about 5 years before Laika. Preview>> Nick Abadzis masterfully blends fact and fiction as he recounts Laika’s journey–from the streets of Moscow to the Soviet space program, and then to her fateful final journey on Sputnik 2. Moving words and powerful pictures relate the history of this momentous event and the political landscape surrounding it, through the life of this small, curly-tailed dog. Poignant

Reincarnation is big in India: A four-year-old girl who claims her name is Kalpana Chawla and that she died up in the skies four years ago is drawing huge crowds in a village here in Uttar Pradesh. Residents of Nar Mohammadpur village, about 35 km from here, where little Upasana is visiting her relatives, think she might be the reincarnation of the India born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who died when US space shuttle Columbia crashed four years ago. ... "I am Kalpana Chawla," says Upasana, who reportedly fears the sight an aircraft. She has been telling her illiterate parents that she died in a "crash" up in the skies. "Upasana has been telling us ever since she started speaking that her name was Kalpana Chawla and that her father's name was Banarsi Das Chawla but we could not figure out anything as we had never heard of Kalpana," Upasana's father Raj Kumar told reporters on Friday. ... "Yet Upasana's proclamation led us all to believe that she was actually talking about her previous

Notes: This DVDRip has exceptional audio and video quality, which DoNE never fails to deliver. Another fine release in the history. If you haven’t watched the movie yet, now’s your chance. Plot Summary: When he discovers that he is in danger of losing his farm, a NASA astronaut (Billy Bob Thornton) decides to give up his dream job to try and save his home. With time, however, he begins to miss his former profession and eventually finds himself reaching for the skies once again. Using only the tools available to him in his barn, he begins to construct a rocket that will actually be able to leave the earth’s atmosphere. Of course, his activities arouse the interests of his neighbors, who immediately assume he is crazy. The media soon sniff out a good story and begin covering his progress. The government, on the other hand, approaches the situation with far more suspicion and considers him a potential threat that may need to be stopped. iMDB: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0469

From the time he was a child, Charles Farmer had only one goal: to be an astronaut. Earning his degree in aerospace engineering and joining the Air Force as a pilot, Farmer was a natural for NASA’s astronaut training program and was well on his way when a family situation forced him to drop out. But Farmer was not a man to let anything stand in the way of a dream. He spent the next decade and every cent he had building his own rocket in a barn on his ranch in Story, Texas, working toward the day when he could triumphantly launch it into space. By himself. Sharing his vision are his wife Audie and their children–daughters Sunshine and Stanley, and 15-year-old Shepard, already a budding engineer and eager to serve as “mission control” on the big day. Even Audie’s father Hal, on hand to lend moral support, can see how his son-in-law’s unwavering commitment has inspired the family with a common dream. On the eve of the long-anticipated launch, an unexp

CHICAGO – “I have a lot of nervous energy in my head. I always have to be working on something,” said actor – and now entrepreneur – Billy Bob Thornton in a Chicago interview with Adam Fendelman.Despite the mental projection of a guy who’s rough around the edges from earlier film work, Thornton’s unsuspecting lead role as Charles Farmer in “The Astronaut Farmer” tells a decidedly different story: one about the true tenets of American entrepreneurism and family.Thornton’s taxing road to his dream – building and launching the first civilian rocket into space – is engrained with the uncanny ups and downs reminiscent to entrepreneurs and Internet start-ups.Before reveling in all the rewards of his final pursuit, Farmer must first risk all that is sacred.Entrepreneurs are very familiar with the sometimes genius yet sometimes “hypomanic” compulsion required to trek to the moon – nearly literally in Farmer’s case – and they stop at nothing to get there. They

Artist: God Is An AstronautRelease Date: April 5, 2007Album: Far From RefugeGenre: Ambient Rock ElectronicaMyspace: godisanastronautLink: http://paylesssofts.net/1. Radau2. Far from Refuge3. Sunrise in Aries4. Grace Descending5. New Years End6. Darkfall7. Tempus Horizon (v. 2007)8. Lateral Noise9. Beyond the Dying Light

Ready for space travel? How to become an astronautIf you are looking for a career that combines cool technology, interesting science and great adventure, you could hardly make a better choice than becoming an astronaut. And there is potential for growth in the field. With the construction of the International Space Station, there will be a permanent human presence in outer space and a need for astronauts. But becoming an astronaut in the U.S. space program is not easy, and the process can take several years.There are three types of astronauts in the U.S. space program:Commander/pilotMission specialistPayload specialistThe commander is responsible for the mission, the crew and the vehicle. The pilot assists the commander in operating the vehicle and deploying satellites. The mission specialist works with the commander and pilots in shuttle operations, performs spacewalks and conducts experiments. The payload specialist performs specialized duties as the mission requires. Payload special

Emails from the worldwide publicized love triangle among three NASA astronauts - and ended in an arrest for attempted kidnapping - have been revealed.The emails were leaked from the state attorney's office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which has jurisdiction over the bizarre events little over a month ago when former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak somehow saw the emails and drove nearly 1,000 miles in diapers to and attacked Colleen Shipman with pepper spray in Orlando, Florida. In building a case against Lisa Nowak for attempted kidnapping, the state attorney's office subpoenaed emails sent among the three astronauts.The content of the fascinating emails are saucy and provocative. In one email exchange between the target of Nowak's maniac plan, Colleen Shipman writes to Officer William Oefelein on January 8 of this year: "Lots of love coming your way...and kisses and a great big giant hug with my legs around you." Oefelein replies sportively but does not acknowledge her racy comment: "So

This, and the pictures after the link, are supposedly taken by Swedish (oh, yes) astronaut Christer Fuglesang during his time on the space shuttle and the ISS recently. Some of the the pictures i can believe are taken from the altitude of the ISS, but these wonderful shots of the night lit Earth seem to have been taken at a much greater distance from the Earth than the ISS orbit. I may be wrong, I'm far from an astronomer, but the pictures are so awesome I wanted to post them anyway. Follow the links to larger (and heavier) shots of The North Pole | Africa | Asia | Australia | Europe and North America.

State Attorney's Office gets astronaut case fileBy Tamara Lytle and Mark K. MatthewsThe Orlando Sentinel(MCT)WASHINGTON - If astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak's life was falling apart, she gave no hint to her colleagues at Johnson Space Center in the days before her arrest in Orlando on a charge of attempted murder.She finished her workweek as usual Friday before starting her scheduled vacation, according to NASA managers.That weekend, Nowak drove nonstop to Orlando, where she assaulted Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman with pepper spray in an airport parking lot, police say.NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale said Wednesday that there was "no indication of concern with Lisa" in the hours before her cross-country odyssey.That's one reason why NASA is going to reassess its psychological-testing procedures for astronauts, Dale and other managers said in a news conference from agency headquarters in Washington and Johnson Space Center in Houston.At the direction of NASA Administrator Michael G

With this being my first post, I would like to welcome you to Current Events Watch. My name is Steve and I am very excited about having the privilege to write on this blog. I really encourage you to e-mail me by clicking on “Contact Me” on the right of the page. I also encourage you to leave comments if you have anything to say regarding a topic I’ve blogged on. I realize that my first post is about a topic that isn’t exactly uplifting, but it seems to be the big story of the day. Yep, contrary to what your eyes may be telling you, these pictures are of the same person. The pictures are of NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak before and after her arrest due to her alleged murder attempt. The story is that Nowak attacked a woman named Colleen Shipman with pepper spray in a parking lot and was planning to abduct her. Before this, she had driven 900 miles from Houston to Florida to reach Shipman. When the police found her she had with her a compressed air pistol, a s

Okay so I thought that story about the Cartoon Network character creating a bomb scare in Boston was crazy, but this one definitely takes the prize of the craziest story of ‘07 so far. Lisa Nowak, a 43-year-old U.S. astronaut, has been charged with attempted murder, after driving 900 miles from Houston, Texas to Orlando, Florida to attack her “rival.” Get this, she wore an adult diaper so that she would not have to make any ’stops’ along the way. This chick is CRAZY! Her “rival” was Colleen Shipman, another astronaut, and they were supposedly dating the same guy (who was also an astronaut.) Nowak went to the Orlando International Airport, dressed in a wig and trenchcoat, and attacked Shipman with pepperspray. Authorities also found a BB gun, a knife, and a steel mallett in her bag. She was arraigned today and charged with attempted murder, but was released on $25,000 bail as long as she wears a tracking device and stays away from Shipman. Ok

Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt arraigned, FULL STREAMING VIDEO. Photo released by Orange County Sheriff's Department, NASA astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak.S121-E-06522 (13 July 2006) --- Astronaut Lisa M. Nowak, STS-121 mission specialist, washes her hair on the middeck of the Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station. high res (1.3 M) low res (90 KJSC2006-E-09832 (21 March 2006) --- Astronauts Lisa Nowak (left) and Stephanie D. Wilson, STS-121 mission specialists, enjoy a brief break from training in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center.The orange launch and entry suits are used for a variety of types of training, including launch countdown procedures, emergency egress and others. high res (1.8 M) low res (103 K)PERSONAL DATA: Born May 10, 1963, in Washington, D.C. Married, with three children. Lisa enjoys bicycling, running, skeet, sailing, gourmet cooking, rubber stamps, crossword puzzles, piano, and African violets. As an

BBC - On This Day1983: US astronaut Sally Ride returnsAmerica's first woman in space, Sally Ride, returns safely in the Challenger space shuttle after a six-day flight.1974: Labour rift over nuclear testThe Labour Government admits Britain exploded a nuclear device in the United States a few weeks ago.1968: Rail go-slow beginsThe country's rail network is thrown into disarray as the National

As with much of God Is An Astronaut's music "Tempus Horizon' is not something that'll you'll readily pinpoint. You'll shadow the piece searching in vain for the hook that'll burn the fog and reveal the magical undergrowth. It'll take repeated listens but the seemingly incomprehensible chord gestures do eventually form an aural sketchbook to endlessly marvel. GIAA have been enthralling audiences

Source: NASAPublished:Feb. 6, 2007David Mould/Allard BeutelHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1898/4769Eileen Hawley/James RostoharJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111Feb. 6, 2007RELEASE: 07-23Statement Regarding the Status of Lisa NowakThe following is a statement from Michael Coats, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, regarding the status of astronaut Lisa Nowak."We are deeply saddened by this tragic event. The charges against Lisa Nowak are serious ones that must be decided by the judicial system. She is officially on 30-day leave and has been removed from flight status and all mission-related activities. We will continue to monitor developments in the case."- end -

If we've learned anything from DiaperGate, the story of the astronaut who loved too much, it's that anything involving NASA's finest immediately jumps a news event into the upper stratosphere of coverage. See the following formula: Love triangle involving diapers, pepper spray, and a metal mallet = Mention on ticket at MSNBC Love triangle involving diapers, pepper spray, and a metal mallet +

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Anna Nicole Smith taken to hospital after being found unconscious and unresponsive in her Hollywood, Florida, astronaut, fire and rescue officials say. UPDATE: Anna Nicole Smith, 39, is astronaut (dead). It may be crass, but the loss of Anna Nicole Smith, coupled with an astronaut implicated, could make this story bigger than a panda bear kidnapping Elian Gonzalez.

(From the Yahoo! Buzz Log)-" We've seen a lot of strange searches since Buzz first landed. But "astronaut diapers" is definitely a new one. Yet, that's just one search among many in the peculiar tale of space-age love, lunacy, and felony charges that has planted its flag at the very top of the Search box".

(From The Article)-A NASA astronaut is being held without bail after police say she attacked her rival for another astronaut's attention at Orlando International Airport Monday.Lisa Marie Nowak drove more than 12 hours from Texas to meet the 1 a.m. flight of a younger woman who had also been seeing the astronaut Nowak pined for, according to Orlando police

"My Brother, The Astronaut" is The Killers' Brandon Flowers vocals with a Brit twist, and a speedy, punkish sound. It takes you on a careening ride through raw emotion and bold assertions. It's great for your gym cardio mix, especially after you ch...

{mosgoogle right}JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas -- Japanese astronaut Takao Doi has thrown a boomerang in space and found, to the surprise of many, that it does come back.The 53-year-old conducted an experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, Japanese time, to see whether boomerangs fly back in space. Many had predicted that it wouldn't but Doi confirmed that it did indeed return to him."After finishing my duties on the eighth day, I threw it, and i [...]

{mosgoogle right}The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a video of Japanese astronaut Takao Doi throwing a boomerang at the International Space Station.In the video, Doi, 53, throws the boomerang three times and although it slows down during its flight, it returns to his hand.It had been thought that gravity was involved in the process of the boomerang returning, and it had been predicted that the boomerang would take a different flight path in space. [...]