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Space station supply ship delivers espresso | Smithsonian TweenTribune

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Space station supply ship delivers espresso | Smithsonian TweenTribune

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This is from smithsoian which is a TV network and very credible. This is written by a named source clearly shown. This has proof and the authority is SpaceX.

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The SpaceX supply ship that arrived at the International Space Station has delivered the world's first espresso machine designed exclusively for astronauts.

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured the Dragon capsule. It came three days after its Florida launch and was retrieved with the help of a giant robot arm. The cargo carrier holds more than 4,000 pounds of much-needed groceries, experiments and equipment.

Italy provided the espresso maker for Cristoforetti. She has been stuck with instant coffee since her mission began in November.
Christmas comes late to International Space Station
"It's been just amazing," Cristoforetti said after snaring the Dragon over the Pacific on Friday, April 17. "Lots of science and even coffee's in there. So that's pretty exciting."

The espresso machine is three months late. That is because of the backlog created by last year's loss of a supply ship in a launch explosion. Much later and the espresso machine would have missed Cristoforetti. She returns home in May.

She says she can't wait to try some space espresso.

The Dragon will remain at the orbiting lab until around May 21. Then it will be released full of experiments and discarded equipment for a return to Earth. It's the only supply ship capable of bringing items back.

Among the newly arrived research are experiments for American astronaut Scott Kelly. He is just a few weeks into a one-year mission. That will be a record for NASA.

SpaceX, meanwhile, released a video showing its first-stage booster landing on an ocean platform shortly after liftoff, then tipping over in flames. It was the California company's third attempt to fly a booster rocket to the platform stationed off Florida's northeastern coast.

SpaceX chief Elon Musk said the platform endured just minor damage. The platform has been dubbed, "Just Read the Instructions."

The next try will be in June on the next SpaceX supply run for NASA.

Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur who also runs the Tesla electric car maker. He wants to reuse his rockets to bring down the cost of space flight.
Critical thinking challenge: Why was the International Space Station's expresso machine designed exclusively for astronauts?

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Space station supply ship delivers espresso

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The SpaceX supply ship that arrived at the International Space Station has delivered the world's first espresso machine designed exclusively for astronauts. Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured the Dragon capsule. It came three days after its Florida launch and was retrieved with the help of a giant robot arm.

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Take a virtual trip to the International Space Station | Smithsonian TweenTribune

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Take a virtual trip to the International Space Station | Smithsonian TweenTribune

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What's life like aboard the International Space Station? This is a question only a select few can answer. But thanks to a new virtual reality tour, more people than ever can step aboard the floating lab to virtually explore the station and its mind-boggling views, reports 's Adario Strange.

Created in collaboration with NASA and the Canadian and European space agencies, the new program is called Mission: ISS. And it's probably the closest you'll ever come to visiting the space station for yourself. The program uses Oculus Rift virtual reality and Oculus Touch motion control to create a realistic simulation of life aboard the station.

As Oculus writes on its blog, the movie was designed to recreate the ISS "in painstaking detail." The free simulation was based on NASA models and developed with the input of astronauts and NASA's Virtual Reality Laboratory, which uses virtual reality to train astronauts for their in-space tasks.

With the help of motion controls, users can try their hand at everything from spacewalks to docking spacecrafts-all in a simulated zero-gravity environment. (Strange warns that the simulated weightlessness is so realistic that might want to sit down before stepping into the virtual world.)

The simulation may be fun, but it is no video game, Strange writes. The program is intended give users a realistic idea of what it's like to live in space. Users can also learn about individual astronauts and the history of the ISS through a series of video clips. The team is also testing the program as an educational tool to teach U.S. high school students about the station.

Augmented reality is already being tested in space with the help of Microsoft's HoloLens headset, which will one day be used to guide repairs and let on-ground techs see exactly what astronauts observe. But virtual reality-completely immersive simulations-has yet to make it into space. That's about to change, according to the Oculus blog. An Oculus headset will be sent to space and used by astronaut Thomas Pesquet to test how gravity affects spatial awareness.

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Take a Virtual Trip to the International Space Station

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What's life like aboard the International Space Station? This is a question only a select few can answer. But thanks to a new virtual reality tour, more people than ever can step aboard the floating lab to virtually explore the station and its mind-boggling views, reports 's Adario Strange.

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30 Years of the Space Shuttle: A Fact Scavenger Hunt - The New York Times

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NASA, via Associated Press

Thirty years ago, NASA launched Columbia, the first space shuttle, on a two-day mission to circle Earth's orbit. Since then, more than 130 shuttle missions on five different shuttles have carried more than 350 astronauts to space.

On these missions, astronauts have helped build and maintain the International Space Station, repaired the Hubble Space Telescope, launched numerous exploratory spacecraft and conducted science experiments in science, plant biology, human health and countless other fields.

To commemorate the end of this era, we present a nine-question quiz about the Space Transportation System, popularly known as the space shuttle program. The quiz is intended to function as a fact scavenger hunt, like a WebQuest.

Give students all available resources to find answers to the questions, including relevant periodicals and Internet access to informative sites, including the New York Times archives. The Times Topics pages on National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Space Shuttle are useful.

The quiz can be done in its entirety by individuals or teams, or the class can be divided into nine small groups, with each group taking on one question.
Questions:

1. What is a space shuttle? Describe and illustrate the main parts of a space shuttle and explain the function of each part.

2. What is the mission of NASA's space shuttle program? Why did NASA choose to build and maintain a fleet of space shuttles?

3. NASA has used shuttles to send unmanned spacecraft on missions throughout the solar system. These spacecraft include the exploratory probes Magellan and Galileo as well as the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. What were the destinations of these spacecrafts, and what have we learned from the data they collected and sent back to Earth?

4. The space shuttle might be best known for its role in launching, maintaining and repairing the Hubble Space Telescope. What have we learned about space from images collected with the Hubble telescope?

5. Astronauts have described space as an "alien" environment where things behave quite differently than they do on Earth. What properties make that the case? Describe three ways in which materials behave differently in space than on Earth because of these properties.

6. What kinds of scientific questions have scientists explored on the space shuttle by taking advantage of the unusual properties of space? Describe three areas of shuttle-based research, and explain how these experiments relate to real-world problems on Earth.

7. Exploration by its very nature is a risky undertaking, and space exploration is no exception. Twice in the history of the space shuttle program, the shuttle and the entire crew on board were lost in accidents. What have investigators learned about the probable causes of these disasters?

8. Why do many astronauts call the return to Earth's atmosphere one of the riskiest moments in space travel, and how does the design of a space shuttle minimize this risk?

9. Why is NASA retiring the space shuttle program? Will NASA continue to send humans into space? If so, how? If not, why not?

When students are confident that they have found what they believe to be reliable answers, have the entire class share both their findings and the sources they used.

Conclude by discussing what the end of the space shuttle program means for NASA, for astronauts, for science and for the country. Quote from the Kenneth Chang article "With 'Coolest Job Ever' Ending, Astronauts Seek Next Frontier" to provide specific prompts for students to respond to, like the comment that "morale is pretty low" among astronauts. Have any students in the class ever dreamed of being astronauts? Do they still aspire to go into space one day?
Related Resources: From The Learning Network Lesson: Space-Age Experiments Lesson: Mission Discovery Lesson: Just a Fellow Traveler in the Human Experience Science Quiz: Happy Birthday, Hubble! Testing 1, 2, 3: Creating Quizzes to Gauge Science Knowledge From NYTimes.com With 'Coolest Job Ever' Ending, Astronauts Seek Next Frontier Times Topics: Space Shuttle The Universe, in High Definition Science That Can't Be Done on Earth The Shuttle
Life into Space (Note: Volume II on this site includes helpful information about research on living organisms, like plants and mice, in space. Volume III includes lists of experiments sent into orbit on numerous shuttle missions.)

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30 Years of the Space Shuttle: A Fact Scavenger Hunt

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NASA, via Associated Press Thirty years ago, NASA launched Columbia, the first space shuttle, on a two-day mission to circle Earth's orbit. Since then, more than 130 shuttle missions on five different shuttles have carried more than 350 astronauts to space.