On Thursday morning 5:02 a.m, Commander Steve Swanson opened the hatch to Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo vehicle, to begin unloading a half of science experiments, crew supplies, station hardware and even a bit of fresh food. Swanson joined Gerst to equalize the cabin pressure and the vestibule leading to Cygnus between the station and the cargo craft. NanoRacks module was the first item unloaded from Cygnus, it provides microgravity research with a low-cost and use of standardized "plug and play"...

From 1972, Ed Stone is a project scientist of NASA's Voyager mission, and former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California. On Wednesday, American Astronautical Society honored with a lifetime achievement award to ED Stone. Stone received with honor, "for sustained and extraordinary contributions to America's space programs, including innovative planetary missions in support of unnamed exploration of the solar system" said society. "This award is an extraordinary...

On Wednesday at 6:36 a.m. EDT Cygnus was grappled in the space, as it flew within about 32 feet of the complex by the Steve Swanson. 57-foot Canadarm2 is controlled by Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst from robotics workstation inside the station's cupola. Wiseman helps his crewmates to capture and coordinate activities, orbital flying nearly 260 miles over northern Libya, at the time of capture. Canadarm 2 robotic arm helps to hold the Cygnus securely, the robotics officer at Mission Control...

Van Allen radiation belt contains inner is fairly stable and outer changes shape, size and composition. It suggests two-fold process; one is called mechanism which gives the particles an initial boost and other one is called electromagnetic wave known as Whistlers. Numerous theories tell where these energetic particles come from and have been developed. The first theory is that the Particles move slowly from one place to another, 4,00,000 miles or more, gathering energy along the way. While...

TSS means Terminal Sequencing and Spacing, developed by NASA to help NextGen a reality, and it delivered to the FAA on July 14 during public occasion in nation's capital. It is designed to help controllers who work as a part of TRACON (Terminal Radar Approach Control), which is doughnut shaped volume of sky that extends outward about 35 miles and begins 5 miles from the airport. By using TSS, Controllers gives the appropriate direction to the aircraft like- to speed up, slow down, or maintain...

German Flight engineer Alexander Gerst and Commander Steve Swanson, they ready to hold the grapple Cygnus on Wednesday at 6:39 a.m.EDT. On Monday morning Swanson started to do work on Advanced Colloids Experiment, for that he opened the Fluids Integrated Rack. Fluids Integrated Rack (FIR) is designed to host investigations in areas such as wetting, gels, colloids and capillary action, including cooling and boiling. For study the behavior of microscopic particles in creams and gels, there is...

Antares rocket successfully launched on Sunday (13-07-2014) at 12:52 pm, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, U.S.A. This mission is the second cargo delivery flight to the station. Total amount spent for this mission is $1.9 million. This mission carries overall 3,300 pounds of supplies to the station, including crew food and supplies, hardware and scientific equipment and experiments. For research investigations Planet Labs of San Francisco developed, a flock of nanosatellites...

 Comparing in summer and winter, sea ice looks dramatically different. In these weekends, NASA ready to investigate the features of ice in Fairbanks, Alaska, with the help of Flying Laser Altimeter. NASA going to launches the ICESat-2; it will measure the elevation of Earth through the out pluses of green laser light and timing how long it takes individual photons to bounce off Earth’s surface and return. MABEL (Multiple Altimeter Beam Experiment) collects data with lasers and photon-detectors. Thorsten...

A new sounding rocket is ready to launch on 14 July, 2014 from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. This mission is used to measure the irradiance (total energy output). Leonid Didkovsky given a statement about the mission “Data observations from previous missions have provided significantly improved measurements of irradiance easily”. He is the principal investigator for the mission in University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Degradation Free Spectrometers experiment helps to find...

"The particles coming from the sun such as photons, electrons, protons, neutrons, gamma rays are to gather different kinds of information" said by David Lawrence. Charge particles from the sun (closer to Earth), we can observe easily, but it’s difficult to analyze their journey affected by magnetic fields. MESSENGER spacecraft is close as 28 million miles from the sun and 93 million miles from the earth, to detect the solar neutrons (Created in solar flares) near to the sun. STEREO (Solar...

NASA's Ames Research Center located in Moffett Field, California. They’re going to launch new experiments into space aboard NASA's second Orbital Sciences Corporation Cygnus spacecraft. The agency's for second of eight planned cargo mission is $1.9 billion Commercial cargo resupply flight of the Orbital Science. Launching date is July 11, 2014 (Friday) at 10.40 am, launch coverage on NASA TV will begin at 10 am, it will arrive at the space station on Tuesday (July 15, 2014). Smart SPHERES (Prototype): SPHERES...

PMBSS is used to holds the telescope's science instruments and also the 18 beryllium mirror-segments. Largest mirror in the telescope called primary mirror (the one starlight will hit first). It is designed to reduce the changes in the shape of the telescope, because when one side is hotter than the other side. The telescope is operated in the cold temperature with a range between -406 and -343 degrees Fahrenheit, the black plane must move less than 98 nanometers, i.e., approximately 1/1,000...

At 2.56 am .PDT (5.56 a.m. EDT) Wednesday, the spacecraft were successfully launched, to study about atmospheric carbon dioxide. The orbit launched in Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The second stage of rocket is 429-mile (690-kilometer) orbit. OCO-2 is mainly used to locate the Earth's sources of and storage places for atmosphere carbon dioxide. Charles Bolden (NASA Administrator) given a quotation "Climate change is the challenge of our generation." Why scientist used OCO-2?, this...

By the use of Cassini mission, scientist found some data (Analyzed data). Inside the Titan, might (Are the Saturn's largest moon) be as salty as the Earth's Dead Sea. With the help of Cassini project, researchers presented a new structure for Titan. "We're finding the new mysterious to solve old ones." the quotes word are spoken by Linda Spillker. The ocean in the Titan is extremely salty brine of water mixed with dissolved salts likely composed of chemicals like sulfur, sodium and potassium....

The distance between two binary or twin stars is same at which Earth orbits the sun. While comparing with sun and planet host star, sun is not much dimmer. Earth (little colder) is not much colder than planet. Four international research team, Andrew Gould (Professor in the Ohio State University in Columbus), on July 4 their published the issue of the journal science. Scott Gaudi (Professor of astronomy at Ohio State) said "This greatly expands the potential locations to discover habitable...

Spacecraft is scheduled to launch on July 11, 2014 at 1.40 p.m. E.D.T, in Mid-Atlantic Regional Spacecraft's Launch Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. It is filled with more than 3,000 pounds of supplies, science experiments to expand the research capability of 40 crew members from aboard, spare parts, and hardware. TechEdSat-4 is a satellite-related investigation (flock of nano satellite). It’s used for taking images of earth. The main region for building cargo is...

IRIS means Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph. A new solar observatory was launched into orbit around earth on June 27, 2013. IRIS observes the sun's atmosphere in low level, Interface region means moving constantly. IRIS helps for understanding the detailed images on particular area, even more turbulence and complexity than expected. By using this, we can easily understand how the solar material reaches million of degrees. On all observation IRIS captures two kinds of data, it collects...

Lyndon Johnson (American President 1963-1969) signed into the law, most of the effect in civil rights legislation. Due to the outlawed discrimination in such areas like restaurants, employment, voting, public and education on the basis of some characteristics like race, color, religion, national origin.... etc. Before the law was enacted, there is a change happen in workspace in the forefront. In 1964 January, their create a contractors group in Alabama to make sure African-American got...

OCO-2(Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2) is scheduled for Wednesday, July 2 at 5.56 am from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch team operated properly during tests before the launch countdown, but it failed at final minutes. Their decided to replace the failed value with a spare and the system is being tested in preparation for Wednesday's launch attempt. OCO-2 will produced the detailed picture of natural sources of carbon dioxide, and also their “sinks”...

High-altitude balloon(Helium Balloon) launch occurred in Hawaiian island facility at 8.45 a.m.Their tested balloon and vehicle were about 1,20,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean at the time of the drop and it splashed down in the ocean at 11.35 a.m. Mark alder is a project manager for LDSD at NASA's jet Propulsion Laboratory located in Pasadena, California. “The test vehicle worked good. After the result we met all of our flight objectives, have recovered all the the vehicles hardware and...

NASA prepares to launch the first spacecraft to analyze the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere on July 1 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 is the second earth science mission launched by NASA Carbon dioxide being the vital part of our carbon cycle has major impact on the climatic changes. Scientists have warned that carbon dioxide released by human activity like burning of fossil fuel and deforestation has disturbed the balance of natural carbon cycles.  A portion of Carbon dioxide emitted...

Solar flare actually refers to the eruption of energy in the sun’s surface. In simple terms, it is the sudden flash of brightness in the sun layer. The radiations from flare are actually harmful to humans. The safest part is that these radiations cannot pass through the earth surface. But still if the radiations are more intense then it may disturb the atmospheric layer where communication signals travel.  Recently on June 10, 2014 three X-class solar flares has erupted in 2 days and the...

US space agency Nasa is seeking coders who could help thwart a global catastrophe by identify asteroids that may collapse into Earth. Its Asteroid Data Hunter contest will suggest $35,000 (£21,000) to programmers who can recognize asteroids capture by ground-based telescopes.The charming elucidation must increase the revealing rate and minimize the number of false positives.Scientists are progressively more work for be of assistance to make good judgment of measureless statistics sets. The...

Even though there are many advancement in technology, keeping foods fresher in space for a long period has been impossible. Research has been going on to keep fresh fruits and vegetables for long-term in space. It has been found that spraying waters over fruits and vegetables keep them fresher for a long period. It’s a fact that if a plant or a food has more solute than the environment surrounding it then to achieve equilibrium state water diffuses into the cell. Thus by routinely spraying the vegetables with water it keeps up their turgor pressure...