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- 10 Commandments of Astronauts
- ASHOS and ASCANS site shares the rules
for astronauts in training.
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- 1967 Outer Space Treaty
- Ramifications to exploring Mars or other
celestial bodies with possible life, as decreed by Outer
Space Treaty under Earth law; Space laws
and treaties; U.S. Space Objects Registry.
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- 1976 NASA Kennedy Space Center Tour Book
- Tourist
booklet, sold for 50 cents, at Cape Canaveral + Kennedy Visitor's Center
in the bicentennial year, featuring the Saturn V on the cover. Scans
of all pictures in the booklet, showing KSC Director at the time, Lee R.
Scherer (1975-79), lists of missions, map of launchpads, and pictures of all
rockets and capsules to that date (31 manned flights crewed by 43 astronauts).
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- 50th Anniversary of NASA
- NASA was founded in July, 1958. 50th
Anniversary celebrated
in July 2008.
- 50 Year Mission Map
- Graphic
of all missions into space by all nations with space programs for the last
5 decades.
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- 50 Years
Since President Eisenhower established NASA
- Story of the founding
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 2009 International Year of Astronomy
- IYA2009
worldwide
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- 2010 International Year of BioDiversity
- IYB2010
worldwide
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- 2011 International Year of The Solar System
- IYB2011
worldwide
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- 365 Days of Astronomy
- Pillownaut
Podcast on website with space-related radio show each day of the year.
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- Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian)
Visiting the Smithsonian National Air and Space
Museum's Steven Ferencz Udvar-Házy Center
to see the fleet leader.
Alien Contact
Advice for first
contact with alien life; the Drake
Equation; tinfoil hat controversy;
thought
helmets for alien signal blocking; UN advice to all nations to draft
guidelines for First Contact; Martian teleportation
hoax from tin-foil contingency.
All-Time Space Missions Map
Visual of every
space mission ever flown by ever nation between 1959 - 2009
- Aquanauts
Human-marine inhabitants of the NASA
Tektite Underwater Habitat (experiments in the 1970s).
- Alternate Compression Garment Study (ACG)
- Long version of compression suit study with
modified clothing, customized to each study subject.
- Ames Research Center, NASA
- NASA Ames
Research Center, Mountain View, California; collection of all
"Ames" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut
blog; road
trip to NASA Ames; launch
at NASA Ames; NASA Ames Tweetup
tour 2011; NASA Ames Exchange
Lodge; SimLabs Vertical
Motion Simulator (VMS); Lunar
Lander Cab; Kepler
scientists
and various planet
projects; Sustainability
Base Green Building; 360-degree views of Mars at FutureFlight
Central; Mars Curiosity social
events; MSL press media
kit released prior to landing on Mars; NASA Ames
Social tour 2012 + Mission Emblem; David Blake MSL
scientist; Curiosity Rover landing
success; pictures of MSL
Landing Party at NASA Ames; Kepler System 62 Discovery of Habitable Planets (Rocky planet and possible water
world); NASA
Social for K10
Telerobotics Rover and LADEE.
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- Anaxagoras
- Greek
Philosopher who postulated the moon was a rock, not a god.
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- Animals in Space
- NASA
Principles for the Ethical Care and Use of Animals; List
of all animals flown in micro-gravity; Mice-tronauts or mice
in space; fish
in space; amphibians
(frog and newt tests) in space; cats
in space or French felines; dogs
in space or Russian canines; space monkeys
and apes or American primates; space animals trivia;
space animals timeline;
NASA cancels monkey
radiation experiment.
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- Antares Rockets
- Orbital Sciences Corporation successfully
tests Antares
Rockets with Cygnus capsule with test payload.
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- Apollo 13 Lecture
- Photographs
and Videos
of event where Fred Haise and Gene Kranz spoke at the George H.W. Bush
Presidential Library and Museum in April 2009.
- Apollo Blog Posts
Collection
of all "Apollo" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut blog;
death
of first moonwalker Neil
Armstrong; remaining moonwalkers
after death of Neil Armstrong.
Apollo Modules
Cross-section and explanations of Apollo era command
module, service module and lunar module; modules and crafts
still in orbit or on the moon; search for the Apollo
10 Snoopy module in heliocentric orbit.
Apollo Missions
Crewmembers, dates, details and descriptions
of Apollo
1; Apollos
4, 5 & 6; Apollo
7; Apollo 8,
Apollo 9, Apollo
10, Launch
of Apollo 11, Moon
Landing of Apollo 11, Legacy
of Apollo 11, Apollo
12, Apollo
13, Artifacts
from Apollo 13, Anniversary
for Apollo 13, Apollo
14, Apollo
15, Apollo
16 and Apollo
17; list of Apollo and all
other moon missions from every space agency; Apollo program not
widely supported in the 1960s except for the moon landing.
Applications
Complete guide to all
Space and Astronomy applications for Android, iTouch, iPod, iPhone and
other smartphones or hand-held devices; Angry
Birds in Outer Space.
Arecibo
Famous dish in Puerto Rico: Arecibo Observatory
Tour and featured
in popular movies.
Ares Rockets
Propulsion R&D
as part of Constellation Project, time-lapse
video of construction, testing
rockets at Kennedy Space Center launch pads alongside space shuttles.
- Art / Artwork
- Collection of paintings
by Dacio of moon, nebulae, cosmos-themed art.
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- Articles
- Collection of press
articles about NASA studies 1960 - 2010.
- Astronauts (All Space Travelers)
- 531
humans (as of 2013) who have flown in space since 1961; astronaut birth
dates; trivia and milestones
for space travelers; places with the greatest concentration
of astronauts; fallen astronauts who have perished on missions who have asteroids
named after them.
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- Astronaut Crew Portraits
- Posters of all NASA
astronaut crews.
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- Astronaut Hopefuls and/or Astronaut Candidates
- ASHOS Training
and Trivia; humorous view on astronaut selection
and training; ASCANS Class
of 2009 at NASA; ASCAN Jack
Fischer's essay about astronaut
hiring process.
- Astronaut Groups
- Astronaut Corps
groups 1957 - present.
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- Astronauts (CSA)
- Chris
Hadfield, Julie
Payette, Robert
"Bob" Thirsk.
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- Astronauts (ESA)
- Frank
de Winne, André Kuipers,
Thomas
Reiter, Piers
Sellers, Paolo
Nespoli, Christer
Fuglesang.
- Astronauts (JAXA)
- Soichi
Noguchi, Koichi
Wakata, Naoko Yamazaki.
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- Astronauts (NASA)
- Joe
Acaba;
Edwin
(Not his legal name anymore) "Buzz"
Aldrin, Jr.,
More Buzz
Aldrin in the news, Bill Anders,
Clayton
Anderson, Neil
Alden
Armstrong,
(death
of Neil
Armstrong), Serena M. Auńón,
Michael Barratt,
Alan Bean,
Charles Bolden,
Frank Borman,
Malcolm
Scott
Carpenter,
Eugene
"Gene" Cernan,
Roger Chaffee,
Greg Chamitoff,
Franklin
Chang-Diaz, Leroy Chiao,
Eileen
Collins, Michael
Collins,
Pete Conrad,
TJ
Creamer, Robert
Crippen, Walter Cunningham,
Charles Duke,
Tracy
Caldwell
Dyson,
Donn Eisele,
Ronald Evans,
Christopher
Ferguson, Mike
Fincke,
C.
Michael Foale, Ron
Garan, John
Glenn, Dick Gordon, Duane
Graveline, William
Gregory, Virgil
"Gus" Grissom,
Dick Gordon,
Fred
Haise, Doug
Hurley, James Irwin,
Marsha Sue Ivins,
Tom Jones, Mark
Kelly, Scott
Kelly, Joseph
Kerwin, William
Lenoir,
Jerry
Linenger, Miguel López-Alegría,
Jack
Lousma, James
"Jim"
Lovell, Sandra
or Sandy
Magnus, Thomas Mattingly,
Bruce McCandless,
James McDivitt,
Leland
Melvin, Dorothy
Metcalf-Lindenburger, Mike
Massimino; Edgar Mitchell,
Luca
Parmitano, Julie
Payette, Don
Pettit,
Garrett Reisman
at NASA, Garrett
Reisman at SpaceX, and his fan
club, Sally
Ride, Steve
Robinson, Stuart
Roosa,
Jerry
Ross, Robert
Satcher, Wally Schirra,
Harrison Schmitt,
Russell Schweickhart,
David Scott,
Alan Shepard;
Alan Shepard
Book, Tom Stafford,
Nicole
Stott, Steve Swanson,
Jack Swigert,
Rex J.
Walheim, Doug
Wheelock, Ed White,
Peggy
Whitson, Jeff
Williams, Sunita
Williams, Stephanie Wilson,
Alfred Worden,
John Watts
Young.
- Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
- ASF,
founded as the Mercury Seven Foundation.
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- Astronomers Without Borders
- April 2011 named Global Astronomy Month by Astronomers
Without Borders.
- Astronomy Night in Arizona
- Annual
event at Akimel
A-al, Ahwatukee featuring the Challenger Space Center in Phoenix, guest
stars in 2011 included Astronaut
Bill Gregory and Meteorite Man Geoff
Notkin.
- Astro-NOTS
- Astronaut simulations
as carried out by NASA ground personnel, such as flight controllers
performing ingress and egress, including Stephen Colbert as one-time guest.
- Atlantis Space Shuttle Orbiter
Final
Shuttle launches of the Space Shuttle Program 1981-2011; Tweetup
for STS-135; watching Space Shuttle
Atlantis take off; astronauts at launch pad 39A
press site; Seth Green and Bear
McCreary debut Shuttle fanfare song; Bob Crippen
speaks at STS-135 launch; Atlantis facts
and trivia; KSC retirement rollout from VAB event (2012).
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- Australia
- School-children
space projects, Deep
Space Command, Canberra.
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- Awards
- Daily
Reviewer Top 100 Rocketry, Prolific
Blogger, Official
Seal of Awesomeness
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- Barringer Meteor Crater
Northern
Arizona impact site, preserved by Daniel M. Barringer in 1903. Barringer
Company still owned by his descendants, now givers of the Barringer medal,
supporting scientific research in the field of meteoritics.
Bathing
Bathing and showering
during bedrest study.
- Beauty Pageants
- Space Center sponsored beauty pageants in
rocket development sites' history include the Miss
Guided Missile and Queen of Outer Space at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(awarded by Walter Pickering), and also later Miss
NASA at the Lewis Research Center (now named the Glenn Research Center.
Bedrest Study Main Website
- Official NASA website
for Human Test Research Facility at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas;
major overhaul update
of website in summer of 2011.
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- Bedrest Study Pamphlets
- Official brochure
release by Wyle / NASA for the micro-gravity simulations
Awaken Adventure NASA brochure single
page information sheet
Awaken Your Sense of Adventure NASA brochure front
and back
Space Flight Simulation Study tri-fold
brochure
- Bedrest Stories
- Participation by twin
sisters in Southern California bedrest study; European Space Agency recruits
pillownauts for Bed Rest Study; bedrest
studies program announcement for 2012-2013;
blog of European Space Agency bed rest study
subject Vlad Atavin, first in French, Second phase of ESA
studies in English, and third phase in Russian; press stories of Justin
& Howard, Texans who completed the 105-day exercise
study for men; Daniel Hare documents his 70-day
treadmill study on Facebook.
- Beer
- Keeping
bones healthy with beer; Astronauts4Hire take beer
experiment into space.
- Berman, Bob
- (Also, Robert Berman) Author of The
Sun's Heartbeat, other writings on Heliophysics,
columnist for Discover and Astronomy magazines.
Blog
- Pillow Astronaut blog main
page.
- Books
- Astronaut
Cookbook; Build
Your Own Spaceship by Piers Bizony; Packing
For Mars by Mary
Roach, Dark
Side of the Moon; ESO
Postcards From The Edge; Ben Bova Mars
Series; Light
This Candle: The Life of Alan Shepard by Neal Thompson; The
Sun's Heartbeat
by Bob Berman; Meteorite Men: Finding
Treasure From Space; The Humility
of the Cosmos Poem, Build
Your Own SpaceShip by Piers Bizony;
The 10
Most Bizarre Space Experiments text book from Rubicon Publishing; Rockets
of the world visual poster and book by Peter Alway.
- Brighthub Press
- Educational article about bedrest studies
written by Brighthub
teacher
- Budget
- NASA Budget
Myths, List of costs
in the federal budget compared to NASA, budget
questions in 2010,
Way of
the Pyramids guest post, Charles
Bolden mission statement; budget for Mars
missions; Congressmen
and Congresswomen fighting for the space
program; impeachment
of President Obama for NASA; Plan
B For Outer Space with NASA
Authorization Act of 2010; April Fool's Day post with fake "dream
budget" for NASA (Inspired by Penny4NASA campaign).
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- Buran
- Russian
space shuttle named Snowstorm; only launch of the Soviet
Buran re-usable craft; visit
to Technik Museum in Speyer, Germany; OK-GLI
model Buran built in 1989 and used for flight and launch pad testing.
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- Calendars
Holocene, Lunar, Solar and other calendars
with equivalents to the year 2012; Mayan baktuns and the alleged December
apocalypse.
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- Camilla Corona (Solar Dynamics Observatory
mascot)
- NASA Goddard mascot Camilla Corona, or Camilla
SDO; BTS-1 Space Mission
brunch; hosting Camilla at the JPL
Tweetup 2011; hosting Camilla on the STS-135
Road Trip to Florida 2011; crossing state lines Arizona
and New Mexico, plus the Roswell UFO Museum; Camilla in Texas,
Louisiana and Florida; NASA mascot Camilla
on FOX Houston 26; STS-135
Tweetup at NASA Kennedy; Cape Canaveral pictures with Camilla at final
Shuttle launch; hosting Camilla on a visit to NASA Stennis
Space Center; Chabot Space
& Science Center in Oakland, CA; Camilla Corona on the planetenpad
solar system hike in Genk, Belgium.
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- Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
- Space
program of Canada; CSA website
for children, space centers mapped across Canada.
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- Carl Sagan Day
- New holiday
honoring cosmologist Carl
Sagan, held each year on his birthday; Carl
Sagan represented in science doll figures.
- Chabot Space and Science Center
Camilla Corona visit to Chabot Space
& Science Center in Oakland, CA, featuring Astronaut Rex Walheim;
Yuri's Night "Mars
on Venus" panel with NASA Ames planetary scientist Carol Stoker, film
producer Susan Bell, Mohawk Guy Bobak Ferdowsi's mother Sharon Wright.
Chariot / Roman Horses Urban Legend
Occasional recurrence of untrue story of Roman
chariots dictating the size of SRBs - Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters.
Challenger Space Shuttle Memorial
Houston Memorial park monument
honoring the seven lives lost on Space Shuttle
Challenger.
China National Space Administration (CNSA)
Space program
of the Republic of China; space centers mapped
across China; Shenzou 9 program puts first
Chinese female astronaut in space.
- Chief of the Flight Director Office
- CFDO John McCullough in Shuttle
Mission Control and in ISS
Mission Control.
- Chromatics
- The a cappella musical group begun at NASA Goddard.
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- CNN
- Press coverage of NASA Micro-Gravity
Studies.
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- COLBERT Treadmill
- Treadmill
in iRATS studies, video of COLBERT
in action.
- Columbia Space Shuttle Memorial
- Arlington National Cemetery stone honoring the
seven lives lost
on Space Shuttle Columbia.
- Comets
- Comet PanSTARRS C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS
spotted from Wildcat Peak in northern California during March 2013 full moon; Comets
panel at SpaceFest 5 in Tucson, AZ (2013) featuring David Levy, Thomas
Bopp, Jim Scotti, astronaut Ed Gibson and Nick Howes.
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- Compression Study
- First compression garment used in the Compression
Suit Study in 2010; Also compression stockings used in NASA Lunar
Study; longer version of the study using similar
garments in 2011; call for more subjects with newest
compression suit in 2012.
- Constellation
- Photographs
at Boston
Globe, video
and program description, time-lapse Ares
rocket construction, Program
in Jeopardy.
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- Constellation Blog Posts
- Collection of all "Constellation" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut
blog.
- Cosmonauts (Roskosmos) (RFSA)
- Sergei Avdeyev,
Yuri
Alekseyevich
Gagarin
first
human in space,
Yelena
Kondakova, Sergei
Krikalev, Alexey
Leonov, Yuri Lonchakov,
Gennady Padalka,
Valeri
Polyakov, also Valery
Polyakov, Sergei
Revin, Svetlana
Savitskaya, Yelena
Serova, Valentina
Vladimirovna
Tereshkova,
Gherman
Titov; cosmonaut
trivia; cosmonauts in Soviet
and Russian programs.
- Cosmonauts Conspiracy Theory
- Soviet legends about two space travelers
killed before Yuri Gagarin's successful orbits; claims by brother Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia,
known as the "Lost
Cosmonauts".
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- Countdown Clock
- Explanation of T-minus
in countdowns; Shuttle countdown
101 checklist; STS-135 countdown
for final shuttle launch; watching Atlantis
from launch pad; picture of the NASA
Countdown Clock.
- Countermeasure and Functional Testing Study
- Countermeasures
& Functional Testing Studies at UTMB NASA ward, also called CFT-70 or
simply The Exercise
Study, using the sZLS or the vertical treadmill; updated CFT
study with testosterone component details.
- Cruise / Cruises / Cruising
- Vacation packages from Insight Cruises,
formerly "Geek
Cruises" offering Lunar Eclipse packages, science lectures on board
ship, and shore excusions to the Arecibo Radio Telescope.
- Curiosity Rover (Mars Science Laboratory - MSL)
- Mars Science Lab
on the Curiosity Rover, developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); Martian
Rovers in development and on Mars; JPL
campus
tour; NASA Tweetup
for MSL and Curiosity
Rover; Mars rover development clean
room; Gale
Crater chosen as landing site for MSL Curiosity rover; Ames Research
Center Landing Party in August 2012 plus photograph
gallery; missions to Mars as compared to current
rover plans; map of 127
worldwide landing parties for Curiosity MSL; social
events; MSL press media
kit released prior to landing on Mars; NASA Ames
Social tour 2012 + Mission Emblem; David Blake MSL
scientist; Curiosity Rover landing
success; pictures of MSL
Landing Party at NASA Ames.
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- Cygnus Spacecraft (Capsule)
- Orbital Sciences Corporation successfully
tests Antares
Rockets with Cygnus capsule with test payload.
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- Dancing With The Stars
Buzz Aldrin picked
for dance show; Buzz Aldrin voted
off show.
Deep Space Network (DSN)
Tracking
space missions across the USA, Australia and Spain; Deep Space Network
sites mapped
across the world.
- Discovery Space Shuttle Orbiter
Facts about Space
Shuttle Discovery; Discovery launch in HDR
Photography; Shuttle Discovery comes to the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington D.C.; visiting the Smithsonian National Air and Space
Museum's Steven Ferencz Udvar-Házy Center
to see the fleet leader.
Disney's Man In Space special
March
1955 Walt Disney program about space travel
- Dragon Spacecraft (Capsule)
- First commercial trip
milestone to space station; first private company to berth with
ISS; CanadArm2 guided by astronaut
Don Pettit grapples
Dragon.
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Dream Rocket
- Saturn
V wrap project for children at NASA Marshall
- Dr. Duane Graveline
- Father
of weightlessness studies; use of bedrest and water immersion in NASA
early days; interview
of Dr. Graveline on "The Space Show" with David Livingston discussing
medical studies; follow-up press bout Dr. G role in Soviet
BioAstronautics.
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- Dr. Wernher von Braun
- Von
Braun rocket team; featured in Walt Disney's Man
In Space television special.
- Drake Equation
- Or the Green Bank Formula - the Equation used to estimate the potential number of extra-terrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way
galaxy; related: Fermi
Paradox, Galactic Habitable Zone; Drake Equation in the tinfoil
hat controversy; Frank
Drake at SETICON
II conference
2012.
- Dryden Flight Research Center, NASA
- NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility (AOF); Dryden
Photo Gallery; Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA);
Mini-Tweetup
at Dryden, Palmdale, CA, NASA
Social at Dryden center at Edwards
Air Force Base; DFRC
Photo Gallery; legislation for possible
name change to Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center, following his
death.
- DVD Message to Bedrest Patients
- Astronaut Michael Barratt recorded
a special message thanking participants of NASA studies.
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- Dwarf Planets
- Alternate
ideas for former Planet Pluto: Plutoids, Plutinos, Scattered Disc Objects
(SDO), Trans-Neptunian Objects, Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) and Oort Cloud
bodies; specific information on Ceres, Eris, MakeMake, Quaoar, Sedna, Orcus,
and Haumea.
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- Earth
- Trivia
series about planet Earth; is EARTH the
right name for our planet?
- Eclipses
- Eclipse
record origins in history; Solstice Lunar Eclipse from TX 2010.
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- Education Programs at NASA
- Be
A Martian, NASA Kid's
Club, Space
Agency Pages for Children, Taking
Up Space
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- Employees at NASA
- Richard
Bettin at NASA Kennedy; Tierra
Deschner at UTMB Galveston; Heather
Smith, Craig
Young and Al
Whitaker at NASA Marshall; Ed
Rezac at NASA Goddard; Liz
Warren at NASA Johnson, Ronita Cromwell
at NASA Johnson and Ali Llewellyn at
NASA Johnson; Robyn
Villavecchia at NASA Kennedy; Kepler scientists Natalie
Batalha and Jon
Jenkins at NASA Ames; Scott
Maxwell,
David
Delgado and Don
Yeomans at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Mike
Allyn and Jennifer Law (Flight Surgeon) at Johnson Space
Center; David Blake, Curiosity
Rover geologist, and Adam Steltzner + Bobak Ferdowsi MSL
EDL mission control; Michele Johnson of NASA Ames media briefing for Kepler
System 62 Discovery of Habitable Planets (Rocky planet and possible water
world); Richard
Boitnott of the Structural Dynamics Branch at NASA Langley.
- Endeavour Space Shuttle Orbiter
Facts about Space
Shuttle Endeavour; final mission from Kennedy Space Center
to LA Science Center for museum display; Endeavour facts and trivia;
Retirement rollout to California
Science Center.
Energomash Russian Rocket Facility
Lana Sator
photographs of security breach.
Enhanced Zero Gravity Locomotion
Simulator
News coverage of the Vertical
Treadmill or eZLS; subjects running
on the treadmill in Galveston.
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Outreach coordinator Oana
Sandu; European Extremely Large Telescope
(E-ELT); ESO
Postcards From The Edge book released in 2010.
European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA
Mars500 web site; ESA TV
Broadcasts; Space
centers mapped across EUROPE (and South America), space fish
against osteoporosis experiment; children's interactive ESA Space
for Kids web site, first
ESA Commander of a ISS Expedition; bedrest
studies program announcement for 2012-2013;
blog of ESA bed rest study
subject Vlad Atavin.
Expeditions on the International Space
Station
Expedition
1 in the year 2000, Expedition
13 in 2006, Expedition
17 in 2008, Expedition
18 in 2009, Expedition
19 in 2009, Expedition
20 in 2009, Expedition
21 in 2009, Expedition
22 Christmas 2009, Expedition
22 in 2010, who also spent Christmas
on the ISS; STS-135 Atlantis reaches Expedition
28 on the ISS.
Experiments on the ISS
Full list
of all experiments on the International Space Station; experiments
and space research in orbit and on Earth.
eZLS
News coverage of the Vertical
Treadmill or Enhanced Zero Gravity Locomotion Simulator
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- Falcon Rockets
- Falcon9 launch guide and countdown
101; 2010 test
launch to recover capsule after orbit; Launched May 2012 to
ISS; launch to space station carrying ashes of James Doohan and Gordon Cooper.
- Firefly
- Steve Swanson's Firefly
DVDs on the ISS, Captain Mal Quotes app on
Facebook;
Serenity ship and other Browncoats
applications; Firefly commentary for no sci-fi space shows in 2011
American television season; GeekChicTees
contest results in biggest flurry of followers and RTs.
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- Flight Analog Research Unit (FARU)
- Flight
Analog Research Unit on Galveston Island, Texas. NASA ward at UTMB
hospital, visiting astronaut Serena M. Auńón.
- Flight Director Gene Kranz
- Mercury, Gemini and Apollo era flight director
video
lecture and photographs
at Apollo 13 event, with Fred Haise.
- Flown Artifacts
- Interesting, national, historical or
sentimental objects
that have flown into space on Apollo capsules, Space Shuttles, or taken to
the International Space Station, such as a piece of Isaac Newton's Apple Tree,
Amelia Earhart's avaiator scarf, Luke Skywalker's prop light saber, the
Olympic Torch, etc. After writing about relics, visited the oldest
Space-Shuttle flown item in Jamestown, Virginia, the metal Yames
Towne cargo tag from America's first settlement in 1606.
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- FMARS
- Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station Expedition
and crew
postcard (one of three Mars simulation programs).
- Food In Space
- Shuttle Menus
in the modern era; the history
of space food; Space Food
In A Nutshell essay, including foods in the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Shuttle, ISS and Mars
programs; humorous Pie
Recipe in the form of a Shuttle Rendezvous checklist; Chocolate
planets by Japanese company L'Eclat.
- FOX News Houston
- Micro-Gravity
report by Ned Hibberd in July 2008, Study
Follow-Up in December 2008 after
Hurricane Ike, Lunar
Study report by Sally
MacDonald
- FOX News New York
- Micro-Gravity
Q&A on Fox & Friends in August 2008, Interview
and video in August 2008.
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- Fragile Oasis
- Astronaut
blog and community begun by astronaut Ron
Garan.
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- Fry's Electronics
- Fun space-themed electronic
stores in Houston, Texas with full-sized mock-up of ISS; Space movies and
ships in Burbank,
California; Space Shuttle in Anaheim,
California.
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- Gagarin, Yuri
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Yuri's
Nights across the world; Star
Sailors feature;
Gagarin
quoted; Facts
about the first human in space; updated biography with Gagarin
family history; Yuri's Night celebrations.
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- Galileo Bonaitui de Galilei
- Inventor of the telescope;
also, the Galileo
Spacecraft, as developed by the NASA JPL.
- Galveston for Visitors
- Island of Galveston,
Texas and the evacuation
of the island during Hurricane Ike; island
after Hurricane Ike.
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- GeekChicTees
- Blog
contest for free Firefly T-shirt, as offered by Red Bubble partner, Mr.
GeekChic, creator of many sci-fi clothing products. Contest
winner described herself as "professional T-shirt wearer".
Second contest for GeekChic shirts, this
time for two contestants who tweet brand names.
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- Gemini
- NASA Gemini
spacecraft in the early 1960s.
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- Global Astronomy Month
- April 2011 named Global
Astronomy Month by Astronomers Without Borders.
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- Glenn Research Center, NASA
- Space Center sponsored beauty pageants in
rocket development sites' history include the Miss
Guided Missile and Queen of Outer Space at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(awarded by Walter Pickering), and also later Miss
NASA at the Lewis Research Center (now named the Glenn Research Center.
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- Google Mars
- Google map
tool for planet Mars; Gale
Crater chosen as landing site for MSL Curiosity rover.
GRAIL
- Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory
space crafts orbiting the moon.
- Haughton-Mars Project
Christine Pires of the Haughton-Mars
Project (one of three Mars simulation programs).
Hawking, Stephen
Black Hole lecture
at Texas A&M; discussion of the likelihood of Alien
contact based on the Drake Equation.
Head Down Day
Launch
day of the bedrest study project
- HI-SEAS
- Hawai'i Space Exploration Analogue & Simulation,
sponsored by NASA and Cornell University (Long duration mission food fatigue
study).
-
- Houston Tour
- Photo gallery of sites around Houston,
Texas (also Clear Lake, Webster, Johnson Space Center); ISS
model in Fry's Electronics.
- Houston Astronaut Hangout
- Popular tavern for astronauts over the years,
called The
Outpost (closed in 2010)
- Hubble Space Telescope
- HST
details and repairs; 20th
Anniversary; telescope
trivia.
-
- Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate
- HEOMD
headed by Bill Gersteinmeier, new NASA office opened after the end of the
Space Shuttle program.
-
- Human Space Flight Plans Committee Review
- HSFPCR
meetings open to the public about NASA's direction and future, including
their budget
charts, estimated cost
visualizations, and their October
2009 report to the White House; April Fool's Day post with fake "dream
budget" for NASA (Inspired by Penny4NASA campaign).
- Human Test Subject Facility (HTSF)
- Screening
entity at Johnson Space Center for all Wyle Bioastronautics studies; complete
screening process for studies; update of bedrest
studies on website July 2011; HTSF descriptions on bedrest
study site; call for more human
test subjects.
- Hurricane Ike
- Coming
of the storm, September
2008 evacuation of the island, post-storm
effects and information
about the aftermath.
- Hypovolemia Study
- Intro
Details and description
of study at JSC, including the Normovolemia
phase, Furosemide
phase and Hypovolemia
phase.
Back to Top
- ICESat
The NASA Ice
Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (I retired, II in development)
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
India Space Research Organization mapped
centers and sites; civilian visit to Vikram Sarabhai Space Center.
- Inspiration Mars
- Dennis Tito company "Inspiration
Mars" created to recruit married couple for Mars Flyby in 2014;
includes details from NASA Spokesman, partnership with space agencies,
technology details and the official Feasibility Analysis for life support.
- International Astronomical Union
Collection of professional astronomers active in astronomical research
-
- International Year of Astronomy 2009
- IYA2009
worldwide
- International Year of BioDiversity 2010
- IYB2010
worldwide
-
- International Space Station Animation
- ISS
Animation from Tietronix showing construction phases of the station; ISS Ten
Years in the Making illustrations.
-
- International Space Station Docking Standard
- Docking
Design Standard by the Multilateral
Coordination Board (MCB).
- International Space Station Experiments
- Fermentation
studies aboard the ISS; Butterflies
aboard the ISS; full list
of all experiments on the ISS.
-
- International Space Station Postcards
- Interactive web
cards for the ISS
- International Space Station Replica
- Full-scale mock-up
of the ISS at Fry's Electronics store in Houston.
-
- International Space Station Tour
- Description of ISS
modules filmed by astronaut Mike Fincke; USA Today Space
Station Timeline; possible
Mars500 experiment on the ISS.
-
- International Space Station Trivia
- ISS Trivia;
record breaking four
women in orbit simultaneously in 2010; more ISS Trivia
and stats; Star Trek Captain Kirk William Shatner calls astronaut Chris
Hadfield on the ISS; updated trivia for ISS after completion
of all components.
-
- IRATS Bedrest Study
- Integrated
Resistance and Aerobic Training Study; Treadmills
in the iRATS studies; Horizontal
Exercise Fixture in iRATS; Google
wheel iratas changed to pirates; IRATS in the Ohio
Herald.
- IYB2010
- The International
Year of Biodiversity in 2010
-
- IYA2009
- The International
Year of Astronomy in 2009
Back to Top
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Asteroid explorer Hayabusa;
Interactive website;
astronaut Soichi
Noguchi and his Twitter
photos; astronaut Koichi
Wakata as representative; space centers mapped
across JAPAN.
-
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
- "NOCO" = NASA Owned, Contractor
Operated. Extreme
Planet Makeover game; Martian
Rovers in development and on Mars; JPL
campus
tour; Rover driver Scott
Maxwell shows test rovers; Voyager
Gold Records and Galileo Spacecrafts; Tweetup photo
gallery for Curiosity Rover; Tweetup
at JPL for MSL; Spaceflight
Ops Facility (DSN); Imagine Mars outreach worker David
Delgado; Near Earth Objects Program Manager Don
Yeomans; Space Shuttle tiles with Todd
Barber; Space Center sponsored beauty pageants in rocket development
sites' history include the Miss
Guided Missile and Queen of Outer Space at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(awarded by Walter Pickering), and also later Miss
NASA at the Lewis Research Center (now named the Glenn Research Center.
-
- Johnson Space Center, NASA
- NASA Johnson
Space Center, Houston, Texas; Collection of all
"Johnson" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut blog; Mission
Control workers.
-
- Johnson Space Center Pamphlet
- Tourist
brochure for JSC campus in Houston, Texas.
Johnson Space Center Tour
Photographs and descriptions of the Space
Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF), both aerial
view and items on the workfloor;
the historic Apollo
Mission Control Center; the current Shuttle
and ISS Mission Control Centers; The Saturn V rocket in Rocket
Park; facilities
and photos
of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory.
Journal from Lunar Study
All blog posts for Lunar Study in order: screening, testing phase 1, bedrest phase, testing phase 2, rehabilitation.
Journal from Micro Gravity Study
All blog posts for Micro-Gravity in order: screening, testing phase 1, bedrest phase, rehabilitation.
Journal of Scott Saslow
Daily writings of
Micro-Gravity Study participant Scott Saslow.
Jupiter Moons
Satellites of the
Jovian
System: Callisto, Io, Europa, Ganymede.
- Kennedy Space Flight Center, NASA
- NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center; Kennedy
Photo Gallery (Shuttles); Kennedy
Picture Gallery (Final Shuttle Launch Tweetup); STS-135 Press Site NASA
Tweetup; Astronauts at the Cape
Canaveral Tweetup; STS-135 Countdown;
HDR photography of Shuttle
launch; watching Space Shuttle
Atlantis take off; astronauts at launch pad 39A
press site; Seth Green and Bear
McCreary debut Shuttle fanfare song; astronaut Bob Crippen
speaks at STS-135 launch; Tourist
booklet, sold for 50 cents, at Cape Canaveral + Kennedy Visitor's Center
in the bicentennial year, featuring the Saturn V on the cover. Scans
of all pictures in the booklet, showing KSC Director at the time, Lee R.
Scherer (1975-79), lists of missions, map of launchpads, and pictures of all
rockets and capsules to that date (31 manned flights crewed by 43 astronauts).
-
- Kepler Telescope Mission
Astronomer Natalie
Batalha lecture at NASA Ames; Kepler Cannonball
Awards; Music
of the Stars; Kepler Orrery
visualizations; Kepler map of Extra Solar Planets or Exoplanets;
Kepler System 62 Discovery of Habitable Planets (Rocky planet and possible water world).
-
- Kid's Club at NASA
NASA Kid's
Club; Space coloring
books; Be
A Martian online game; Build
Your Own Space Mission online game; Virtual
Field Trip at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory online game; websites
for children at the European, Japanese and Canadian space agencies;
Planetary Body of the Year Contest
for kids; Johnson Space Center summer
art camp for children, Taking
Up Space Education Program; Extreme
Planet Makeover game at the JPL.
- Laika
Russian
canine rides in Sputnik2
- Langley Research Center, NASA
- NASA Social
#10 at Langley in Hampton, Virginia; Project
Splash at "The Gantry" -- or the Landing and Impact Research Facility
(LandIR) near the Hydro Impact Basin, formerly called the Lunar Landing Research Facility
(LLRF) in the Apollo era where Lunar Excursion Model Simulators (LEMS) were
tested; Orion
capsules tested at Norfolk Naval Air Station with the USS Arlington.
- Laptops in bedrest
- Use of internet
technology and hardware during weightless simulations
- Last Day Every Human Was On Earth
- October 2000 was the last
time all humans were on planet Earth, when none were in orbit.
- Laws
- Legal
regulations governing space travel; space treaties;
U.S. Space Objects Registry.
- Launch Sequence
- Shuttle Countdowns
from T-43 to liftoff; Launch
schedule as published by NASA; Launch of final
space shuttle; record
of 6 launches in one week: ArianeV, 2 Soyuz, Kompsat, Proton, SpaceX by 5 space agencies;
Launch countdown
procedure for Roskosmos Soyuz rockets; Launch countdown procedure for SpaceX
Falcon 9.
-
- Life on Mars
- Methane hurricanes found on Planet
Mars; simulations by the Mars
Desert Research Station, FMARS
and the Haughton-Mars
project.
- LOLCats
- Web memes featuring cats
with funny captions (space related selection); AstroNot
kitty; second round of space
cats; third LOLCat
collection; off-shoot Cats
With Thumbs space humor.
- Lowell Observatory
- National Historic Landmark Lowell
Observatory on Mars Hill near Flagstaff, Arizona, named for astronomer
Percival Lowell, the discoverer of Dwarf Planet Pluto.
-
- LRO / LCROSS
- The Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter / Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite launch;
2009 Top Ten Space
finds.
- Lunar 12
- Twelve Earth men
who have landed and walked on the moon; Update
on the Lunar 12 after death
of Neil
Armstrong; Moonie Musings on next
trip to the moon.
- Lunar Bed Hardware
- Human doll
testing and forceplate
testing on the Lunar Simulation bed
- Lunar Electric Rover
- LER in the inaugural
parade; LER spotted at
Johnson Space Center being filmed by NASA Edge.
- Lunar Landing Hoax Debate
- Moon Hoax Exposé joke
article on The Onion; article accidentally
taken seriously on other news sites; Craig Ferguson monologue;
reasons conspiracy
theories are nonsense; SyFy Channel Paranormal
Files Lunar experiments.
- Lunar Missions
- List of all
missions to the moon by probes, orbiters, samplers and capsules by all
nations of Earth; LADEE
(Lunar Atmosphere Dust and Environment Explorer) launch and Meteor
counting program.
- Lunar Study
- Description
of lunar simulation at Human Test Research Facility; Q&A
of study protocols; study schedule
of tasks and events; multiple participants of the study including Heather
Archuletta, Kevin
Bruns and Deron
Jenkins; completion
of lunar study; rehabilitation
following study.
Lunar Study Journal
All blog posts for Lunar Study in order: screening, testing phase 1, bedrest phase, testing phase 2, rehabilitation.
- Lunar Trivia and Miscellaneous
- Fun facts
about the moon; the Lunar
Terminator; list of all missions
to the Moon by every space agency; humorous Moon
base name suggestions; first record of lunar
eclipse in ancient China; cross sections
of lunar samples photographed under microscope; the fate of the moon as it
will create
rings around Earth in the far off future.
Back to Top
Mallow, Brian
Science
comedian from San Francisco who now works for the Raleigh science museum in
NC; Rational Comedy for an irrational Planet CD.
Map of National Historic Landmarks in the
USA
Science
or space-related NHLs or National Historic Landmarks, 35
total with locations and dates of designation, across various states in
America. Includes differences in legalities and descriptions between NHLs vs.
National memorials and National Monuments, and the National Register of Historic
places.
Map of Worldwide Museums
Museums
all over the Earth featuring space
artifacts, space crafts, displays about space or astronomy, and many also
have Planetariums in addition to exhibits. Includes space-related
novelties such as lodges, restaurants, roadside camp and alien
folklore. Also, Space
City parks or recreational learning experiences in India and Europe; Shuttle
retirement sites chosen.
Map of Worldwide Space Sites
NASA
Sites Mapped, Pillownaut
Space Map, Space
Crafts on display, Space
Museums, Space
Mapping on Google, International Space Sites: Canadian Space Agency CSA space
centers, Chinese CNSA
space centers; European ESA
space centers, Indian Space Research Organization ISRO
space centers; Japanese JAXA
space centers, Russian Federal Space Agency RFSA space
centers and finally the completion of the map with South
American, Australian, African and Middle Eastern space agency sites.
Map of Worldwide Solar System Models
Scale model solar system in
California; all solar system hikes in
America; solar system scale models or Planetenwege in Germany (world record);
all scale model solar systems in the
world, pictures of solar systems in Munich and
Arecibo; picture gallery of solar system scale model
hike; scale planetenpad in Genk,
Belgium; largest scale model solar system in the contiguous United States --
100
mile drive of planets in northern Maine that stretches from the Sun to Dwarf
Planet Eris; largest scale solar system in the world, created as the Carl
Sagan Planetwalk and stretching from the Sun in Ithaca New York to Alpha
Centauri in Hilo, Hawaii.
Map of Worldwide Space Travelers birth
places
Sites
in 51 nations showing all 525 astronauts
or other space
travelers (mostly NASA, currently
accounting for 310), cosmonauts,
spationauts and taikonauts from Earth, as of 2012 missions. Google
map site also available. Includes lists of astronaut
birth dates, both
by month and year, and all names
of space travelers (first and surnames). Greatest concentration of
astronauts in Ohio,
USA; POLL on question "WHAT IS A SPACE TRAVELER" -- Joe Walker,
Mike Melvill and Joe Binnie each broke records for altitude with winged flight
-- but do
they count as astronauts and should they be added to list of official Space
Travelers?
Mariner 9 Orbiter
Photo-mapping
probe sent to planet Mars.
- Mars
- Be
A Martian online game; Debates for visiting
Mars; Houston Museum,
landing on Mars hoax movie;
Mariner 9 orbiter,
Mars500,
methane
discovery, mars meteorites
on Earth, monkeys
on Mars; New York restaurant
with Mars theme; novel
series, Olympus Mons volcano,
Phoenix lander,
Mars Trivia;
Valles Marineris canyon;
budget
for missions; Mars
To Stay (One-Way Trip enthusiasts); Send
Your Name to Mars on the Curiosity Rover; Mars One-Way
Trip; Gale
Crater chosen as landing site for MSL Curiosity
rover; missions to Mars as compared to current
rover plans; map of 127
worldwide landing parties for Curiosity MSL going to planet Mars; Earth
vs. Mars... Mars
is winning! John Stewart reports MSL
Mars landing; Challenges in traveling
to Mars; Obama teleporting
to Mars conspiracy theory; Dennis Tito company "Inspiration
Mars" hoping for Mars Flyby in 2014.
- MARS 2112
- Space-themed
restaurant on Broadway, New York City.
-
- MARS500
- Also sometimes written as Mars 500 with space
between word and number. Complete collection
of all blog posts for Mars500 category, Mars500 100-Day
Milestone; Mars 500 One-Third of the
Way; Emergency Shutdown
simulation, Happy New Year 2011
party; day 200
poster; MARS
LANDING; All Female Symbolic Crew or AFSC
sent into Mars500 capsule; Twitter
feed and blogs from Mars; Mars500 One
Year Mark; Mars500 breaks
mission record; one
month mark prior to completion; Mars500 Lands on Earth;
Mars500 Tweetup
in Rome 2011; repeat
of the Mars500 experiment on the ISS; Mars500 and NASA Studies featured in
"10
Most Bizarre Space Experiments" textbook.
-
- MARS 500
- Also sometimes written as Mars 500 with no space
between word and number. Details on the ESA and Russian Collaboration;
the 105-day
simulation with five crew members; completion
of the 105-day sim; recruiting
for the second simulation; purposes
and protocols for entire project (3 sims total); 520-day sim facility
additions and suit testing; 520-Day Simulation space voyage
launch; Mars 500 Q&A
after launch; Mars 500 All-Female
Sim Crew from the US, UK, Italy, Japan and Russia; Mars 500 1-Year
Mark; Mars 500 breaks mission
record; one
month mark prior to completion; Mars 500 Lands on Earth;
; repeat
of the Mars 500 experiment on the ISS; Mars500 and NASA Studies featured
in "10
Most Bizarre Space Experiments" textbook.
Mars Desert Research Station
Laksen
Sirimanne of the MDRS; (one of three Mars simulation programs).
Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
NASA
Marshall Space
Flight Center; collection of all "Marshall" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut
blog; road
trip to NASA Marshall in Huntsville, Alabama; Apollo
16 capsule on display; Space
Camp; U.S. Space & Rocket Center;
Marshall NASA
Museum, tour of all Marshall Research
labs, Apollo Airstream Mobile
Quarantine Facility, ISS Payload
Operations Center at Marshall, Marshall Space Flight Center Regolith
Project.
- Mars Museum Exhibit
- Martian exhibits at Hermann
Park Health Museum in Houston, Texas.
-
- Mars Novel Series
- Series of three
novels about space travel to Mars by author Ben Bova.
- Mars Rovers
- Also known as MER or Mars Exploration Rovers;Martian
Rovers in development and on Mars; Rover driver Scott
Maxwell shows test rovers; Tribute
to 9/11 terrorism victims on Mars Rovers; Ames Research Center Landing
Party in August 2012 plus photograph
gallery; missions to Mars as compared to current
rover plans; map of 127
worldwide landing parties for Curiosity MSL; social
events; MSL press media
kit released prior to landing on Mars; NASA Ames
Social tour 2012 + Mission Emblem; David Blake MSL
scientist; Curiosity Rover landing
success; pictures of MSL
Landing Party at NASA Ames; Adam Steltzner and Bobak Ferdowsi MSL
EDL mission control.
- Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) also known as
Curiosity Rover
- Mars Science Lab
on the Curiosity Rover, developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); Martian
Rovers in development and on Mars; JPL
campus
tour; NASA Tweetup
for MSL and Curiosity
Rover; Mars rover development clean
room; Gale
Crater chosen as landing site for MSL Curiosity rover; Ames Research
Center Landing Party in August 2012 plus photograph
gallery; missions to Mars as compared to current
rover plans; map of 127
worldwide landing parties for Curiosity MSL; social
events; MSL press media
kit released prior to landing on Mars; NASA Ames
Social tour 2012 + Mission Emblem; David Blake MSL
scientist; Curiosity Rover landing
success; pictures of MSL
Landing Party at NASA Ames.
-
- Martian Hop
- Novelty
song about dancing martians by the Ran-Dells in 1963, as covered by Rocky
Sharpe & the Replays in 1980.
Martian Rocks
- Q&A about rock
samples from Mars; Rover driver Scott
Maxwell shows test rovers over mock Martian soil.
-
- Mascots
- MECO
for the Spacetweep Society; Camilla
SDO nominated for Social Media award.
- Mayan Culture / Mayans
- Alleged December 2012 apocalypse conspiracy
theories.
- Mercury (Planet)
- Trivia
on planet Mercury.
-
- Mercury 7 or Mercury Seven
- NASA program 1958 - 1963: including the
original Mercury
Seven astronauts; Mercury
flight and survival training; Mercury spacecrafts;
Mercury Seven Foundation, later renamed the Astronaut
Scholarship Foundation; Alan Shepard Freedom
7 Flight on Mercury
3.
- Meteor Crater
- Northern
Arizona impact site, preserved by Daniel M. Barringer in 1903. Barringer
Company still owned by his descendants, now givers of the Barringer medal,
supporting scientific research in the field of meteoritics.
Meteors / Meteorites (aerolites) / Meteoritics
Q&A about rock
samples from Mars found on Earth; also, Meteorites,
Meteoroids and the Meteoritical Society; ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration
Meteorites Event;
Meteor captured streaking across sky in Chelyabinsk,
Russia; list of space
sciences, including meteoritics.
- Meteorite Men
Discovery Channel Science
Channel television show about meteorite hunting, starring Geoff
Notkin and Steve Arnold; Meteorite Men co-host Geoffrey
Notkin speaks at Astronomy
Night in Phoenix, AZ; booth featuring products from Aerolite and Meteorite
Men show at SpaceFest 5.
- Methane on Mars
- Methane hurricanes found on Planet
Mars.
- Micro-Gravity Study
- Complete collection of all
Micro-Gravity Study posts.
Micro Gravity Journal
All blog posts for Micro-Gravity in order: screening, testing phase 1, bedrest phase, rehabilitation.
Mir
Russian Space Station Mir; Mir landing Taco
Bell promotions; longest single mission on Mir by Valeriy
Polyakov.
- Mission Control
Mission Control Centers for the Apollo
Program, the Space
Shuttles and the International
Space Station; Mission Control employee
Liz Warren at NASA Johnson; Q&A about monitoring
astronauts on orbit by flight controllers and a flight surgeon in
training.
- Mission X
- Mission X Train
Like An Astronaut program for children, to inspire knowledge about science
and fitness.
- Mojave Air & Space Port
- Commercial space
companies and Legacy Park in Mojave; Voyager's Restaurant.
Monkeys
- Destined for Mars;
used in space
testing.
-
- Molds
- Seat
molds and hand molds of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts.
Moon Landing Hoax
CNN
poll on moon landing reality; Moon Hoax Exposé joke
article on The Onion; article accidentally
taken seriously on other news sites; Syfy Channel Paranormal
Files moon landing debate; reasons conspiracy
theories are nonsense; Moon landing
hoax debunking and Martian teleportation conspiracy theory.
- Moon Realty / Lunar Realtor
- Dennis Hope in documentary "Lunarcy",
known as the Man
Who "Owns" The Moon, having sold lunar plots since 1980.
-
- Moon Samples
- Lunar
regolith experimentation on Earth; Regolith Moon
Castles; Goodwill Moon
Rocks call to
action; Goodwill
Moon Rocks update; moon
rock cross sections photographed in color under microscope.
-
- Moon Tree
- Trees
grown from seeds taken on Apollo 14 flight by astronaut Stuart Roosa;
gallery of photographs of Apollo
Moon Trees; Google map of all the Apollo
Moon trees worldwide; various road
trips to see moon trees in California and Arizona; first Moon
Tree on the East coast; Greg Riley, MA Moon
Tree grower.
- Moon (General facts, missions, and Trivia
series)
- Facts
about the Lunar satellite; blue
moon; the Lunar
Terminator; Testing of newest Lunar
footwear moon boots by NASA; Moon
Branch Project in Japan to put Domino's Pizza branch on the lunar surface;
GRAIL mission
to orbit the moon with twin crafts; list all missions
to the Moon by every space agency; humorous Moon
base name suggestions; the fate of the moon as it will create
rings around Earth in the far off future.
- Moon vs. Mars Debate
- Financial and philosophical
arguments about lunar landings and trips to Mars; closeness
of moon vs. distance to Mars.
- Moonwalkers
- All twelve Earth men
who have landed and walked on the moon;
trivia and backgrounds of all
twelve moonies.
- Movies
- Capricorn
One, Contact,
Head
Down Tilt, Le
Voyage dans la Lune or A Trip To The Moon, Moon,
Space
Film Scores, Wall-E.
- Music
- Craft Lass Bake Sale for NASA
song, Apollo 17 Moon Landing music video by Pennan Brae, a capella
Chromatics singing group,
two versions of the Martian
Hop; NASA and media company team to launch Third
Rock Radio aka "The Space Station" for indie rock and
alternative music; Justin
Bieber going into space.
Back to Top
- NASA Ames
- NASA Ames
Research Center, Mountain View, California; collection of all
"Ames" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut
blog; NASA Ames Tweetup
tour 2011; NASA Ames Exchange
Lodge; SimLabs Vertical
Motion Simulator (VMS); Lunar
Lander Cab; Kepler
scientists
and various planet
projects; Sustainability
Base Green Building; 360-degree views of Mars at FutureFlight
Central; Ames NASASocial
Tour 2012, Mars Curiosity social
events; MSL press media
kit released prior to landing on Mars; NASA Ames
Social Mission Emblem; David Blake MSL
scientist; Curiosity Rover landing
success; pictures of MSL
Landing Party at NASA Ames; Kepler System 62 Discovery of Habitable Planets (Rocky planet and possible water
world); NASA
Social for K10
Telerobotics Rover and LADEE.
-
- NASA Edge
- Filming Lunar
Rover at JSC
- NASA Gift Shop
- The Space
Trader and items
for sale in Houston; also, the online Space
Store.
-
- NASA Dryden
- NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility; Dryden
Photo Gallery; Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA);
Mini-Tweetup
at Dryden, Palmdale, CA.
-
- NASA Goddard
- Employee Ed
Rezac; a cappella musical group Chromatics;
Blue Marble - Next Generation
software; NASA center named after Rocket man Robert
H. Goddard; NASA Goddard Photo
Gallery on Pillownaut Picasa; trip to Greenbelt, Maryland
to tour Goddard Space Flight Center to see satellite manufacturing
facilities, James Webb Space Telescope, and Ed
Rezac of the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO), working on
the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM).
-
- NASA Headquarters
- NASA
HQ in Washington DC; picture gallery of headquarters
facility and surrounding sites; NASA Social with Joe
Acaba, also Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C. with Apollo 11
Capsule.
-
- NASA JPL
- "NOCO" = NASA Owned, Contractor
Operated. Extreme
Planet Makeover game; Martian
Rovers in development and on Mars; JPL
campus
tour; Rover driver Scott
Maxwell shows test rovers; Voyager
Gold Records and Galileo Spacecrafts; JPL Tweetup Photo
Gallery; Tweetup
at JPL for MSL and Curiosity; Asteroid
Watch (Near Earth Objects); Space Shuttle tiles with Todd
Barber; Adam Steltzner and Bobak Ferdowsi MSL
EDL mission control.
-
- NASA Johnson
- NASA Johnson
Space Center, Houston, Texas; NASA worker Ali
Llewellyn, outreach coordinator; Collection of all
"Johnson" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut blog.
Employee during Apollo Program, Robyn Villavecchia;
Shuttle Quality Assurance Tech Richard
Bettin.
NASA Kennedy
- NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center; Kennedy
Photo Gallery (Shuttles); Kennedy
Picture Gallery (Final Shuttle Launch Tweetup); STS-135 Launch
Twitter media event; watching Space Shuttle
Atlantis take off; astronauts at launch pad 39A
press site; Seth Green and Bear
McCreary debut Shuttle fanfare song; Bob Crippen
speaks at STS-135 launch; Tourist
booklet, sold for 50 cents, at Cape Canaveral + Kennedy Visitor's Center
in the bicentennial year, featuring the Saturn V on the cover. Scans
of all pictures in the booklet, showing KSC Director at the time, Lee R.
Scherer (1975-79), lists of missions, map of launchpads, and pictures of all
rockets and capsules to that date (31 manned flights crewed by 43 astronauts).
- NASA Langley
- NASA Social
#10 at Langley in Hampton, Virginia; Project
Splash at "The Gantry" -- or the Landing and Impact Research Facility
(LandIR) near the Hydro Impact Basin, formerly called the Lunar Landing Research Facility
(LLRF) in the Apollo era where Lunar Excursion Model Simulators (LEMS) were
tested; Orion
capsules tested at Norfolk Naval Air Station with the USS Arlington.
-
- NASA Marshall
- NASA Marshall
Space Flight Center; collection of all "Marshall" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut
blog; road
trip to NASA Marshall in Huntsville, Alabama; Apollo
16 capsule on display; Space
Camp; U.S. Space & Rocket Center;
Marshall NASA
Museum, tour of all Marshall Research
labs, Apollo Airstream Mobile
Quarantine Facility, ISS Payload
Operations Center at Marshall, Marshall Space Flight Center Regolith
Project.
- NASA Stennis
- NASA Stennis Space Flight
Center; NASA Stennis
Photo Gallery; rocket
test stands tour, Apollo 4 capsule inside
the Stennisphere.
- NASA Spinoffs
- Technology on Earth as a direct
result of NASA research or activities.
-
- NASA Television
- Main NASA
TV site; ISS
feed from Greg Chamitoff; Space Shuttle
launches; STS-130 countdown.
- NASA Website
- Micro-Gravity
Simulation on NASA web, Pillownaut
feature on NASA.gov, bedrest
studies official website.
National Historic Landmarks
Science
or space-related NHLs or National Historic Landmarks, 35
total with locations and dates of designation, across various states in
America. Includes differences in legalities and descriptions between NHLs vs.
National memorials and National Monuments, and the National Register of Historic
places; visiting "The
Gantry" at NASA Langley, NHL in Virginia.
National Space Biomedical Research Institute
Butterflies aboard the ISS
- Neuroscience Team
- Neuroscientists
and Neurological tests and at the Human Test Research Facility, JSC
- Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
- Photographs
and facts
about the NBL in Houston, Texas
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- NEWS COVERAGE
- 365 Days of Astronomy Pillownaut
Podcast (June 12, 2011)
ABC News via Dallas WFAA affiliate on
Pillownauts on
the eZLS (May 12, 2011)
Austin-American
Statesman Newspaper covers NASA
Studies in Galveston (May 23, 2009)
Christian Science Monitor asks Are NASA Studies the Best
Job Ever (December 30, 2009)
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta covers the Treadmill
Study and discusses Bone
Loss in Space (September 16, 2008)
Fox 26 Houston covers the Micro-Gravity
Simulation (July 31, 2008)
Fox 26 Houston covers the Lunar
Study (May 21, 2009)
Fox 26 Houston covers Camilla Corona on trip to the final
Shuttle Launch STS-135 (July 5, 2011)
Fox
& Friends show in New York interviews Pillownauts (August 1, 2008)
Fox New York covers the Micro-Gravity
Simulation (August 5, 2008)
International
Press Compilation (Afghanistan, Belgium, China, Croatia, England, Fiji,
India, Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine)
Moon Daily covers the Lunar
Study (May 22, 2009)
NASA.gov article on the HTSF
Pillownauts (September 23, 2008)
Ohio Herald article about iRATS
study (December 23, 2010)
Planetary
Radio interview with Study participants (March 17, 2009)
POPSCI.com Magazine/Blog
covers the combined NASA
Studies (June 3, 2009)
SmartPlanet covers the NASA
Bedrest studies (February 4, 2010)
SpaceHack features the NASA
Studies
and other
updates.
- Space
Times News now carrying Pillownaut Blog Feed (As of April 2011)
St. Petersburg Times covers the Bed
Pilots (1970s)
Universe Today (Anne Minard) tells why Space
Hates Our Bones (April 13, 2009)
WIRED Magazine/Blog interviews NASA
scientist Ronita Cromwell and various
Pillownauts (June 17, 2009)
Forbes
summary of NASA Studies revives interesting (2013)
- Nye, Bill
- Bill Nye the
Science Guy introduction to Year In Space 2013 calendar, designed
by Steve Cariddi.
- Obameter
- Meter of campaign promises measured
against progress of space issues in Barack Obama's presidency; 2012
update after three years in office; re-election
of President Barack Obama seen as win for Science and Space.
- Ohio
- Also known as the Astronaut State, having a higher
percentage of astronauts born within their borders than any other region
on Earth, compared to population density.
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- Orbital Debris
- Space junk as classified by NASA; sign up for
the Orbital
Debris Quarterly newsletter.
- Orbital Sciences
- Orbital Sciences Corporation successfully
tests Antares
Rockets with Cygnus capsule with test payload; now in competitions with
SpaceX in terms of re-supplying International Space Station with commercial
companies. The new space race of for-profit space travel.
Orion
- Orion capsule, first known as the Crew Exploration Vehicle
(CEV) as part of the Constellation Program, is now being continually developed
by Lockheed-Martin as the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). Being
tested at NASA
Langley by Project Splash, and recovered
from ocean tests by the US Navy.
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Orrery
- Examination of solar
system models, including human orrery, Dark Crystal movie orrery and Eise
Eisinga 1774 Planetarium, still the largest orrery in the world; Kepler Orrery
Visualizations.
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- Pamphlets for NASA Studies
- Official brochure
release by Wyle / NASA for the micro-gravity simulations.
Awaken Adventure NASA brochure single
page information sheet.
Awaken Your Sense of Adventure NASA brochure front
and back.
Space Flight Simulation Study tri-fold
brochure.
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- Phoenix
- Phoenix Mars
Lander
Photography
- Photo Galleries on PICASA
Albums site:
Apollo 13 Lecture - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/Apollo13Event#
Apollo Mission Control - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/MissionControl#
Apollo Moon Trees - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/ApolloMoonTrees
Astronaut Scholarship Foundation - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/ASFAstronautAuction#
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Astronomy Night in Arizona, featuring the Meteorite Men - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/AstronomyNight
Buran Russian Space Shuttle - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/Buran02
Chabot Space & Science Center, Oakland, California - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/Chabot
Houston, Texas - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/HoustonTexas#
Human Test Research Facility - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/HTSFScreening#
Mars Museum Houston - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/MarsVacation#
MicroGravity Study Rehabilitation - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/EvacuationRehab#
MicroGravity Study Tests - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAWard#
NASA Ames Research Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAAmesResearchCenter#
NASA Goddard - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/NASAGoddard
NASA Headquarters - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/NASAHQ
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAJetPropulsionLaboratory#
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NASA Johnson Space Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/JohnsonSpaceCenter#
NASA Kennedy Space Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/KennedySpaceCenterFlorida#
NASA Kennedy Final Shuttle launch - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAKennedy
NASA Marshall Space Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAMarshallSpaceCenter#
NASA Marshall Rocket Park - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAMarshallRocketPark#
NASA Stennis - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAStennis
Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NeutralBuoyancyLaboratory#
San Francisco Bay Science & Telescopes Flyover - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/SFBayAreaFlyOver
SETICON Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Conference - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/SETICONII
- Solar System Scale Models - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/SolarSystemHike
Solstice Eclipse of Winter 2010 - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/WinterSolsticeEclipse#
SPACEFEST V 5 - https://plus.google.com/photos/110136231636280387309/albums/5881766404769217457
Space Shuttles (Discovery) - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/SpaceShuttles#
Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (Aerial) - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/SVMFAerial#
Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (Work Floor) - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/SVMFWorkFloor#
Space Week 2009 - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/SpaceWeek2009#
SpaceUp Europe - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/SpaceUpEurope
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Tweetup for STS-130 at NASA Johnson Space Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASATweetupJSC#
Tweetup for Kepler Mission at NASA Ames Research Center -
https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASATweetupARC#
Tweetup
for Curiosity Mars Rover at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory -
https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAJPLTweetup
Tweetup for SOFIA at NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility -
https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASADryden
Tweetup for STS-135 at NASA Kennedy Space Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAKennedy
Tweetup ["NASA Social"] for Aeronautics at NASA Dryden Research Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/NASADryden
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Tweetup ["NASA Social"] for Mars Curiosity Landing at NASA Ames
Research Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/MarsCuriosityLanding
Tweetup ["NASA Social"] for
Joe Acaba at NASA Headquarters - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/NASAHQ
- Tweetup ["NASA Roque Social"] for
Atlas V LandSat launch Vandenberg Air Force Base - https://plus.google.com/photos/110136231636280387309/albums/5842751273233958225
- Tweetup ["NASA Social"] for K10
Telerobotics Rover at NASA Ames Research Center - https://plus.google.com/photos/110136231636280387309/albums/5410006968028975761
- Tweetup ["NASA Social"] for Orion
MPCV at NASA Langley Research Center - https://plus.google.com/photos/110136231636280387309/albums/5909564491401372401
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- Pillownaut Facebook Page
- Pillow Astronaut profile on social
site Facebook.
-
- Pillownaut Myspace Page
- Pillow Astronaut profile on social
site Myspace (No longer active).
- Pillownauts
- Introducing Marcus, Michael & Devin
Pictures of Devin,
Heather & Michael
Devin, Candace, Heather
at Devin's Halfway Point
Devin, Candace, Heather, Deron Movie Nights
- Firefly
Deron head down
day, Heather Star Trek Dolls
All rise for Hurricane Ike - Devin, Heather, Marcus,
Kjell & Deron
Hurricane
Ike Evacuation
Heather, Devin, Marcus during Rehab
Devin, Heather driving and home videos
Devin, Heather driving back to Houston
Devin,
Heather & Deron Reunion after Hurricane Ike
Heather, Devin reunion in Lunar Study
Heather,
Davonne, Todd doing Arts & Crafts
Michelle, Heather, Jessica, Davonne Arts & Crafts
at Study Facility
Devin & Heather - Videos at Mars Museum Exhibit in Houston
Justin
Ciaciura in the Functional Testing Study
Vlad
Atavin - ESA space study similar to NASA study
Daniel
Hare in the 70-Day Treadmill Study
- Pillownaut Twitter Feed
- Pillow Astronaut profile on social
site Twitter.
- Pillownaut YouTube Channel
- Pillow Astronaut profile on social
site YouTube.
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- Plait, Phil
- Scientist, PhD and blogger Phil Plait, better
known as the "Bad Astronomer"... though his blog "Bad
Astronomy" is about correcting bad science, not practicing it.
Books include "Bad Astronomy" and "Death From the Skies".
Banquet host and speaker
at SpaceFest V in 2013; essay on good science, and how he exemplifies Scientific Method vs. Conspiracy
Theories.
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- Planetary Gravitational Forces
- Your Weight On Other Worlds software, showing the
force of gravity and its effect on mass from planet to planet. See
what you would weigh on Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune,
Uranus, Pluto and Earth's moon -- as compared to Earth.
Planetary Habitability Laboratory
- The PHL
at the University of Arecibo, working on the Visible
Paleo-Earth Project.
Planetary Linguistics
- Names of planetary bodies and solar system
terms in all
different languages
- Planetary Society - Affiliation: Planetary Radio
- Interview
of test subject after Micro-Gravity Simulation; other guests;
Starry Messenger
Press teams with Planetary Society to publish the 2013
Year In Space Calendar.
Pluto
Debate on Planet
status; alternate
names: Dwarf Planets, Trans-Neptunian Objects, Plutoids, Plutinos, Scattered Disc Objects
(SDO), Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) and Oort Cloud
bodies; Pluto T-shirts;
National Historic Landmark Lowell
Observatory on Mars Hill near Flagstaff, Arizona, named for astronomer
Percival Lowell, the discoverer of Dwarf Planet Pluto.
- Popular Science
Archives
online created in 2010: Space articles
back to 1873; Moon predictions from the Space Race.
Portraits of Astronaut Crews
Posters of all NASA astronaut
crews.
President of the United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower establishes
NASA in 1958; John F. Kennedy plans
mission to the moon; Barack Obama calls
the ISS; Barack Obama waves
to Lunar Rover in inaugural parade; Barack Obama's commitment
to space issues; Space issues in
progress one year later (2010); Space issues in
progress two years later (2011); Ronald Reagan comments
on Space Shuttle Challenger; Obama calls
the ISS with school children; Obama and NASA's
budget; status of the 2012
Obameter of the campaign promises made about space; April Fool's Day post
with fake "dream
budget" for NASA (Inspired by Penny4NASA campaign).
Press Articles
Collection of press
articles about NASA studies 1960 - 2010; blog feed now regularly inducted
into the Space
Times News website.
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- Quiz - Human Bones
Quiz and answers about human
bones; bone health, properties of bone.
Quiz - Moon Survival
Test of how well you would survive on the moon with certain tools.
Quiz - Space Geeks
See if you are an Astro-Nut or
Astro-NOT; then, updated version of Space
Cadet Quiz with #Spacetweep tweetstorm on Twitter.
- Radio
-
Third
Rock Radio, NASA and media company founded the new "Space
Station" playing new rock, alternative, and emphasizing space industry
occupations and NASA missions.
Records Set By Space Programs
Space
FIRSTS of each country; records set by individual
astronauts or cosmonauts; space records in
the future; Valeri Polyakov holds record for longest
single mission at 438 days.
Redstone Arsenal
Rocket
test stands at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; Saturn
V Dynamic Test Stand; Space
Shuttle Test Stands.
Regolith
Moon
dust experimentation on Earth as sponsored by MSFC; Moon
Castles.
- Rehabilitation (post study)
- Pains
in crash course rehab; Seton
hospital in Austin, Texas; Side effects and exercise;
Side effects later
at home; Lunar study aftermath.
- Restaurants With Space Themes
- Mapped
restaurants across the US and Canada; Mars2112
in New York City; Moon
Wok in New Orleans; Wisconsin's
Sci-Fi Cafe; also on list: Oregon's Space Room Lounge and the Space Aliens Grill & Bars
in Minnesota and North Dakota.
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- Road Trips
- Houston, TX drive; Galveston
Reunion after Hurricane Ike; Christmas
in Galveston, TX; Denison, TX founder
of NASA museum; Mars
Museum and videos
in Houston, TX; trip to California to see NASA
Ames and Shuttle launch; trip to Alabama to visit NASA
Marshall, US
Space and Rocket Center, rocket
test stands, and Apollo
artifacts; STS-130
Tweetup at Johnson
Space Center in Houston, TX; second Tweetup
at Ames
Research Center in Mountain View, CA; visit to Martian
Rovers at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA; chauffeuring Camilla Corona through
Roswell UFO
museum; Camilla in New
Orleans and Florida; trip to Cape Canaveral to see final
Shuttle Launch Atlantis STS-135; westward return
home from Tweetup through Grand Canyon.; Annual
event at Akimel
A-al, Ahwatukee featuring the Challenger Space Center in Phoenix, guest
stars in 2011 included Astronaut
Bill Gregory and Meteorite Man Geoff
Notkin; Chabot Space
& Science Center featuring Astronaut Rex Walheim; trip to Belgium for SpaceUp
Genk; driving trip through
California and Arizona to attend SpaceFest
V Conference.
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- Rockets
- Rockets
of the world visual poster and book by Peter Alway; Saturn
V and other rockets at Johnson Space Center Rocket Park; rockets at Marshall Space Flight Center Rocket
City; rocket development by Robert
H. Goddard.
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- Rocket Test Stands
- Rocket
test stands at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; Saturn
V Dynamic Test Stand; Space
Shuttle Test Stands.
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- Rovers
- Martian
Rovers in development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and deployed on
planet Mars, including Phoenix, Spirit and Opportunity; also upcoming
Curiosity and MSL; JPL
campus
tour; Rover driver Scott
Maxwell shows test rovers at the test sites; Gale
Crater chosen as landing site for MSL Curiosity rover; Tribute
to 9/11 terrorism victims on Mars Rovers; Ames Research Center Landing
Party in August 2012 plus photograph
gallery; missions to Mars as compared to current
rover plans; map of 127
worldwide landing parties for Curiosity MSL; social
events; MSL press media
kit released prior to landing on Mars; NASA Ames
Social tour 2012 + Mission Emblem; Adam Steltzner and Bobak Ferdowsi MSL
EDL mission control; Curiosity Rover landing
success; pictures of MSL
Landing Party at NASA Ames.
- Russian Space Program
- Roscosmos
Tour: Star City, Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Baikonur
Cosmodrome and Moscow Mission Control; Details on the ESA and Russian Collaboration;
the 105-day
simulation with five crew members; completion
of the 105-day sim; recruiting
for the second simulation; purposes
and protocols for entire project (3 sims total); first episode of time
travel; records
set by Russian federal program; space centers of Roskosmos mapped
across Russia, Lana Sator photographs of Energomash
Russian Rocket testing facility; history of missions by female
cosmonauts; Soyuz
launch countdown from Kazakhstan.
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- Sagan, Carl
Contact book
and film; Carl
Sagan Day; views of possible
extra-terrestrial life; Voyager Golden
Records; golden record
tattoo and Frank Drake.
Saslow, Scott - Journal
Introduction
to Scott in the Micro-Gravity study; Daily writings of
Micro-Gravity Study participant Scott Saslow.
- Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO)
- Satellite Servicing portion of NASA
Goddard, working on the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM), tour by employee
Ed Rezac.
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- Saturn V
- Rock specifications;
launch
vehicles for Apollo missions; Rocket
Park in Houston, Texas; Saturn V Rocket
Test Stands; featured in Rockets
of the world visual poster and book by Peter Alway.
- Scale of the Universe
- Visual art with scrolling capability, showing scale
of the universe from elementary particles to massive celestial bodies.
-
- Science Comedian
Brian
Malow from San Francisco who now works for the Raleigh science museum in
NC; Rational Comedy for an irrational Planet CD.
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- Scientist Ronita Cromwell
- Ronita
L. Cromwell at NASA Studies; Dr. Cromwell PhD Credentials
and Publications.
- Screening for NASA Studies
- Complete Screening
process at the Human Test Research Facility at Johnson Space Center,
Houston, TX; Q&A on Screening
Qualifications for Micro-Gravity Study; Screening for
Lunar Study; Screening myths
cleared up.
- Search For Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
- SETICON
II in 2012, conference
with Frank Drake, astronaut Tom Jones, author Mary Roach and Star Trek actor
Robert Picardo; Voyager golden
record tattoo.
- Seeds In Space
- Educational project on the International Space
Station for growing
seeds in space.
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- Sex In Space
- Studies of animal
reproductive behavior in micro-gravity; myths
about human sex experiments in space; Space Sex post
Q&A; married couples
in space; married
astronauts.
Shergottite
Properties
of Mars
rocks; Mars rock
giveaway by New Scientist magazine.
- Snoopy
- NASA employee
award called the "Silver Snoopy"; search for the Apollo
10 Snoopy module in heliocentric orbit.
Skylab
Skylab artifacts
on loan from Skylab Museum of Australia; Skylab astronauts at SpaceFest
V; 40th
anniversary of the SkyLab space station launch.
- Social (NASA Social) [Formerly called Tweetups]
- 1. Johnson Space Center event
in Houston, Texas for STS-130; Tweetup Materials
and Press kit; Tweetup guest astronaut Dr.
Bobby Satcher; VIT "Very
Important Twits" Tour of SVMF, NBL, MCC and MOCR2; ISS Wake-Up
Call from Mission Control; ISS
Phone call from President Barack Obama.
- 2. Ames
Research Center event
in Mountain View, California; tour of Ames
and mascot Camilla SDO; Kepler scientist Natalie
Batalha; The Kepler
Cannonball Awards; SimLabs Vertical
Motion Simulator (VMS); astronaut Bo Bobko discusses
Shuttle landing sims; Lunar
Lander cab simulator; Green Building Sustainability
Base; Jon Jenkins at his Star
Music; 360-degree view of Mars in FutureFlight
Central.
3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory event
in Pasadena, California; tour of JPL and group photo with mosaic
of Spirit Rover; Curiosity
Rover, Spaceflight Operations Facility; Eyes
on the Solar System; Imagine
Mars (Mars Outreach Program); Mars Rover
Drivers; Mars Science Laboratory Clean
Room; Asteroid Watch (Near
Earth Objects Program).
4. Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility event
in Palmdale, CA; tour of hangars and the Boeing modified jet serving as
the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA);
airborne astronomy.
5. Kennedy Space Center launch in Cape Canaveral,
Florida; intro to Tweetup activities at launch
Pad 39A; watching Space Shuttle
Atlantis take off; astronauts at launch pad 39A
press site; Seth Green and Bear
McCreary debut Shuttle fanfare song; Bob Crippen
speaks at STS-135 launch.
6. Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards
Air Force Base; tour
of hangars + test pilots; Dryden Historical Aircraft Photograph Collection,
FA-18 Super Hornet,
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV); side trip to Mojave
Air and Space Port.
7. Ames Research Center event
at Moffett Field, tour of Wind Tunnel testing grounds with Camilla SDO and
evening Landing Party for Curiosity Rover. Mars Curiosity social
events; NASA Ames
Social tour 2012 + Mission Emblem; David Blake MSL
scientist; Curiosity Rover landing
success; pictures of MSL
Landing Party at NASA Ames.
8. NASA Headquarters: NASA
HQ in Washington DC; picture gallery of headquarters
facility and surrounding sites; NASA Social with Joe
Acaba.
9. Vandenberg Air Force Base Rogue
Tweetup; traveled via small Piper Cherokee
airplane to meet other SpaceTweeps and see NASA
LandSat Atlas V Rocket Launch.
10. Ames Research Center event
in California and connected to the ISS: astronaut Luca Parmitano drove K10
Telerobotics Rover at Ames Roverscape for testing with Intelligent
Robotics Group; tour
of Ames Facilities including Lunar Science Institute, Barcelona Cafe, IRIS
and LADEE Multi-Mission Control Operations Centers and Visitor's Center.
11.
NASA Social
#10 at Langley in Hampton, Virginia; Project
Splash at "The Gantry" -- or the Landing and Impact Research Facility
(LandIR) near the Hydro Impact Basin, formerly called the Lunar Landing Research Facility
(LLRF) in the Apollo era where Lunar Excursion Model Simulators (LEMS) were
tested; Orion
capsules tested at Norfolk Naval Air Station with the USS Arlington.
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Social Sites
- Pillownaut Blogspot:
http://pillownaut.blogspot.com
Pillownaut Facebook Page
: http://www.facebook.com/heather.archuletta
Pillownaut Foursquare:
Pillownaut Instagram: http://instagram.com/hra2362#
Pillownaut Myspace Page :
http://www.myspace.com/pillownaut
Pillownaut Picasa Albums
: http://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut
Pillownaut Tumblr: http://kittehwear.tumblr.com/
Pillownaut Twitter Feed : http://twitter.com/pillownaut
Pillownaut YouTube Channel
: http://www.youtube.com/user/pillownaut
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- Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Mascot Camilla Corona
- NASA Goddard mascot Camilla Corona, or Camilla
SDO; BTS-1 Space Mission
brunch; hosting Camilla at the JPL
Tweetup
- 2011; hosting Camilla on the STS-135
Road Trip to Florida 2011; crossing state lines Arizona
and New Mexico, plus the Roswell UFO Museum; Camilla in Texas,
Louisiana and Florida; NASA mascot Camilla
on FOX Houston 26; STS-135
Tweetup at NASA Kennedy; Cape Canaveral pictures with Camilla at final
Shuttle launch; hosting Camilla on a visit to NASA Stennis
Space Center; Mars Curiosity
Landing Party at NASA Ames.
- Solar System Scale Models
Scale model solar system in
California; all solar system hikes in
America; solar system scale models or Planetenwege in Germany (world record);
all scale model solar systems in the
world, pictures of solar systems in Munich and
Arecibo; picture gallery of solar system scale model
hike; scaled planetenpad in Genk,
Belgium; largest scale model solar system in the contiguous United States --
100
mile drive of planets in northern Maine that stretches from the Sun to Dwarf
Planet Eris; largest scale solar system in the world, created as the Carl
Sagan Planetwalk and stretching from the Sun in Ithaca New York to Alpha
Centauri in Hilo, Hawaii.
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- Soviet Space Program
Snowstorm
re-usable shuttle or Buran launch; list of Kosmonauts; cosmonaut
trivia;
Soviet space dogs
of the 1960s; sites of all former-Soviet and current Russian space
agency centers, launch pads, research facilities and cosmonaut training
cities; first man in space Yuri
Gagarin; first woman in space Valentina
Tereshkova.
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- Space Cadets
- Space
Cadet application on
Facebook, also with Fan
Wall.
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- SpaceFest
-
SpaceFest
conference organized by NovaSpace, held for previous 4 years in San Diego,
Phoenix and Tucson. Took roadtrip
through California and Arizona to attend SpaceFestV
or SpaceFest5 in Tucson (2013). Large
4-day Conference includes elite space artists (by invitation only); also
includes group panels, science
lectures and eminent speakers such as "Bad Astronomer" Phil Plait,
cosmologist Brian Cox and planetary scientist Carolyn Porco and celebrities such
as Geoff Notkin of "Meteorite Men" fame. Largest draw is astronauts
from many eras of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, SkyLab and the Space Shuttle program.
In 2013, met Scott Carpenter, Alan Bean, Dick Gordon, Dave Scott, Jack Lousma,
Gene Cernan; Phil Plait as speaker
at SpaceFest V in 2013; essay on good science, and how he exemplifies Scientific Method vs. Conspiracy
Theories.
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- Space Camp
- Space
Camp at Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL.
Space Map
NASA
Sites Mapped, Pillownaut
Space Map, Space
Crafts on display, Space
Museums, Space
Mapping on Google, International Space Sites: Canadian Space Agency CSA space
centers, China CNSA
space centers; European ESA
space centers, Indian Space Research Organization ISRO
space centers; Japanese JAXA
space centers, Russian Federal Space Agency RFSA space
centers; finally, the completion with mapping of space
agency sites in Australia, South America, Africa and the Middle East; map of
birth
places of all space travelers since 1961, also mapped
by birth date.
- Space Sciences
List of all space-related
sciences in alphabetical order. "Spaceology"
- Space Show, The
- Appearance
on The Space Show with Dr.
David Livingston, being interviewed about NASA bedrest studies; follow-up
interview weeks later with inventor of bedrest studies in the 1950s, NASA
Group #4 astronaut
Dr. Duane Graveline, including his work in Soviet
Bio-Astronautics.
-
- Space Shuttle Atlantis
Final
Shuttle launches of the Space Shuttle Program 1981-2011; Tweetup
for STS-135; watching Space Shuttle
Atlantis take off; astronauts at launch pad 39A
press site; Seth Green and Bear
McCreary debut Shuttle fanfare song; Bob Crippen
speaks at STS-135 launch; Atlantis facts
and trivia; KSC retirement rollout from VAB event (2012).
- Space Shuttle Challenger
- Houston Memorial park monument
honoring the seven lives lost on
Challenger; John Denver tribute song to
Challenger Crew, They
Were Flying For Me.
-
- Space Shuttle Columbia
- First
flight of the Shuttle program on Columbia; Arlington National Cemetery stone honoring the
seven lives lost
on Columbia.
-
- Space Shuttle Discovery
- Facts about Space
Shuttle Discovery; Discovery launch in HDR
Photography; Shuttle Discovery comes to the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington D.C.; visiting the Smithsonian National Air and Space
Museum's Steven Ferencz Udvar-Házy Center
to see the fleet leader.
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- Space Shuttle Endeavour
- Facts about Space
Shuttle Endeavour; final flight of Endeavour from
Florida to California; Endeavour facts and trivia; Retirement rollout to California
Science Center.
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- Space Shuttles (American)
- Trivia about the Space
Transportation System (STS); Shuttles ferried
by airplane; Shuttle launches;
Shuttle and
Ares Rocket; Space Shuttle Retirement
plans; Shuttle Launch of
STS-130; Shuttle T-shirts;
NASA soliciting
bids for retired space shuttles; rivalries between cities to acquire retired
space shuttles; penultimate voyage of Space
Shuttle Atlantis; Space Shuttle Countdown
101; myths
of Roman influence; Space Shuttle tiles;
NASA's final
three Shuttle missions; Shuttle Retirement Museums
Chosen in 2011; facts about Shuttle Endeavour, baby
of the fleet; final Shuttle launches in 2011;
final launch of the Space Shuttle program STS-135;
Space Shuttle
simulators dismantled and sent to museums.
- Space Shuttles (Russian)
- Buran
space shuttle named Snowstorm; only launch of the Soviet
Buran re-usable craft; visit
to Technik Museum in Speyer, Germany; OK-GLI
model Buran built in 1989 and used for flight and launch pad testing.
Space Shuttle Successors?
Possible
successors to the Space Shuttle program, including the CST-100 by Boeing,
the Dragon Capsule by SpaceX, Dream Chaser by Sierra Nevada Corporation,
Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) Orion by Lockheed-Martin or the secret space
vehicle by Blue Origin.
Space Suits
Click-the-space-suit to learn
the parts game; novelty
spacesuit for sale in 1960s magazine.
Space Television
Various places to watch
space news and launches, including Space Vidcast, ESA Television, AstroSpace Now, Spacelaunch News, NASA Television, This Week In Space (TWIS).
- Space Times News
Space
website carrying Pillownaut blog feed.
Space Tourism
Future vacations
in Space; Justin Bieber and other celebrities
in space.
Space Trader
Store at Space
Center Houston; also, the Space
Store NASA Gift Shop.
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Space Travelers
"Star Sailors"
and the origins
of the words astronaut, taikonaut, cosmonaut and spationaute; trivia on various
space travelers throughout the eras; astronauts who have been on popular
television shows.
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SpaceUp Conference
- SpaceUp
San Francisco in April 2012; interview with SpaceUp founder
Chris Radcliff; SpaceUpEU first Space-Up unconference
in Europe; SpaceUp Genk at Europlanetarium
Cosmodrome in Belgium.
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Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility
- Astronaut training grounds at Johnson Space
Center aerial
view from the public hall and inside
the simulators on the work floor; guest pilot in shuttle
simulator; space shuttle simulators
dismantled and sent to museums.
- Space Week
- Events
in Texas 2009.
- SpaceX
- Falcon
9 Rocket launches; Dragon
Capsule tests; NASA COTS and Elon
Musk; Cheese
wheel in space; Engineer Matt
Sachtler gives tour of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation; SpaceX
Mission Control at Cape Canaveral Air Station; Space-flown
Dragon capsule on display in Florida; Falcon Rockets
launch countdown guide; first commercial trip to space station; first private company to
berth with
ISS; C3PO and COTS programs in
commercial arena.
- Spinoffs
- Technology on Earth as a direct
result of NASA research or activities.
- Sputnik 2
- Laika the Russian
canine rides in orbiter.
- Stamps
- Vote for 2010 American
Moon Stamp; Mercury
Program stamps 2011; Alan
Shepard stamp released on Freedom 7 anniversary.
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- Star Trek
- Assignment
Earth episode with Apollo footage; ISS Expedition
21 poster; Behind-The-Scenes
humor on the original Star Trek series; real Astronauts who have appeared
on episodes of Star Trek; Astronaut crews who dressed in Starfleet
uniforms; Star Trek Christmas
novelties; San Francisco Star
Trek Convention in March 2011 with Nichele
Nichols and Leonard
Nimoy; SETICON II with Star Trek actor Robert
Picardo.
Stennis Space Flight Center, NASA
NASA Stennis Space Flight
Center; NASA Stennis
Photo Gallery; rocket
test stands tour, Apollo 4 capsule inside
the Stennisphere.
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
SOFIA
at Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility, a modified Boeing Jet engaged in
Airborne Astronomy.
STS-135 Launch
Final
space shuttle launch of the Space Shuttle program; Atlantis orbiter; Road
Trip across the country to STS-135.
- Study Exercises
- Basic
exercises included in Micro-Gravity Study; Q&A
on exercise regime; Q&A on allowed
exercises during second phase; COLBERT
Treadmill in NASA Studies, eZLS
or sZLS Treadmills, exercise
regimen in iRATS
study, exercise regimen in the Countermeasure and Functional Testing Study
(CFT70),
updated CFT
study with testosterone component details.
- Study Food
- Nutritional requirements
during studies; Caloric Harris-Benedict
Equation.
- Study Goals
- Reasons
behind NASA study design and protocols; pros and cons; Risks
vs. Perqs
of participating in studies at NASA.
- Study Medications
- All medicinal substances
used, oral and intravenous.
- Study Pamphlets
- Official brochure
release by Wyle / NASA for the micro-gravity simulations.
Awaken Adventure NASA brochure single
page information sheet.
Awaken Your Sense of Adventure NASA brochure front
and back.
Space Flight Simulation Study tri-fold
brochure.
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- Study Schedules
- Routine
daily life in the Micro-Gravity
Study; routine daily life in the Lunar
Study; schedule and garments for the Compression
Suit Study.
- Study Side Effects
- Effects of being
head-down; effects at the halfway
point; effects immediately
after the study; effects at
home; effects after
one month.
- Study Testing
- Completed list of all
medical tests in the NASA Studies; test list on Pillownaut
domain with clickable links to each individual test; studies
in the 1960s and 1970s compared to today; details of NASA Studies featured
in "10
Most Bizarre Space Experiments" textbook; articles about various ESA
and NASA protocols.
- Study Website
- Official NASA website
for Human Test Research Facility at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.
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- Tang
Orange
powdered drink developed in late 50s, which was flown on select early
space missions and used astronauts in their commercials. Spot includes TANG
Pie Recipe.
Telescopes
Telescope
trivia; radio
telescopes and the electromagnetic radiation spectrum; Galileo's
work with telescopes.
Television
Space Shuttle
prep, launches
and other
programming on NASA
Television; STS-130 countdown,
THIS
WEEK IN SPACE with Miles O'Brien, Buzz Aldrin on Dancing
With The Stars, Food Channel Top
Chef Gastro-Nauts,
SyFy Fact or Faked Paranormal
Files and general Space Television outlets, where one can watch
space news and launches; astronauts who have been on popular
television shows; Discovery Channel Science
Channel television show about meteorite hunting, starring Geoff
Notkin and Steve Arnold; Space Commercial
of 2011; Italian TV reality show about "printing"
a moon base with Regolith; Leonard Nimoy and Mike
Massimino guest star on The
Big Bang Theory; Adam Steltzner and Bobak Ferdowsi MSL
EDL mission control; John Stewart reports on Mars Curiosity
Rover landing.
Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna
50th anniversary in 2013 of Valentina
Tereshova's Vostok 6 flight where she was the first
woman in space.
Tests (ALL) in NASA Medical Studies
List
of tests in Micro-Gravity Study; test list on Pillownaut
domain with clickable links to each individual test; blog of ESA bed rest study
subject Vlad Atavin with many similar
tests in France; descriptions by Justin and Howard in 105-day Exercise
Study for men.
Tests (Described in POSTS) in NASA Medical
Studies
Blood
Draws; Bone
Scans - DXA
and pQCT; Cardiovascular
procedures; Cycle Ergometer in first
and second
phases; Dorsal
Hand and Dorsal Foot;
Neurological
Posturography (balance); Plasma
Volume; Psychological
measures; TILT
Test; WinSCAT.
- The Space Show
- Appearance
on The Space Show with Dr.
David Livingston, being interviewed about NASA bedrest studies; follow-up
interview weeks later with inventor of bedrest studies in the 1950s, NASA
Group #4 astronaut
Dr. Duane Graveline, including his work in Soviet
Bio-Astronautics.
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- Time Travel
- Earth's first significant time
traveler, Sergei Avdeyev.
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- T-Minus
- Explanation of launch time
countdowns; Space Shuttle Countdown
101.
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- Trans-Neptunian Objects
- Alternate
ideas for former Planet Pluto: Dwarf Planets, Plutoids, Plutinos, Scattered Disc Objects
(SDO), Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) and Oort Cloud bodies.
- Tweetup (later called the NASA Social)
- 1. Johnson Space Center event
in Houston, Texas for STS-130; Tweetup Materials
and Press kit; Tweetup guest astronaut Dr.
Bobby Satcher; VIT "Very
Important Twits" Tour of SVMF, NBL, MCC and MOCR2; ISS Wake-Up
Call from Mission Control; ISS
Phone call from President Barack Obama.
- 2. Ames
Research Center event
in Mountain View, California; tour of Ames
and mascot Camilla SDO; Kepler scientist Natalie
Batalha; The Kepler
Cannonball Awards; SimLabs Vertical
Motion Simulator (VMS); astronaut Bo Bobko discusses
Shuttle landing sims; Lunar
Lander cab simulator; Green Building Sustainability
Base; Jon Jenkins at his Star
Music; 360-degree view of Mars in FutureFlight
Central.
3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory event
in Pasadena, California; tour of JPL and group photo with mosaic
of Spirit Rover; Curiosity
Rover, Spaceflight Operations Facility; Eyes
on the Solar System; Imagine
Mars (Mars Outreach Program); Mars Rover
Drivers; Mars Science Laboratory Clean
Room; Asteroid Watch (Near
Earth Objects Program).
4. Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility event
in Palmdale, CA; tour of hangars and the Boeing modified jet serving as
the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA);
airborne astronomy.
5. Kennedy Space Center launch in Cape Canaveral,
Florida; intro to Tweetup activities at launch
Pad 39A; watching Space Shuttle
Atlantis take off; astronauts at launch pad 39A
press site; Seth Green and Bear
McCreary debut Shuttle fanfare song; Bob Crippen
speaks at STS-135 launch.
6. Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards
Air Force Base; tour
of hangars + test pilots; Dryden Historical Aircraft Photograph Collection,
FA-18 Super Hornet,
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV); side trip to Mojave
Air and Space Port.
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Ames Research Center event
at Moffett Field, tour of Wind Tunnel testing grounds with Camilla SDO.
Mars Curiosity social
events; MSL press media
kit released prior to landing on Mars;
NASA Ames
Social tour 2012 + Mission Emblem; David Blake MSL
scientist; Curiosity Rover landing
success; pictures of MSL
Landing Party at NASA Ames.
8. NASA Headquarters: NASA
HQ in Washington DC; picture gallery of headquarters
facility and surrounding sites; NASA Social with Joe
Acaba.
9. Vandenberg Air Force Base
Rogue
Tweetup; traveled via small Piper Cherokee
airplane to meet other SpaceTweeps and see NASA
LandSat Atlas V Rocket Launch.
- 10. Ames Research Center event
in California and connected to the ISS: astronaut Luca Parmitano drove K10
Telerobotics Rover at Ames Roverscape for testing with Intelligent
Robotics Group; tour
of Ames Facilities including Lunar Science Institute, Barcelona Cafe, IRIS
and LADEE Multi-Mission Control Operations Centers and Visitor's Center.
11. NASA Social
#11 at Langley in Hampton, Virginia; Project
Splash at "The Gantry" -- or the Landing and Impact Research Facility
(LandIR) near the Hydro Impact Basin, formerly called the Lunar Landing Research Facility
(LLRF) in the Apollo era where Lunar Excursion Model Simulators (LEMS) were
tested; Orion
capsules tested at Norfolk Naval Air Station with the USS Arlington.
- Twitter
- Pillownaut
feed; NASA feed; list of astronauts
who are on
Twitter; ALL
NASA TWITTER FEEDS on NASA CONNECT.
Tyson, Neil deGrasse
Lectures on "What
is NASA?"; Narrating the "Can
We Make It To Mars?" special on NOVA Science Now; Neil represented in
science
doll figures.
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- United Space Alliance Lecture
- Guest
speakers from USA.
United States Space & Rocket Center
U.S. Space & Rocket Center
at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Dream Rocket Saturn
V Project.
- Universe Size
- Comparison
videos of planetary bodies in the known universe.
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- University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
- Daily
life in the NASA Study facility; Food
menus in the studies; floorplan
map of the NASA ward; Nurses
and other staff; scheduled routines
for subjects; Study
Floors; video channel
of UTMB which hosts the NASA medical studies.
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- Venus
Trivia
about planet Venus.
Vergeltungswaffe-2 (V2 Rocket)
V2
rockets developed WWII.
Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS)
SimLabs and Vertical
Motion Simulator at NASA Ames Research Center; astronaut Bo Bobko explains
Space Shuttle
landing simulations; Lunar
Lander cab at the VMS warehouse.
Very Large Array (VLA)
New Mexico array
of radio telescopes.
Visible Paleo_earth Project
As run by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory
at the University
of Arecibo.
Vomit Comet
Weightlessness
simulated in airplanes flying parabolas.
von Braun, Wernher
Von
Braun rocket team; featured in Walt Disney's Man
In Space television special.
Voyager Probes
Voyager
1 and Voyager 2 released in the 1970s; longevity
in space; Voyager 1 distance
record; Voyager mockup
craft at the NASA JPL.
Voyager Golden Records
Earth
messages to alien life on the Voyager Probes; design
and materials; the Golden Record
cover on display at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; gold
record tattoo and Frank Drake.
- Wake-Up Call on the International Space
Station
Wake-up
music for STS-130 and ISS crew.
Wave At Saturn
Event at NASA JPL and around the world, inviting
everyone on Earth to "wave at Saturn" as the Cassini spacecraft
pointed it's cameras toward Saturn during a solar eclipse to take mosaic
of many photographs, capturing Earth in the background. NASA also offered
"Wave at Saturn" certificates of participation.
Website for NASA studies
Official NASA website
for Human Test Research Facility at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.
Website for NASA studies
All astronauts, cosmonauts and space tourists
with their
own personal or business web sites (master list).
Weightlessness Jet
Weightlessness
simulated in airplanes flying parabolas.
WinSCAT
Psychological
testing in NASA Studies; Details of Windows
Spaceflight Neuro-Cognitive Assessment Tool.
World Space Week
2009 World
Space Week.
- Yuri Gagarin
- First human being in space, Cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin.
- Yuri's Night
- Annual celebration of the first human being
in space, Cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin; continued worldwide space parties for Yuri's
Night at planetariums and observatories.
- Zero-G
- Weightlessness
simulated in airplanes flying parabolas.
- Zero-gravity flights at Incredible
Adventures
- Tourist
company offering parabolic flights to experience weightlessness.
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