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Memorial Day in the United States | International Space Station "All gave some, but some gave all." "On Memorial Day in the United States, we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation." FriendsofNASA.org: Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel that died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. It is observed on the last Monday of May. Follow Expedition 71 Updates: https://lnkd.in/ePQS9hJ Expedition 71 Crew Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia) Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia) NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominik, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken. Learn more about the important research being operated on Station: https://lnkd.in/dpd7HQq For more information about STEM on Station: https://lnkd.in/dGazEVY Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Image Credit: NASA/Kjell Lindgren Release Date: May 27, 2024 NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Space Society Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) #NASA #Space #Earth #ISS #MemorialDay #Astronauts #HumanSpaceflight #Science #SpaceTechnology #SpaceLaboratory #Engineering #UnitedStates #Cosmonauts #Russia #Россия #Roscosmos #Роскосмос #InternationalCooperation #UnitedNations #UNOOSA #Expedition71 #STEM #Education

According to today's NASA announcement regarding the Mars Sample Return Mission, the science that would be achieved from such samples is the single most important object for planetary science, and the top priority of the decadal survey. Despite this, the $11BLN price tag was deemed, "too expensive, and not returning samples until 2040 is unacceptably too long," according to NASA administrator Bill Nelson. For reference, the Council On Foreign Relations released a report on 23 February 2024 listing a cumulative US contribution to the war in Ukraine at $75BLN, or the equivalent of 6.8 Mars Sample Return missions. The entirety of the 2024 US Defense budget from the NDAA was $883.7BLN, or 80.3 Mars Sample Return missions. I guess it just depends on what one's priorities are.

NASA Harnesses Kraken Spinning Device to Simulate Human Spaceflight FriendsofNASA.org: This summer, NASA is using the Kraken, a 50-foot-long, 100-ton U.S. Navy research device, to simulate space motion sickness and test possible recovery strategies for astronauts. The Kraken, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, can rotate participants at exposures of up to 3G. As missions stretch further to the Moon and eventually to Mars, a priority is reducing symptoms like dizziness, nausea, and vertigo so that astronauts stay healthy and ready for their missions. Learn more about the Kraken: https://lnkd.in/dQyAqz9H Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC); Kraken footage courtesy of U.S. Navy/Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Duration: 1 minute Release Date: Aug. 12, 2024 NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration US Navy National Space Society #NASA #Space #Science #Technology #ISS #ArtemisProgram #Kraken #Astronauts #SpaceflightTraining #AerospaceMedicine #MedicalResearch #AerospaceResearch #HumanSpaceflight #MoonToMars #USNavy #WPAFB #Dayton #Ohio #UnitedStates #HD #Video

Mars sample return. We can't seem to get that particular goal right, as our own is unplanned and unfunded. China is hitting their marks and setting aggressive goals. Will THIS be our Sputnik Moment? Will we wake up today? Will we when the CCP plants a flag on the Moon? Clearly not because they already have. We need to look at the NASA of today, compare that to the 60s and try to get back there. I think part of the solution is looking at WWII. See how we transitioned our peacetime Army and Navy into a total war footing. The first thing they did was actually RETIRE a bunch of senior officers. They retired officers who were too old to chase their divisions or hadn't kept up with the new Innovations in naval combat. We need a younger, leaner, less bureaucratic organization. They need to shed or spin off roles that aren't core to their central missions. NASA budgets need to begin with NASA. Forcing boondoggles onto NASA with all the wheres and whys already spelled out and then blaming NASA for their failures is not how we build a first class organization. That gives you some fat contractors and an organization that tries to hold the line on standards. The difficult decisions with Starliner come to mind. Maybe some Earth Science should go to NOAA. This way, they could run their own space missions and we get another customer for space services. The directorates at NASA often feel like they are at war with each other rather than part of the same team, and that's a result of the zero sum, tribal mentality that goes with the budgeting process. That isn't productive. Going back to WWII, the number one enemy of the Imperial Japanese Army wasn't the USMC, it was the Imperial Japanese Navy. They fought more internecine battles than they did against the Americans. They didn't coordinate, support each other or even have a unified plan. It did not go well for them. We need to make some significant changes to get back to where we need to be.

🌌 Planetary Defense – Preparing to Defend Earth from Asteroids 🌌 Join us in the Israeli Astronomical Association (IAA) for a fascinating lecture (In Hebrew) on Planetary Defense! Learn about the science and strategies behind protecting Earth from potential asteroid impacts—covering detection, technology, and international collaboration. Also, how Israel contributes to the international efforts. Whether you're a space enthusiast or a professional, you are welcome! 📅 Date: [14/11/2024] ⏰ Time: [21:00] 📍 Details: [https://lnkd.in/dbdMn2cW] Let’s explore how we’re preparing to defend our planet! (Picture: Planetary defense decision cycle. NASA, PDCO)

Between work, professional development, personal development, passion projects, college, dad stuff, and life’s curveballs it’s not unusual for my wife to poke her head into my office at 5:30 pm and tell me I still haven’t told her what I want for breakfast. It's also not unusual for a naysayer or two to chime in with a back-handed compliment about how my drive is hurting myself or my family. “Give yourself a break.” “Stop trying to do so much.” “You should spend more time with your family.” But some of us are just driven, and to tell us any of the above is to tell us to stop breathing. Now, I won’t be going to space anytime soon (ever), but I do have a handful of goals across various life domains that seem lofty - borderline arrogant - when listed out, yet perfectly reasonable when taken one-at-a-time. And anytime I feel myself listening to those well-meaning voices, or giving credibility to the naysayers who raise an eyebrow at the scope of my vision alone, I look at guys like Jonny Kim and remember that, big picture, there’s a good chance I’m still aiming low. It's taken me a while to come to terms with my drive. And until I did, I had to navigate both the exhaustion that comes from the actual work and the exhaustion from the guilt and shame of doing so much work. “I love you and I know you mean well, but I’m fine and will let you know when I need a break.” “Let me worry about what I should or shouldn’t want. You worry about yourself.” If you’re driven - to the point friends and family worry about you - and you want to play your own game, get comfortable with some variation of the above statements. You’ll need them if you’re ever going to live true. And that’s the real power of Jonny Kim's story: it gives ambitious people like us permission to ignore the naysayers and try. Driving yourself harder than most people can fathom is just our nature. To listen to the voices, even the well-meaning ones, dishonors that nature. It dishonors our very existence. Only by allowing ourselves to set and pursue these absurdly wide-ranging, sky-high goals without shame or apology do we honor ourselves. Only then do we live true. Have a great trip up there, Jonny.

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Elon Musk’s rise into Donald Trump’s political orbit in 2024 has overshadowed another milestone this year for the world’s richest man: His space business has launched more rockets than ever, further establishing itself as an indispensable workhorse for NASA and the U.S. military. As of this week, Musk’s SpaceX had completed 112 launches this year — equating to roughly one every three days — an unprecedented pace in the history of spaceflight and already a 16% increase over the 96 launches it performed in 2023, according to data compiled by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). https://lnkd.in/eB5SgJy2

NASA Harnesses Kraken Spinning Device to Simulate Human Spaceflight FriendsofNASA.org: This summer, NASA is using the Kraken, a 50-foot-long, 100-ton U.S. Navy research device, to simulate space motion sickness and test possible recovery strategies for astronauts. The Kraken, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, can rotate participants at exposures of up to 3G. As missions stretch further to the Moon and eventually to Mars, a priority is reducing symptoms like dizziness, nausea, and vertigo so that astronauts stay healthy and ready for their missions. Learn more about the Kraken: https://lnkd.in/dQyAqz9H Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC); Kraken footage courtesy of U.S. Navy/Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Duration: 1 minute Release Date: Aug. 12, 2024 Joseph A. Sholtis, Jr. #NASA #Space #Science #Technology #ISS #ArtemisProgram #Kraken #Astronauts #SpaceflightTraining #AerospaceMedicine #MedicalResearch #AerospaceResearch #HumanSpaceflight #MoonToMars #USNavy #WPAFB #Dayton #Ohio #UnitedStates #HD #Video

Have you read our featured article from Edition 21, ‘Apollo 11 and the ‘Magnificent Desolation’ of the Moon’ by historian Jenny Rowan 🌕🚀👩🚀 The 1950s and 1960s were the absolute height of the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union were vying for geopolitical supremacy in the aftermath of the Second World War – and they were about to start competing in anew arena. Both sides had been developing rockets to use as long-range weapons since the end of the war; it seemed only natural that at some point attention would turn to putting those rockets into space. In 1957, the Soviet Union kickstarted the Space Race by launching ‘Sputnik’, the world’s first artificial satellite. They followed this with a string of other ‘firsts’: they put the first animal into orbit, launched the first human-made object to break out of Earth’s gravity and the first spacecraft to touch the Moon, took the first images of the far side of the Moon, and launched the first man into space. By 1961, there was a growing sense that the United States was falling behind. It was against this backdrop that, on 25 May 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before Congress and declared, ‘I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth’. The US had to find something they thought they could do first to gain back the upper hand in the Space Race, and Kennedy believed that something’ should be to land people on the Moon, even if at the time the US had just a single fifteen-minute-long suborbital flight to its name. And, indeed, eight years later the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was on the verge of accomplishing that goal. To read the rest of the article head over to our website to purchase the magazine in print or digital 💻📚 https://lnkd.in/eE8KFVTJ #history