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From: JSC Director News <jsc-director-news@lists.nasa.gov>
Date: August 29, 2013 9:36:29 AM GMT-06:00
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Subject: JSC Director News, August 2013
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Greetings:
NASA is developing a first-ever mission to identify, capture and relocate an asteroid and JSC will play an important role. I hope you will take the time to watch the video and read about how a collective team led by JSC is putting the pieces together for that mission.
NASA 905, the Shuttle Aircraft Carrier is officially home. Well almost! Part of a multi-year $12 million project, Boeing announced Aug. 22 that it will disassemble, transport and reassemble the aircraft as part of a six-story space shuttle attraction under development at Space Center Houston.
BTW, did you happen to see space station astronaut Karen Nyberg recently on NBC Today talking about life in space? If not, don't fret, you can catch up with her on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. Be sure to check out her best "tressed" in space video. Karen is one of many that keep JSC "social" by engaging the public through social media sites that provide instantaneous news, from informative to groundbreaking to just plain fun (like Train Like An Astronaut).
The International Space Station (ISS) team continues its investigation into why water built up inside European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet during the July 16 spacewalk. The investigation didn't affect two spacewalks for our Russian colleagues. On Aug. 16 Expedition 36 cosmonauts broke a 23 year Russian record by 13 minutes with a 7 hour, 29 minute spacewalk covered on NASA TV and reaching an audience of 22 million. A second Russian spacewalk took place Aug. 22, preparing the station for a new Russian module that will be launched in a few months.
You should check out one of my favorite web sites for ISS Science, A Lab Aloft. On Aug. 20 they posted a blog about how NASA technologies developed for the space station have led to a new phone app that brings low-cost water monitoring to under-resources communities and is being tested in Mwanza, Tanzania. Former NASA environmental engineer John Feighey and his wife Annie founded mWater on the idea inspired by the Microbial Water Analysis Kit (MWAK) used on ISS. Also, three scientists were recognized at the ISS Research and Development Conference in July for their studies on bone loss, cool flames and immune systems.
A partnership more than 50 years in the making helped narrow the field of candidate materials for Orion's future heat shield. Avcoat, last used on the space shuttle in its earliest flights, was put back into production for the study and eventually chosen to protect Orion from temperatures that will climb upwards to 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. NASA continues to hit major milestones while approaching the next era of human spaceflight. Also in the news, the Space Launch System (SLS) cleared its biggest technical hurdle en route to a 2017 launch by successfully completing a Preliminary Design Review
The Boeing Company unveiled its CST-100 spacecraft test vehicle July 22, the first time we got a glimpse of the crew capsule interior. NASA astronauts Serena Aunon and Randy Bresnik donned launch-and-entry suits to test the maneuverability inside the capsule while Boeing engineers monitored communications, equipment and ergonomics.
FINAL THOUGHTS: JSC recently hosted Pumps and Pipes, a collaborative effort between three of Houston's largest industries to find synergies. JSC, Jacobs Engineering and Raytheon partnered with members of BayTech and the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership (BAHEP) to host the group at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory showcasing a "Top 10" of JSC's current technology projects, including cold storage, augmented reality, telerobotics, fuel cells, ice drilling and water cleanup.
Ellen Ochoa
JSC Center Director
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