dwell.com - 12/3/2009
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Backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the unpiloted Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) approaches the ISS. Once the HTV was in range, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk and European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne, all ...
nasa.gov - 12/10/2009
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nasa.gov —
How do you make a helicopter safer to
fly? You crash one. NASA aeronautics researchers recently dropped...
a small helicopter from a height of 35 feet (10.7 m) to see whether an expandable honeycomb cushion called a deployable energy absorber could ...
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Chopper Drop Tests New Technology
popsci.com - 12/10/2009
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popsci.com —
No stranger to rough landings, NASA just engineered
a crash of its own design to test a...
new crash countermeasure for helicopters. NASA dropped a donated Army MD-500 carrying four crash test dummies from 35 feet, to determine whether a new ...
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Video: NASA Drops A Helicopter From Midair to Test New ...
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Bruce Sterling on life in the ISS
Boing Boing —
... patches stuck to it from every shuttle crew that's ever visited the station. One of my favorite areas that has the human touch is in the Russian Service Module where there is a classic picture of Yuri Gagarin, an Orthodox Russian crucifix, and picture of [Russian space theorist Konstantin] Tsiokovsky. And then there are some of the science experiments that help bring more life to the station: plant growing, mice, protein crystals, Earth observation photography
Life in Space: Email from the ISS
Cars of 2030, Life Aboard the International Space Station
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... the wild, wild Web.
Popular Mechanics gathered together entries from the L.A. Show's design challenge, asking designers to come up with their idea of cars circa 2030. [From: Popular Mechanics]
NASA astronaut Nicole Stott talks about the smell of space (like a car engine overheating), regular use of e-mail, and the importance of windows while working aboard the International Space Station. Don't miss the slideshow. [From: dwell]
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