Astronauts Talk About Life in Space with Media

Astronauts talk with different media persons from International Space Station. There are four astronauts STS-132 Commander Ken Ham, Pilot Tony Antonelli, Mission Specialist Piers Sellers and Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson of Expedition 23. They chat about their work and life in space with journalists from the Associated Press, Fox News Radio and CBS News. It is always a matter of curiosity about the life in space. They are just hanging around inside the station. One guy is upside down. Isn't it cool?

British born astronaut working for NASA has brought a chip of apple tree in which Newton had discovered his principle of gravity. It is kind of irony that this apple tree chip is not falling down (because it is in space). It may give some lesson.

Tweet! Tweet!! Tweet!!! from Space

Social networks like facebook and tweeter are very strong means of expressing your views and to be in contact with friends. Tweeter is considered as micro-blogger. I  also have tweeter account but I am not big user of tweeter. Till now I have 408 tweets so far, following 59 and 21 followers. Most of my tweets are my blog posts info.

In the video below, not me but some astronauts in international space station discuss about tweeting from orbit. Expedition 22 commander Jeff Williams, astronauts T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi talk how using Twitter helps them. They think tweeting is a great program to let people on earth know what astronauts are doing in space. Tweeter is everywhere. I enjoyed  listening their experience.

Glimpse of Big Bang

Following short video shows how scientists are studying on the question of big bang and hence towards solving the yet unsolved questions such as what happened immediately after big bang!
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is believed to be the key to understand why the universe went through rapid expansion after the big bang.
The project as shown here has successfully covered 5% of the sky and may take months to cover the whole sky and may throw some hints of hidden dimension etc.







From:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17807

Multistage rocket Lunch

The following video shows a multistage rocket being lifted up. The "slow motion" capture of the dynamics really excites me.




The Saturn V was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973. In total NASA launched thirteen Saturn V rockets with no loss of payload. It remains the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever brought to operational status from a height, weight and payload standpoint.

The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors. The three stages of the Saturn V were developed by various NASA contractors, but following a sequence of mergers and takeovers all of them are now owned by Boeing.