Varia astronautyczne

[Orionid]

LEGO reveals space shuttle Discovery with Hubble Space Telescope

March 22, 2021 — Once described as the most complex flying machine ever built, comprised of more than 2.5 million moving parts, you can now assemble your own model of NASA's space shuttle using just 2,354 pieces.




1) The new LEGO NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set reproduces the winged orbiter and Hubble Space Telescope in detail. (LEGO)
2) Astronaut Kathy Sullivan, who flew aboard space shuttle Discovery, holds LEGO's new set modeled after her STS-31 mission. (LEGO)

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http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-032221a-lego-nasa-space-shuttle-discovery-hubble.html

[Orionid]

Universal Astronaut Insignia to unite space explorers and travelers


The first device to signify that the wearer had flown into space, the Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR badge, was awarded to cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in April 1961. (RIA Novosti/Wikipedia / collectSPACE)

April 12, 2021 — Two days after Yuri Gagarin became the world's first person to fly into space, his country, the former Soviet Union, presented him a small, military-style insignia representing that he was a Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR.

The first-of-its-kind device, depicting a satellite and spacecraft in orbit over Earth, would go on to be presented to every Soviet cosmonaut who made a spaceflight through 1991, and then, after a slight redesign, awarded to every Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation to this day.

A similar practice began in the United States in December 1961, eight months after Gagarin was honored, when the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force bestowed Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom with their respective branch's astronaut wings. The similar devices both featured at their center a five-pointed star with three trailing rays passing through a halo — a symbol that later would be adapted as a lapel pin to be worn by NASA astronauts, with a gold version for those who launched into space.


Suborbital (at left) and orbital variants of the Universal Astronaut Insignia, presented by the Association of Space Explorers, represents everyone who has flown into space, regardless of nationality or launch provider. (Association of Space Explorers)


JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, a member of the Association of Space Explorers executive committee, displays a Universal Astronaut Insignia on the International Space Station. (Association of Space Explorers/collectSPACE)



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http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-041221a-universal-astronaut-insignia-space-explorers-pin.html

[Orionid]

Propozycja edukacyjna CSA. Kolorowanki z motywami astronautycznymi.
https://twitter.com/asc_csa/status/1390304481074614279

https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/fra/multimedia/recherche/Image/Regarder/16779?search=coloriage
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/pdf/fra/iss/dextre/dextre-cahier-colorier-page-10.pdf

[Orionid]

Od początku ery załogowych lotów kosmicznych astronauci wykonali z kosmosu ponad 1,5 mln zdjęć

Over the last 60 years, @NASA_Astronauts have taken more than 1.5 million photos of Earth from space. These photos help record how Earth is changing over time, including human-caused changes and dynamic events such as hurricanes, floods & volcanic eruptions. #WorldPhotographyDay

https://twitter.com/NASAEarth/status/1428377781574979592

[Orionid]

Można domniemywać, że przydałby się osobny moduł treningowy 
Zdjęci piłki w Cupoli zostało tam dostarczone w 2016 przez przebywającego obecnie na ISS astronautę
Roberta Kimbrough
Ocalała ona wcześniej z katastrofy Challengera.
https://twitter.com/NASA_Johnson/status/1434616987737473026

[Orionid]

O zastosowaniu kosmicznych wynalazków w codziennym życiu

NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Sep 5

@NASAKennedy#DYK @NASAspinoff  technology is all around us – from the phones we use to the sports we play! Temper foam, first used by @NASAAmes, offers more protection in sports due to its shock-absorbing capacity. You can even find it in soccer shin guards: https://go.nasa.gov/2WKhIyO

https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy/status/1434613015811268608
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/F_Have_Fun_With_NASA.html

[Orionid]

Jaką odznakę przyznać astronautom misji Inspiration4?
ASE i Robert Pearlman nie mają wątpliwości.

Association of Space Explorers@ASE_Astronauts  25 wrz
The Universal Astronaut Insignia was featured in a recent @HoustonChron article by @a_leinfelder (with a quote from
@RobertPearlman from @collectSPACE)!
https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1441847488747614210

You can buy your way into space on a billionaire's ship. Did you 'earn' the same pin as astronauts?
Andrea Leinfelder, Staff writer Sep. 21, 2021


Wally Funk is awarded the Blue Origin-made astronaut pin by former NASA astronaut, Jeff Ashby, right, who is now based with Blue Origin, during a New Shepard post launch briefing at the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, July 20, 2021. Tony Gutierrez, STF / Associated Press


The silver pin that NASA astronauts receive after completing training, which takes about two years. NASA, Photographer

(...) On the Inspiration4 mission that launched last week, SpaceX listed its four passengers as spaceflight participants in FAA documents.

“When the program was first created in 2004, its focus was to recognize flight crew members who furthered the FAA’s mission to promote the safety of vehicles designed to carry humans,” the FAA said in an email. (...)

There is one organization that will offer a pin to anyone who reaches space. The Webster-based Association of Space Explorers created a pin, called the Universal Astronaut Insignia, this year to unite all individuals who have gone into space. It has a pin for people who take quick suborbital missions and a pin for those who circle the globe.

“That was sort of the purpose,” Pearlman said, “to remove any question if you are an astronaut or not. Everyone would be acknowledged and registered.”
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/space/article/space-flight-astronaut-pin-billionaire-ship-ride-16475424.php

[Adam.Przybyla]

Taka ciekawostka, nastepny start japonksiej rakiety SS-520 odbedzie sie w europie z Andøya Space Center, Svalbard Rocket Range (Norway) BTW, pojawily sie nowe fundusze na ten kosmodrom.
Z powazaniem
                       Adam Przybyla
https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2021/10/20211006-1_e.html
https://www-nrk-no.translate.goog/nordland/andoya-space-center-og-andoya-spaceport-far-millioner-i-finansiering-til-satellittbase-1.15682330?_x_tr_sl=no&_x_tr_tl=pl&_x_tr_hl=pl&_x_tr_pto=nui,sc