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Image above: NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff prepares to eat a meal near the galley in the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA
ASK INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ASTRONAUT GREG CHAMITOFF A QUESTION
Flying 220 miles above the Earth aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff is ready to take your questions.
You can now submit inquiries to Chamitoff and get answers direct from space on NASA's Web site. To submit a question, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ask.
Mission Control will transmit the questions to Chamitoff weekly. He will answer as many as his schedule will allow. Check back periodically to the link above for the transcript and audio clips of the astronaut's answers.
Chamitoff, who went to Blackford High School in San Jose, Calif., is a flight engineer for the Expedition 17 mission. He flew to the station aboard the space shuttle Discovery in June 2008 and will return to Earth aboard shuttle Endeavour in November. For more on Chamitoff's mission and the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station
HITCHING A RIDE
This reentry space capsule design is one of three probes included in the SOAREX payload. Credit: NASAClick image to enlarge
Two NASA aeronautics experiments, SOAREX and HYBOLT, will hitch a ride on a developmental Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, suborbital rocket scheduled to launch from the Eastern Shore of Virginia this summer.
SOAREX consists of three separate probes. Two comprise NASA's experiment and the third belongs to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. The NASA experiments, designed at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., will characterize a new self-orienting reentry vehicle shape. The largest of the probes, called the Slotted Compression Ramp, or SCRAMP, resembles a blunt-nosed cylinder mounted on a ring.
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NASA and ATK to Launch Suborbital Hypersonic Experiments
08.19.08 - WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- Two NASA hypersonic experiment payloads are scheduled for launch no earlier than Aug. 21 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia atop a two-stage suborbital rocket developed by Alliant Techsystems, also known as ATK, of Salt Lake City.
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NASA Ames Awards Contract for Aerospace Testing Support
08.19.08 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., Monday awarded a contract modification valued at $34.8 million to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn.
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Visits NASA Ames
08.06.08 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff visited NASA’s Ames Research Center yesterday to see first-hand how NASA technology helps the nation deal with disasters ranging from the widespread wildfires raging throughout California, to the horrific hurricanes throughout the country that each year wreak havoc and leaves thousands of people homeless in their wake.
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California Governor Visits NASA Ames Research Center
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visited NASA’s Ames Research Center today to see first-hand how the agency is helping firefighters battle the widespread wildfires raging throughout the state.
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CARB Sniffs the Air Over California as Wild Fires Rage
06.30.08 - In an effort to better understand the chemical nature of smog and greenhouse gases, scientists from the California Air Resources Board, CARB are collaborating with NASA scientists who are flying specially configured aircraft -- the DC-8 and the P-3 -- up and down the California coast this month and over the Central valley at varying altitudes.
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