A Japanese cargo ship will be launched on December 9 to the space station. This is an article in two parts on that launch.
The launch of a Japanese cargo ship to the International Space Station, and its arrival at the orbiting laboratory, will be broadcast Dec. 9 and 13 on NASA Television and the agency’s website.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is scheduled to launch its H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)-6 at 8:26 a.m. EST (10:26 p.m. Japan time) Friday, Dec. 9, from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. NASA TV coverage of the launch will begin at 8 a.m.
Loaded with more than 4.5 tons of supplies, water, spare parts and experiment hardware for the six-person station crew, the unpiloted cargo spacecraft, named “Kounotori” – the Japanese word for white stork – will set sail on a four-day flight to the station. Also aboard the resupply vehicle are six new lithium-ion batteries and adapter plates that will replace the nickel-hydrogen batteries currently used on the station to store electrical energy generated by the station’s solar arrays. These will be installed during a series of spacewalks currently scheduled in January.
On Tuesday, Dec. 13, the HTV-6 will approach the station from below, and slowly inch its way toward the complex. Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) will operate the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm from the station’s cupola to reach out and grapple the 12-ton spacecraft and install it on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony module, where it will spend more than five weeks. Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA will monitor HTV-6 systems during the rendezvous and grapple.
NASA TV coverage of the Dec. 13 rendezvous and grapple will begin at 4:30 a.m. Capture of the spacecraft is scheduled around 6 a.m. Coverage of the final installation to Harmony will resume at 9:15 a.m.
Check out the full NASA TV schedule and video streaming information at:
http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
Keep up with the International Space Station, and its research and crews, at:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
Get breaking news, images and features from the station on Instagram and Twitter:
http://instagram.com/iss and http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station
Kathryn Hambleton
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
kathryn.hambleton@nasa.gov
Dan Huot
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov
NASA: NASA TV Coverage Set for Japanese Cargo Ship Destined for Space Station
Part 2
There has been a major launch every few days in some part of the world going back for some while and there was another earlier today to orbit a satellite. Donald Trump is set to make some major mistakes in strategy such as reversing policy on Iran so he can suck up to Netanyahu and killing NASA is another since Trump can play at being King of the Little Mud Puddles on Earth if he likes but the rest of the world is going to space.
Note: don't read any hysteria into that as it's physically impossible to lift Earth's population into space and that's one more reason why Trump's strategy decision on climate change is also fundamentally unsound.
Lotho remarked earlier why tax increases are needed and it's because Washington never, ever reduces spending; in my lifetime I have never seen them do it. I've no reason to believe it has ever happened but there's enormous reason to believe it never stops without violent revolution, as we have seen multiple times in history with the French Revolution and the October Revolution by the Bolsheviks being two of the more obvious.
Maybe Cadillac Man has some historical detail on significant Washingtonian reductions in spending which I have not seen.
The launch of a Japanese cargo ship to the International Space Station, and its arrival at the orbiting laboratory, will be broadcast Dec. 9 and 13 on NASA Television and the agency’s website.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is scheduled to launch its H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)-6 at 8:26 a.m. EST (10:26 p.m. Japan time) Friday, Dec. 9, from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. NASA TV coverage of the launch will begin at 8 a.m.
Loaded with more than 4.5 tons of supplies, water, spare parts and experiment hardware for the six-person station crew, the unpiloted cargo spacecraft, named “Kounotori” – the Japanese word for white stork – will set sail on a four-day flight to the station. Also aboard the resupply vehicle are six new lithium-ion batteries and adapter plates that will replace the nickel-hydrogen batteries currently used on the station to store electrical energy generated by the station’s solar arrays. These will be installed during a series of spacewalks currently scheduled in January.
On Tuesday, Dec. 13, the HTV-6 will approach the station from below, and slowly inch its way toward the complex. Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) will operate the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm from the station’s cupola to reach out and grapple the 12-ton spacecraft and install it on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony module, where it will spend more than five weeks. Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA will monitor HTV-6 systems during the rendezvous and grapple.
NASA TV coverage of the Dec. 13 rendezvous and grapple will begin at 4:30 a.m. Capture of the spacecraft is scheduled around 6 a.m. Coverage of the final installation to Harmony will resume at 9:15 a.m.
Check out the full NASA TV schedule and video streaming information at:
http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
Keep up with the International Space Station, and its research and crews, at:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
Get breaking news, images and features from the station on Instagram and Twitter:
http://instagram.com/iss and http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station
Kathryn Hambleton
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
kathryn.hambleton@nasa.gov
Dan Huot
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov
NASA: NASA TV Coverage Set for Japanese Cargo Ship Destined for Space Station
Part 2
There has been a major launch every few days in some part of the world going back for some while and there was another earlier today to orbit a satellite. Donald Trump is set to make some major mistakes in strategy such as reversing policy on Iran so he can suck up to Netanyahu and killing NASA is another since Trump can play at being King of the Little Mud Puddles on Earth if he likes but the rest of the world is going to space.
Note: don't read any hysteria into that as it's physically impossible to lift Earth's population into space and that's one more reason why Trump's strategy decision on climate change is also fundamentally unsound.
Lotho remarked earlier why tax increases are needed and it's because Washington never, ever reduces spending; in my lifetime I have never seen them do it. I've no reason to believe it has ever happened but there's enormous reason to believe it never stops without violent revolution, as we have seen multiple times in history with the French Revolution and the October Revolution by the Bolsheviks being two of the more obvious.
Maybe Cadillac Man has some historical detail on significant Washingtonian reductions in spending which I have not seen.
4 comments:
There is an excelent web site that shows government spending - http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/recent_spending. Essentially it shows that while government spending has increased so has GDP over the
Spending has increased over the last 30 years but is in proportion to income increase (GDP), It seems to indicate it is not the spending but what we are getting for spending. Also, who is benefiting most from the spending. It is like a person who spends a lot on junk food and is CEO of McDonalds. The money is there to eat at McDonalds everyday. However, the quality of health will likely be less than a person of lower income who prepares healthier, cheaper meals at home. The French and Russian revolutions were precipitated by wars that lead to economic and social unrest. The recent fall of the Russia in the 1980's was a result of war (i.e: their war in Afghanistan) that led to economic and social unrest, A good example in U.S. history was the Confederate government in the Civil War. The main reason the South lost was they simply ran out of money. The Union government
Uh oh ... looks like the Google demon stole the rest of your entry. I swear I din't do it (larfs).
You have generally summarized the hypocrisy of the so-called 'Reagan Revolution' which didn't reduce spending but stopped paying for it. The larger question is whether any government anywhere has ever significantly reduced spending, a la the Trump Fantasy, without a real physical revolution and I can't think of one.
Rats! The first comment was truncated as well.
The main points about spending past a third of the GDP and that the spending never decreased say volumes about the fantasy of the GOP position. The comical part is when they blame Democrats while spending over half the tax base on the military.
Um, send me a submarine, would you, darlin' (larfs).
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