http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/ The #1 News Videos Site on the Planet. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Argotic Syndication Framework 2008.0.2.0, http://www.codeplex.com/Argotic Fri, 18 May 2012 12:21:39 GMT It won't happen again until December 2117. On June 5th, 2012, Venus will transit the face of the sun in an event of both historical and observational importance. The best places to watch are in the south Pacific, but travel is not required. The event will also be visible around sunset from the USA. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=CAb4RgqwW30 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT A few hours after docking their Soyuz spacecraft with the International Space Station, Gennady Padalka, Joe Acaba and Sergei Revin opened hatches and were greeted by three crew members who have been on the outpost since December; station Commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers. The new arrivals also received congratulatory calls and best wishes from American and Russian space officials and their families gathered at the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev, Russia, outside Moscow. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=Qr6JkzUzBgk Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT After launching in their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin arrived at the International Space Station on May 17, docking their craft to the Poisk module on the Russian segment of the complex. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=neZkBzaGeOY Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency and Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA discussed scientific research being conducted on the orbital laboratory and other aspects of life in space during an in-flight event with participants at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany who are competing in a European YouTube "Spacelab" contest. The group gathered. Pettit, Kuipers and Russian crewmate and Expedition 31 Commander Oleg Kononenko are scheduled to return to Earth in their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft on July 1. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=9QsjlRxwarw Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT The Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin is shown launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. There, Padalka, Acaba and Revin are joining up with their Expedition 31 crewmates already aboard the ISS, Commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers; they've been on the outpost since December. Also, SpaceX continues its preparations for the planned May 19 launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and unmanned Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, new findings about the asteroid Vesta by NASA's DAWN spacecraft and more! http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=WGJXvDcBut8 Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Karen Gundy-Burlet from NASA Ames Research Center tells how she got interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=QGewghzJ48Q Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Julie Kramer White from NASA Johnson Space Center tells her story of how she got a career in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) field. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=UaZX1vuSe2M Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba, Russian Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin lifted off for the International Space Station at 11:01 pm EDT Monday, May 14 (9:01 am Baikonur time on May 15), from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Acaba, Padalka and Revin are scheduled to dock their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft to the Poisk module of the station at 12:38 am Thursday, May 17. They will join Expedition 31 Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Flight Engineers Don Pettit of NASA and André Kuipers of the European Space Agency, who have been aboard the orbiting laboratory since December 23, 2011. The six astronauts and cosmonauts will work together for about two months. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=k64UY0vRPIE Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin appeared before the Russian State Commission on May 14 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The commission gave its final approval for the crew's launch May 15 local time to the International Space Station. The crew also conducted a final prelaunch news conference at their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters as they prepared for liftoff in the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft. The trio will spend four months on the station. Also featured in the video are the backup crew members, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=6EpKaP18Leo Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT At John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York, space shuttle Enterprise was removed from NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) early Sunday morning. Enterprise will be placed on a barge that will move by tugboat up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in June. The shuttle will be lifted by crane and placed on the flight deck of the Intrepid, where it will be on exhibit to the public starting this summer in a temporary climate-controlled pavilion. The Intrepid continues to work on a permanent exhibit facility to showcase Enterprise that will enhance the museum's space-related exhibits and education curriculum. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=DBw9Mas5HdM Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft and its booster were moved to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a railcar on May 13, for final preparations prior to launch to the International Space Station on May 15 local time. The Soyuz TMA-04M will carry Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin. The trio will spend four months on the outpost, joining station Commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers, who have been in orbit since December. The footage includes video of the Soyuz spacecraft's mating to its Soyuz booster rocket in Baikonur on May 12, and interviews with Eric Boe, Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office, JSC, and Kirk Shireman, ISS Deputy Program Manager. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=FUwZPaw4F9A Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Activities for new Expedition 31 crewmembers, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin include a pre-launch fit check in a Soyuz capsule at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the raising of flags outside the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters and launch to the orbiting laboratory to meet up with NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency. Also, SpaceX continues its preparations for the planned May 19 launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and unmanned Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, new findings about the asteroid Vesta by NASA's DAWN spacecraft and more! http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=nS3tEzaTSlM Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Janejit Gensler is the technical communications lead for the ISS External Integration Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center. She provides technical support to the ISS Program, NASA Headquarters, Education, and Public Affairs by compiling responses to technical inquiries. Gensler serves as Executive Technical Administrator for the Space Station Control Board and is the Lead ISS Program Integrator for a variety of boards and commissions at NASA Headquarters. She also helps establish partnerships between NASA and external entities through the development of Space Act Agreements. Gensler holds a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas and has worked at JSC for twelve years. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=7Apu0brG69g Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Allen Chen is a systems engineer in the Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) Systems and Advanced Technologies group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (JPL). On the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team, he is the lead for EDL operations and Flight Dynamics, co-leads the joint science/engineering Mars atmosphere characterization team. Chen has been a member of the MSL EDL Systems Engineering Team and the MSL Flight System Systems Engineering Team since his arrival at JPL in 2002. He also worked on the Mars Exploration Rovers project, performing EDL reconstruction analysis and testing. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=_0G2V6-m70E Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Daphne Dador joined NASA as a Legislative Affairs Specialist at the Office of Legislative & Intergovernmental Affairs (OLIA) at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, in September 2010. OLIA's mission is to provide executive leadership, direction, and coordination of all communications and relationships related to legislative issues between NASA and the US Congress, state and local government, and space-related associations and citizen's groups. As an active member of the space community, Daphne has volunteered with a variety of national and international space-related organizations such as Women in Aerospace, the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, the International Space University-DC-Alumni Group, the Space Generation Congress, and Yuri's Night. In 2004, she founded the George Washington University Space Society. Committed to representing the space community and its needs Daphne hopes to inspire the next generation of space professionals. She is a native northern Californian and a second-generation Filipino-American. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=THigU1Q2D7Y Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT Superficially, Saturn's moon Phoebe doesn't look much like a planet, but on the inside, the little gray moon has a lot in common with worlds like Earth. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=TAsHOqVswEw Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin participated in their final unsuited fit check in the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft and conducted other traditional activities on May 11, as they prepared for launch to the International Space Station on May 15 local time. The video also features the backup crew members, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=_Mpm1UPnJ4M Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT During a NASA Television Science briefing, scientists discussed the findings of the first global analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The Dawn mission has confirmed Vesta's status as a special fossil of the early solar system and revealed a more varied, diverse world than originally thought. Dawn has shown Vesta is the only known intact, layered planetary building block with an iron core surviving from the earliest days of the solar system. It therefore more closely resembles a small planet or Earth's moon, not another asteroid. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=JNIbuEqRPTU Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin participated in a variety of activities, as they prepared for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft. The footage includes the crew's arrival in Baikonur, suited fit checks in the Soyuz spacecraft, the raising of flags outside the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters, and other traditional activities. The video also features the backup crew members, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford and Flight Engineer Evgeny http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=EYOl9PdBrfw Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT NASA Environmental Control & Life Support (ECLSS) Officer Jesse Bazley answers questions from 4th-6th grade students at Corpus Christi Catholic School in Chambersburg, PA during a NASA Digital Learning Network (DLN) interactive broadcast. NASA DLN broadcasts are connecting students around the country with the live mission operations being done by the International Space Station Flight Control Team. ISS flight controllers, astronauts and scientists answer student's questions about living and working in space, how the Houston mission control center operates, and a wealth of other topics related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. http://www.fatcatnewsvideo.com/VideoDetail.aspx?pv=yt&assetId=_Iz4pNRU_2s Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT