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Daren is an Extra Vehicular Activity instructor and flight controller in
the Mission Operations Directorate at Johnson Space Center. He trains
Shuttle and Space Station crew for their specific missions and instructs
new astronauts in the generic skills required for spacewalk
qualification. He also leads the operations planning and execution for Desert
RATS (a field test simulating 2 weeks of a Lunar or Martian mission)
and uses his operational experience to help design the next generation
of space exploration systems. Daren earned his B.S. in Aeronautical and
Astronautical Engineering from the University
of Washington.
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I was born a science geek. I was one of those kids in grade school who would always ask "When are we going to learn about the stars and the planets?" We finally learned about astronomy in 6th grade. I didn't do too well in the class at first so it never really hit me how much I love astronomy. 7th grade science went by just like that because I had mono and missed about 10 weeks of school. However, I realized at the end of 7th grade that I love science! I took the 8th grade science book home over the summer and read it almost every day. I learned more over the summer than what my teacher actually taught that year. I even got to teach the lesson on Newton's laws. Also during the summer before my 8th grade year I went to my local science center frequently. So frequent that I actually started to volunteer there at the planetarium and observatory. My science teacher awarded me the "Science Award" for my 8th grade year. He said that he really couldn't think of anyone else to give it to because I was clearly the one. |
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Long time space fan and science fiction reader. Back in the 1960's I got to meet John Glenn when he visited Rangoon, Burma. |
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I am a 2006 graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Aerospace Engineering. I have been working for Boeing on the International Space Station program for 4 years as a Structural Engineer.
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An aerospace engineer that loves aerospace related news and works for a great aero-related company.
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Here is a short one for now: I was born in Houston, TX moved to Austin, TX when I was still young and lived there till I moved to Daytona Beach, FL for college. I went to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and received both my Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering and then a few years after that my Masters in Technical Management for Aviation/Aerospace Industrial Management. During college I was an intern at Northrup Gumman in St. Augustine and then after college I went to work for United Space Alliance as a fluids engineer in OMS/RCS then later APU. Two years ago I moved from USA to NASA and now I am a fluids engineer in APU/HU/HYD. I love space, aviation, traveling and photography!
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I am going to add more to this later. To be continued
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It's almost 1 am. I have an STS-131 sim tomorrow. I need to get to sleep. But I can't stop thinking about everything that happened today and the rumors from last week. I don't post often. I wanted to post last week when the rumors started but I had a bad dream that someone from work saw it and I got in trouble.
No seriously, I didn't make that up. I really had that dream. We'll see how it plays out. I've had more than a few people ask me how I feel about everything. I feel awful. Maybe it's selfish because I'm worried about my job....maybe this is the best thing for human spaceflight and I just don't know it yet. I acknowledge that may be true. And I'm 100% behind the more people in space, the better. But what will this do for me personally? I have no idea. |
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Dreaming of Space all my life. Working Space since 2001
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I'm an elementary music teacher that intergrates math & enginnering (and space exploration!) into our magnet curriculum. It rocks! |
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Grew up just after the Apollo era. Had the Buzz Aldrin "Visor" picture as a mural on my wall, Viking Lander cutaway diagrams on my desk.
40 year anniversary resparked interest in space. Watching SpaceVidCast's coverage of Ares X-I tapped me into the masses on twitter and the web. Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander X-Prize was a blast. Flying out to Kennedy Space Center to watch STS-130 and SDO go up in February. Look for the seven foot tall geek. |
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I Live in Las Vegas NV, I'm a student pilot (12/09) with 68 hours and on the verge of my check ride. Which I have been for a couple of months. Time and money have slowed down my progress again.
I Love all things that fly, and am very interested in space... Always have been for as far back as I can remember... Always rockets and frying models. After PPL, I'm going to go for instrument, and commercial, maybe CFI... No need for ATP. Looking to be able to fly a charter every now and then. I recently got involved with a start up aviation pod cast "Mile High Flyers" http://www.milehighflyers.com/ Thanks for reading, Mike |
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962 Miles. 14.5 Hours. <div>
</div><div>No hotel room. No launch viewing tickets. No worries!</div><div>
</div><div>I've decided to pull the trigger and head down to the Space Coast and Cape Canaveral for the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">STS</span>-128. This could be the last opportunity to view a night launch before the shuttle fleet is retired in 2010. Seven launches left. Now or never.</div><div>
</div><div>I've been surfing the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">internets</span> hard today trying to decide where I'll be viewing the launch from. The NASA Causeway is the best place at just 6.5 miles from the launch pad. With a clear, unobstructed view of the shuttle on the pad and close proximity, the experience on the Causeway is like no other. But tickets are required for this site and they sold out within minutes.
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Space fan! I have a NASA sticker on my car window!
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I'm a single father raising a wonderful and curious 12 year old boy. Born in Kentucky and raised in Indiana, now living in Michigan - I've alway loved the seasons and looking at the stars. A space geek since birth (just ask my mother) I've always been looking up and asking questions.
Part artist, engineer, storyteller and historian, explorer; I support manned space flight- it's future and it's past. |
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If we want to get out there, as the human race we naturally want to explore. But should each nation be going it alone? The ISS has been so successful due to the huge cooperation from everyone, would we have had those wonderful moments aboard the ISS where every person on board was from a different country. I think international working together will be the only way forward in space travel successfulness and progress.
The USA is having trouble getting the funds together to actually get back to the moon any time soon. If other leading countries, e.g. France, UK, Canada, Japan etc, would cooperate, then each nation would jointly fund the moon missions as well as the ISS. The total money one country needs to pay is decided by that countries wealth, so therefore, America would pay most, as they have more money to give than UK, France, etc. |
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Born in 1979 in NW Italy. Pilot since 1995. Served one year as "high mountain pilot" in Aosta Valley (1998 - 1999). Served as MD80 pilot for almost nine years (2000 - 2009) at Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane. Serving from Jan. 2009 for Alitalia - Compagnia Aerea Italiana. Flight Instructor and helicopter pilot. HamRadio callsign IZ1POZ. AMSAT member. Skype: desert_eagle MSN Messenger: iz1poz@live.com |
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Oh, fer cryin' out loud. Buy MissionClock, support space! And me.
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My name is Alexandru Csete, also known as OZ9AEC. I am a physicist from the University of Aarhus and I work as an all round nerd at Rovsing A/S usually in projects within the European space industry. Some of the interesting projects that I have been involved in include the prototype of the Automated Transfer Vehicle, called Jules Verne, and the Gaia scientific mission. I have been the proud holder of a CEPT Cat. 1 amateur radio certificate since 1991. My primary interests today are satellite comms, building and modifying equipment and developing free software for Unix-like operating systems. Since Jan 2008 I have also been involved in the Google Lunar X PRIZE by contributing to Team FREDNET. |
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23 years old from Spain. Aerospace engineer student in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
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