<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Sports in zero gravity : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/"/><tagline>Sports in zero gravity : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-07-24T15:20:32+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Sports in zero gravity]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/59696/1/" /><id>59696</id><summary><![CDATA[Sports in zero gravity]]></summary><issued>2008-04-25T23:28:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-25T23:28:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronauts, by necessity, work hard in space. But during their precious time off aboard the International Space Station (ISS), some spaceflyers are picking their brains to come up with the future of space sports.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The 60's - The beginning of mankind's journeys into space]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19006/1/" /><id>19006</id><summary><![CDATA[The 60's - The beginning of mankind's journeys into space]]></summary><issued>2007-05-04T09:51:07+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-04T09:51:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[On April 12, 1961, the Soviets launched a 27-year-old fighter pilot named Yuri Gagarin on the world's first piloted space mission.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[NASA finds tiny hole in Atlantis caused by space debris]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/2324/1/" /><id>2324</id><summary><![CDATA[NASA finds tiny hole in Atlantis caused by space debris]]></summary><issued>2006-10-06T12:54:02+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-06T12:54:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[NASA discovered that space shuttle Atlantis has been holed by a tiny piece of space debris. The  1/10-inch hole represents the second largest debris damage event ever identified. Fortunately, it missed everything that was important to the mission. Space debris is an increasingly challenging problem.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Astronauts prepare for fifth space walk]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55288/1/" /><id>55288</id><summary><![CDATA[Astronauts prepare for fifth space walk]]></summary><issued>2008-03-22T15:31:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-22T15:31:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronauts Robert Behnken and Michael Foreman plan to attach the 50-foot inspection boom to the outside of the space station on Saturday during the fifth and final spacewalk of Endeavour's mission. Discovery will carry the boom back to Earth after its mission ends. <br/><br/>Meh, probably faked :D]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Future of Space Exploration]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36315/1/" /><id>36315</id><summary><![CDATA[The Future of Space Exploration]]></summary><issued>2007-09-21T00:25:38+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-21T00:25:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Oct 4th will be <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sputnik's</a>  50th  anniversary. Although it had its scary connotations, the dawn of the Space Age was also a hopeful event. Visionaries celebrated humanity&#8217;s long-awaited climb out of its cradle, and pragmatists soon savored the benefits of communications and weather satellites.<br/>   The evolution of the space program continues to be dramatic. In a decade or so, it will be hardly recognizable.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bugs in Space: Can They Survive? ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/43851/1/" /><id>43851</id><summary><![CDATA[Bugs in Space: Can They Survive? ]]></summary><issued>2007-12-11T08:06:12+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-11T08:06:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Catching a free ride to Mars takes more than sticking out a thumb, but some hardy Earth bacteria could survive as hitchhikers clinging to the outside of spacecraft, studies have shown. Now a set of experiments going up with space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station will test how exposure to the harshness of space might change bacteria during a simulated Mars mission.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Space telescope unveils hidden cosmic giant]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44294/1/" /><id>44294</id><summary><![CDATA[Space telescope unveils hidden cosmic giant]]></summary><issued>2007-12-15T07:49:40+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-15T07:49:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronomers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research have discovered a new cluster of galaxies, hidden behind a previously identified cluster of galaxies. The recently exposed cosmic giant is apparently just as bright as the first group, but is six times further away. The astronomers made the discovery as part of an international team using the space telescope XMM-Newton.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How do Astronauts Use the Toilet in Space]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34029/1/" /><id>34029</id><summary><![CDATA[How do Astronauts Use the Toilet in Space]]></summary><issued>2007-09-01T09:39:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-01T09:39:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We all know that in space there is no gravity, thus things don&#8217;t fall down as they do on earth, they just float. Ok but what do you do when you need to go to the toilet, you don&#8217;t want your &#8220;things&#8221; to float all over the place do you?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[US adopts tough new space policy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/3670/1/" /><id>3670</id><summary><![CDATA[US adopts tough new space policy]]></summary><issued>2006-10-19T02:11:58+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-19T02:11:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The US has adopted a tough new policy aimed at protecting its interests in space and denying &quot;adversaries&quot; access there for hostile purposes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Water Sphere Experiments from the International Space Station]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/5354/1/" /><id>5354</id><summary><![CDATA[Water Sphere Experiments from the International Space Station]]></summary><issued>2006-11-07T17:08:48+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-07T17:08:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This is a QuickTime video record of 3 experiments with water in zero gravity.  The most exciting of which is AlkaSeltzer tablets introduced to a floating glob of water.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;Houston, We Have A Problem&quot; Again - Gunman and Hostage Dead at Johnson Space Center]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17240/1/" /><id>17240</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;Houston, We Have A Problem&quot; Again - Gunman and Hostage Dead at Johnson Space Center]]></summary><issued>2007-04-20T18:08:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-20T18:08:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Gunman kills one male hostage and then himself. Police say the gunman had a hand gun. <br/><br/>5:25pm EST<br/><br/>Isn't NASA a secured facility? Apparently not.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Space Elevator and the Controversial &#8216;Wobble&#8217; Problem]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/65113/1/" /><id>65113</id><summary><![CDATA[Space Elevator and the Controversial &#8216;Wobble&#8217; Problem]]></summary><issued>2008-06-11T18:22:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-11T18:22:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The idea behind a space elevator is simple. Deploy a cable stretching from the ground near Earth&#8217;s equator far enough into space, and centrifugal forces due to Earth&#8217;s spin will keep the cable taut.<br/><br/>*fixed]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Geomorphology From Space]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34446/1/" /><id>34446</id><summary><![CDATA[Geomorphology From Space]]></summary><issued>2007-09-04T10:59:56+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-04T10:59:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Geomorphology from Space is an out of print 1986 NASA publication edited by Nicholas M. Short, Sr. and Robert W. Blair, Jr. designed for use by the remote sensing science and educational communities to study landforms and landscapes. It has a gallery of space images consisting of 237 plates, each showing a different geographic region where a particular landform theme is exemplified.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Russia, China propose new treaty to ban arms in space]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/50284/1/" /><id>50284</id><summary><![CDATA[Russia, China propose new treaty to ban arms in space]]></summary><issued>2008-02-12T14:45:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-12T14:45:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The new treaty would prohibit the deployment of weapons of any kind in space, and the use or threat of force against space objects, he added.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[First unchanging 'soliton' wave found in space]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/54785/1/" /><id>54785</id><summary><![CDATA[First unchanging 'soliton' wave found in space]]></summary><issued>2008-03-18T20:07:19+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-18T20:07:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An unusual electrical disturbance has been spotted in space, travelling unchanged through the ionised gas surrounding Earth. A European space mission called Cluster detected a &quot;soliton&quot; wave, a phenomenon similar to the self-contained solitons that can travel along optical fibres and channels of water on Earth. This is the first known soliton in space.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Big Space Thing Looks Like a Moth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/46817/1/" /><id>46817</id><summary><![CDATA[Big Space Thing Looks Like a Moth]]></summary><issued>2008-01-11T00:34:46+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-11T00:34:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A moth-like structure with a 22-billion-mile wingspan is hovering out in space. This giant is actually a massive cloud of dust surrounding a nearby, young star imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope that has shown astronomers that these dust disks can take on unexpectedly unusual shapes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Japanese astronaut to throw boomerang in space]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48218/1/" /><id>48218</id><summary><![CDATA[Japanese astronaut to throw boomerang in space]]></summary><issued>2008-01-24T08:08:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-24T08:08:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Japanese astronaut plans to throw a boomerang inside a space station to test whether it can fly in zero gravity.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Germs taken to space come back deadlier]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/36618/1/" /><id>36618</id><summary><![CDATA[ Germs taken to space come back deadlier]]></summary><issued>2007-09-24T22:16:15+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-24T22:16:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and come back stronger and deadlier than ever. Except, it really happened.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Space boomerang video released]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/60870/1/" /><id>60870</id><summary><![CDATA[Space boomerang video released]]></summary><issued>2008-05-06T23:39:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-06T23:39:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Remember the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/l/48218/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">astronaut who recently tested</a> whether boomerangs return to their throwers in the absence of gravity? Well, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has released video of astronaut Takao Doi showing that <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/l/55203/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">the objects do, in fact, come back</a> - even in the microgravity environment of the space station.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving from Space]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/42365/1/" /><id>42365</id><summary><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving from Space]]></summary><issued>2007-11-23T07:25:43+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-23T07:25:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Orbiting more than 200 miles above the Earth, the crew of the International Space Station has sent home a special Thanksgiving message that is now airing on NASA Television and the agency's Web site.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cat in Space]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/27224/1/" /><id>27224</id><summary><![CDATA[Cat in Space]]></summary><issued>2007-07-12T23:06:55+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-12T23:06:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Zero gravity flight with a cat on board.  <br/><br/>Poor little sod!  I wish this little cat had flushed out it's kidneys all over the crew while it's spinning around like that.  &quot;Tests are conclusive Sir!  Cats really hate being in zero gravity.&quot;  Idiots!]]></content></entry></feed>