2021: UFO with similar shape to one found on a 671 years old painting, passed near the ISS. Video

The painting made in the year 1350 hanging on the Visaki Decani Monastery in Serbia, depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus and shows unusual shapes on its corners, and has stunning similarities to one UFO that just passed by the ISS (International Space Station ) in April 2021. Almost an exact shape.

However, some Serbian historians suggest the objects in the painting represent the sun and the moon, and the faces of the figures show "suffering" due to the crucifixion. What do you think?

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HP have built a 3D printer for the ISS. Video.

A printer that’s out of this world - HP has announced that they have built a custom HP ENVY Zero-Gravity Printer for use in the International Space Station!

More information on: HP

Let`s take a ride from above all around the Planet Earth: as seen from the Intenational Space Station. Video.

What a ride, beautiful. Enjoy the video of  the Sequences from space, as seen from the Inernational Space Station:

1. North-to-south down the western coast of North and South America.

2. North-to-south over Florida, the Bahamas and other Caribbean islands.

3. South-East Asia, approaching the Philippine Sea

4. Western Europe, from France through Italy, Greece, Turkey and the Middle East.

5. Aurora Australis, over the Indian Ocean, approaching Australia

6. Aurora Australis, over the Indian Ocean.

7. Aurora Australis, unknown location in the Southern Hemisphere.

Explanation from NASA: Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the International Space Station (ISS) and set to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city lights, lightning flashes in thunderstorms, and dark blue seas. On the horizon is the golden haze of Earth's thin atmosphere, frequently decorated by dancing auroras as the video progresses. The green parts of auroras typically remain below the space station, but the station flies right through the red and purple auroral peaks. Solar panels of the ISS are seen around the frame edges. The ominous wave of approaching brightness at the end of each sequence is just the dawn of the sunlit half of Earth, a dawn that occurs every 90 minutes.

Featured on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day!

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120305.html

Video: Kirobo from Japan is now in the International Space Station, but he is an astronaut robot.

Kirobo from Japan is now in the International Space Station, but he is an astronaut robot.

 "Mr. Wakata, are you not here yet? I really want to see you soon," the pint-sized android said in a message released by its project team in Japan Wednesday.

The wide-eyed and bootie-wearing "Kirobo" -- roughly the size of a chihuahua -- left Earth on a cargo-carrying rocket and reached the space station on August 10.

"Good morning to every one of you people on Earth. I am robot astronaut Kirobo. I am the world's first talking robot astronaut. Nice to meet you," the automaton said in Japanese.

Wakata along with Mikhail Tyurin of Russia and NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio will be aboard the Soyuz-FG rocket which will set off from Kazakhstan at 0414 GMT Thursday for a six-hour journey to the ISS.

Kirobo, which stands just 34 centimetres (13.4 inches) tall and weighs about one kilogram (2.2 pounds), is programmed to communicate in Japanese and keep records of its conversations with Wakata, the first Japanese astronaut to command the ISS.

"My dream is to see human beings and robots live together as friends," the robot added. "I will talk to you a lot from space so please listen to my chats."

The humanoid was created jointly by advertising firm Dentsu, the University of Tokyo, robot developer Robo Garage and Toyota.

The robot is part of a study aimed at seeing how a non-human companion can provide emotional support for people isolated over long periods.

LIVE: NASA TV Airs September Space Station Crew Launch.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

 LIVE: NASA TV Airs September Space Station Crew Launch.

NASA Television will provide extensive coverage live from Kazakhstan of the Sept. 25 launch of three crew members of Expedition 37-38, as they begin their journey to the International Space Station.

Michael Hopkins of NASA and Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will depart from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 4:58 p.m. EDT (2:58 a.m. Kazakh time Sept. 26) aboard a Soyuz spacecraft headed for the space station. NASA Television coverage will begin at 4 p.m. and will include video of pre-launch activities leading up to spacecraft boarding.

Hopkins and Ryazanskiy are flight engineers, and Kotov commands the Soyuz spacecraft, which will rendezvous with the space station and dock after four orbits of Earth. Docking to the Poisk module on the Russian segment of the station will take place at 10:47 p.m. NASA TV coverage of docking will begin at 10 p.m.

At about 12:25 a.m. Sept. 26, hatches between the Soyuz and the space station will open. Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, as well as Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency will greet Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy. Hatch-opening coverage begins on NASA TV at midnight.

Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy will remain aboard the station until mid-March. Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano, who have been aboard the orbiting laboratory since late May, will return to Earth Nov. 11, leaving Kotov as commander of Expedition 38.

For the full schedule of prelaunch and launch coverage, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/stationnews

For information on the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station

For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

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Kibo a mini companion and communications robot to arrive to the ISS in summer 2013.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

Kibo a mini companion and communications robot to arrive to the ISS in summer 2013.

Tomotaka Takahashi's concept sketch of the robot         

A humanoid robot that will be serving as a companion and communications device to Japanese astronauts living in the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” on the International Space Station is expected to be completed by February next year. This was the announcement made by Dentsu, Inc. who is part of the joint effort to make the robot.

 The design and specifications are subject to change.

 The coloring, speech and voices of the two robots (one in space and one on Earth) may differ slightly.

The KIBO ROBOT PROJECT, whose aim is to create a humanoid communication robot that will be a companion for the Japanese astronauts who will be living in the Kibo Experiment Module, was jointly submitted by Dentsu, RCAST and ROBO GARAGE in response to the call last year from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (President: Keiji Tachikawa) for a feasibility study proposal on the theme of solving social issues in the experiment module. The proposal was accepted, and the project team has been working for more than a year on developing a robot that can communicate with the astronauts via autonomous actions and remote operations. The robot will also transmit information from the Kibo module to Earth. In winter 2013 the robot will come face-to-face with Koichi Wakata, the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station, and will take part in the world's first conversation experiment held between a person and a robot in outer space. A second robot with the same specifications will be built to serve as a backup and for demonstration purposes on Earth.

Together with leading engineering companies in Japan, RCAST and ROBO GARAGE have been working on the development of the robot hardware, while Dentsu has been involved in the creation of the conversation content. Toyota Motor Corporation (President: Akio Toyoda; hereinafter "Toyota"), a new addition to the project team, is responsible for the voice recognition and natural language processing functions that comprise the robot's intelligence. Through its participation in this project, Toyota will gather data and collate the accumulated technology that is instrumental to interactive services as well as the development of the "Toyota Partner Robot" that can coexist with people.

The project collaborators hope that the project's activities will disseminate Japan's technological strengths to the international community, and make a contribution to the development of industry and science education.

Dentsu via Gizmag

Press Release:

Humanoid Communication Robot Will Leave Japan

for the International Space Station in Summer 2013

Dentsu Inc. (Tokyo) President & CEO: Tadashi Ishii; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 58,967.1 million yen announced today that the humanoid communication robot being developed under the KIBO ROBOT PROJECT, a joint research project being carried out in collaboration with the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo (Director: Dr. Yoshiaki Nakano; hereinafter “RCAST”) and ROBO GARAGE Co., Ltd. (CEO: Tomotaka Takahashi; hereinafter “ROBO GARAGE”), is expected to be completed in February 2013. In the summer of the same year, it will be sent to the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” in the International Space Station.

The KIBO ROBOT PROJECT, whose aim is to create a humanoid communication robot that will be a companion for the Japanese astronauts who will be living in the Kibo Experiment Module, was jointly submitted by Dentsu, RCAST and ROBO GARAGE in response to the call last year from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (President: Keiji Tachikawa) for a feasibility study proposal on the theme of solving social issues in the experiment module. The proposal was accepted, and the project team has been working for more than a year on developing a robot that can communicate with the astronauts via autonomous actions and remote operations. The robot will also transmit information from the Kibo module to Earth.

In winter 2013 the robot will come face-to-face with Koichi Wakata, the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station, and will take part in the world’s first conversation experiment held between a person and a robot in outer space. A second robot with the same specifications will be built to serve as a backup and for demonstration purposes on Earth.

Together with leading engineering companies in Japan, RCAST and ROBO GARAGE have been working on the development of the robot hardware, while Dentsu has been involved in the creation of the conversation content. Toyota Motor Corporation (President: Akio Toyoda; hereinafter “Toyota”), a new addition to the project team, is responsible for the voice recognition and natural language processing functions that comprise the robot’s intelligence. Through its participation in this project, Toyota will gather data and collate the accumulated technology that is instrumental to interactive services as well as the development of the “Toyota Partner Robot” that can coexist with people.

The project collaborators hope that the project’s activities will disseminate Japan’s technological strengths to the international community, and make a contribution to the development of industry and science education.

Project Team Members:

Dentsu Inc.

Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo

ROBO GARAGE Co., Ltd.

Toyota Motor Corporation

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (cooperation)

Technical Collaboration

Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation

Vstone Co., Ltd.

crossEffect, Inc.

YUKAI Engineering

Futaba Corporation

HOYA Service Corporation

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Contact: Shusaku Kannan

Senior Manager

Corporate Communications Division

Telephone: (813) 6216-8042

E-mail: s.kannan@dentsu.co.jp

Space: Russian cargo ship takes off for international space station.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

A Russian Progress supply ship bound for the International Space Station takes off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Docking is expected Friday evening. (Credit: NASA TV)

An unmanned Russian Progress supply ship loaded with 2.9 tons of supplies and equipment blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Wednesday, bound for the International Space Station.

Perched atop a Soyuz booster, the Progress M-14M/46P spacecraft lifted off at 6:06:40 p.m. EST (GMT-5; 5:06:40 a.m. Thursday local time), climbing smoothly away from its launching pad for an eight-minute 45-second climb to orbit. There were no problems with the ascent and moments after separating from the Soyuz upper stage, the cargo ship's solar arrays and antennas unfolded as planned.

This was the first of five Progress flights planned for 2012 and the second successful launch in a row following a third stage failure last August that destroyed the M-12M spacecraft and disrupted the space station traffic schedule.

If all goes well, the M-14M cargo craft, carrying 2,050 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen and air, 926 pounds of water and 2,778 pounds of supplies, spare parts and science gear, will carry out an automated approach and docking at the space station's Pirs airlock module around 5:08 p.m. Friday.

Monitoring the approach and standing by in the Zvezda command module to take over by remote control if necessary will be cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Kononenko. Their crewmates are Expedition 30 commander Daniel Burbank, Donald Pettit, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers.

Next up for the space station is launch of a European cargo craft from Kourou, French Guiana, on March 9. Shkaplerov, Ivanishin and Burbank are scheduled to wrap up a four-month stay in space with a return to Earth on March 16. The European cargo ship is expected to dock on March 19 and three fresh crew members -- Gennady Padalka, Sergei Revin and Joseph Acaba -- are scheduled for launch March 29 with docking on tap two days later to boost the station's crew back to six.

Source: CBSNews