{"id":185,"date":"2008-02-21T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T03:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/high-job\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T17:07:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T10:07:57","slug":"high-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"High Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0802\/columbus_sts122_big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0802\/columbus_sts122_big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at this astronaut install the ESA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaHS\/ESAAYI0VMOC_iss_0.html\">Columbus Laboratory<\/a> to International Space Station (ISS).\u00a0 Would like to know what he thought when floating hundreds Km above the earth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The International Space Station (ISS) has been equipped with a powerful new scientific laboratory. The <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap060913.html\">Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/a> delivered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaHS\/ESAAYI0VMOC_iss_0.html\">Columbus Laboratory<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISS\">ISS<\/a> and installed the seven meter long module over the past week. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbus_%28ISS_module%29\">Columbus<\/a> has ten racks for experiments that can be controlled from the station or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gsoc.dlr.de\/columbus\/home.htm\">Columbus Control Center<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\">Germany<\/a>. The first set of experiments includes the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fluid_Science_Laboratory\">Fluid Science Laboratory<\/a> that will explore fluid properties in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/glenn\/research\/microgex.html\">microgravity<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Low_Earth_orbit\">low Earth orbit<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceflight.esa.int\/users\/technical\/experiments\/rack\/biolab\/biolab_amb.htm\">Biolab<\/a> which supports experiments on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microorganism\">microorganisms<\/a>. Future Columbus experiments include an <a href=\"http:\/\/tf.nist.gov\/cesium\/fountain.htm\">atomic clock<\/a> that will test minuscule timing effects including those expected by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnh.org\/exhibitions\/einstein\/\">Einstein<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_relativity\">General Theory<\/a> of Relativity. <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflight.nasa.gov\/gallery\/images\/shuttle\/sts-122\/html\/s122e008222.html\">Pictured above<\/a>, mission specialist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/schlegel.html\">Hans Schlegel<\/a> works on the outside of Columbus. Scientists from all over the <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap070514.html\">world<\/a> may propose and carry out experiments to be done on the laboratory during its ten year mission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those who into photography, click the picture above to see the quality of this picture.\u00a0 Wow<\/p>\n<p>More photos like this can be found that at Astronomy Picture of the Day at NASA <a title=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/archivepix.html\" href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/archivepix.html\">http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/archivepix.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this astronaut install the ESA&#8217;s Columbus Laboratory to International Space Station (ISS).\u00a0 Would like to know what he thought when floating hundreds Km above&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,207],"tags":[180,181,231,197,146,210],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-space-mission","tag-esa","tag-iss","tag-job","tag-nasa","tag-picture","tag-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}