Recent blogs from the ISS07 Project http://space.yesican-science.ca http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1006 <p>After 5 delays, space shuttle Endeavour, carrying Canadian astronaut Julie Payette, is now on its way to an historic rendezvous with the International Space Station. On behalf of the YES I Can! Science team and everyone involved with the Canadians in Space project, I wish the STS-127 crew the very best of luck on their mission. Bonne chance! </p> <p>Diane </p> <p>YIC Admin Team </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1006 <p>After 5 delays, space shuttle Endeavour, carrying Canadian astronaut Julie Payette, is now on its way to an historic rendezvous with the International Space Station. On behalf of the YES I Can! Science team and everyone involved with the Canadians in Space project, I wish the STS-127 crew the very best of luck on their mission. Bonne chance! </p> <p>Diane </p> <p>YIC Admin Team </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1006 <p>After 5 delays, space shuttle Endeavour, carrying Canadian astronaut Julie Payette, is now on its way to an historic rendezvous with the International Space Station. On behalf of the YES I Can! Science team and everyone involved with the Canadians in Space project, I wish the STS-127 crew the very best of luck on their mission. Bonne chance! </p> <p>Diane </p> <p>YIC Admin Team </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1006 <p>After 5 delays, space shuttle Endeavour, carrying Canadian astronaut Julie Payette, is now on its way to an historic rendezvous with the International Space Station. On behalf of the YES I Can! Science team and everyone involved with the Canadians in Space project, I wish the STS-127 crew the very best of luck on their mission. Bonne chance! </p> <p>Diane </p> <p>YIC Admin Team </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1006 <p>After 5 delays, space shuttle Endeavour, carrying Canadian astronaut Julie Payette, is now on its way to an historic rendezvous with the International Space Station. On behalf of the YES I Can! Science team and everyone involved with the Canadians in Space project, I wish the STS-127 crew the very best of luck on their mission. Bonne chance! </p> <p>Diane </p> <p>YIC Admin Team </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1006 <p>After 5 delays, space shuttle Endeavour, carrying Canadian astronaut Julie Payette, is now on its way to an historic rendezvous with the International Space Station. On behalf of the YES I Can! Science team and everyone involved with the Canadians in Space project, I wish the STS-127 crew the very best of luck on their mission. Bonne chance! </p> <p>Diane </p> <p>YIC Admin Team </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1005 <p><i>Twitter update from NASA astronaut Marc Polansky, commander of STS-127's space shuttle Endeavour</i> </p> <p>Looks like the tank performed well. We'll go back into quarantine this weekend, and we'll fly to KSC on Tuesday. </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1005 <p><i>Twitter update from NASA astronaut Marc Polansky, commander of STS-127's space shuttle Endeavour</i> </p> <p>Looks like the tank performed well. We'll go back into quarantine this weekend, and we'll fly to KSC on Tuesday. </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1005 <p><i>Twitter update from NASA astronaut Marc Polansky, commander of STS-127's space shuttle Endeavour</i> </p> <p>Looks like the tank performed well. We'll go back into quarantine this weekend, and we'll fly to KSC on Tuesday. </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1004 <p><i>Twitter update from NASA astronaut Marc Polansky, commander of STS-127's space shuttle Endeavour</i> </p> <p>Watching the test on our external tank. So far, so good. If the results hold up, we'll be ready to try again on 11 July, 1939 EDT. </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1004 <p><i>Twitter update from NASA astronaut Marc Polansky, commander of STS-127's space shuttle Endeavour</i> </p> <p>Watching the test on our external tank. So far, so good. If the results hold up, we'll be ready to try again on 11 July, 1939 EDT. </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1004 <p><i>Twitter update from NASA astronaut Marc Polansky, commander of STS-127's space shuttle Endeavour</i> </p> <p>Watching the test on our external tank. So far, so good. If the results hold up, we'll be ready to try again on 11 July, 1939 EDT. </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1002 <h4>Emily and Eden</h4> <h5>Canadians in Space Reporters</h5> <p>Eugene Kokbas's team at BC Instruments has recently put the finishing touches on their piece of a one-of-a-kind titanium instrument. BC Instruments, a Canadian manufacturing company located in Barrie, successfully bid on the NASA contract to manufacture this important part of the instrument suite known as SAM, Sample Analysis at Mars. SAM will be launching to Mars on the Mars Science Laboratory Rover to look for signs of life in the fall of 2011. </p> <p>The instrument that the people at BC Instruments have built is called the Solid Sample Inlet Tube. It will suck up the soil on Mars to see if there is any life there. Powder is delivered from the drill to a SAM inlet tube and into a sample cup. The sample is then moved to the SAM oven to release gases by heating the soil and rock samples to -1000 degrees C. The information gets sent to NASA to be analysed, and what they find out is if there is, or was, any kind of life on Mars. </p> <p>The parts needed to make the SAM Inlet tube are from NASA. Kobas, Team Leader, said, "This is the best material that can be used for this - titanium. It is very light and strong." The SAM Inlet tube looks like two ice cream cones with grooves on them. The grooves look like a screw in the way that it has those lines on it. Then around the two cones, which are joined together, is an oval. </p> <p><img src="http://resources.yesican-science.ca/space08/sam1.jpg" title="" > </p> <p>BC Instruments got their NASA contract offer in 2006 and they finished making the piece in 2007. The piece is already complete right now and has been delivered to NASA. The company says that being the workers chosen to build the instrument and to send the instrument up to Mars is very rewarding. Kokbas said that it is a lot different than his previous jobs. He is happy to see new technologies developed for medical and scientific uses, not for military uses. That is why he works at a place like BC Instruments. They had a special group that worked with difficult metal. Only two machinists were needed for the project, and they needed a project manager and a plant manager. </p> <p>Now that BC Instruments has delivered the instrument to NASA, it is their responsibility. If it is what they want, then they accept it. Then it is NASA's responsibility to pay for and fix any damage done during testing. NASA has to put together the piece (NASA has to add the Inlet Tube to the rest of the SAM system). NASA will put the part in a chamber to mimic the conditions on Mars. </p> <p>But what is going to happen with the information when it comes back? Well, it will be going to NASA. The company BC Instruments manufactured the part; the scientists of the SAM Science Teams at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will analyse the data. </p> <p>For more information visit the <a href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/">Mars Science Laboratory</a> web site. </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1002 <h4>Emily and Eden</h4> <h5>Canadians in Space Reporters</h5> <p>Eugene Kokbas's team at BC Instruments has recently put the finishing touches on their piece of a one-of-a-kind titanium instrument. BC Instruments, a Canadian manufacturing company located in Barrie, successfully bid on the NASA contract to manufacture this important part of the instrument suite known as SAM, Sample Analysis at Mars. SAM will be launching to Mars on the Mars Science Laboratory Rover to look for signs of life in the fall of 2011. </p> <p>The instrument that the people at BC Instruments have built is called the Solid Sample Inlet Tube. It will suck up the soil on Mars to see if there is any life there. Powder is delivered from the drill to a SAM inlet tube and into a sample cup. The sample is then moved to the SAM oven to release gases by heating the soil and rock samples to -1000 degrees C. The information gets sent to NASA to be analysed, and what they find out is if there is, or was, any kind of life on Mars. </p> <p>The parts needed to make the SAM Inlet tube are from NASA. Kobas, Team Leader, said, "This is the best material that can be used for this - titanium. It is very light and strong." The SAM Inlet tube looks like two ice cream cones with grooves on them. The grooves look like a screw in the way that it has those lines on it. Then around the two cones, which are joined together, is an oval. </p> <p><img src="http://resources.yesican-science.ca/space08/sam1.jpg" title="" > </p> <p>BC Instruments got their NASA contract offer in 2006 and they finished making the piece in 2007. The piece is already complete right now and has been delivered to NASA. The company says that being the workers chosen to build the instrument and to send the instrument up to Mars is very rewarding. Kokbas said that it is a lot different than his previous jobs. He is happy to see new technologies developed for medical and scientific uses, not for military uses. That is why he works at a place like BC Instruments. They had a special group that worked with difficult metal. Only two machinists were needed for the project, and they needed a project manager and a plant manager. </p> <p>Now that BC Instruments has delivered the instrument to NASA, it is their responsibility. If it is what they want, then they accept it. Then it is NASA's responsibility to pay for and fix any damage done during testing. NASA has to put together the piece (NASA has to add the Inlet Tube to the rest of the SAM system). NASA will put the part in a chamber to mimic the conditions on Mars. </p> <p>But what is going to happen with the information when it comes back? Well, it will be going to NASA. The company BC Instruments manufactured the part; the scientists of the SAM Science Teams at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will analyse the data. </p> <p>For more information visit the <a href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/">Mars Science Laboratory</a> web site. </p> http://space.yesican-science.ca/Blogs/?view=1002 <h4>Emily and Eden</h4> <h5>Canadians in Space Reporters</h5> <p>Eugene Kokbas's team at BC Instruments has recently put the finishing touches on their piece of a one-of-a-kind titanium instrument. BC Instruments, a Canadian manufacturing company located in Barrie, successfully bid on the NASA contract to manufacture this important part of the instrument suite known as SAM, Sample Analysis at Mars. SAM will be launching to Mars on the Mars Science Laboratory Rover to look for signs of life in the fall of 2011. </p> <p>The instrument that the people at BC Instruments have built is called the Solid Sample Inlet Tube. It will suck up the soil on Mars to see if there is any life there. Powder is delivered from the drill to a SAM inlet tube and into a sample cup. The sample is then moved to the SAM oven to release gases by heating the soil and rock samples to -1000 degrees C. The information gets sent to NASA to be analysed, and what they find out is if there is, or was, any kind of life on Mars. </p> <p>The parts needed to make the SAM Inlet tube are from NASA. Kobas, Team Leader, said, "This is the best material that can be used for this - titanium. It is very light and strong." The SAM Inlet tube looks like two ice cream cones with grooves on them. The grooves look like a screw in the way that it has those lines on it. Then around the two cones, which are joined together, is an oval. </p> <p><img src="http://resources.yesican-science.ca/space08/sam1.jpg" title="" > </p> <p>BC Instruments got their NASA contract offer in 2006 and they finished making the piece in 2007. The piece is already complete right now and has been delivered to NASA. The company says that being the workers chosen to build the instrument and to send the instrument up to Mars is very rewarding. Kokbas said that it is a lot different than his previous jobs. He is happy to see new technologies developed for medical and scientific uses, not for military uses. That is why he works at a place like BC Instruments. They had a special group that worked with difficult metal. Only two machinists were needed for the project, and they needed a project manager and a plant manager. </p> <p>Now that BC Instruments has delivered the instrument to NASA, it is their responsibility. If it is what they want, then they accept it. Then it is NASA's responsibility to pay for and fix any damage done during testing. NASA has to put together the piece (NASA has to add the Inlet Tube to the rest of the SAM system). NASA will put the part in a chamber to mimic the conditions on Mars. </p> <p>But what is going to happen with the information when it comes back? Well, it will be going to NASA. The company BC Instruments manufactured the part; the scientists of the SAM Science Teams at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will analyse the data. </p> <p>For more information visit the <a href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/">Mars Science Laboratory</a> web site. </p>