SIDO (mit Andreas Bourani) Wie ein Astronaut

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[Intro: Andreas Bourani]
Ich heb' ab, nichts hält mich am Boden       [abheben = to lift off; raise]
Alles blass und grau
Bin zu lange nicht geflogen
Wie ein Astronaut

[Part 1: Sido]
Wir laufen rum mit der Schnauze voll, die Köpfe sind leer
Sitzen im Dreck bis zum Hals, haben Löcher im Herz
Ertränken Sorgen und Probleme in dem Becher voll Wein
Mit einem Lächeln aus Stein, uns fällt nichts Besseres ein
Wir haben morgen schon vergessen, wer wir gestern noch waren
Haben uns alle vollgefressen und vergessen zu zahlen
Lassen alles stehen und liegen für mehr Asche und Staub
Wir woll'n alle, dass es passt, doch wir passen nicht auf
Die Stimme der Vernunft ist längst verstummt, wir hören sie nicht mehr
Denn manchmal haben wir das Gefühl, wir gehören hier nicht her
Es gibt kein Vor und kein Zurück mehr, nur noch unten und oben
Einer von Hundert Millionen, ein kleiner Punkt über'm Boden, ich heb' ab

[Hook: Andreas Bourani]
Ich heb' ab, nichts hält mich am Boden
Alles blass und grau
Bin zu lange nicht geflogen
Wie ein Astronaut
Ich seh' die Welt von oben
Der Rest verblasst im Blau
Ich hab' Zeit und Raum verloren hier oben
Wie ein Astronaut

[Part 2: Sido]
Im Dunkel der Nacht
Hier oben ist alles so friedlich, doch da unten geht's ab
Wir alle tragen dazu bei, doch brechen unter der Last
Wir hoffen auf Gott, doch ham' das Wunder verpasst
Wir bauen immer höher, bis es ins Unendliche geht
Fast acht Milliarden Menschen, doch die Menschlichkeit fehlt        (billion)
Von hier oben macht das alles plötzlich gar nichts mehr aus -
Von hier sieht man keine Grenzen und die Farbe der Haut               (skin)
Dieser ganze Lärm um Nichts verstummt, ich hör' euch nicht mehr
Langsam hab' ich das Gefühl, ich gehöre hierher                              (belong)
Es gibt kein Vor und kein Zurück mehr, nur noch unten und oben
Einer von Hundert Millionen, ein kleiner Punkt über dem Boden, ich heb' ab!

[Hook: Andreas Bourani]

[Bridge: Andreas Bourani]
Und beim Anblick dieser Schönheit
Fällt mir alles wieder ein
Sind wir nicht eigentlich am Leben
Um zu lieben, um zu sein?
Hier will ich her, für immer bleiben
Doch ich bin ein Wimpernschlag
Der nach 5 Milliarden Jahren
Nicht viel mehr zu sein vermag

[Hook: Andreas Bourani]

ESA - European Space Agency besucht einen Comet

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NASA and ESA: European Space Agency

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European Space Agency helping Nasa search for life on Mars

EUOBSERVER.COM   06.08.12 @ 17:45    BY NIKOLAJ NIELSEN        

RUSSELS - The quest for life on Mars took a dramatic leap forward when Nasa's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) landed the Curiosity rover on the surface of the red planet in the early morning on Monday (6 August).

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  Nasa team celebrate the landing on Monday (Photo: Nasa/Bill Ingalls)

"Today is a very, very successful day for space, not only for Nasa but the whole of nations on the globe,” Manfred Warhaut, head of Mission Operations Department at the European Space Agency (Esa) told EUobserver from Darmstadt, Germany.

Launched in November last year from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force station, the shuttle carrying the rover travelled some 567 million km before slamming into the Martian atmosphere at 20,000 km per hour.

The shuttle slowed down in a matter of minutes, at first due to the planet's thin atmosphere and then by deploying a massive parachute.

Rocket boosters put the craft into a complex hovering manoeuvre at about 20 meters from the surface. A crane then lowered the nearly 1 tonne rover gently into the Gale Crater that may have once been the site of a river delta.  Within minutes, grainy low-resolution images were sent back to earth via the Esa's Mars Express satellite, orbiting some 200,000 km above the planet.  The Esa satellite tracked and recorded MSL's entry and landing and is equipped with an on-board interface that also allows it to talk to other Nasa vehicles already on the Martian surface.  Back on earth, the agency's ground network of 35 metre diameter deep-space antennas also supported the landing, standing by as 'hot back-up' to Nasa's own deep-space network....

"We were basically furnishing Nasa" with yet another redundancy on the data transmission from Mars to earth. This was our role this morning, this was our contribution from Europe into the US MSL mission,” said Warhaut.  Esa's New Norcia antenna in western Australia registered MSL's "heart beat" signals and notified Nasa that the rover had landed safely.  Esa's Mars Express, in orbit since 2003, is equipped with more advanced instrumentation and determined, for instance, that there is a substantial amount of sub-surface water in ice form equivalent to half the size of the Mediterranean sea.

Photos taken by the satellite also suggest that the water was once flowing over the planet’s surface.

"The ultimate goal is if there is or was life on Mars. There might be some biological processes still taking place today," said Warhaut.  Curiosity will explore, using 10 instrument-based science investigations, the planet's surface for the next two years with Mars Express standing by in case the Nasa satellites should suddenly malfunction.

...Warhout said the efforts between Esa and Nasa will spur greater interoperability, co-operation and standards that would provide an additional boost to space exploration. The findings on the planet could also provide even more research impetus into space exploration.  Esa has its own Mars missions scheduled for 2016 and 2018, but budgetary constraints on Nasa means the US-based agency will no longer participate in Esa's missions.

"Nasa was heavily impacted by significant budget cuts and cost over runs. They had to postpone the mission by two years," said Warhaut.  For its part, Esa says they are not experiencing the budget constraints imposed on Nasa. The agency is composed of 20 member states and expects both its planned missions to get the official go-ahead by Esa's ministerial council in November.

The next step, says Warhaut, is to get samples from the rover back to earth possibly by as early as middle of the 2020s.

Excerpts from earlier article:    EUOBSERVER.COM    14.02.12 @ 09:17

US bins joint EU project to visit Mars

BY ANDREW RETTMAN

BRUSSELS - The US is scrapping a joint project with the EU to land a robot on Mars due to lack of money.

Charles Bolden, the chief of US space agency Nasa, announced the move at a press conference in Washington on Monday (13 February) on how his agency plans to spend its 2013 budget.

He said: "Tough choices had to be made ... This means we will not be moving forward with the planned 2016 and 2018 ExoMars missions that we had been exploring with the European Space Agency (Esa)."

He added the US is not giving up on Mars as such: "This administration remains committed to a vibrant and co-ordinated strategy of Mars exploration ... Our goals include not only new path-breaking robotic missions to Mars, but also future human missions." ...

Russia and China have a competing Mars programme. But they suffered a setback on 15 January when Russia's so-called Phobos-Grunt probe, carrying a Chinese Mars-observation satellite, Yinghuo-1, fell into the sea.  In an echo of the Cold-War-era space race, Russian news agency Ria Novosti at the time said Russian investigators ruled out "external or foreign influence" in the crash.

For their part, planetary scientists voiced dismay about the Nasa-Esa decision.  Ed Weiler, a former Nasa researcher who designed its Mars plans, told Science Magazine: "Two years ago, because of budget cuts in the Mars programme, I had to appeal to Europe to merge our programmes ... That process took two long years of very delicate negotiations."

He added: "So, you develop a capability nobody else has, the so-called EDL capability - entry, descent and landing - that took a long time, that took decades. If you let that die, you don't just go out to K-Mart and hire new people to do it again."

Bill Nye, the head of the Pasadena, California-based Planetary Society, said in a written statement: "How many government programmes can you think of that consistently fill people with pride, awe, and wonder? Nasa's planetary exploration programme is one of the few, and so it seems particularly ironic and puzzling that it has been so specifically targeted for such drastic budget cuts."

The next window for landings on Mars is from 2018 to 2020, when the two planets' orbits bring them closer together.