SpaceX Crew Dragon for NASA Astronauts

Elon Musk: "SpaceX Crew Dragon ship in anechoic chamber for EMI testing before being sent to NASA's Plum Brook vacuum chamber."

Crew Dragon, SpaceX’s "next-generation spacecraft designed to carry humans to the International Space Station and other destinations."

"With four windows, passengers can take in views of Earth, the Moon, and the wider Solar System right from their seats, which are made from the highest-grade carbon fiber and Alcantara cloth. Crew Dragon features an advanced emergency escape system (tested in Spring 2015) to swiftly carry astronauts to safety if something were to go wrong, experiencing about the same G-forces as a ride at Disneyland. Crew Dragon’s displays will provide real-time information on the state of the spacecraft’s capabilities—anything from Dragon’s position in space, to possible destinations, to the environment on board. Crew Dragon has an Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) that provides a comfortable and safe environment for crew members. During their trip, astronauts on board can set the spacecraft’s interior temperature to between 65 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Crew Dragon will be a fully autonomous spacecraft that can also be monitored & controlled by on board astronauts and SpaceX mission control in Hawthorne, California, USA."

Learn more: www.spacex.com/crew-dragon

Credit: Elon Musk/SpaceX
Release Date: May 20, 2018

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Honduran Coast | International Space Station

Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov: "The Caribbean coast of Honduras and the Bay Islands (Islas de la Bahía) from the International Space Station."

Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (Spanish: República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America. It has at times been referred to as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became modern-day Belize. Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea. The Bay Islands (Spanish: Islas de la Bahía) is a group of islands off the coast of Honduras. (Source: Wikipedia)

Anton is a Russian cosmonaut. Former colonel of the Russian Air Force—fighter pilot. Experience: International Space Station Expeditions 29/30 and 42/43, 54/55.

Credit: Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov
Release Date: May 23, 2018

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Jupiter: A New Perspective | NASA Juno

This extraordinary view of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on the outbound leg of its 12th close flyby of the gas giant planet.

This new perspective of Jupiter from the south makes the Great Red Spot appear as though it is in northern territory. This view is unique to Juno and demonstrates how different our view is when we step off the Earth and experience the true nature of our three-dimensional universe.

Juno took the images used to produce this color-enhanced image on April 1 between 3:04 a.m. PDT (6:04 a.m. EDT) and 3:36 a.m. PDT (6:36 a.m. EDT). At the time the images were taken, the spacecraft was between 10,768 miles (17,329 kilometers) to 42,849 miles (68,959 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a southern latitude spanning 34.01 to 71.43 degrees.

Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran created this image using data from the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager. The view is a composite of several separate JunoCam images that were re-projected, blended, and healed.

JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam

More information about Juno is at:
www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstäd/Seán Doran
Image Date: April 1, 2018
Release Date: May 21, 2018
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Greece | International Space Station

"If I am a poet…the air of Greece has made me one." —Lord Byron

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, historically also known as Hellas, is a country located in Southern Europe. Greece is at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin. (Source: Wikipedia)

Credit: NASA Astronaut Ricky Arnold
‏Image Date: May 21, 2018

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Solar Orbit | International Space Station

Oleg: a "period now begins, it is called 'Solar orbits'—this is when the Sun does not go beyond the horizon of the Earth, and the station does not hide in the shadow."

Credit: Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev
Release Date: May 20, 2018

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Jupiter Cloud Animation | NASA Juno

Animation extrapolating the movement of the clouds from JunoCam imagery taken on April 1, 2018. Gerald Eichstädt, a mathematician working as a software professional, has taken two images from JunoCam and reprojected them to the same vantage point to enable a direct comparison between the images and show the subtle motions within the atmosphere. By modelling the movement of individual pixels in the images, he has created an animation that extrapolates the swirling evolution of the vortices in the atmosphere.

Eichstädt explains: “This animation represents a ‘feasibility test’. Building on this initial work, we can add in more variables that will give us a more detailed description and physical understanding of Jupiter’s atmosphere.”

Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt
Image Date: May 18, 2018
Duration: 8 seconds

Details: www.europlanet-eu.org/new-views-of-jupiter-showcases-swirling-clouds-on-giant-planet/

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Flight Through the Orion Nebula—NASA 360 Video

Use a mouse to scroll the view when using a computer. For full immersion, watch using a virtual reality device and a 360 video player.

This visualization explores the Orion Nebula using both visible-light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and infrared-light observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The contrast between visible and infrared views of the nebula is examined using two spatially matched, three-dimensional models. As the camera flies into the star-forming region, the sequence cross-fades back and forth between the visible and infrared views.

The glowing gaseous landscape has been illuminated and carved by the high-energy radiation and strong stellar winds from the massive hot stars in the center of the nebula. The infrared observations generally show cooler gas at a deeper layer of the nebula that extends well beyond the visible image. In addition, the infrared view showcases many faint stars that shine primarily at longer wavelengths. The higher resolution visible observations show finer details including wispy bow shocks and tadpole-shaped protoplanetary disks (or proplyds). In this manner, the video illustrates the contrasting features uncovered by multi-wavelength astronomy.

Credit: NASA, ESA, F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, J. DePasquale, L. Hustak, L. Frattare, M. Robberto and M. Gennaro (STScI), R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC); Acknowledgement: R. Gendler
Music: Dvorak – "Serenade for Strings Op22 in E Major Larghetto", performed by The Advent Chamber Orchestra, CC BY-SA
Duration: 2 minutes, 16 seconds
Release Date: May 16, 2018

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Hubble’s 28th Anniversary | NASA

On April 24, 2018, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 28th year in orbit. Even after all these years, Hubble continues to expand humanity’s knowledge of the universe. These are a few science achievements from Hubble’s latest year in orbit.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Emmalee Mauldin
Music Credits: “Hurricanes Wrap my Heart” by Joshua Robert Moore from stockmusic.net
Duration: 3 minutes, 12 seconds
Release Date: May 2, 2018

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ESA Euronews: Gaia’s revolution in astronomy

May 18, 2018: Astronomy is undergoing a revolution with the release of precision data on 1.7 billion stars in our galaxy from the Gaia space telescope. We head to the historic Observatory of Paris and the European Space Agency's ESTEC base in the Netherlands to find out more.

It's fair to say that science has been waiting for centuries, or even millennia for such a detailed survey of the Milky Way, and right now star-gazers are swamped with fresh, high-quality data that they can use to answer every question about the galaxy they ever wanted to ask.

Learn more: http://bit.ly/GaiaRickestStarMap

This video is also available in the following languages:
German: https://youtu.be/I7EHdEnXGi4
French: https://youtu.be/dJRPGaS3VB4
Italian: https://youtu.be/hyOdUHRCDYA
Spanish: https://youtu.be/BCP4xg6sGeY
Portuguese: https://youtu.be/OeBMRQmojXc
Greek: https://youtu.be/Ra0BOhFJ4NU
Hungarian: https://youtu.be/-PYmrCk1iwM

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: 8 minutes, 48 seconds
Release Date: May 18, 2018

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Clear Skies over London | NASA

Happy Wedding Day Prince Harry & Meghan Markle!

Image from space captures clear skies for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal wedding day

NASA’s Terra satellite captured clear skies over London, England, today, Saturday, May 19, 2018, the day of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal wedding day.

This natural-color satellite image was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard the Terra satellite. The image shows mostly clear skies over London and allowed MODIS a nearly unobstructed view of the site of the royal wedding.

According to Met Office, the UK's national weather service, an area of high pressure over the North Sea will bring largely dry and mild conditions to the United Kingdom on Saturday, May 19, 2018.

Credit: NASA/Goddard/MODIS/Terra
Release Date: May 19, 2018

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Inside NASA's Kennedy Space Center | Week of May 18, 2018

This week in space news, college students converge on the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for the 9th annual Robotic Mining Competition, and the Advanced Plant Habitat base is readied for its flight to the International Space Station aboard the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft.

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
Duration: 1 minute, 41 seconds
Credit: May 18, 2018

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The Red Lagoon | International Space Station

Anton: "Laguna Colorada, also known as the Red Lagoon, is located in the southwestern part of Bolivia near the border with Chile. The red color of the water is due to sedimentary rocks, as well as the pigmentation of algae growing there. Our planet does not cease to amaze!"

Laguna Colorada (Red Lagoon) is a shallow salt lake in the southwest of the altiplano of Bolivia, within Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve and close to the border with Chile. (Source: Wikipedia)

Anton is a Russian cosmonaut. Former colonel of the Russian Air Force—fighter pilot. Experience: International Space Station Expeditions 29/30 and 42/43, 54/55.

Credit: Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov
Release Date: May 18, 2018

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Astronauts Working Outside the Space Station | This Week @NASA | May 18, 2018

Our astronauts doing work outside the International Space Station, an agencywide town hall with our new administrator, and old data provide new insight about Jupiter’s moon Europa—a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Duration: 3 minutes, 55 seconds
Release Date: May 18, 2018
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NASA's Space to Ground: Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

May 18, 2018: NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 2 minutes, 14 seconds
Release Date: May 18, 2018

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Mont Saint-Michel, France | European Space Agency

In this edition of "Earth from Space", the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellite takes us over the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel in northern France— presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web TV virtual studios.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: 2 minutes, 32 seconds
Release Date: May 18, 2018

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Mont Saint-Michel, France | European Space Agency

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel in northern France. Lying between Brittany to the west and Normandy to the east, this remarkable bay, which is listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, sees some of the biggest tides in continental Europe. There can be up to 15 meter difference between low and high water. When spring tides peak, the sea recedes about 15 km from the coast and when it returns it does so very quickly, making it a dangerous place to be. Sentinel-2 captured this image when the tide was out so that the vast area of sand dunes is exposed cut by meandering channels of shallow water. Three rivers empty into the bay: the Couesnon, the Sée and the Sélune.

The famous rocky islet of Mont Saint-Michel, visible as a small dark spot in the south of the bay, is about 1 km from the mouth of the Couesnon. Home to a Benedictine monastery and village, Mont Saint-Michel is also a UNESCO world heritage site and a mecca for tourists.

The bay, however, has been prone to silting up in the last couple of centuries. Actions by man, including farming and the building of a causeway to the island monastery, have added to this problem. A major campaign has ensured that Mont-Saint-Michel preserves its maritime character and remains an island. The main river into the bay, the Couesnon, for example, is being left to flow more freely so that sediments are washed out to sea.

This image, which was captured on June 21, 2017, is also featured on the "Earth from Space" video program.

Credit & Copyright: European Space Agency (ESA) - contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Released Date: May 18, 2018

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