Expedition 68: Welcoming New Crew Members | International Space Station

Expedition 68: Welcoming New Crew Members | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi from the United Arab Emirates is pictured inside Japan's Kibo laboratory module during his first week aboard the International Space Station.

Clockwise from top, are Expedition 68 Commander Sergey Prokopyev with Flight Engineers Andrey Fedyaev, Dmitri Petelin, and Anna Kikina, all from Roscosmos (Russia).

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen is pictured conducting maintenance activities during his first week aboard the International Space Station. This is Bowen's fourth visit to the orbital outpost.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Warren "Woody" Hoburg is pictured inside the Kibo laboratory module during his first week aboard the International Space Station. In the back, is NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio who has been aboard the station since Sept. 21, 2022.

From left, are Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Anna Kikina of Roscosmos (Russia), Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann from NASA, and Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) posing for a fun portrait inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.

Clockwise from top, are Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann from NASA, Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Anna Kikina of Roscosmos (Russia) posing for a fun portrait inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.

The newly-expanded International Space Station crew of 11 members kicked off a busy work week  conducting a variety of research and visiting vehicle activities. Meanwhile, four Expedition 68 crew members are also getting ready to complete their mission and return to Earth.

New station residents Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA, who commanded and piloted the SpaceX Crew-6 mission respectively, reviewed docked Crew Dragon procedures first thing on Monday. The duo, along Crew-6 mission specialist Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates and Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos (Russia), automatically docked Crew Dragon Endeavour to the Harmony module’s space-facing port at 1:40 a.m. EST on Friday, March 3, 2023. The quartet will live and work aboard the orbital outpost for six months.

The four newest crew members continue getting up to speed with life on orbit familiarizing themselves with space station operations and systems. The foursome also spent Monday, March 6 installing new space biology hardware, replacing electronic components, and updating emergency procedures for the expanded crew.

The orbiting crew will soon return to a seven-member status when four station residents finalize their mission that began last year. Flight Engineers Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada of NASA, along with Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Anna Kikina of Roscosmos, launched to the station as the SpaceX Crew-5 mission on Oct. 5, 2022, joining the Expedition 68 crew one day later. All four homebound crew members have begun their handover activities. They will enter the Crew Dragon Endurance, undock from the Harmony module’s forward port, then splash down off the coast of Florida on a soon-to-be-announced date.

The next Dragon mission to the station will be the SpaceX CRS-27 resupply mission scheduled for March 14, 2023, at 8:30 p.m. EDT. The Dragon cargo craft will automatically dock about 24 hours later to the Harmony port vacated by the Crew Dragon Endurance when it undocks a few days earlier.

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: March 3-5, 2023

Release Date: March 8, 2023

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Introducing Australia’s First Female Astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg

Introducing Australia’s First Female Astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg

The Australian Space Agency has announced Katherine Bennell-Pegg will be trained as this country's first female astronaut. Congratulations to our fellow Friends of NASA member! 

Katherine, Director of Space Technology at the Australian Space Agency, will be the first Australian woman to be trained as an astronaut by an international space agency.

Unlike previous instances where Australian astronauts have flown as citizens of other nations, Katherine will train as an Australian.

She will begin training in April through until mid-2024. She will remain an employee of the Australian Space Agency, where she has worked since the end of 2019.

Read the Australian government's announcement:

https://www.industry.gov.au/news/history-made-australian-woman-katherine-bennell-pegg-be-trained-astronaut-european-space-agency

Credit: 7NEWS Australia

Duration: 2 minutes, 39 seconds

Release Date: March 7, 2023

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Dwarf Galaxy UGC 68 in Pisces | Hubble

Dwarf Galaxy UGC 68 in Pisces | Hubble

This picture shows a dwarf galaxy named UGC 685. Such galaxies are small and contain just a tiny fraction of the number of stars in a galaxy like the Milky Way. Dwarf galaxies often show a hazy structure, an ill-defined shape, and an appearance somewhat akin to a swarm or cloud of stars—and UGC 685 is no exception to this. Classified as an SAm galaxy—a type of unbarred spiral galaxy—it is located about 15 million light-years from Earth.

These data were gathered under the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope’s LEGUS (Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey) Program, the sharpest and most comprehensive ultraviolet survey of star-forming galaxies in the nearby Universe. 

LEGUS is imaging 50 spiral and dwarf galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood in multiple colors using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. The survey is picking apart the structures of these galaxies and resolving their constituent stars, clusters, groups, and other stellar associations. Star formation plays a huge role in shaping its host galaxy; by exploring these targets in detail via both new observations and archival Hubble data, LEGUS will shed light on how stars form and cluster together, how these clusters evolve, how a star’s formation affects its surroundings, and how stars explode at the end of their lives. 

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA; the LEGUS team, B. Tully, D. Calzetti

Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)

Release Date: Sept. 2, 2019

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Caribbean & Central American Students Speak to the International Space Station

Caribbean & Central American Students Speak to the International Space Station

During this event, students from the Caribbean and Central America had the opportunity to speak with NASA Astronaut Josh Cassada to learn about natural disaster research and monitoring, as seen from the unique perspective of the International Space Station. More than 400 questions were submitted by schools in the region. The selected questions were related to climate change and monitoring hazard events such as hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and coastal erosion.

Astronaut Josh Cassada Official NASA Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/josh-a-cassada

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/josh-a-cassada/biography

Learn more about the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program at https://www.ariss.org.

This event is part of the Disaster Fighters campaign, an initiative sponsored by the World Bank, GFDRR, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, CDEMA, CEPREDENAC, PACIFICO, and NASA Disasters Program, among other organizations. The campaign and video were produced by the team at Pacifico Risk Communications: Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch, Malena Albertoni, Alejo Santos, Nancy Núñez, Rodrigo Gonzalez Alvarado and Diego Voloschin. The contact was made possible by the IK1SLD ARISS HamTV Telebridge Ground Station located in Casale Monferrato, Italy.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 9 minutes

Release Date: March 7, 2023

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Expedition 68 Astronaut Frank Rubio Talks with Televisa Univision (Spanish media)

Expedition 68 Astronaut Frank Rubio Talks with Televisa Univision (Spanish media)

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio of NASA discussed life and work aboard the orbital outpost during an in-flight interview March 7, 2023, with Telemundo’s Jorge Ramos. Rubio is in the midst of a long-duration mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions. Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration through the agency’s Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars.

Astronaut Frank Rubio’s Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/frank-rubio/biography/

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 22 minutes

Release Date: March 7, 2023

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New Planet Mars Images 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

New Planet Mars Images 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

This feather-shaped iridescent cloud was captured just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023, the 3,724th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity’s mission.

These "sun rays" shining through clouds at sunset on Feb. 2, 2023, the 3,730th Martian day, or sol, of the Curiosity mission.

MSL - sol 512 - MAHLI

Mars 2020 Ingenuity helicopter - Sol 724

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Celebrating 10 Years+ on Mars! (2012-2023)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity)

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Processing: Kevin M. Gill (Images 3 & 4)

Image Release Dates: Jan. 27-March 4, 2023

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Zooming in on The Hubble Legacy Field of 200,000 Galaxies

Zooming in on The Hubble Legacy Field of 200,000 Galaxies

This video takes the viewer on a journey into the Hubble Legacy Field, a mosaic of the distant Universe that documents 16 years of observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This image contains 200,000 galaxies that stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to just 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/NASA

Duration: 20 seconds

Release Date: May 16, 2019

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Pan across The Hubble Legacy Field of 200,000 Galaxies

Pan across The Hubble Legacy Field of 200,000 Galaxies

This explores the detail of the Hubble Legacy Field, a mosaic of the distant universe that documents 16 years of observations from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. This image contains 200,000 galaxies that stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to just 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva), and the Hubble Legacy Field team.

Duration: 1 minute, 15 seconds

Release Date: May 16, 2019

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Expedition 68 Crew: Russia, U.S. & Japan | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Crew: Russia, U.S. & Japan | International Space Station

Clockwise from left, are Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Anna Kikina of Roscosmos (Russia), Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann from NASA, and Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) posing for a fun portrait inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.

Expedition 68 Crew (March 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina, Dmitri Petelin, Andrey Fedyaev

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio, Josh Cassada, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Release Date: March 1, 2023

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Women's History Month 2023: Celebrating Women Astronauts

Women's History Month 2023: Celebrating Women Astronauts | NASA

European Space Agency Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, left, and NASA astronaut Jessica A. Watkins, right, bid farewell to NASA astronaut Kayla S.  Barron (center) wearing her SpaceX launch and entry suit as she prepares for her return to Earth with her fellow Crew-3 teammates.

“A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.” —Valentina Tereshkova

“If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.” —Sally Ride

“International cooperation is very necessary. Chinese have a saying, ‘When all the people collect the wood, you will make a great fire.’” —Liu Yang

As of March 2023, 72 women have flown in space. Of these, 44 have worked on the International Space Station as long-duration expedition crewmembers, as visitors on space shuttle assembly flights, or as space flight participants on short-duration missions. This article recognizes the significant accomplishments of these women from many nations as well as the pioneering women who preceded them into space. Many other women contributed to the assembly of the station and the research conducted aboard on a daily basis, including those on the ground who served as center directors, managers, flight directors, and in many other roles to pursue the exploration of space. Their achievements will contribute to NASA’s efforts to land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon and possibly send the first crews to Mars in the coming decades.

The era of women in space began on June 16, 1963, when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova launched aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft. Chosen from a group of five women selected for training, Tereshkova completed a three-day mission and entered the history books as the first woman to orbit the Earth. Nearly 20 years passed before another woman flew in space. In January 1978, NASA announced the selection of 35 new astronauts including six women for the space shuttle program. In response, the Soviet Union secretly selected a group of nine women cosmonauts in 1980. On Aug. 19, 1982, one of these women, Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, launched with her two crewmates aboard Soyuz T-7 for a week-long mission. The next day, they joined the two long-duration resident crewmembers aboard Salyut 7, marking the first time a space station hosted a mixed-gender crew. Ten months later, on June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride made history as the first American woman in space, spending seven days aboard space shuttle Challenger during the STS-7 mission.

Savitskaya made history again on July 25, 1984, as the first woman to participate in a spacewalk during her second flight to Salyut 7. Less than three months later, on Oct. 11, Kathryn D. Sullivan completed the first spacewalk by an American woman from space shuttle Challenger during the STS-41G mission. With Ride as one of Sullivan’s crewmates, the flight marked the first time a space crew included two women.

Learn more at:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/womens-history-month-2023-celebrating-women-astronauts

Credit: NASA

Release Date: March 1, 2023

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Recientemente: Una nueva tripulación viaja a la estación espacial internacional

Recientemente: Una nueva tripulación viaja a la estación espacial internacional

Recientemente en la NASA, la versión en español de las cápsulas "This Week at NASA," te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la NASA. 

Credit: NASA

Duration: 2 minutes, 17 seconds

Record Date: March 3, 2023

Release Date: March 6, 2023

 

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The Science on SpaceX's 27th Cargo Resupply Mission | International Space Station

The Science on SpaceX's 27th Cargo Resupply Mission | International Space Station

NASA's 27th SpaceX commercial resupply mission (CRS-27) is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station this March from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The scientific experiments and technology demonstrations carried by the Dragon spacecraft examine how the heart changes in space, test a student-designed camera mount, compare surfaces that control biofilm formation, and more.

Details: https://go.nasa.gov/3khJK0J  

Expedition 68 Crew (March 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina, Dmitri Petelin, Andrey Fedyaev

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio, Josh Cassada, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 1 minute, 52 seconds

Release Date: March 6, 2023

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Preparing for NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission | Kennedy Space Center

Preparing for NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission | Kennedy Space Center

A map of the Artemis II flight path

Artemis II will be the first flight with crew aboard NASA’s deep space exploration system: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. During their mission, four astronauts will confirm all of the spacecraft’s systems operate as designed with people aboard in the actual environment of deep space, over the course of about a 10-day mission. The Artemis II flight test will pave the way to land the first woman and next man on the Moon on Artemis III.

Learn more about Artemis II: 

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii

An American bald eagle is perched atop a pole near Kennedy Parkway North at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 8, 2023. Each year, eagles take up winter residence at the Florida spaceport, breeding and raising a new generation. The center shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, home to more than 1,500 species of plants and animals, and 15 federally listed species. 

Image Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Image Date: February 8, 2023

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Plunge into a Stellar Ocean: The IC4701 Nebula | ESO

Plunge into a Stellar Ocean: The IC4701 Nebula | ESO

In this picture, we take a deep plunge into the ocean of stars in the IC4701 nebula. This nebula is located in the Sagittarius constellation, and it is twice as wide as the full Moon in the sky. The energetic light from newly-born stars ionizes the hydrogen gas in the nebula, causing it to emit the intense reddish hue seen in this picture. The dark clouds in this image contain large amounts of interstellar dust, too dense for the light of the background stars to pierce through it.

The IC4701 nebula is part of a rich and vast complex of dust and gas within which new stars spring to life. When stars are born, most of them are cooler, redder, and less massive than our own Sun. Hotter, more massive stars are much rarer, and they quickly burn through all their fuel and die. This makes these brilliant blue and massive stars, and their surrounding glowing gas, beacons of recent star formation.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/VPHAS+ team

Acknowledgement: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

Release Date: March 6, 2023

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A Meandering Spiral Galaxy: NGC 5486 | Hubble

A Meandering Spiral Galaxy: NGC 5486 | Hubble

The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in these images from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. The tenuous disc of the galaxy is threaded through with pink wisps of star formation, which stand out from the diffuse glow of the galaxy’s bright core. NGC 5486 lies 110 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.

Image Description: A spiral galaxy. It is irregularly-shaped and its spiral arms are difficult to distinguish. The edges are faint and the core has a pale glow. It is dotted with small, wispy, pink regions where stars are forming. A few stars and small galaxies in warm colours are visible around it.

Constellations are not only patterns of bright stars, but also a system that astronomers use to divide the sky into regions. There are 88 of these regions, and each has an associated constellation depicting a mythological figure, an animal, or even an item of scientific equipment. This strange celestial menagerie contains everything from Ursa Major’s great bear to a toucan, a sea monster, a telescope, and even a painter's easel!

This observation comes from a selection of Hubble images exploring the detritus left behind by Type II supernovae. As massive stars reach the end of their lives they cast off huge amounts of gas and dust before ending their lives in titanic supernova explosions. NGC 5486 hosted a supernova in 2004, and astronomers used the keen vision of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys to explore the aftermath in the hopes of learning more about these explosive events.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick

Release Date: March 6, 2023

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NASA Maps Carbon of 10 Billion Individual Trees in Africa

NASA Maps Carbon of 10 Billion Individual Trees in Africa

Using commercial, high-resolution satellite images and artificial intelligence, a team of NASA-funded scientists mapped almost 10 billion individual trees in Africa’s drylands in order to assess the amount of carbon stored outside of major forests. The result is the first comprehensive estimate of carbon density in the Saharan, Sahel, and Sudanian zones of Africa.  

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Kathleen Gaeta (GSFC AIMMS): Lead Producer

Dr. Compton Tucker (GSFC SSO): Lead Scientist

Kel Elkins (GSFC): Lead Visualizer

Sofie Bates (KBR): Lead Writer

Duration: 5 minutes

Release Date: March 1, 2023

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