NASA's Space to Ground: Four for 7 | Week of June 23, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground: Four for 7 | Week of June 23, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. 

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will be the spacecraft commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission—the agency’s seventh rotational mission to the International Space Station. Moghbeli is a naval aviator, test pilot, and aerospace engineer. This will be the first spaceflight for Moghbeli, who became a NASA astronaut in 2017.

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will join European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than mid-August 2023 for the launch of Crew-7, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four astronauts will join the expedition crew aboard the International Space Station.

Expedition 69 Crew (June 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

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.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 20 seconds

Release Date: June 22, 2023

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Mars Images: June 20-22, 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

Mars Images: June 20-22, 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

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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

Celebrating 2+ Years on Mars (2021-2023)

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/Arizona State University/Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS)

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: June 20-22, 2023

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NASA's "Espacio A Tierra" | En una buena racha: 16 de junio de 2023

NASA's "Espacio A Tierra" | En una buena racha: 16 de junio de 2023

Espacio a Tierra, la versión en español de las cápsulas Space to Ground de la NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la Estación Espacial Internacional. 

Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete 

Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov/

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 3 minutes, 39 seconds

Release Date: June 22, 2023

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Training | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Training | International Space Station

Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia (far left), European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark (2nd from left), NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli (3rd from left), and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (on the far right) from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

These are portraits and views of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 during training with SpaceX. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will be the spacecraft commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission—the agency’s seventh rotational mission to the International Space Station. Moghbeli is a naval aviator, test pilot, and aerospace engineer. This will be the first spaceflight for Moghbeli, who became a NASA astronaut in 2017.

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will join European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than mid-August 2023 for the launch of Crew-7, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four astronauts will join an expedition crew aboard the International Space Station.

Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli/biography

Image Credit: SpaceX

Image Capture Dates: June 23, 2023

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NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Final Test: Preparing for Crewed Missions

NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Final Test: Preparing for Crewed Missions

An Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 rocket engine (RS-25 Engine 10001) was tested on the Fred Haise Test Stand (formerly A-1 Test Stand) at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, on June 22, 2023, at 17:53 UTC (12:53 CDT). This was the final hot fire test in a 12-test series of the newly redesigned RS-25 engines that will be used beginning with Artemis V. The test had a planned duration of 500 seconds, the same amount of time the engines must fire during an actual flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS).

Four RS-25 engines fire simultaneously to generate a combined 1.6 million pounds of thrust at launch and 2 million pounds of thrust during ascent to help power each SLS flight. NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne modified 16 engines remaining from the Space Shuttle Program, which were proven flightworthy at Stennis for Artemis missions I through IV.

Every RS-25 engine that will help power SLS will be tested at NASA Stennis. RS-25 tests at the site are conducted by a combined team of NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne, and Syncom Space Services operators. Syncom Space Services is the prime contractor for Stennis facilities and operations.

Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.

For information about the Space Launch System, visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

Credit: NASA's Stennis Space Center

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 9 minutes

Release Date: June 22, 2023

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Stars and Dust across Corona Australis

Stars and Dust across Corona Australis

Cosmic dust clouds cross a rich field of stars in this telescopic vista near the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. Part of a sprawling molecular cloud complex this star forming region is a mere 500 light-years away. The 2 degree wide frame would span 15 light-years at the clouds' estimated distance. Mixed with bright nebulosities the dust clouds effectively block light from more distant background stars in the Milky Way and obscure from view embedded stars still in the process of formation. 

Large dark nebula Bernes 157 is on the left. To its right are a group of pretty reflection nebulae cataloged as NGC 6726, 6727, 6729, and IC 4812. Their characteristic blue color is produced as light from hot stars is reflected by the cosmic dust. The more compact NGC 6729 surrounds young variable star R Coronae Australis. Just below it, filamentary arcs and loops are identified as Herbig Haro objects associated with energetic newborn stars. In fact, at the heart of this area lies the Coronet Cluster, one of the nearest and most active star forming regions.

This image was taken at Tivoli Southern Sky Guest Farm in Namibia, Africa in April 2022 with a Takahashi FSQ106 and a ZWO ASI 2600MC on an Astrophysics 1200 mount, 21 x 300 seconds, gain 0.

Image Credit & Copyright: Alessandro Cipolat Bares

Bares' website: https://www.juzaphoto.com/me.php?l=it&p=32668

Release Date: June 22, 2023

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Meet the Mars Perseverance Rover's Samples: Roubion (Sample 1) | NASA/JPL

Meet the Mars Perseverance Rover's Samples: Roubion (Sample 1) | NASA/JPL

Meet a Martian sample that has been collected and is awaiting return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. As of June 2023, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has collected and sealed 19 scientifically selected samples inside pristine tubes. The next stage is to get them back for study.

Considered one of the highest priorities by the scientists in the Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032, Mars Sample Return would be the first mission to return samples from another planet and provides the best opportunity to reveal the early evolution of Mars, including the potential for ancient life. NASA is teaming with the European Space Agency (ESA) on this important endeavor.

Learn more about the rover’s first sample, “Roubion,” a planned rock core that unexpectedly became a sample of Mars atmosphere, highly valuable in its own right. 

Read about all the carefully selected samples: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-rock-samples

Learn more about the Mars Sample Return campaign: https://mars.nasa.gov/msr 

A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, as well as be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: June 21, 2023

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Planet Mercury: BepiColombo’s Third Flyby | European Space Agency

Planet Mercury: BepiColombo’s Third Flyby | European Space Agency

BepiColombo is a joint endeavor between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It is the first European mission to Mercury, the smallest and least explored planet in the inner Solar System, and the first to send two spacecraft to make complementary measurements of the planet and its dynamic environment at the same time. Mercury is the first planet from the Sun.

Watch Mercury appear from the shadows as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped by the planet’s night side during its June 19, 2023 close flyby, and enjoy a special flyover of geologically rich terrain. 

The first part of the movie is composed of 217 images captured by  BepiColombo’s monitoring camera M-CAM3. The image sequence starts from 19:46:25 UTC on June 19, 2023, at an altitude of 1 789 km above the planet’s surface, and ends at 20:34:25 UTC on June 20, 2023, when BepiColombo was 331 755 km away. The image cadence was roughly once per minute around closest approach, but much slower in the later phases.

The second part of the movie cuts to a flyover of a special region of interest, rotating around features such as the 600 km-long Beagle Rupes curved escarpment and the elongated Sveinsdóttir impact crater that it cuts through. It also features the  218 km-wide Manley Crater and the straight Challenger Rupes scarp. At the end, the animated topography fades out and the projected image used for 3D reconstruction appears. Regions like these will be important for BepiColombo’s main science mission, to learn more about Mercury’s geological history.

Learn more about BepiColombo Mission: http://bit.ly/ESAsBepiColombo

Credits:

Image: European Space Agency (ESA)/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO; Music composed by ILĀ. Shape from shading processing and animation (using Unity) by K. Wohlfarth and M. Tenthoff (TU Dortmund), based on techniques described by Tenthoff et al. (2020) and Domingue et al. (2015) with a global terrain model from Becker et al. (2016).

Duration: 1 minute, 15 seconds

Release Date: June 22, 2023

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Moon Rocks: Artemis Astronauts Wiseman, Hansen & Glover Study Apollo Samples

Moon Rocks: Artemis Astronauts Wiseman, Hansen & Glover Study Apollo Samples

Astronauts Reid Wiseman of NASA (left), Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency (middle), and Victor Glover of NASA (right) pay close attention to Moon samples as they receive a lesson in the Apollo Lunar Lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center

Members of the Artemis II crew received a lesson on lunar fundamentals in the Apollo Lunar Lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, on May 9, 2023.

Wiseman, Hansen, and Glover, along with Christina Koch, will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration.

Image Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

Image Date: May 9, 2023

Release Date: June 20, 2023

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NOAA Earth Satellites View 2023 Summer & Winter Solstices

NOAA Earth Satellites View 2023 Summer & Winter Solstices

The 2023 summer solstice occurred on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at 10:57 a.m. Eastern Time, marking the longest day and shortest night of the year, as well as the first day of astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere. The summer solstice is the exact moment each year when the hemisphere reaches its greatest possible tilt toward the sun. The sun's direct rays reach their northernmost position with respect to Earth's equator, along the Tropic of Cancer, at 23.5°N latitude.

At the same time in the Southern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurred when the hemisphere reached its greatest possible tilt away from the sun, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year. 

Credits: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)

Duration: 1 minute, 31 seconds

Release Date: June 21, 2023

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Are There Earthquakes on Other Planets? We Asked a NASA Expert

Are There Earthquakes on Other Planets? We Asked a NASA Expert

Are there earthquakes on other planets? There sure are, but we do not call them earthquakes. Instead, “moonquakes” & “marsquakes” are shaking things up in space. Dr. Jacob Richardson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains more about what otherworldly quakes can teach us about the interiors of planetary bodies, including what is happening inside Earth.

Learn more: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-insight-records-monster-quake-on-mars

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producers: Jessica Wilde, Scott Bednar

Editor: James Lucas

Duration: 1 minute, 42 seconds

Release Date: June 21, 2023

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NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli: SpaceX Crew-7 Training for First Spaceflight

NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli: SpaceX Crew-7 Training for First Spaceflight

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli can be seen training at SpaceX headquarters with her Crew-7 colleagues European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen (center) and behind him astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

These are portraits and views of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli during her training with SpaceX. Moghbeli will be the spacecraft commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission—the agency’s seventh rotational mission to the International Space Station. Moghbeli is a naval aviator, test pilot, and aerospace engineer. This will be the first spaceflight for Moghbeli, who became a NASA astronaut in 2017.

Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli/biography

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will join European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). An additional crew member will be assigned at a later date.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than mid-August 2023 for the launch of Crew-7, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four astronauts will join an expedition crew aboard the International Space Station.

Image Credit: SpaceX

Image Capture Dates: April 19-June 2, 2023

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Woody & Stephen on Spacewalk: June 15, 2023 | International Space Station

Woody & Stephen on Spacewalk: June 15, 2023 | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Stepehen Bowen is pictured during a spacewalk riding the Canadarm2 robotic arm

Bowen is pictured during spacewalk to install and deploy a roll-out solar array

Bowen is pictured readying a roll-out solar array before installation

NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg is barely visible (center) tethered to starboard truss structure

View of SpaceX Dragon vehicles & International Space Station

View of International Space Station during a spacewalk

NASA Astronauts Stephen Bowen, Frank Rubio, and Woody Hoburg

Hoburg takes an out-of-this-world "space-selfie"

Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen of NASA concluded their spacewalk on June 15, 2023, at 2:17 p.m. EDT after 5 hours and 35 minutes. Hoburg and Bowen completed their major objective to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power generation for the 1B power channel on the station’s starboard truss structure. The new array is 60 feet long by 20 feet wide (18.2 meters by 6 meters) and is shading a little more than half of the original array, which is 112 feet long by 39 feet wide. Each new IROSA produces more than 20 kilowatts of electricity and together enable a 30% increase in power production over the station’s current arrays.

It was the 265th spacewalk in support of space station assembly, upgrades, and maintenance. The spacewalk marked the second for Hoburg and tenth for Bowen, tying him for the most spacewalks by a U.S. astronaut along with Mike Lopez-Alegria, Bob Behnken, Peggy Whitson, and Chris Cassidy.

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 69 Crew (June 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

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 Capture Date: June 15, 2023

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Recientemente: Equipamiento de la estación para producir más energía | NASA

Recientemente: Equipamiento de la estación para producir más energía | NASA

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. 

Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete 

Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov/

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes, 41 seconds

Original Broadcast Date: June 16, 2023

Release Date: June 20, 2023

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Planet Mercury Flyby: New Images | BepiColombo Mission (Europe & Japan)

Planet Mercury Flyby: New Images | BepiColombo Mission (Europe & Japan)

BepiColombo is a joint endeavor between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It is the first European mission to Mercury, the smallest and least explored planet in the inner Solar System, and the first to send two spacecraft to make complementary measurements of the planet and its dynamic environment at the same time. Mercury is the first planet from the Sun.

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities as it adjusts its trajectory for entering Mercury orbit in 2025.

The closest approach took place at 19:34 UTC (21:34 CEST) on June 19, 2023, about 236 km above the planet’s surface, on the night side of the planet.

“Everything went very smoothly with the flyby and images from the monitoring cameras taken during the close approach phase of the flyby have been transmitted to the ground,” says Ignacio Clerigo, ESA’s BepiColombo Spacecraft Operations Manager.

Learn more about Bepi Colombo: http://bit.ly/ESAsBepiColombo

The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe's gateway to space. Our mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Release Date: June 20, 2023

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Water Recovery on the International Space Station | NASA ScienceCasts

Water Recovery on the International Space Station | NASA ScienceCasts

NASA now has the ability to recycle 98% of the water collected from the US segment on the International Space Station—meeting the threshold necessary for water recovery on long-duration space exploration missions.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 1 minute, 35 seconds

Release Date: June 20, 2023

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