NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 in Spacesuits | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 in Spacesuits | Kennedy Space Center

From left to right: Mission Specialist Konstantin Borisov (Russia), Pilot Andreas Mogensen (Denmark), Commander Jasmin Moghbeli (USA), and Mission Specialist Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

Jasmin Moghbeli, NASA astronaut and commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission

Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA (Japan) is a veteran astronaut and mission specialist on NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 crew are pictured in their spacesuits during a training session at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 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. 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). 

Mogensen will be the spacecraft pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission—the first non-US astronaut assigned in this capacity. This will be the first long-duration mission for Mogensen. He previously served as a flight engineer on a ten-day mission to the International Space Station in 2015. Crew-7 will be his second trip to space.

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 5:23 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 21, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station. The adjusted date allows additional time for launch site processing at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If needed, a backup opportunity is available at 3:49 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 25.

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: SpaceX

Image Capture Date: July 22, 2023

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NASA Mars Curiosity Rover’s Most Challenging Climb Yet | JPL

NASA Mars Curiosity Rover’s Most Challenging Climb Yet | JPL

Mars Report - August 2023: NASA’s Curiosity rover recently made its most challenging climb on Mars. Curiosity faced a steep, slippery slope on its journey up Mount Sharp, so rover drivers had to come up with a creative detour. After the detour, Curiosity stopped by a new area with intriguing impact craters to explore. 

This edition of the Mars Report, set in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Mars Yard and the Curiosity rover operations area, features rover driver Dane Schoelen explaining how the team found another route with less hazardous terrain. Curiosity will celebrate its 11th anniversary on Mars on Aug. 5.

For more information on Curiosity’s tough climb, visit https://go.nasa.gov/3DCuAsS

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

Celebrating 10+ Years on Mars!

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

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/USGS-Flagstaff/University of Arizona

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 3, 2023

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Wildfires 101: How NASA Studies Fires in a Changing World

Wildfires 101: How NASA Studies Fires in a Changing World

Changes in our climate, along with other factors, have led to wildfires increasing in intensity, severity, size and duration. From forest floor to space, NASA scientists and collaborators are advancing tools and methods to predict, remotely detect, and ultimately mitigate wildfires. That process starts with understanding fire behavior, tracking them with satellites, and getting that data in the hands of land managers and communities facing record-breaking fire seasons.

Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/fires

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

Katie Jepson (KBRwyle): Lead Producer

Katie Jepson (KBRwyle): Narrator

Katie Jepson (KBRwyle): Editor 

Doug C. Morton (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

Elizabeth Hoy (GST): Scientist

Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBRwyle): Animator 

Alex Bodnar (None): Animator 

Jonathan North (KBRwyle): Animator

Duration: 5 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 3, 2023

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-7: Launch Pad Visit | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7: Launch Pad Visit | Kennedy Space Center

The crew of NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission poses for a photo wearing their matching Crew-7 patch polo shirts during a training with SpaceX. Form left to right: Konstantin Borisov (Russia), Andreas Mogensen (Denmark), Jasmin Moghbeli (USA), and Satoshi Furukawa (Japan).

Jasmin Moghbeli, NASA astronaut and commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission

Konstantin Borisov, a Russian cosmonaut and mission specialist on NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission

Andreas Mogensen, a Danish astronaut and pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission

Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA (Japan) is an astronaut and mission specialist on NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 crew are pictured during a training session at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A in Florida. 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. 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). 

Mogensen will be the spacecraft pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission—the first non-US astronaut assigned in this capacity. This will be the first long-duration mission for Mogensen. He previously served as a flight engineer on a ten-day mission to the International Space Station in 2015. Crew-7 will be his second trip to space.

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 5:23 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 21, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station. The adjusted date allows additional time for launch site processing at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If needed, a backup opportunity is available at 3:49 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 25.

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 5:23 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station. The adjusted date allows additional time for launch site processing at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If needed, a backup opportunity is available at 3:49 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 25.

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: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)/NASA's Johnson Space Center

Image Capture Date: July 22, 2023

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Last Rays of an Orbital Sunset | International Space Station

Last Rays of an Orbital Sunset | International Space Station

The last rays of an orbital sunset dim in the Earth's atmosphere as the International Space Station orbited above Niger on the African continent.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center

Image Date: July 9, 2023

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Is Climate Change the Same as Global Warming? – We Asked a NASA Expert

Is Climate Change the Same as Global Warming? – We Asked a NASA Expert

Is climate change the same as global warming? 

Not quite. The warming of Earth—or global warming—is just one factor that makes up a range of changes that are happening to our planet, which is climate change. NASA is studying all of it: https://climate.nasa.gov/

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producers: Jessica Wilde, Scott Bednar

Editor: Daniel Salazar

Duration: 1 minute, 16 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 2, 2023

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Meet the Perseverance Rover's Mars Samples: Shuyak & Mageik | NASA/JPL

Meet the Perseverance Rover's Mars Samples: Shuyak & Mageik | NASA/JPL

Meet two of the Martian samples that have been collected and are awaiting return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. As of late July 2023, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has collected and sealed 20 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 ESA (European Space Agency) on this important endeavor.  

Learn more about Samples No. 14 and 15—“Shuyak” and “Mageik,” a pair of sedimentary rock core samples that excite scientists because, on Earth, this type of sedimentary rock preserves signs of life for a very long time. If that same process also occurs on Mars, it could help us understand if life ever existed there. 

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 characterizes the planet's geology and past climate, paves the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and is the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).

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

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Duration: 1 minute, 18 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 2, 2023

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Space Art on STEMonstrations: Inspiring Creativity | NASA Education

Space Art on STEMonstrations: Inspiring Creativity | NASA Education

For more than 50 years, art has helped capture and convey the excitement and wonder of human space exploration. Did you know that astronauts integrate artistic expression like music, painting, and photography into their own lives while on the International Space Station?

In the latest STEMonstration episode, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann explores how space exploration both inspires and affects art. Learn about the creative solutions astronauts employ to overcome the challenges of doing art in microgravity. Be inspired by a digital gallery of space-themed artwork created by astronauts on station and students on Earth. In the corresponding classroom connection, students can tap into their own creativity to create personal masterpieces based on astronaut observations of Earth.

STEMonstrations: Space Art

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstrations-space-art.html

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Education

Nicole is the first Indigenous woman from NASA that has gone to space!

Astronaut Nicole Mann Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/nicole-a-mann

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/nicole-a-mann/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.

Video Credit: NASA STEM

Duration: 6 minutes

Release Date: Aug 2, 2023

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El Gordo: A Galaxy Cluster That Pushes the Limits | NASA Webb & Chandra

El Gordo: A Galaxy Cluster That Pushes the Limits | NASA Webb & Chandra

When astronomers discovered the galaxy cluster ACT-CL J0102-4915 in 2012 with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes, they nicknamed it "El Gordo" (Spanish for the "Fat One") because of its gigantic mass. Scientists estimate that El Gordo contains as much as 3 million billion (3,000,000,000,000,000) times the mass of the Sun. Thanks to its heft, El Gordo acts as a natural lens, distorting the light from more distant objects behind it through a process known as gravitational lensing.

Distance: ~7.3 billion light-years

A new composite image of El Gordo shows the diffuse, superheated gas in the cluster observed in X-rays from Chandra (blue) that have been combined with a new infrared image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (red, green, and blue). Webb's image shows galaxies in El Gordo plus background galaxies located further away from Earth. El Gordo is located about 7.3 billion light-years from Earth and the background galaxies are at a range of different distances including several that are 12.3 billion light-years from Earth. The appearance of some of the background galaxies has been distorted into a variety of unusual and highly elongated shapes because of gravitational lensing by the cluster.

The X-ray image of El Gordo reveals a distinct cometary appearance. Along with optical data, astronomers reported in 2012 that this shape implies El Gordo is, in fact, the site of two galaxy clusters that ran into one another at several million miles per hour. The same study also used Chandra and other observatories to show that El Gordo is the most massive, and produces the most X-rays, of any known galaxy cluster at its distance or beyond.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra X-ray Center controls science operations from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and flight operations from Burlington, Massachusetts.

Visual Description:

In this composite image, the bright blue cloud has a cometary appearance, meaning it resembles a comet and its tail, with a bright tip that fades as the cone-shape widens. Here, the bright tip is positioned near our lower left, with the fading conical shape widening toward our upper right. In this image, the color blue represents X-ray light observed by Chandra. The properties of the gas cloud suggests a multi-million mile an hour collision of two galaxy clusters. This collision produces more X-rays than any other galaxy cluster observed at its distance or beyond.

Throughout the gas cloud, and in the background, are thousands of distant galaxies and stars, in whites, golden oranges, and blues. From this distance, some resemble simple specks of light. Others are slightly larger and feature refraction spikes, or upon close inspection, discernible spiraling arms. Many of the distant galaxies behind the cluster appear distorted or elongated. This visual distortion is due to El Gordo's great mass, which bends the light of these galaxies and distorts their appearance.

Image Credit X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J. Hughes et al.; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA, J.M. Diego (IFCA), B.Frye (Univ. of Arizona), P.Kamieneski, T.Carleton & R.Windhorst (ASU);

Image Processing: X-ray: L. Frattare; J. Major, K.Arcand (SAO). Infrared: A.Pagan (STScI), J.Summers (ASU), J.C.J.D'Silva (UWA), A.M.Koekemoer (STScI), A.Robotham (UWA), R.Windhorst (ASU)

Release Date: Aug. 2, 2023

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This Just Fell from Space | High Above Down Under | NASA Goddard

This Just Fell from Space | High Above Down Under | NASA Goddard

Follow two NASA rocket teams as they launch from Australia to study our nearest stellar neighbors—Alpha Centauri A & B—on a quest to understand how stars make the planets around them suitable for life. 

In this final episode, head into the outback to find the fallen rockets and learn what’s being discovered about the search for habitable environments. 

To learn more about NASA’s Sounding Rockets Program: https://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center 

Additional footage: Office of the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory government, Equatorial Launch Australia

Additional graphics: Vecteezy.com 

Host: Miles Hatfield (NASA/GSFC) 

Writers/Videographers: 

Miles Hatfield (NASA/GSFC) 

Mara Johnson-Groh (NASA/GSFC) 

Producers: 

Beth Anthony (NASA/GSFC) 

Joy Ng (NASA/GSFC) 

Lacey Young (NASA/GSFC) 

Animators: 

Walt Feimer (NASA/GSFC) 

Jenny McElligott (NASA/GSFC) 

Scientific Advisor: 

Kevin France (CU Boulder/LASP/SISTINE)

Special thanks to:

Equatorial Launch Australia

Gumatj Corporation Ltd.

Office of the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory government

Duration: 7 minutes, 43 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 2, 2023

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Tour of El Gordo Galaxy Cluster | James Webb Space Telescope

Tour of El Gordo Galaxy Cluster | James Webb Space Telescope

In July 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed El Gordo, a galaxy cluster that existed 6.2 billion years after the Big Bang. It was selected as the most massive galaxy cluster known at that time in cosmic history. The resulting image reveals a variety of gravitationally lensed galaxies, including striking objects nicknamed the Fishhook and the Thin One. Join us on a video tour of this new infrared image from Webb.

Credits: NASA, European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency

Science: Jose M. Diego (IFCA), Brenda Frye (University of Arizona), Patrick Kamieneski (ASU), Tim Carleton (ASU), Rogier Windhorst (ASU)

Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Jake Summers (ASU), Jordan C. J. D'Silva (UWA), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Aaron Robotham (UWA), Rogier Windhorst (ASU)

Video: Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 2, 2023

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Gravitational Arcs in 'El Gordo' Galaxy Cluster | James Webb Space Telescope

Gravitational Arcs in 'El Gordo' Galaxy Cluster | James Webb Space Telescope

Webb’s infrared image of the galaxy cluster El Gordo (“the Fat One”) reveals hundreds of galaxies, some never before seen at this level of detail, ranging in color from white to yellow to red.

Webb’s infrared image of the galaxy cluster El Gordo (“the Fat One”) reveals hundreds of galaxies, some never before seen at this level of detail. El Gordo acts as a gravitational lens, distorting and magnifying the light from distant background galaxies. Two of the most prominent features in the image include the Thin One, highlighted in box A, and the Fishhook, a red swoosh highlighted in box B. Both are lensed background galaxies. The insets at right show zoomed-in views of both objects.

A new image of the galaxy cluster known as “El Gordo” is revealing distant and dusty objects never seen before, and providing a bounty of fresh science. The infrared image, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, displays a variety of unusual, distorted background galaxies that were only hinted at in previous Hubble Space Telescope images.

El Gordo is a cluster of hundreds of galaxies that existed when the universe was 6.2 billion years old, making it a “cosmic teenager.” It is the most massive cluster known to exist at that time. (“El Gordo” is Spanish for the “Fat One.”)

The team targeted El Gordo because it acts as a natural, cosmic magnifying glass through a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. Its powerful gravity bends and distorts the light of objects lying behind it, much like an eyeglass lens. 

The Fishhook

Within the image of El Gordo, one of the most striking features is a bright arc represented in red at upper right. Nicknamed “El Anzuelo” (The Fishhook) by one of Frye’s students, the light from this galaxy took 10.6 billion years to reach Earth. Its distinctive red color is due to a combination of reddening from dust within the galaxy itself and cosmological redshift due to its extreme distance.

By correcting for the distortions created by lensing, the team was able to determine that the background galaxy is disk-shaped but only 26,000 light-years in diameter—about one-fourth the size of the Milky Way. They also were able to study the galaxy’s star formation history, finding that star formation was already rapidly declining in the galaxy’s center, a process known as quenching. 

The Thin One

Another prominent feature in the Webb image is a long, pencil-thin line at left of center. Known as “La Flaca” (the Thin One), it is another lensed background galaxy whose light also took nearly 11 billion years to reach Earth.

Not far from La Flaca is another lensed galaxy. When the researchers examined that galaxy closely, they found three images of a single red giant star that they nicknamed Quyllur, which is the Quechua term for star.

Quyllur is the first individual red giant star observed beyond 1 billion light-years from Earth. Such stars at high redshift are only detectable using the infrared filters and sensitivity of Webb.

“Gravitational lensing was predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago. In the El Gordo cluster, we see the power of gravitational lensing in action,” concluded Rogier Windhorst of Arizona State University, principal investigator of the PEARLS program. “The PEARLS images of El Gordo are out-of-this-world beautiful. And, they have shown us how Webb can unlock Einstein's treasure chest.”

Brenda Frye of the University of Arizona is co-lead of the PEARLS-Clusters branch of the Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science (PEARLS) team. A related paper by Frye et al. has been published in the Astrophysical Journal:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acd929/pdf 

Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

Image Credits: NASA, European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency

Science: Jose M. Diego (IFCA), Brenda Frye (University of Arizona), Patrick Kamieneski (ASU), Tim Carleton (ASU), Rogier Windhorst (ASU)

Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Jake Summers (ASU), Jordan C. J. D'Silva (UWA), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Aaron Robotham (UWA), Rogier Windhorst (ASU)

Release Date: Aug. 2, 2023

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NASA CRS-19 Antares Rocket & Cygnus Spacecraft Launch: ISS Cargo Resupply

NASA CRS-19 Antares Rocket & Cygnus Spacecraft Launch: ISS Cargo Resupply

A Cygnus cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) after a successful Aug. 1, 2023, launch for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services CRS-19 mission at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia. A Northrop Grumman Antares 230+ rocket lifted off at 8:31 p.m. ET placing the Cygnus spacecraft into orbit. The Cygnus was named the “S.S. Laurel Clark” in honor of this NASA astronaut that died aboard the Feb. 1, 2003, space shuttle flight STS-107. Cygnus is scheduled to arrive at the station early Friday, Aug. 4.

The CRS-19 mission is carrying 3,785 kilograms of cargo. This includes 1,590 kilograms of crew supplies, 1,128 kilograms of scientific payload and 948 kilograms of vehicle hardware. The Cygnus spacecraft will remain at the station for at least three months before departing with trash to be disposed through destructive reentry.

This launch was the final flight of the current version of the Antares rocket, designated Antares 230+. It uses a first stage built by Ukraine’s Yuzhnoye State Design Office and Yuzhmash Machine Building plant and RD-181 engines from the Russian company NPO Energomash. Northrop Grumman announced nearly a year ago plans to develop a new first stage in partnership with Firefly Aerospace. This vehicle, called Antares 330, is now scheduled to make its debut in mid-2025.

Image Credit: NASA/Terry Zaperach

Caption Credit: SpaceNews

Release Date: Aug. 1, 2023

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NASA CRS-19 Antares Rocket & Cygnus Spacecraft Launch: ISS Cargo Resupply

NASA CRS-19 Antares Rocket & Cygnus Spacecraft Launch: ISS Cargo Resupply

A Cygnus cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) after a successful Aug. 1, 2023, launch for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) 19 mission at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia. A Northrop Grumman Antares 230+ rocket lifted off at 8:31 p.m. ET placing the Cygnus spacecraft into orbit. The Cygnus was named the “S.S. Laurel Clark” in honor of this NASA astronaut that died aboard the Feb. 1, 2003, space shuttle flight STS-107. Cygnus is scheduled to arrive at the station early Friday, Aug. 4.

The CRS-19 mission is carrying 3,785 kilograms of cargo. This includes 1,590 kilograms of crew supplies, 1,128 kilograms of scientific payload and 948 kilograms of vehicle hardware. The Cygnus spacecraft will remain at the station for at least three months before departing with trash to be disposed through destructive reentry.

This launch was the final flight of the current version of the Antares rocket, designated Antares 230+. It uses a first stage built by Ukraine’s Yuzhnoye State Design Office and Yuzhmash Machine Building plant and RD-181 engines from the Russian company NPO Energomash. Northrop Grumman announced nearly a year ago plans to develop a new first stage in partnership with Firefly Aerospace. This vehicle, called Antares 330, is now scheduled to make its debut in mid-2025.

Video Credit: NASA/Northrop Grumman

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Caption Credit: SpaceNews

Image Credits: NASA/Danielle Johnson, Northrop Grumman/Thom Baur

Duration: 6 minutes, 29 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 1, 2023

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NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Preparándose: 28 de julio de 2023

NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Preparándose: 28 de julio 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

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 1, 2023

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What's Up for August 2023? | Skywatching Tips from NASA

What's Up for August 2023? | Skywatching Tips from NASA

What are some skywatching highlights in August 2023?

Saturn reaches opposition this month, meaning it is at its biggest and brightest for the year, and visible all night. The "shooting stars" of the annual Perseid meteors are a must-see, overnight on August 12th. And this month brings two full moons—the second of which is a "Super Blue Moon."

0:00 Intro 

0:11 Saturn at opposition

0:40 Pairings of the Moon, stars, and planets

1:05 Perseid meteor shower

2:16 Super Blue Moon

3:46 August Moon phases

Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Narrator: Preston Dyches

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 1, 2023

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