NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Splashdown in Atlantic Ocean | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Splashdown in Atlantic Ocean | International Space Station

Support teams work around the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed.

The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is seen onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN.

Support teams onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN work to open the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.

NASA astronaut Warren "Woody" Hoburg is seen inside an elevator on the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN that will take him up to a waiting helicopter to fly to Jacksonville, Florida.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia is seen inside an elevator on the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN.

Support and medical team members from NASA, the United Arab Emirates, and Roscosmos wait to board the helicopter with the astronauts and cosmonaut Fedyaev.

NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen is helped aboard a helicopter on the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN to fly to Jacksonville, Florida.

NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia splashed down safely in the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 12:17 a.m. EDT on Sept. 4, 2023, after 186 days in space.

Teams on the SpaceX recovery ship, including two fast boats, secured Dragon and ensured the spacecraft was safe for the recovery effort. As the fast boat teams completed their work, the recovery ship moved into position to hoist Dragon onto the main deck with the astronauts inside. Once on the main deck, the crew were taken out of the spacecraft and receive medical checks before taking a helicopter ride to board a plane for Houston.

Crew-6 is SpaceX’s sixth operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the forward-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module on Sept 3, 2023, to complete a  six-month science mission.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission launched March 2, 2023, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked to the International Space Station the next day.

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: Sept. 4, 2023

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Planet Mars: The Things that Blow Away | NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Planet Mars: The Things that Blow Away | NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

This part of the observation gives us a view of linear dunes in northwest Argyre Planitia that appear thin as they have followed the direction of the Martian wind. This image was requested for change detection. The movement of the dunes is very slow, but inexorable. You can also see numerous meters-sized boulders throughout the scene. (This image is the center swath of the full observation using the red-green-blue filter.)

This is a non-narrated clip with ambient sound. Image is less than 1 km (under 1 mi) across and the spacecraft altitude was 254 km (158 mi).

Local Mars time: 15:49

Latitude (centered): -46.900°

Longitude (East): 305.738°

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. 

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

“For 17 years, MRO has been revealing Mars to us as no one had seen it before,” said the mission’s project scientist, Rich Zurek of JPL.

Video Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Capture Date: May 14, 2022

Duration: 3 minute, 26 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 5, 2023

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NASA Psyche Asteroid Mission: Power System Engineer Ben Inouye | JPL

NASA Psyche Asteroid Mission: Power System Engineer Ben Inouye | JPL

Meet Ben Inouye, a power system engineer on NASA’s Psyche mission, which will be the first to explore a metal-rich asteroid, also named Psyche. In this video, Inouye, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explains what it was like to build the spacecraft’s power system. Inouye talks about the importance of the power system, as well as his passion for astrophotography.

Whether the asteroid Psyche is the partial core of a planetesimal (a building block of the rocky planets in our solar system) or primordial material that never melted, scientists expect the mission to help answer fundamental questions about Earth’s own metal core and the formation of our solar system. 

This is the third episode in a weekly, five-part video series called “Behind the Spacecraft.” Each Psyche team member will tell the story of how they came to the mission.

Psyche’s launch period opens Oct. 5, 2023. The spacecraft will begin orbiting the asteroid Psyche in 2029.

Learn all about our first-of-its-kind Mission to Psyche: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/psyche

For more information, go to: www.nasa.gov/psyche and psyche.asu.edu

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Produced by: NASA 360 Productions

Duration: 1 minute, 26 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 5, 2023

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NASA’s Moon Rover Practices its Lunar Lander Exit | NASA Ames

NASA’s Moon Rover Practices its Lunar Lander Exit | NASA Ames

NASA’s Moon rover prototype has completed lunar lander egress tests. The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Mission is managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley and is scheduled to be delivered to Mons Mouton near the South Pole of the Moon in late 2024 by Astrobotic Technology’s Griffin lander as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.  

VIPER will inform future Artemis landing sites by helping to characterize the lunar environment and help determine locations where water and other resources could be harvested to sustain humans over extended stays.   

The VIPER science team also aims to address how frozen water and other volatiles got on the Moon in the first place, where they came from, what has kept some of them preserved over billions of years, and where they go after they escape the lunar soil. 

Learn more About VIPER:

https://www.nasa.gov/viper

Credit: NASA’s Ames Research Center  

Duration: 41 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 5, 2023

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NASA ScienceCasts: The CIPHER Project

NASA ScienceCasts: The CIPHER Project

NASA’s new Human Research Program project, CIPHER, integrates 14 multi-disciplinary investigations and examines multiple astronauts across different mission durations over the course of many years.

CIPHER: https://www.nasa.gov/cipher/

Before astronauts embark on a multi-year venture to Mars, NASA must learn everything possible about how humans adapt to long-duration missions in space. This is why the agency developed the Complement of Integrated Protocols for Human Exploration Research program, or CIPHER.

CIPHER takes a full-body approach, investigating how multiple systems in the body react to spaceflight over increasingly longer mission durations. To this end, CIPHER includes:

Fourteen studies conducted across short-duration missions (less than ~3.5 months), standard-duration missions (between ~3.5 to ~8 months), and extended-duration missions (longer than ~8 months), and

As many as 30 astronauts will contribute to all 14 CIPHER studies—with up to 10 astronauts contributing to each mission-duration category. 

The 14 CIPHER studies involve careful examination of how spaceflight affects:

Bone and joint health

The brain and behavior

The cardiovascular system

Exercise performance

Sensorimotor systems, including how astronauts maintain balance

Vision

Biomarkers of muscle, bone, vascular, and organ health

The studies will be performed before, during, and after flight. Data will be gathered from participating astronauts through biological samples, eye and vision exams, cognition and behavioral tests, cardiovascular exercises, ultrasounds, MRIs, and other technologies and techniques.

These data will be combined with baseline information taken from all astronauts as part of the Standard Measures project.

All data will then be fully integrated into one set, so that scientists can gain a comprehensive view of how increasingly longer missions affect the entire human body.

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

Duration: 3 minutes, 25 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 24, 2023

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

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

Mars 2020 - sol 902

Mars 2020 - sol 901    

MSL - sol 3937

MSL - sol 3934

Mars 2020 - sol 897

Mars 2020 - sol 893

Mars 2020 - sol 879

Mars 2020 - sol 851

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Celebrating 11+ 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

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 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

Image Release Dates: July 13-Sept. 4, 2023

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NASA's Future of Flight

NASA's Future of Flight

Picture this: It’s time to head to school, but instead of getting in a car or on a school bus, you’re picked up by a flying vehicle. This will be an option in the not-too-distant future! In fact, there are many innovative concepts NASA is working on right now that will impact the future of flight.

We’re launching STEM Engagement to new heights with learning resources that connect teachers, students, parents and caregivers to the inspiring work at NASA. Join us as we apply science, technology, engineering and mathematics to explore space, improve aeronautics, examine Earth and strive to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon with the Artemis program. 

For more information about NASA's quiet supersonic mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/Quesst

Credit: NASA STEM

Duration: 3 minutes, 21 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 21, 2023

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Watch Chinese Astronauts Clean Tiangong Space Station

Watch Chinese Astronauts Clean Tiangong Space Station

The three Chinese astronauts aboard the country's space station, named Tiangong ("Heavenly Palace"), recently completed cleaning chores in-between shifts to make their space home clean and tidy.

A video released by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, showed the Shenzhou-16 crew, comprised of Jing Haipeng (commander), Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao. The crew spent time sorting parcels scattered across the Tianhe core module and tidying the lab modules Wentian and Mengtian to make items neat and orderly, before a deep cleaning was conducted to collect garbage and remove dust.

China launched the Shenzhou-16 crewed spacecraft on May 30, 2023, sending the three astronauts, including the first Chinese civilian astronaut, Gui Haichao, to the Tiangong space station for a five-month mission. This is the first crewed mission since China's space station entered its application and development stage.

Credit: CCTV Video News Agency

Duration: 1 minute, 33 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 31, 2023

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Reflection Nebula Cederblad 51 | Schulman Telescope

Reflection Nebula Cederblad 51 in Orion | Schulman Telescope

Cederblad 51 is a blue reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion. It is part of the Sharpless 2-264 molecular cloud, which is sometimes referred to as 'Orion's Head'. Cederblad 51 is located about 1,300 light years away from Earth.

Technical Details

Optics: Schulman 32-inch RCOS Telescope

Camera: SBIG STX16803

Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

Image Date: Oct. 1, 2012

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Spiral Galaxy IC 1776 in Pisces: Galactic Isolation | Hubble Space Telescope

Spiral Galaxy IC 1776 in Pisces: Galactic Isolation | Hubble Space Telescope

The swirls of the galaxy IC 1776 stand in splendid isolation in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 150 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pisces. IC 1776 recently played host to a catastrophically violent explosion—a supernova—which was discovered in 2015 by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, a robotic telescope which scours the night sky in search of transient phenomena, such as supernovae. A network of automatic robotic telescopes are spread across the globe, operated by both professional and amateur astronomers, and, without human intervention, reveal short-lived astronomical phenomena such as wandering asteroids, gravitational microlensing, or supernovae.

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 yellow glow. It is dotted with small, wispy, blue regions where stars are forming. A few stars and small galaxies in warm colors are visible around it.

Hubble investigated the aftermath of the supernova SN 2015ap during two different observing programs, both designed to comb through the debris left by supernovae explosions in order to better understand these energetic events. A variety of telescopes automatically follow up the detection of supernovae to obtain early measurements of these events’ brightnesses and spectra. Complementing these measurements with later observations which reveal the lingering energy of supernovae can shed light on the systems which gave rise to these cosmic cataclysms in the first place.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko

Release Date: Sept. 4, 2023

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India's Chandrayaan-3 Vikram Moon Lander "Hops" on The Moon

India's Chandrayaan-3 Vikram Moon Lander "Hops" on The Moon

ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 lander, named Vikram, performed a hop experiment on Sept. 3, 2023. The lander fired its engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected, and landed safely at a distance of 30–40 cm away in the South Pole region of the Moon at Shiv Shakti Point (69.373 S, 32.319E). 

Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 1 minute, 33 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 4, 2023

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Recovery: Home Safe | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Recovery: Home Safe | International Space Station

NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia splashed down safely in the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 12:17 a.m. EDT on Sept. 4, 2023, after 186 days in space.

Teams on the SpaceX recovery ship, including two fast boats, secured Dragon and ensured the spacecraft was safe for the recovery effort. As the fast boat teams completed their work, the recovery ship moved into position to hoist Dragon onto the main deck with the astronauts inside. Once on the main deck, the crew were taken out of the spacecraft and received medical checks before taking a helicopter ride to board a plane for Houston.

Crew-6 is SpaceX’s sixth operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the forward-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module on Sept 3, 2023, to complete a  six-month science mission.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission launched March 2, 2023, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked to the International Space Station the next day.

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/SpaceX

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 4 minutes

Capture Date: Sept. 4, 2023

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Landing in Atlantic Ocean | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Landing in Atlantic Ocean | International Space Station

Support teams worked around the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed

Support teams raised the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft aboard the recovery ship MEGAN shortly after it landed

Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia, left, NASA astronaut Warren “Woody" Hoburg, second from left, NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, second from right, and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, right, are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN shortly after having landed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida

United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

NASA astronaut Warren "Woody" Hoburg helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia splashed down safely in the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 12:17 a.m. EDT on Sept. 4, 2023, after 186 days in space.

Teams on the SpaceX recovery ship, including two fast boats, secured Dragon and ensured the spacecraft was safe for the recovery effort. As the fast boat teams completed their work, the recovery ship moved into position to hoist Dragon onto the main deck with the astronauts inside. Once on the main deck, the crew were taken out of the spacecraft and receive medical checks before taking a helicopter ride to board a plane for Houston.

Crew-6 is SpaceX’s sixth operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the forward-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module on Sept 3, 2023, to complete a  six-month science mission.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission launched March 2, 2023, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked to the International Space Station the next day.

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 Date: Sept. 4, 2023

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United Arab Emirates Astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi | International Space Station

United Arab Emirates Astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi | International Space Station

United Arab Emirates Astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi: "Space, this is not a goodbye. I will see you later, whether on a new mission to the ISS or a farther destination . . ." 

—Sultan AlNeyadi

The hatch of SpaceX’s Crew-6 “Endeavour” Crew Dragon spacecraft, with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren (Woody) Hoburg, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia, and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, was closed on Sept. 3, 2023, at 09:19 UTC (05:19 EDT). Crew-6 is SpaceX’s sixth operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the forward-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 7:05 a.m. EDT to complete a  six-month science mission.

NASA TV coverage will resume at 11 p.m. ET Sunday until Endeavour splashes down at approximately 12:07 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 4, near Tampa off the coast of Florida and Crew-6 members are recovered.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission launched March 2, 2023, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked to the International Space Station the next day.

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)

Release Date: Sept. 3, 2023

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Reflection Nebula NGC 6590 in Sagittarius Star Cloud: Wide-field view

Reflection Nebula NGC 6590 in Sagittarius Star Cloud: Wide-field view

An image like this shows that our galaxy is always "partly cloudy." Not unlike Earthly clouds that block parts of the sky (say on a starry night), tremendous clouds of gas and dust obscure the things that are beyond them. However, breaks in these galactic clouds can also be seen, even towards the densest part of our galaxy. M24 is the large oval collection of bluish stars that stands out among the others in the right of this picture. To look at this stellar association of young and bright stars is to peer through a break in the obscuring clouds to places much deeper towards an inner spiral arm. The stars of M24 are many thousands of light years away (perhaps 10,000). The northern part of this star cloud boasts several dark nebula that provides contrast for all of the stars in the background. Near the right of the frame, IC 1284 glows bright red, while NGC 6590 scatters bluish light around a few bright stars.

This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program at Kitt Peak Visitor Center during 2014.

Credit: Kitt Peak National Observatory/NOIRLab/National Science Foundation (NSF)/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)/Fred Calvert/Adam Block

Release Date: June 25, 2014

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Reflection Nebula NGC 6590 in Sagittarius | Steward Observatory

Reflection Nebula NGC 6590 in Sagittarius | Steward Observatory

NGC 6590 is a reflection nebula in the constellation of Sagittarius. This nebula is near the similar reflection nebula NGC 6589. Both nebulas are flanked by red emission nebula IC 1284. 

Distance:  ~5,900 light years away

What causes the colors in this beautiful nebulosity in Sagittarius? The colors of this nebulosity are caused by gas and dust. The blue color of the nebula nearest the bright stars is caused by reflections off interstellar dust. The dust emits little visible light of its own—in the absence of a nearby star the dust would appear dark, blocking light from background stars. The red color of the nebula farthest from the bright stars is caused by glowing hydrogen gas. Energetic light from the central stars ionizes hydrogen gas, which glows red when recombining with a local electron.

Technical Details:

Optics: Phillips 24-inch RCOS Telescope

Camera: SBIG STL11000

Credit: Adam Block/Steward Observatory/University of Arizona 

Image Date: Aug. 1, 2009

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