Astronauts Moghbeli & Rubio Talk to Texas Students | International Space Station

Astronauts Moghbeli & Rubio Talk to Texas Students | International Space Station

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Frank Rubio and Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA answered pre-recorded questions about life and work on the orbiting laboratory during an in-flight event Sept. 6, 2023, with students at the South Texas Astronomical Society in Olmito, Texas. Rubio and Moghbeli are in the midst of science missions living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies. 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.

NASA 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 Frank Rubio Official NASA Biography

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

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

Expedition 69 Crew (Sept. 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin, Konstantin Borisov

European Space Agency: Flight Engineer Andreas Mogensen (Denmark)

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Jasmin Moghbeli (USA)

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

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: 23 minutes

Release Date: Sept. 6, 2023

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September 2023 Spacecraft Views | International Space Station

September 2023 Spacecraft Views | International Space Station

SpaceX Crew-7 Dragon Endurance docked to the International Space Station

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter docked

SpaceX Crew-6 Dragon Endeavour undocks from the International Space Station on Sept. 3, 2023 in Earth's shadow

International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon Endurance, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter, the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship, and the Progress 84 and 85 resupply ships.

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, prior to undocking. Crew-6 was 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 to complete a six-month science mission.

The SpaceX Crew-7 Dragon Endurance arrived at the International Space Station on August 27, 2023, with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa of Japan, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia.

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

Image Dates: Sept. 1-3, 2023

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China's Commercial CERES-1 Rocket Succeeds in First Sea Launch

China's Commercial CERES-1 Rocket Succeeds in First Sea Launch

China's commercial space venture, Galactic Energy, has achieved a significant milestone by successfully conducting its first sea launch, becoming the first private Chinese space enterprise to carry out both land and sea-based launches.

The historic event saw the CERES-1S Y1 carrier rocket lifting off from a mobile launch platform in the Yellow Sea off the coast of East China's Shandong province at 5:34 p.m. Beijing Time on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, carrying Tianqi Constellation satellites 21 to 24 into an 800 km orbit, in a mission named "The Little Mermaid".

This latest effort follows four successful land-based launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's Gobi Desert earlier this year. Compared to land launches, sea launches offer the advantage of selecting launch and landing locations, thereby enhancing launch efficiency and safety, while also providing greater flexibility.

Learn more about Galactic Energy: https://galactic-energy.cn/index.php/En

Video Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 29 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 5, 2023

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Zooming-in on Galaxy 9io9 | European Southern Observatory

Zooming-in on Galaxy 9io9 | European Southern Observatory

This video takes us on a journey from our home in the Milky Way to a galaxy far, far away, 9io9. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, astronomers have recently detected a galaxy-wide magnetic field in 9io9, making it the furthest ever detection of a galactic magnetic field. 9io9 is so far away its light has taken more than 11 billion years to reach us. Thus, we see it as it was when the Universe was only 2.5 billion years old.

We first see the night sky in visible light, and then switch to infrared light when we finally reach 9io9. Here, the galaxy appears as a faint reddish arc curved around a bright nearby galaxy. We then see the ALMA image of 9io9 at millimeter wavelengths, with the orientation of the magnetic field indicated by overlaid curves.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/DESI/CFHT/N. Risinger/J. Geach et al.

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 6, 2023

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The Furthest Ever Galactic Magnetic Field Detected | ESO

The Furthest Ever Galactic Magnetic Field Detected | ESO

ESOcast 267 Light: Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy so far away that its light has taken more than 11 billion years to reach us. Never before have we detected a galaxy’s magnetic field this far away. This video summarizes the discovery. The field is about 1,000 times weaker than the Earth’s magnetic field, but extends over more than 16,000 light-years. 

To make this detection, the science team searched for light emitted by dust grains in a distant galaxy, 9io9. Galaxies are packed full of dust grains and when a magnetic field is present, the grains tend to align and the light they emit becomes polarized. This means that the light waves oscillate along a preferred direction rather than randomly. When ALMA detected and mapped a polarized signal coming from 9io9, the presence of a magnetic field in a very distant galaxy was confirmed for the first time.

Credits: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner

Editing: Angelos Tsaousis

Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida

Written by: Tom Howarth and Claudia Sciarma

Footage and photos: ESO / Luis Calçada, Angelos Tsaousis, B. Tafreshi (twanight.org), ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. E. Geach et al., CFHT, DESI

Scientific consultant: Paola Amico, Mariya Lyubenova

Duration: 1 minute, 30 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 6, 2023

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Recientemente: Una nueva tripulación viajó a la estación espacial | NASA

Recientemente: Una nueva tripulación viajó a la estación espacial | 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, 36 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 5, 2023

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HESS Telescopes in Namibia Explore High-Energy Sky Sources

HESS Telescopes in Namibia Explore High-Energy Sky Sources

They may look like modern mechanical dinosaurs, but they are enormous swiveling eyes that watch the sky. The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) Observatory is composed of four 12-meter reflecting-mirror telescopes surrounding a larger telescope housing a 28-meter mirror. They are designed to detect strange flickers of blue light—Cherenkov radiation—emitted when charged particles move slightly faster than the speed of light in air. This light is emitted when a gamma ray from a distant source strikes a molecule in Earth's atmosphere and starts a charged-particle shower. H.E.S.S. is sensitive to some of the highest energy photons (TeV) crossing the universe. 

Operating since 2003 in Namibia, Africa, H.E.S.S. has searched for dark matter and has discovered over 50 sources emitting high energy radiation including supernova remnants and the centers of galaxies that contain supermassive black holes. Pictured in June 2023, H.E.S.S. telescopes swivel and stare in time-lapse sequences shot in front of our Milky Way Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds—as the occasional Earth-orbiting satellite zips by.

H.E.S.S. is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes that investigates cosmic gamma rays in the energy range from 10s of GeV to 10s of TeV. The name H.E.S.S. is also intended to pay homage to Victor Hess, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic radiation. The instrument allows scientists to explore gamma-ray sources. 

H.E.S.S. is located in Namibia, near the Gamsberg mountain, an area well known for its excellent optical quality. The first of the four telescopes of Phase I of the H.E.S.S. project went into operation in Summer 2002; all four were operational in December 2003, and were officially inaugurated on September 28, 2004. A much larger fifth telescope - H.E.S.S. II - is operational since July 2012, extending the energy coverage towards lower energies and further improving sensitivity.

The H.E.S.S. observatory is operated by a collaboration of more than 260 scientists from about 40 scientific institutions and 13 different countries: Namibia and South Africa, Germany, France, the UK, Ireland, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Armenia, Japan, and Australia. To date, the H.E.S.S. Collaboration has published over 100 articles in high-impact scientific journals, including the top-ranked ‘Nature’ and ‘Science’ journals.

Video Credit: Jeff Dai (TWAN), H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Duration: 2 minutes, 18 seconds

Release Dates: Sept. 4, 2023

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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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