Friday, September 22, 2023

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio Peers Out SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Window

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio Peers Out SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Window


NASA astronaut Frank Rubio peers out of a window aboard the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft docked to the International Space Station during Expedition 67 on Oct, 6, 2022. Rubio was observing the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft, carrying four SpaceX Crew-5 crew members, approach the orbital lab for a docking to the Harmony module's forward port.

After arriving to the orbital outpost on Sept. 21, 2022, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has surpassed a full year in space. His record-breaking mission has included dozens of scientific investigations that have helped researchers better understand how humans thrive while living and working in space. 

Astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, International Space Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev (Russia) and Flight Engineer Dmitiri Petelin of Roscosmos (Russia) are preparing for their departure next week on Sept. 27, 2023.

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

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

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


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Oct. 6, 2022


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How NASA Will Study the Asteroid Bennu Samples | NASA Goddard

How NASA Will Study the Asteroid Bennu Samples | NASA Goddard

OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect samples from an asteroid and deliver them to Earth. On September 24, 2023, the spacecraft will release a capsule containing material from near-Earth asteroid Bennu for a landing in Utah’s West Desert. OSIRIS-REx team members will recover the capsule and bring its contents to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where the Bennu samples will be curated and made available for scientists around the world to study for decades to come.

Follow sample-delivery updates on NASA's OSIRIS-REx blog: 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

Learn more about the OSIRIS-REx Mission: 

https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex

http://www.asteroidmission.org


Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Dan Gallagher: Producer

Dante Lauretta: Scientist

Jason Dworkin: Scientist

Nicole Lunning: Scientist

Anjani Polit: Interviewee

Rani Gran: Public Affairs

Shaneequa Vereen: Public Affairs

Lauren Duda: Public Affairs

Walt Feimer: Animator

Jonathan North: Animator

Kim Dongjae: Animator

Josh Masters: Animator

Chris Smith: Animator

Charles Clendaniel: Videographer

Arlene Islas: Videographer

Jamie Peer: Videographer

Dan Gallagher: Videographer

John Stoll: Support

Ned Barbee: Support

James Tralie: Support

Aaron E. Lepsch: Technical Support


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

Duration: 3 minutes, 46 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 22, 2023


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NASA's Space to Ground: One Year Later | Week of Sept. 22, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground: One Year Later | Week of Sept. 22, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. After arriving to the orbital outpost on Sept. 21, 2022, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has surpassed a full year in space. His record-breaking mission has included dozens of scientific investigations that have helped researchers better understand how humans thrive while living and working in space. 

Astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, International Space Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev (Russia) and Flight Engineer Dmitiri Petelin of Roscosmos (Russia) spent part of the day prepping for their departure next week on Sept. 27, 2023.

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

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

Expedition 69 Crew (September 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, Loral O'Hara (USA)

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

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 3 minutes, 22 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 21, 2023


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Laguna Colorada in Bolivia | Earth Science | International Space Station

Laguna Colorada in Bolivia | Earth Science | International Space Station

Laguna Colorada (Red Lagoon) shows off its vibrant red-brown color as the International Space Station soared roughly 265 miles above Bolivia. Located in the Bolivian Andes Mountains, the salt lake gets its bright hues from algae that thrive in the water.

Bolivia is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest, and Peru to the west.

The Andes are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. 


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Sept. 7, 2023


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Thursday, September 21, 2023

A Tour of China's Mengtian Space Station Lab with Shenzhou-16 Astronauts

A Tour of China's Mengtian Space Station Lab with Shenzhou-16 Astronauts

Chinese astronauts living on the China Space Station organized a tour of the Mengtian space lab and explained how the facilities work at the beginning of "Tiangong Class" season four, livestreamed on September 21, 2023. The China Space Station is officially called the Tiangong Space Station. Tiangong can be translated as 'Sky Palace'.

Mengtian ('Dreaming of the Heavens'), is a major module of China's Tiangong space station. It is the second Laboratory Cabin Module launched, after Wentian, and the second module to extend the existing Tianhe core module of the station. It was launched into orbit from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan, China, in October 2022.

Tiangong Class is a special China space science education session. The taikonauts (astronauts) act as teachers in space and interact with students, especially teenagers. The event was livestreamed worldwide by China Media Group.

Shenzhou-16 China Space Station Crew: 

Jing Haipeng (Commander) 

Zhu Yangzhu

Gui Haichao (China's first civilian astronaut)


Video Credit: China Manned Space Agency (CMSA)/China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 10 minutes

Release Date: Sept. 21, 2023

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To Asteroid Bennu & Back | NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

To Asteroid Bennu & Back | NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

This Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin engineers, containing a sample of the asteroid Bennu, is finally returning to Earth after its seven-year mission. 

Getting a spacecraft out to an asteroid is a major achievement. Bringing samples of that asteroid back to Earth is a remarkable feat. 

Here is how we did it.

Follow sample-delivery updates on NASA's OSIRIS-REx blog: 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

OSIRIS-REx Mission: http://www.asteroidmission.org


Credit: Lockheed Martin

Duration: 1 minute, 10 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 21, 2023


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Carbon Source Found on Surface of Jupiter’s Ocean Moon Europa | NASA Webb

Carbon Source Found on Surface of Jupiter’s Ocean Moon Europa | NASA Webb


Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of a handful of worlds in our Solar System that could potentially harbor conditions suitable for life. Previous research has shown that beneath its water-ice crust lies a salty ocean of liquid water with a rocky seafloor. However, planetary scientists had not confirmed whether or not that ocean contained the chemicals needed for life, particularly carbon.

Astronomers using data from the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope have identified carbon dioxide in a specific region on the icy surface of Europa. Analysis indicates that this carbon likely originated in the subsurface ocean and was not delivered by meteorites or other external sources. Moreover, it was deposited on a geologically recent timescale. This discovery has important implications for the potential habitability of Europa’s ocean.

“On Earth, life likes chemical diversity—the more diversity, the better. We’re carbon-based life. Understanding the chemistry of Europa’s ocean will help us determine whether it’s hostile to life as we know it, or whether it might be a good place for life,” said Geronimo Villanueva of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, lead author of one of two independent papers describing the findings.

“We now think that we have observational evidence that the carbon we see on Europa’s surface came from the ocean. That’s not a trivial thing. Carbon is a biologically essential element,” added Samantha Trumbo of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, lead author of the second paper analyzing this data.

NASA plans to launch its Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will perform dozens of close flybys of Europa to further investigate whether it could have conditions suitable for life, in October 2024.

A Surface-Ocean Connection

Webb finds that on Europa’s surface, carbon dioxide is most abundant in a region called Tara Regio—a geologically young area of generally resurfaced terrain known as ‘chaos terrain’. The surface ice has been disrupted, and there has likely been an exchange of material between the subsurface ocean and the icy surface.

“These observations only took a few minutes of the observatory’s time,” said Heidi Hammel of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, a Webb interdisciplinary scientist leading Webb’s Cycle 1 Guaranteed Time Observations of the Solar System. “Even in this short period of time, we were able to do really big science. This work gives a first hint of all the amazing Solar System science we’ll be able to do with Webb.”

These findings may help inform NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, as well as ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, which was launched on April 14, 2023. Juice will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons—Ganymede, Callisto and Europa—with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. The mission will characterize these moons as both planetary objects and possible habitats, explore Jupiter’s complex environment in depth, and study the wider Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giants across the Universe.


Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, G. Villanueva (NASA/GSFC), S. Trumbo (Cornell Univ.), A. Pagan (STScI)

Release Date: Sept. 21, 2023


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Shenzhou-16 Crew Shares Science Experiments with Students | China Space Station

Shenzhou-16 Crew Shares Science Experiments with Students | China Space Station

China's in-orbit Shenzhou-16 astronauts showed how water reacts differently when hit with a table tennis paddle in microgravity during the fourth lecture of the Tiangong Class livestreamed on September 21, 2023. The China Space Station is officially called the Tiangong Space Station. Tiangong can be translated as 'Sky Palace'.

The Tiangong Class is a series of space science lectures that aim to inspire curiousity about space among youth. Three previous lectures were carried out by China's Shenzhou-13 and Shenzhou-14 crews.

Shenzhou-16 China Space Station Crew: 

Jing Haipeng (Commander) 

Zhu Yangzhu

Gui Haichao


Video Credit: China Manned Space Agency (CMSA)/China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 4 minutes, 23 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 21, 2023


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NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Todos a bordo: 15 de septiembre 2023

NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Todos a bordo: 15 de septiembre 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.

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

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


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 4 minutes, 23 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 20, 2023


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Artemis II Launch Demonstration Test Day | Kennedy Space Center

Artemis II Launch Demonstration Test Day | Kennedy Space Center

Artemis II NASA astronauts (left to right) Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, plus Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen stand at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B
Artemis II crew members (from left) Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman walk out of the Astronaut Crew Quarters
Artemis II astronauts, from left, NASA astronaut Victor Glover (left), Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Reid Wiseman stand on the crew access arm of the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B
Artemis II crew member NASA astronaut Christina Koch is shown wearing a test version of the Orion crew survival system spacesuits

Artemis II NASA astronaut Christina Koch stands on the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B

Artemis II NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen stand in the white room with fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and closeout team members on the crew access arm of the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B.

These are pictures from the Launch Demonstration Test ISSV-1A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center that was held on Sept. 20, 2023. The test ensures the ground systems team is ready to support the Artemis II crew timeline on launch day. 

NASA’s Artemis II Crew: 
Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.


Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

Learn more about the Artemis II Mission:

Artemis II will launch no earlier than December 2024.

Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett/Frank Michaux

Image Date: Sept. 20, 2023

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Russian Soyuz MS-24 Spacecraft Arrival & Docking | International Space Station

Russian Soyuz MS-24 Spacecraft Arrival & Docking | International Space Station

The Russian Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft (center) can be seen docked to the International Space Station . At far left is the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship, docked to the Prichal docking module, that will return NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin back to Earth on Sept. 27.
The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft carrying three crew members approaches the International Space Station for a docking to the Rassvet module.

The Russian Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft that carried NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Russia to the International Space Station is cuurently docked to the Rassvet module. Nearly three-and-half hours after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 15, 2023, NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, opened the Soyuz hatch, and entered the station to begin their space research mission.

O’Hara will spend six months aboard the orbital laboratory, while Kononenko and Chub will both spend one year on the orbital outpost.

This represents the first spaceflight for O'Hara and Chub. Mission commander Kononenko is on his fifth trip to the International Space Station.

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

Expedition 69 Crew (September 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, Loral O'Hara (USA)

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. 18, 2023

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Reinventing Space Stations with LIFE Habitat | Sierra Space

Reinventing Space Stations with LIFE Habitat | Sierra Space

"Learn how Sierra Space is driving significant cost savings for operating on-orbit with the LIFE Habitat. This latest successful milestone and the first one in the testing campaign to include a metallic window sub-structure—or blanking plate—now propels Sierra Space into full-scale testing of LIFE by the end of this year. The milestone cements the company’s position as the industry leader in commercial space station development for use in low-Earth orbit (LEO) and deep space."

Learn more: https://www.sierraspace.com/space-destinations/life-space-habitat/


Credit: Sierra Space

Duration: 6 minutes

Release Date: Sept. 20, 2023


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Expedition 69 Crew Photos: September 2023 | International Space Station

Expedition 69 Crew Photos: September 2023 Reunions | International Space Station

Expedition 69 flight engineers and NASA astronauts (from left) Frank Rubio, Woody Hoburg, and Jasmin Moghbeli, pose for a portrait aboard the International Space Station. All three crew members were selected as part of the NASA astronaut class of 2017.

Expedition 69 flight engineers (from left) Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara, and Frank Rubio, all NASA astronauts, pose for a portrait aboard the International Space Station's Unity module. All three crew members were selected as part of the NASA astronaut class of 2017.

Jasmin Moghbeli: "While I think it is important to be passionate about what you do, I’ve found that what often matters most is who you do it with. After training closely together for over 2 years following our selection in 2017, our class of astronaut candidates has grown very close. We are known as “The Turtles”. 🐢🐢🐢 Frank has been on the space station for nearly a year now and has been teaching me and the rest of Crew-7 the ropes since we arrived." 

"We said goodbye to our Turtle classmate, Woody Hoburg a couple weeks ago." 

"On Friday, I was so excited to welcome my good friend Loral O'Hara to the ISS! Her Soyuz crew and our Dragon crew will make up Expedition 70, which will begin when we say goodbye to Frank and his Soyuz crewmates." 

"Turtles have continuously been in orbit since Raja Chari and Kayla Barron launched on Crew-3 in 2021!"

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

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

Expedition 69 Crew

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, Loral O'Hara (USA)

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.


Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Caption Credit: Jasmin Moghbeli/NASA/JSC

Image Dates: Sept. 4-15, 2023


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Aurora Borealis over Scotland

Aurora Borealis over Scotland


On Earth, auroras are mainly created by particles originally emitted by the Sun in the form of solar wind. When this stream of electrically charged particles gets close to our planet, it interacts with the magnetic field, which acts as a gigantic shield. While it protects Earth’s environment from solar wind particles, it can also trap a small fraction of them. Particles trapped within the magnetosphere—the region of space surrounding Earth in which charged particles are affected by its magnetic field—can be energized and then follow the magnetic field lines down to the magnetic poles. There, they interact with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the upper layers of the atmosphere, creating the flickering, colorful lights visible in the polar regions here on Earth.


Earth auroras have different names depending on which pole they occur at. Aurora Borealis, or the northern lights, is the name given to auroras around the north pole and Aurora Australis, or the southern lights, is the name given for auroras around the south pole.

Learn more:
The Colors of the Aurora (National Park Service)
https://www.nps.gov/articles/-articles-aps-v8-i1-c9.htm

NASA - About Aurora
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/aurora-news-stories/index.html
    
Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Tough
Location: Scotland, United Kingdom
Image Date: Sept. 18, 2023



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NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio: Final Media Briefing | International Space Station

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio: Final Media Briefing | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio speaks to media about his record-breaking mission aboard the International Space Station during an Earth-to-space call on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023.

Rubio is scheduled to return to Earth on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, after spending 371 days in low Earth orbit, earning him the record of the longest single spaceflight by an American. The previous United States record of 355 days, which Rubio surpassed Sept. 11, was held by NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio Official NASA Biography

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

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

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

Learn more about the important research being operated on ISS: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science


Credit: NASA

Release Date: Sept. 19, 2023

Duration: 24 minutes


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The Bahamas | International Space Station

The Bahamas | International Space Station

The teal and deep blue waters of The Bahamas are seen from the International Space Station as it orbited roughly 260 miles above. To the left of the image, the Andros island can be seen, while Nassau is shown to to the right.

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is an island country of the Lucayan Archipelago consisting of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean; north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic); northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands; southeast of the U.S. state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. Its capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. [Source: Wikipedia]

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

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

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


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Aug. 23, 2023


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