View Shenzhou-17 Astronauts on Spacewalk | China Space Station

View Shenzhou-17 Astronauts on Spacewalk | China Space Station

The Shenzhou-17 crew members aboard China's space station completed their second extravehicular mission on Saturday, March 2, 2024, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). Their first extravehicular mission was on Dec. 21, 2023. This mission, lasting about eight hours, was conducted by the trio, Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin with the assistance of a ground team and the China Space Station's robotic arm. The primary objective of this mission was to carry out maintenance on the solar wing of the Tianhe core module, eliminating impacts from collision by microparticles in space.

Following evaluation and analysis, it was determined that the power generation of repaired solar wing was back to normal. This marks the first time that Chinese astronauts have conducted extravehicular maintenance activities on external spacecraft facilities.

Wu Dawei, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program astronaut system commended the astronauts' impeccable performance during the mission.

"The astronauts' performance were flawless. Although it was Jiang Xinlin's first time engaging in extravehicular activities on the robotic arm, he showed composure and remained calm. The coordination between him and fellow astronauts, and with the ground team, was perfect. The mission was completed perfectly following our designed procedures and plans in the whole process," Wu said.

The Shenzhou-17 crew, who arrived at the space station on Oct 26, 2023 for a six-month mission, will continue to carry out a range of space science experiments and technological tests as planned.

Shenzhou-17 is the sixth crew of three astronauts on a mission to the China Space Station. Shenzhou-17 is also the twelfth crewed and seventeenth flight overall of China's Shenzhou spaceflight program.

Shenzhou-17 Crew:

Hongbo Tang (Commander)

Shengjie Tang (Mission Specialist)

Xinlin Jiang (Mission Specialist)

Video Credit: China Manned Space Agency (CMSA)/CCTV

Duration: 2 minutes, 26 seconds

Release Date: March 9, 2024

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Panning over Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1559 | James Webb Space Telescope

Panning over Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1559 | James Webb Space Telescope

This image features the barred spiral galaxy galaxy NGC 1559 as seen by the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy hosts a visible central region with a distinct open pattern in the loosely-wound spiral arms. NGC 1559 resides approximately 35 million light-years away in the little-observed southern constellation Reticulum (The Reticule).

The data featured in this portrait make use of two of Webb’s instruments: the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) and Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam). Here MIRI captures the glow of interstellar dust grains that traces out the interstellar medium, the fuel for future star formation. NIRCam shows the light from stars, even young stars hidden behind prodigious amounts of dust. NIRCam also captures emission from ionized nebulae around young stars.

NGC 1559 has massive spiral arms that abound with star formation, and it is receding from us at a speed of about 1300 kilometers per second. Although NGC 1559 appears to sit near one of our nearest neighbors in the sky—the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This is just a trick of perspective. In reality, NGC 1559 is physically nowhere near the LMC in space; in fact it truly is a loner, lacking the company of any nearby galaxies or membership of any galaxy cluster.

NGC 1559 may be alone in space, but with Webb we are admiring from far away.

Image Description: A barred spiral galaxy on a dark, nearly empty background. The whole galaxy glows with a pale light, particularly along the galaxy’s bar which runs from top to bottom through the galactic core. It is speckled with tiny stars. The center is surrounded by rich clouds of hot gas and dust along the arms. The arms are loosely wound and a bit ragged, and contain a few star-forming regions that shine brightly.

Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy, J. Lee and the PHANGS Team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)  

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 27, 2024

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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1559 | James Webb Space Telescope

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1559 | James Webb Space Telescope

This image features the barred spiral galaxy galaxy NGC 1559 as seen by the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy hosts a visible central region with a distinct open pattern in the loosely-wound spiral arms. NGC 1559 resides approximately 35 million light-years away in the little-observed southern constellation Reticulum (The Reticule).

The data featured in this portrait make use of two of Webb’s instruments: the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) and Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam). Here MIRI captures the glow of interstellar dust grains, which trace out the interstellar medium, the fuel for future star formation. NIRCam shows the light from stars, even young stars hidden behind prodigious amounts of dust. NIRCam also captures emission from ionized nebulae around young stars.

The data were collected by the PHANGS team as part of an observing program that Webb will observe 55 galaxies that have also been mapped by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and more. By combining Webb’s unprecedented view of the dust and stars with data from these other facilities, the team aims to obtain a new, highly detailed view of how stars are born, live, and die in galaxies across the Universe. This is also a Treasury program, meaning that the data will have no exclusive access period and so the scientific community (and others, including the general public) can access the data immediately. This has the advantage that more research can be done with the data more quickly.

NGC 1559 has massive spiral arms that abound with star formation, and it is receding from us at a speed of about 1300 kilometers per second. Although NGC 1559 appears to sit near one of our nearest neighbors in the sky—the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This is just a trick of perspective. In reality, NGC 1559 is physically nowhere near the LMC in space; in fact it truly is a loner, lacking the company of any nearby galaxies or membership of any galaxy cluster.

NGC 1559 may be alone in space, but with Webb we are admiring from far away.

Image Description: A barred spiral galaxy on a dark, nearly empty background. The whole galaxy glows with a pale light, particularly along the galaxy’s bar which runs from top to bottom through the galactic core. It is speckled with tiny stars. The center is surrounded by rich clouds of hot gas and dust along the arms. The arms are loosely wound and a bit ragged, and contain a few star-forming regions that shine brightly.

Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy, J. Lee and the PHANGS Team

Release Date: Feb. 27, 2024

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A New Crew Launches to the International Space Station | This Week @NASA

A New Crew Launches to the International Space Station | This Week @NASA

Week of March 8, 2024: A new crew launches to the International Space Station, graduating a new class of Artemis astronauts, and a group of tiny lunar-roving robots are ready to roll . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Video Producer & Editor: Andre Valentine

Narrator: Emanuel Cooper

Release Date: March 9, 2024

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New Rockets & Satellites Boost Commercial Space Growth in China | CGTN

New Rockets & Satellites Boost Commercial Space Growth in China | CGTN

The commercial space market in China is expected to rapidly expand due to technological advances and increasing market demand. CGTN reporter Wu Lei visits rocket and satellite companies to see how commercial space enterprises are seizing the moment.

Video Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 3 minutes, 40 seconds

Release Date: March 6, 2024

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Planet Mars: Hebes Chasma | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Planet Mars: Hebes Chasma | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

This image covers a small section of Hebes Chasma. Hebes Chasma is an isolated chasma just north of the Valles Marineris canyon system of Mars. It is centered at 1 degree southern latitude and 76 degrees western longitude, just between the Martian equator and the Valles Marineris system, just east of the Tharsis region. A chasma is a deep, elongated, steep-sided depression.

Mr. K, or Yll, is a character in Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles”. This terrain would have been very difficult and lengthy to traverse in his fateful meeting with Captain Nathaniel York. 

This is a non-narrated clip with ambient sound. Image is less than 5 km (3 mi) across and the spacecraft altitude was 266 km (165 mi).

The image was taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to study the geology and climate of Mars, to provide reconnaissance of future landing sites, and to relay data from surface missions back to Earth. It was launched on August 12, 2005, and reached Mars on March 10, 2006. 

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the HiRISE instrument, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 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

Duration: 3 minutes, 21 seconds

Release Date: Mars 5, 2024 

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NASA Design for Humanity's Message to Jupiter’s Moon Europa | JPL

NASA Design for Humanity's Message to Jupiter’s Moon Europa | JPL

There is a legacy of NASA spacecraft carrying inspirational messages into the cosmos. Europa Clipper will continue this tradition when it launches in October 2024 to Europa—a moon of Jupiter that shows strong evidence of an ocean under its icy crust. A triangular plate seals an opening in the spacecraft’s vault. This protects Europa Clipper’s electronics from Jupiter’s radiation. The plate will carry a special message into the cosmos.

At the heart of the artifact is an engraving of U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s handwritten “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” along with a silicon microchip stenciled with more than 2.6 million names submitted by the public. The microchip will be the centerpiece of an illustration of a bottle amid the Jovian system—a reference to NASA’s “Message in a Bottle” campaign, that invited the public to send their names with the spacecraft. 

Learn more about the vault plate: 

https://europa.nasa.gov/spacecraft/vault-plate/

Download Europa Clipper Ocean World poster:

go.nasa.gov/3Gsjzt5

More information on the Europa Clipper mission: 

https://europa.nasa.gov/

Missions such as Europa Clipper contribute to the field of astrobiology, the interdisciplinary research on the variables and conditions of distant worlds that could harbor life as we know it. While Europa Clipper is not a life-detection mission, it will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Europa and investigate whether the icy moon, with its subsurface ocean, has the capability to support life. 

Understanding Europa’s habitability will help scientists better understand how life developed on Earth and the potential for finding life beyond our planet. The spacecraft needs to be hardy enough to survive a 1.6 billion-mile, six-year journey to Jupiter—and sophisticated enough to perform a detailed science investigation of Europa once it arrives at the Jupiter system in 2030.

Managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California, JPL leads the development of the Europa Clipper mission in partnership with APL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. APL designed the main spacecraft body in collaboration with JPL and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, executes program management of the Europa Clipper mission.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: March 8, 2024

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Celebrating the Women Who Bring NASA Technology to Life

Celebrating the Women Who Bring NASA Technology to Life

Meet just a few of the women who are bringing NASA technologies to life. These women are helping shape the future by contributing to exciting NASA missions. Their work also impacts life here on Earth. Join us as we celebrate Women's History Month and honor women who are making a difference in our world. 

For more inspiring stories, visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/women-at-nasa/

Women's History Month is an annual observance to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Celebrated during March in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, corresponding with International Women's Day on March 8,

Video Credit: NASA Space Tech

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: March 8, 2024

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NASA's Space to Ground: Crew-8 Arrival | Week of March 8, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground: Crew-8 Arrival | Week of March 8, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.  A pair of commercial crews is preparing to switch places onboard the International Space Station next week. Flight Engineers Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps, along with Alexander Grebenkin of Russia of Crew-8, are in the first week of a six-month space research mission. Meanwhile, crewmates Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa are preparing for their return to Earth next week. Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Russia will be staying in space a few more months.

Follow Expedition 70 Updates:

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

Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: 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.

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

Duration: 2 minutes, 14 seconds

Release Date: March 8, 2024 

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New Expedition 70 & Crew-8 Photos | International Space Station

New Expedition 70 & Crew-8 Photos | International Space Station

The four SpaceX Crew-8 members (front row) join the Expedition 70 crew (back row) for welcome remarks shortly after docking and entering the International Space Station on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. In the front row (from left), are SpaceX Crew-8 members Jeanette Epps from NASA, Alexander Grebenkin from Roscosmos (Russia), and NASA astronauts Mike Barratt and Matthew Dominick. In the back row (from left), are Expedition 70 crewmates Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Loral O’Hara from NASA, Nikolai Chub from Roscosmos (Russia), Jasmin Moghbeli from NASA, Andreas Mogensen from the European Space Agency (ESA), and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Konstantin Borisov of Russia.

The four SpaceX Crew-8 members are pictured inside the SpaceX Dragon "Endeavour" spacecraft shortly after the hatch opened on the forward port of the International Space Station's Harmony module. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin of Russia and NASA astronauts Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Matthew Dominick.

The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, with the Crew-8 quartet aboard, is pictured approaching the International Space Station as it orbited 268 miles above the Indian Ocean.

The Crew-7 quartet (from left), cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia,  European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa pose for a photo in their Dragon flight suits ahead of their departure from the International Space Station.

Four Expedition 70 crew members pose for a portrait inside the vestibule in between the SpaceX Dragon "Endurance" spacecraft and the International Space Station's Harmony module. The quartet also represent the SpaceX Crew-7 mission having lived and worked aboard the orbital outpost since Aug. 27, 2023. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.

Expedition 70 Flight Engineers (from left) Loral O'Hara and Jasmin Moghbeli, both NASA astronauts who also reside in Texas, give a thumbs up after voting from the International Space Station.

Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli is photographed inside the NanoRacks Bishop airlock. 

Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara is photographed inside the NanoRacks Bishop airlock.

A pair of commercial crews is preparing to switch places onboard the International Space Station next week. Flight Engineers Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps, along with Alexander Grebenkin of Russia of Crew-8, are in the first week of a six-month space research mission. Meanwhile, crewmates Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa are preparing for their return to Earth next week. Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Russia will be staying in space a few more months.

Follow Expedition 70 Updates:

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

Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: 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) 

Image Dates: Feb. 26-March 6, 2024

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NASA's Europa Clipper Spacecraft: Instrument Integration | JPL

NASA's Europa Clipper Spacecraft: Instrument Integration | JPL

Hardware for NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft was developed at institutions and facilities across the U.S. and Europe, including NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This work included the science instruments and other spacecraft components, such as the propulsion module, radio frequency module, solar arrays, electronics vault, and more.

Download Europa Clipper Ocean World poster:

go.nasa.gov/3Gsjzt5

During the assembly, test, and launch operations phase of the mission, engineers put together the spacecraft, test its components, and prepare it for its launch and journey to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Europa.

In this video, spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations mechanical engineer Steve Barajas and science systems engineer Jenny Kampmeier provide a behind-the-scenes look at the nearly completed spacecraft in the High Bay 1 clean room at JPL. 

The propulsion module for the spacecraft was built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, with help from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and JPL. 

The science instruments were developed by APL, the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, JPL, UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Missions such as Europa Clipper contribute to the field of astrobiology, the interdisciplinary research on the variables and conditions of distant worlds that could harbor life as we know it. While Europa Clipper is not a life-detection mission, it will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Europa and investigate whether the icy moon, with its subsurface ocean, has the capability to support life. 

Understanding Europa’s habitability will help scientists better understand how life developed on Earth and the potential for finding life beyond our planet. The spacecraft needs to be hardy enough to survive a 1.6 billion-mile, six-year journey to Jupiter—and sophisticated enough to perform a detailed science investigation of Europa once it arrives at the Jupiter system in 2030.

Europa Clipper is expected to launch in October 2024 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

Managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California, JPL leads the development of the Europa Clipper mission in partnership with APL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. APL designed the main spacecraft body in collaboration with JPL and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, executes program management of the Europa Clipper mission.

For more information on the mission go to: https://europa.nasa.gov/

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Duration: 3 minutes, 32 seconds

Release Date: March 6, 2024

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NASA Spinoff Magazine 2024 Issue: Free Download 107-page PDF

NASA Spinoff Magazine 2024 Issue: Free Download 107-page PDF

Download Here (41 MB):

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/NASA.Spinoff_2024_508.pdf 

Spinoff highlights NASA technologies that benefit life on Earth in the form of commercial products. We have profiled more than 2,000 spinoffs since 1976—there’s more space in your life than you think!

Learn more about NASA spinoffs and technology transfer: 

https://spinoff.nasa.gov

Credit: NASA Technology Transfer Program

Release Date: March 2024

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NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Test#9: March 6, 2024 | Stennis Space Center

NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Test#9: March 6, 2024 | Stennis Space Center

An Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 rocket engine (RS-25 developmental engine E0525) was tested for 600 seconds on the Fred Haise Test Stand (formerly A-1 Test Stand) at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, on March 6, 2024, at 13:09pm CST. This was the third test using a new production engine nozzle providing additional performance data on the upgraded unit and the ninth hot fire test out of the 12 planned in the final round of certification testing ahead of production of an updated set of engines for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) that will be used beginning with Artemis V. The test had the RS-25 engine running up to 113% power level.

As NASA aims to establish a long-term presence on the Moon for scientific discovery and exploration, and prepare for future missions to Mars, new engines will incorporate dozens of improvements to make production more efficient and affordable while maintaining high performance and reliability.

With completion of the certification test series, all systems will be “go” to produce the first new RS-25 engines since the space shuttle era. NASA has contracted with Aerojet Rocketdyne to produce 24 new RS-25 engines using the updated design for missions beginning with Artemis V. NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne modified 16 former space shuttle missions for use on Artemis missions I through IV.

Through Artemis, NASA will establish the foundation for long-term scientific exploration at the Moon, land the first woman, first person of color, and first international partner astronaut on the lunar surface, and prepare for human expeditions to Mars for the benefit of all.

Video Credit: NASA

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 10 minutes, 45 seconds

Release Date: March 6, 2024

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Soyuz MS-25 Crew Prepares for Launch to the International Space Station

Soyuz MS-25 Crew Prepares for Launch to the International Space Station

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Soyuz commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya, along with their backups, NASA’s Don Pettit, Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos and Anastasia Lenkova of the Belarus Space Agency, participated in qualification exams Feb. 28 and 29, 2024, as part of their pre-launch training for their flight to the International Space Station. Dyson, Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya are scheduled to launch in the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 21, 2024.

Dyson will spend six months on the station, returning to Earth in September on Soyuz MS-25 while Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will return to Earth April 2 on Soyuz MS-24 along with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, who has been aboard the orbital complex since last September.

NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/tracy-caldwell-dyson-2/

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's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 6 minutes

Release Date: March 6, 2024

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Soyuz MS-25 Crew Members Training in Russia | International Space Station

Soyuz MS-25 Crew Members Training in Russia | International Space Station

Soyuz MS-25 crew members (from left) Tracy Dyson from NASA, Oleg Novitskiy from Roscosmos, and Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya join hands during their crew qualification exams at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia

Soyuz MS-25 crew members (from left) Tracy Dyson from NASA, Oleg Novitskiy from Roscosmos, and Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya meet with mission managers before beginning crew qualification exams

Soyuz MS-25 crew member Tracy Dyson from NASA

Soyuz MS-25 crew members (from left) Tracy Dyson from NASA, Oleg Novitskiy from Roscosmos, and Marina Vasilevskaya from the Belarus Space Agency pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia

NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson departing Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

Soyuz MS-25 crew members (from left) NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya

Soyuz MS-25 crew members NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya have departed the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio is in final training for its mission launching aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft to the International Space Station this month.

NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/tracy-caldwell-dyson-2/

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: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC)

Image Dates: Nov. 2, 2023 - March 6, 2024

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New Crew Members Barratt & Epps Discuss Life on The International Space Station

New Crew Members Barratt & Epps Discuss Life on The International Space Station

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 70 Flight Engineers Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps discussed life and work aboard the orbital outpost during an in-flight interview March 6, 2024, with WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. and the University of Maryland. Barratt and Epps are the midst of long-duration missions living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions. 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 Jeanette Epps Official Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jeanette-j-epps/biography

NASA Astronaut Michael Barratt Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/michael-reed-barratt/

Video Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 17 minutes

Release Date: March 6, 2024

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