What is a Solar Eclipse? | National Science Foundation

What is a Solar Eclipse? | National Science Foundation

What is a solar eclipse? How is an annular eclipse different? How do we study the sun? Dr. Carrie Black, a program officer at the U.S. National Science Foundation who oversees operations at the National Solar Observatory, explains the science of the sun and answers commonly asked questions about our star. 

To learn more about eclipse safety visit: go.nasa.gov/EclipseSafety

View and download the eclipse map here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5073

Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Duration: 8 minutes, 47 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 13, 2023

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This Week's Stargazing: The Great American Eclipse Arrives | BBC Sky at Night

This Week's Stargazing: The Great American Eclipse Arrives | BBC Sky at Night

Week of April 8 to 14, 2024: On April 8 2024, a total solar eclipse will pass across Mexico, the eastern US and Canada. Where can you see the eclipse? How do you watch the eclipse safely? When will the next eclipse for the UK be? Find out all this, plus all our usual stargazing highlights in our weekly podcasting guide, Star Diary.

Find out how to see all this and more in our weekly stargazing podcast, Star Diary April 8 to 14, 2024.

To learn more about eclipse safety visit: go.nasa.gov/EclipseSafety

View and download the eclipse map here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5073

Video Credit: BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Duration: 24 minutes

Release Date: April 7, 2024

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The Gum 41 Nebula | European Southern Observatory

The Gum 41 Nebula | European Southern Observatory

This image shows the GUM 41 nebula. It takes up most of the frame. It is a reddish-brown, circular-shaped nebula with a bright central star. There is a second bright star outside of the nebula towards the bottom right of the image, circled by some additional, fainter reddish-brown clouds. The background of the image is dotted with stars of many colors and sizes.

Located in the picturesque southern constellation of Centaurus, the Gum 41 nebula takes up most of this image brought to you by the VLT Survey Telescope, hosted at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Let us take a closer look at this intricate structure.

Set against a colorful backdrop of stars, Gum 41 is a pleasantly symmetric example of a Strömgren sphere—a shell of hydrogen gas atoms glowing in rosy hues due to the radiation of the dazzling central star. While this star, called HD 100099, may appear to be one very bright object, it is actually thought to be two young, massive stars orbiting in such a tight embrace that they cannot be separated at the scale of this image.

This romantic region is home to many pairs like this, including the luminous object on the lower right outskirts of the nebula, HD 99944. Sadly, the love story in these stellar couples will have a tragic ending: unlike our Sun, these hot and massive stars tend to have short lifetimes of only a few million years, and eventually there will be no young stars left to make the nebula glow. One day, Gum 41 will fade into transparency and be lost to future astronomers forever.

Gum 41 is also a member of a much larger region, affectionately called the Running Chicken Nebula. Whether Gum 41 forms the foot or the head of the chicken is surprisingly controversial. Take a look here—what do you see?

Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team

Acknowlegement: CASU

Release Date: April 8, 2024

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Spiral Galaxy IC 4633: Hidden in a Dark Cloud | Hubble

Spiral Galaxy IC 4633: Hidden in a Dark Cloud | Hubble

This is the spiral galaxy IC 4633, located 100 million light-years away from us in the constellation Apus. IC 4633 is a galaxy rich in star-forming activity, as well as hosting an active galactic nucleus at its core. From our point of view, the galaxy is tilted mostly towards us, giving astronomers a fairly good view of its billions of stars.

However, we cannot fully appreciate the features of this galaxy—at least in visible light—because it is partially concealed by a stretch of dark dust. This dark nebula is part of the Chamaeleon star-forming region, itself located only around 500 light-years from us, in a nearby part of the Milky Way galaxy. The dark clouds in the Chamaeleon region occupy a large area of the southern sky, covering their namesake constellation but also encroaching on nearby constellations, like Apus. The cloud is well-studied for its treasury of young stars, particularly the cloud Cha I, which has been imaged by Hubble and also by the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope.

The cloud overlapping IC 4633 lies east of the well-known Cha I, II and III, and has been called MW9 or the South Celestial Serpent. A vast, narrow trail of faint gas that snakes over the southern celestial pole, it is much more subdued-looking than its neighbors. It is classified as an integrated flux nebula (IFN)—a cloud of gas and dust in the Milky Way galaxy that is not near to any single star, and is only faintly lit by the total light of all the galaxy’s stars. Hubble has no problem making out the South Celestial Serpent, though this image captures only a tiny part of it. For a showy astronomical object like IC 4633, among the South Celestial Serpent’s coils clearly is not a bad place to hide.

Image Description: A spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on. The disc is made up of many tightly wound spiral arms. They contain small strands of reddish dust, near the center. On the left side, the disc features glowing patches of star formation. The whole right side, and part of the center, is obscured by a large cloud of dark grey gas which crosses the image.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Acknowledgement: L. Shatz

Release Date: April 8, 2024

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How to Safely View a Solar Eclipse | NASA Goddard

How to Safely View a Solar Eclipse | NASA Goddard

Do you know how to safely view a solar eclipse? There are more ways than one!

To protect your eyes while looking at a solar eclipse, always use proper eye protection for solar viewing—such as solar viewing glasses (often called “eclipse glasses”) or a handheld solar viewer—when any part of the bright solar disk is visible.

To use telescopes or binoculars to look directly at the Sun, you must install a certified solar filter to the front of the instrument.

Don’t have eclipse glasses or other equipment? 

You can use an indirect viewing method to project sunlight onto another surface and see the shape of the Sun throughout the eclipse. There are many ways you can do this from using materials around your house, tree leaves, or even your hands.

To learn more about solar eclipse safety, visit: 

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/safety/ 

View and download the eclipse map here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5073

Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Producer: Lacey Young (MORI Associates)

Writers: Lacey Young (MORI Associates), Beth Anthony (MORI Associates), Vanessa Thomas (KBRwyle)

Narrator: Lacey Young (MORI Associates)

Additional footage: NASA EDGE

Duration: 3 minutes, 45 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 26, 2024

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China & Thailand to Cooperate on Peaceful Space Exploration & Lunar Research

China & Thailand to Cooperate on Peaceful Space Exploration & Lunar Research

China and Thailand will carry out extensive cooperation on space exploration, especially in lunar research, said an official of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Friday, April 5, 2024.

The CNSA and Thai Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation on Friday inked memorandums of understanding on the cooperation in the exploration and peaceful use of outer space and international lunar research stations in Beijing.

Visiting Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of the Kingdom of Thailand attended the signing ceremony.

According to the memorandums, the two countries will set up joint committees and working groups on space exploration, applications and space capacity building, strengthening collaboration through joint space projects, scientific exchanges, personnel training, data sharing, and organizing symposiums and workshops.

Focusing on the appraising, engineering and operating of international lunar research stations, the two sides will conduct research in science, engineering, and international cooperation.

Guan Feng, Director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center of the CNSA, said the signing of the memorandums has taken forward the long-standing space cooperation between China and Thailand.

"The Chang'e 7 mission has selected a global space weather monitoring device jointly developed by the Thai Ministry of Higher Education and the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand. It will be used to observe cosmic radiation and space weather from the perspective of the moon. The Chang'e 8 mission will offer a global cooperation opportunity to carry 200 kilograms of payload, and we have received quite a few applications from Thailand for lunar operation robots and scientific payloads. Then China and Thailand will carry out extensive cooperation in the demonstration, implementation, operation and application of international lunar exploration. The cooperation will include joint demonstration of scientific goals, joint design, joint research and development, joint testing, and joint scientific data research and beyond," Guan said.

Permsuk Sutchaphiwat, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation of Thailand, hailed China’s achievements in space exploration and expressed the willingness of further space cooperation with China.

"China has made remarkable achievements in space in the past 20 years. We look at this as an opportunity to develop Thai technology, especially considering the trend of global space development. By 2040, the global space economy will reach one trillion U.S. dollars. The space cooperation Thailand has with China is broader than other cooperation with most other countries. And it will continue to help enhance human-to-human connections," he said.

Video Credit: China Central Television (CCTV)

Duration: 1 minute, 53 seconds

Release Date: April 6, 2024  

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Soyuz Crew Recovery after Kazakhstan Landing: O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya

Soyuz Crew Recovery after Kazakhstan Landing: O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya

Russian Search and Rescue teams arrive at the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft shortly after it landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

Russian Search and Rescue teams arrive at the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft shortly after it landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, left, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, are seen inside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft just minutes after they and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

    

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara ended her time in space with a parachute-assisted landing in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, at 3:17 a.m. EDT (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday, April 6, 2024.

O’Hara, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, began the journey back to Earth at 11:55 a.m. when the Soyuz undocked from the International Space Station.

This is the first space mission for a citizen of the Eastern European nation of Belarus. Vasilevskaya and O'Hara are on their first spaceflight missions.

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

O’Hara arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending 204 days in low Earth orbit.

During her 204 days aboard the station, O’Hara experienced:

Approximately 3,264 orbits of Earth

Approximately 86,555,554 statute miles traveled

Eight spacecraft visiting the International Space Station, including two Roscosmos Progress cargo ships, one Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft, one Roscosmos Soyuz, two crewed SpaceX Dragons, and two uncrewed SpaceX Dragons.

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/Bill Ingalls

Image Date: April 6, 2024

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Soyuz Landing: O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya | International Space Station

Soyuz Landing: O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara ended her time in space with a parachute-assisted landing in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, at 3:17 a.m. EDT (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday, April 6, 2024.

O’Hara, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, began the journey back to Earth at 11:55 a.m. when the Soyuz undocked from the International Space Station.

This is the first space mission for a citizen of the Eastern European nation of Belarus. Vasilevskaya and O'Hara are on their first spaceflight missions.

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

O’Hara arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending 204 days in low Earth orbit.

During her 204 days aboard the station, O’Hara experienced:

Approximately 3,264 orbits of Earth

Approximately 86,555,554 statute miles traveled

Eight spacecraft visiting the International Space Station, including two Roscosmos Progress cargo ships, one Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft, one Roscosmos Soyuz, two crewed SpaceX Dragons, and two uncrewed SpaceX Dragons.

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/Bill Ingalls

Image Date: April 6, 2024

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O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya after Soyuz Landing | International Space Station

O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya after Soyuz Landing | International Space Station

Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara is seen holding a matryoshka doll that was gifted to her outside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft.

NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara is carried to a medical tent by NASA ISS Program Manager Dana Weigel, left, NASA Interpreter Ilya Shlepakov, and NASA Chief of the Astronaut Office Joe Acaba, right.

Cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus is seen outside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft

Cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus is carried to a medical tent.

Cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus is helped out of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia is seen outside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft.

NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara is seen talking on a satellite phone outside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft.

NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, center, is seen with NASA Director for Human Space Flight Programs, Russia, Mark Thiessen, left, and NASA Chief of the Astronaut Office Joe Acaba, right, as she arrives at the Karaganda Airport in Kazakhstan a few hours after she landed.

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara ended her time in space with a parachute-assisted landing in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, at 3:17 a.m. EDT (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday, April 6, 2024.

O’Hara, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, began the journey back to Earth at 11:55 a.m. when the Soyuz undocked from the International Space Station.

This is the first space mission for a citizen of the Eastern European nation of Belarus. Vasilevskaya and O'Hara are on their first spaceflight missions.

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

O’Hara arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending 204 days in low Earth orbit.

During her 204 days aboard the station, O’Hara experienced:

Approximately 3,264 orbits of Earth

Approximately 86,555,554 statute miles traveled

Eight spacecraft visiting the International Space Station, including two Roscosmos Progress cargo ships, one Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft, one Roscosmos Soyuz, two crewed SpaceX Dragons, and two uncrewed SpaceX Dragons.

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/Bill Ingalls

Image Date: April 6, 2024

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The Moon and The April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse | NASA Goddard

The Moon and The April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse | NASA Goddard

On April 8th, 2024, parts of the United States, Mexico and Canada will get to experience a total solar eclipse. This video tutorial takes a look at this unique event and explains what role the Moon plays in creating it. The video explains how the two parts of the Moon’s shadow, the umbra and penumbra, affect how we see a solar eclipse on Earth, and where the path of totality for the 2024 eclipse resides.  

In addition, this video highlights how data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) helps us more accurately depict the shape of the umbra when creating eclipse maps.

To learn more about eclipse safety visit: go.nasa.gov/EclipseSafety

View and download the eclipse map here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5073

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

Video Produced and Edited by: David Ladd (Abacus Technology Corp.)

Visualizations by: Ernie Wright (USRA) 

Duration: 3 minutes, 32 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 28, 2024

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NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Test#12: April 3, 2024 | Stennis Space Center

NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Test#12: April 3, 2024 | Stennis Space Center

An Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 rocket engine (RS-25 developmental engine E0525) was tested on the Fred Haise Test Stand (formerly A-1 Test Stand) at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, on April 3, 2024, at 17:23 UTC (12:23 CDT). This was the 6th test using a new production engine nozzle providing additional performance data on the upgraded unit and the final 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 a planned duration of 500 seconds, with the RS-25 engine running up to 113% power level.

NASA achieved a major milestone April 3 for production of new RS-25 engines to help power its Artemis campaign to the Moon and beyond with completion of a critical engine certification test series.

The 12-test series represents a key step for lead engines contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company, to build new RS-25 engines, using modern processes and manufacturing techniques, for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rockets that will power future lunar missions, beginning with Artemis V.

“The conclusion of the certification test series at NASA Stennis is just the beginning for the next generation of RS-25 engines that will help power human spaceflight for Artemis,” said Johnny Heflin, SLS liquid engines manager. “The newly produced engines on future SLS rockets will maintain the high reliability and safe flight operational legacy the RS-25 is known for while enabling more affordable high-performance engines for the next era of deep space exploration.”

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.

Contributing to that effort, the NASA Stennis test team conducted a full-duration, 500-second hot fire to complete the 12-test series on developmental engine E0525, providing critical performance data for the final RS-25 design certification review. The April 3 hot fire completed a test series that began in October 2023.

RS-25 engines are evolved space shuttle main engines, upgraded with new components to produce the additional power needed to help launch NASA’s SLS rocket. The first four Artemis missions are using modified space shuttle main engines also tested at NASA Stennis. For each Artemis mission, four RS-25 engines, along with a pair of solid rocket boosters, power the SLS rocket, producing more than 8.8 million pounds of total combined thrust at liftoff.

“Successfully completing this rigorous test series is a testament to the outstanding work done by the team to design, implement and test this upgraded version of the RS-25 that reduces the cost by 30% from the space shuttle program,” said Mike Lauer, RS-25 program director at Aerojet Rocketdyne. “We tested the new RS-25 engines to the extreme limits of operation to ensure the engines can operate at a higher power level needed for SLS and complete the mission with margin.”

All RS-25 engines are tested and proven flightworthy at NASA Stennis prior to use on Artemis missions. RS-25 tests at the center are conducted by a diverse team of operators from NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne, and Syncom Space Services, prime contractor for site facilities and operations.

Credit: NASA's Stennis Space Center

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 9 minutes

Release Date:  April 3, 2024

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Elon Musk's "To Make Life Multiplanetary" Presentation Excerpt | SpaceX

Elon Musk's "To Make Life Multiplanetary" Presentation Excerpt | SpaceX

For the full 44-minute talk, visit: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1776669097490776563 

"The goal of SpaceX is to build the technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary. This is the first time in the 4-billion-year history of Earth that it’s possible to realize that goal and protect the light of consciousness."

"At Starbase on Thursday, April 4, 2024, SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk provided an update on the company’s plans to send humanity to Mars—the best destination to begin making life multiplanetary.

Elon Musk also discusses "the mechanics and challenges of traveling to Mars, along with what we’re building today to enable sending around a million people and several million tons to the Martian surface in the years to come."

Video Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Duration: 1 minute, 48 seconds

Release Date: April 6, 2024

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A Cosmic Life: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, The Moon, Jupiter & Galaxies M31 & M33

A Cosmic Life: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, The Moon, Jupiter & Galaxies M31 & M33

Astrophotographer Cayetana Saiz: "After sunset on March 13 this year, comet 12P/Pons-Brooks crossed our skies after being absent for 71 years. Jupiter is seen here as it shines in conjunction with our Moon. In this composite image, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is at the far right, and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) at the center right."

Photo Details: This image is the result of the composition of photographs taken the same night. The foreground, the Moon and Jupiter were all taken during the blue hour: 5D Mark IV camera; Sigma 24-70 lens; f2. 8; ISO 400; 24 mm; 9.6 seconds exposure; f 10. For 12P/Pons-Brooks: Canon 800D astro-modified camera; Sigma Art 135 mm; F1.8; ISO 3200; 135 mm; 10 second exposure; f2 calibrated with darks and bias; 126 x 10" stacked (total 20' 11'').

Image & Caption Credit Cayetana Saiz

Image Date: March 13, 2024

Location: Castanedo, Spain Coordinates: 43.4362456, -3.6972219

Cayetana's Website: https://www.instagram.com/caye.wildvisuals/

Release Date: April 6, 2024

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Soyuz MS-24 Crew Landing Day Highlights | International Space Station

Soyuz MS-24 Crew Landing Day Highlights | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara of the United States, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, closed the hatch of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on April 6, 2024, ahead of their landing later that day. Following hatch closure, the vehicle undocked from the International Space Station’s Rassvet module, returning to Earth a few hours later for a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. During her mission, O’Hara spent 204 days in space living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions as part of NASA’s Moon and Mars exploration approach, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program. 

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara ended her time in space with a parachute-assisted landing in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, at 3:17 a.m. EDT (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday, April 6, 2024.

This is the first space mission for a citizen of the Eastern European nation of Belarus. Vasilevskaya and O'Hara are on their first spaceflight missions.

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

O’Hara arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending 204 days in low Earth orbit.

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: 24 minutes

Release Date: April 6, 2024

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O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya: Kazakhstan Landing | International Space Station

O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya: Kazakhstan Landing | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara ended her time in space with a parachute-assisted landing in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, at 3:17 a.m. EDT (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday, April 6, 2024.

O’Hara, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, began the journey back to Earth at 11:55 a.m. when the Soyuz undocked from the International Space Station.

This is the first space mission for a citizen of the Eastern European nation of Belarus. Vasilevskaya and O'Hara are on their first spaceflight missions.

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

O’Hara arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending 204 days in low Earth orbit.

During her 204 days aboard the station, O’Hara experienced:

Approximately 3,264 orbits of Earth

Approximately 86,555,554 statute miles traveled

Eight spacecraft visiting the International Space Station, including two Roscosmos Progress cargo ships, one Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft, one Roscosmos Soyuz, two crewed SpaceX Dragons, and two uncrewed SpaceX Dragons.

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: Roscosmos/NASA TV

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 5 minutes, 25 seconds

Image Date: April 6, 2024

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O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya Land in Kazakhstan | International Space Station

O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya Land in Kazakhstan | International Space Station

Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, right, are seen inside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after they landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Saturday, April 6, 2024. 

Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara gives a thumbs up inside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after she, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Saturday, April 6, 2024. 

Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara is seen outside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after she, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya is seen outside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after she, Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia is helped out of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft just minutes after he, Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara of the United States, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara ended her time in space with a parachute-assisted landing in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, at 3:17 a.m. EDT (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday, April 6, 2024.

O’Hara, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, began the journey back to Earth at 11:55 a.m. when the Soyuz undocked from the International Space Station.

O’Hara arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending 204 days in low Earth orbit.

During her 204 days aboard the station, O’Hara experienced:

Approximately 3,264 orbits of Earth

Approximately 86,555,554 statute miles traveled

Eight spacecraft visiting the International Space Station, including two Roscosmos Progress cargo ships, one Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft, one Roscosmos Soyuz, two crewed SpaceX Dragons, and two uncrewed SpaceX Dragons.

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/Bill Ingalls

Image Date: April 6, 2024

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