Friday, August 16, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground: A Greener Space | Week of Aug. 16, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground: A Greener Space | Week of Aug. 16, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. A Russian cargo craft is orbiting Earth packed with nearly three tons of cargo to resupply the International Space Station. 

The Roscosmos Progress 89 space freighter launched at 11:20 p.m. EDT on Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan beginning a two-day space delivery to the orbital outpost. Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will be on duty monitoring Progress when it completes its automated approach and docking 1:56 a.m. on Saturday. Progress will remain docked to the aft port of the Zvezda service module for six months of cargo operations.

Expedition 71 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew
Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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)


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

Duration: 4 minutes, 17 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 16, 2024

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Thursday, August 15, 2024

Pacific Ocean by Moonlight | International Space Station

Pacific Ocean by Moonlight | International Space Station

The Moon's glint beams off the Pacific Ocean as stars glitter in the background above the Earth's airglow. The Moon is obscured behind a solar array in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above.

Expedition 71 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew
Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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)


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

Image Date: July 18, 2024 


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The Eyes Galaxies: NGC 4438 & 4435 | NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

The Eyes Galaxies: NGC 4438 & 4435 | NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

This composite image features a pair of merging galaxies, each resembling a brilliant white dot, earning the pair the nickname ‘The Eyes’. Near our lower left is the galaxy NGC 4438. This bright white dot is surrounded by a neon purple cloud of hot gas seen with Chandra. An inky black cloud nestled in a vertical strip of haze partially blocks our view of the neon purple, superheated gas. At our upper right is the second galaxy, NGC 4435. This bright white dot is surrounded by a thin, neon purple ring. The galaxy sits in the center of a glowing white streak, at the heart of a misty white pool. Flecks of white and neon purple speckle the image, set against the blackness of space.

This system contains a pair of merging galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and the multimillion-degree gas emits X-rays detected by NASA's Chandra x-ray observatory. In this image, x-rays from Chandra (purple) and optical light from the European Southern Observatory (red, green, blue) are visible.


Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: ESO

Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major

Image Date: Aug. 15, 2024


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Aurora over Indian Ocean | International Space Station

Aurora over Indian Ocean | International Space Station


An aurora radiates brightly above the Indian Ocean in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared 270 miles above the Earth's surface and about 1,280 miles southwest of Perth, Australia. In the foreground, is the Soyuz MS-25 crew ship docked to the Prichal docking module. It is itself attached to the Nauka science module. The European robotic arm is also connected to Nauka.

Expedition 71 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew
Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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)


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

Release Date: Aug. 11, 2024


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A Look Back at Storm Debby | NOAA

A Look Back at Storm Debby | NOAA

Throughout last week, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites monitored Debby, a storm that struck Florida’s Big Bend region near Steinhatchee before moving up the East Coast where it brought widespread flooding and damaging winds that reached as far north as New York state along with a few destructive tornadoes along the way. 


Video Credits: NOAA, NASA, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 15, 2024

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Russian Soyuz Progress Cargo Spacecraft Launches to International Space Station

Russian Soyuz Progress Cargo Spacecraft Launches to International Space Station

An unpiloted Russian Progress 89 cargo craft launched to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:20 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. After a two-day in-orbit journey to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock to the aft port of the orbiting laboratory’s Zvezda Service module at 1:56 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 17.

This spacecraft will deliver about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the International Space Station.

Expedition 71 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew
Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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)


Video Credit: Credit: NASA TV

Duration: 1 minute, 45 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 14, 2024


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The Light, Dark & Dusty Trifid Nebula

The Light, Dark & Dusty Trifid Nebula

Messier 20, popularly known as the Trifid Nebula, lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid illustrates three types of astronomical nebulae; red emission nebulae dominated by light from hydrogen atoms, blue reflection nebulae produced by dust reflecting starlight, and dark nebulae where dense dust clouds appear in silhouette. The reddish emission region, roughly separated into three parts by obscuring dust lanes, is what lends the Trifid its popular name. 

This cosmic cloud complex is over 40 light-years across and would cover the area of a full moon on planet Earth's sky. However, the Trifid Nebula is too faint to be seen by the unaided eye. Over 75 hours of image data captured under dark night skies was used to create this stunning telescopic view.


Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Edelmaier and Gabriele Gegenbauer

Website: https://www.astropicture.at

Release Date: Aug. 10, 2024


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NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Entrega: 9 de agosto 2024

NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Entrega: 9 de agosto 2024

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.

Aprende más sobre la ciencia a bordo de la estación espacial: https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-research-and-technology/ciencia-en-la-estacion/

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


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

Duration: 3 minutes, 44 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 14, 2024


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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Light Trails | International Space Station

Light Trails | International Space Station

This long-duration photograph of the Russian Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft with light trails on Earth below and stars trails above the horizon was taken by NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick as the International Space Station soared 262 miles above a sparsely populated region of Queensland, Australia.

Expedition 71 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew
Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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)


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

Image Date: Aug. 3, 2024


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NASA Telescopes Reveal Black Hole's Snacking Schedule

NASA Telescopes Reveal Black Hole's Snacking Schedule

Astronomers have correctly forecast when a giant black hole finished its last meal—and predicted when its next snack will occur. By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as well as the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers have made important headway in understanding how—and when—this supermassive black hole consumes material.

This result is based on studies of a supermassive black hole—with about 50 million times more mass than the sun—in the center of a galaxy located about 860 million light-years from Earth.

In 2018, the optical ground-based survey ASAS-SN noticed this system had become much brighter. After observing it with NASA’s NICER and Chandra, and XMM-Newton, researchers determined that the surge in brightness came from a “tidal disruption event,” or TDE, which signals that a star was completely torn apart and partially ingested after flying too close to a black hole. They called it AT2018fyk.

When material from the destroyed star approached close to the black hole, it got hotter and produced X-ray and ultraviolet, or UV, light. These signals then faded, agreeing with the idea that nothing was left of the star for the black hole to digest.

However, about two years later, the X-ray and UV light from the galaxy became much brighter again. This meant, according to astronomers, that the star likely survived the initial gravitational grab by the black hole and then entered a highly elliptical orbit with the black hole. During its second close approach to the black hole, additional material was pulled off and produced more X-ray and UV light.

Initially the researchers thought this was a garden-variety case of a black hole totally ripping a star apart. However, the star appears to be living to die another day.

Based on what they had learned about the star and its orbit, a team of astronomers predicted that the black hole’s second meal would end in August 2023 and applied for Chandra observing time to check. Chandra observations on August 14, 2023, indeed showed the telltale sign of the black hole feeding coming to an end with a sudden drop in X-rays. The researchers also obtained a better estimate of how long it takes the star to complete an orbit, and predicted future mealtimes for the black hole.

They think this process will repeat each time the star returns to its point of closest approach, approximately every 3.5 years, until the star is completely gone.


Video Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory/NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 55 seconds 

Release Date: Aug. 14, 2024


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Artemis II Crew Launch Emergency Egress Demonstration | NASA Kennedy

Artemis II Crew Launch Emergency Egress Demonstration | NASA Kennedy








Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice the Artemis mission emergency escape or egress procedures during a series of integrated system verification and validation tests at Launch Complex 39B on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. Simulated flight crew members practice getting out of the emergency egress basket and into the emergency transport vehicle to drive them to safety in the event of an unlikely emergency during launch countdown.

The Artemis II test flight will be NASA’s first mission with crew, sending NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, as well as Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back.

Check the NASA Artemis II Mission page for updates:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/

For more information about the Space Launch System (SLS), visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/sls


Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Capture Date: Aug. 9, 2024


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NASA Pathways Internships: Apply starting Aug. 14!

NASA Pathways Internships: Apply starting Aug. 14!


All Pathways Internship vacancies are posted on USAJobs.gov

These hands-on internships for U.S. citizens (16 years or older) offer a "direct route to conversion into a career with NASA."

Check out this guide dedicated to helping applicants build their best resume: go.nasa.gov/48e1Ogh

Learn more about NASA Pathways Internships:

https://www.nasa.gov/careers/pathways/

Eligibility Requirements:

https://www.nasa.gov/careers/pathways/#Eligibility-Requirements


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A Long Climb Up Martian Crater Rim | NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

A Long Climb Up Martian Crater Rim | NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

One of the navigation cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this view looking back at the “Bright Angel” area on July 30, the 1,224th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. After 2½ years exploring Jezero Crater’s floor and river delta, Perseverance will ascend to an area where it will search for more discoveries that could rewrite Mars’ history.
This map shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will take (in blue) as it climbs the western rim of Jezero Crater, first reaching “Dox Castle,” then investigating the “Pico Turquino” area before approaching “Witch Hazel Hill.” 
This panorama shows the area NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will climb in coming months to crest Jezero Crater’s rim. It is made up of 59 images taken by the rover’s Mastcam-Z on Aug. 4, 2024. 

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will soon begin a monthslong ascent up the western rim of Jezero Crater that is likely to include examples of the steepest and most challenging terrain the rover has encountered to date. Scheduled to start the week of Aug. 19, the climb will mark the kickoff of the mission’s new science campaign—its fifth since the rover landed in the crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

“Perseverance has completed four science campaigns, collected 22 rock cores, and traveled over 18 unpaved miles,” said Perseverance project manager Art Thompson of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “As we start the Crater Rim Campaign, our rover is in excellent condition, and the team is raring to see what’s on the roof of this place.”

Two of the priority regions the science team wants to study at the top of the crater are nicknamed “Pico Turquino” and “Witch Hazel Hill.” Imagery from NASA’s Mars orbiters indicates that Pico Turquino contains ancient fractures that may have been caused by hydrothermal activity in the distant past.

Never Miss a Discovery

Orbital views of Witch Hazel show layered materials that likely date from a time when Mars had a very different climate than today. Those views have revealed light-toned bedrock similar to what was found at “Bright Angel,” the area where Perseverance recently discovered and sampled the “Cheyava Falls” rock, which exhibits chemical signatures and structures that could possibly have been formed by life billions of years ago when the area contained running water.

It's Sedimentary

During the river delta exploration phase of the mission, the rover collected the only sedimentary rock ever sampled from a planet other than Earth. Sedimentary rocks are important because they form when particles of various sizes are transported by water and deposited into a standing body of water; on Earth, liquid water is one of the most important requirements for life as we know it.

A study published Wednesday, Aug. 14, in AGU Advances chronicles the 10 rock cores gathered from sedimentary rocks in an ancient Martian delta, a fan-shaped collection of rocks and sediment that formed billions of years ago at the convergence of a river and a crater lake.

The core samples collected at the fan front are the oldest, whereas the rocks cored at the fan top are likely the youngest, produced when flowing water deposited sediment in the western fan.

“Among these rock cores are likely the oldest materials sampled from any known environment that was potentially habitable,” said Tanja Bosak, a geobiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and member of Perseverance’s science team. “When we bring them back to Earth, they can tell us so much about when, why, and for how long Mars contained liquid water and whether some organic, prebiotic, and potentially even biological evolution may have taken place on that planet.”

Onward to the Crater Rim

As scientifically intriguing as the samples have been so far, the mission expects many more discoveries to come.

“Our samples are already an incredibly scientifically compelling collection, but the crater rim promises to provide even more samples that will have significant implications for our understanding of Martian geologic history,” said Eleni Ravanis, a University of Hawaiì at Mānoa scientist on Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z instrument team and one of the Crater Rim Campaign science leads. “This is because we expect to investigate rocks from the most ancient crust of Mars. These rocks formed from a wealth of different processes, and some represent potentially habitable ancient environments that have never been examined up close before.”

Reaching the top of the crater won’t be easy. To get there, Perseverance will rely on its auto-navigation capabilities as it follows a route that rover planners designed to minimize hazards while still giving the science team plenty to investigate. Encountering slopes of up to 23 degrees on the journey (rover drivers avoid terrain that would tilt Perseverance more than 30 degrees), the rover will have gained about 1,000 feet (300 meters) in elevation by the time it summits the crater’s rim at a location the science team has dubbed “Aurora Park.”

Then, perched hundreds of meters above a crater floor stretching 28 miles (45 kilometers) across, Perseverance can begin the next leg of its adventure.

More Mission Information

A key objective of Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including caching samples that may contain signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, to help pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet and as the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), is designed to send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.

The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for the agency by Caltech, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

For more about Perseverance:

science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance


Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Release Date: Aug. 14, 2024


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Sun Releases Strong Solar X1.1 Flare | NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

Sun Releases Strong Solar X1.1 Flare | NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory


The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 2:40 a.m. ET on Aug. 14, 2024. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watches the Sun constantly and it captured an image of the event.

A portion of the Sun, shown in teal. In the middle a large flash of light bursts out, appearing white.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare—seen as the bright flash in the center—on Aug. 14, 2024. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares. It is colorized in teal.

Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.

This flare is classified as an X1.1 flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength.

The Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is structured by strong magnetic fields. Where these fields are closed, often above sunspot groups, the confined solar atmosphere can suddenly and violently release bubbles of gas and magnetic fields called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). A large CME can contain a billion tons of matter that can be accelerated to several million miles per hour in a spectacular explosion. Solar material streams out through the interplanetary medium, impacting any planet or spacecraft in its path. CMEs are sometimes associated with flares but can occur independently.

To see how such space weather may affect Earth, please visit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center https://spaceweather.gov, the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, watches, warnings, and alerts. 

NASA works as a research arm of the nation’s space weather effort. NASA observes the Sun and our space environment constantly with a fleet of spacecraft that study everything from the Sun’s activity to the solar atmosphere, and to the particles and magnetic fields in the space surrounding Earth.


Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Duration: 1 second

Release Date: Aug. 14, 2024


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Gaganyaan: India Prepares for First Crewed Spaceflight Missions | ISRO

Gaganyaan: India Prepares for First Crewed Spaceflight Missions | ISRO

Gaganyaan ("sky craft" in Hindi) is a crewed orbital spacecraft for India's human spaceflight program. The spacecraft is being designed to carry three people, and a planned upgraded version will be equipped with rendezvous and docking capabilities. In its first crewed mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s largely autonomous 5.3-metric ton capsule will orbit the Earth at 400 km altitude for up to seven days with a two- or three-person crew on board. Launch is expected in 2025. 

India became the fourth country to land on the Moon and the first to reach its southern polar region on August 23, 2023 with the Chandrayaan-3 Mission. To honor this landmark achievement, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi announced August 23 as "National Space Day".

India is celebrating its maiden National Space Day on August 23, 2024 with the theme "Touching Lives while Touching the Moon: India's Space Saga."

"A myriad of events will unfold highlighting India's remarkable achievements in space, profound benefits to the society, and boundless opportunities for people from all walks of life to engage with the Indian space program. These celebrations will culminate into the main event at New Delhi on August 23, 2024."


Learn more about Gaganyaan program:

https://www.isro.gov.in/Gaganyaan.html


Video Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Aug. 14, 2024


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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Moonbeams | International Space Station

Moonbeams | International Space Station

The Moon illuminates a cloud-covered Pacific Ocean as stars glitter in the background above the Earth's airglow. The International Space Station's solar arrays dominate the foreground as the orbital outpost soared 268 miles above.
Expedition 71 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew
Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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)


Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Image Date: July 18, 2024


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