New Status: USOS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #23: Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy (EV-1) and FE-5 Parmitano (EV-2) completed a 1 hour 32 minute EVA with FE-6 Nyberg IVA support. The crew successfully performed the Z1-YJumper install Part 2 and the FGB PDGF 1553 cable final connections. The MLM Ethernet cable was secured to a Node 1 …
Each month, Earth Observatory offers up a puzzling satellite image here on Earth Matters. The eighteenth puzzler is above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us what part of the world we are looking at, when the image was acquired, and why the scene is interesting. How to answer. Your answer […]
New Status: USOS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #23 Preparations: In preparation for tomorrow’s planned EVA, today is a half duty work day for the USOS crew. Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy and FE-5 Parmitano completed a final tool configuration which was followed by an independent tool audit by FE-6 Nyberg. Cassidy and Parmitano then prepared the Equipment …
New Status: Advanced Colloids Experiment (ACE)-1: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Nyberg mixed a new sample in preparation for the 4th of 10 runs planned for Increments 35 and 36. ACE-1 is a series of microscopic imaging investigations that uses the microgravity environment to examine flow characteristics and the evolution and ordering effects within a group of …
New Status: USOS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #23 Preparations: In preparation for USOS EVA #23, planned for next Tuesday, July 16, all three USOS crew members participated in a Dynamic Onboard Ubiquitous Graphics (DOUG) software review. They also reviewed the timeline, briefing package and cribsheet, followed by a conference with ground teams. Flight Engineer (FE)-5 Parmitano …
New Status: Post-Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Operations: Today was a half-duty work day for the USOS crew following yesterday’s EVA. Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy and FE-5 Parmitano completed their post EVA health evaluation with FE-6 Nyberg acting as Crew Medical Officer (CMO). All 3 USOS crew members participated in an EVA debrief with ground teams. USOS …
New Status: USOS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #22: Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy (EV-1) and FE-5 Parmitano (EV-2) completed a 6 hour 7 minute EVA with FE-6 Nyberg providing Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) support. The following tasks were completed: Remove and replace the Space to Ground Transmitter Receiver Controller (SGTRC)-2 Retrieve Materials International Space Station …
The following is an excerpt from a story by Maria-Jose Vinas, NASA’s Earth Science News Team Defying 30 mph gusts and temperatures down to minus 22°F, NASA’s new polar rover, GROVER, recently demonstrated in Greenland that it could operate completely autonomously in one of Earth’s harshest environments. The solar-powered robot, developed by students, was able […]
New Status: USOS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #22 Preparations: In preparation for tomorrow’s planned EVA, Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy and FE-5 Parmitano conducted a final tool configuration followed by an independent tool audit by FE-6 Nyberg. All three crew, plus FE-4 Yurchikhin, completed a final procedures review, and then the USOS crew members participated in a …
The following is an excerpt from a story by Alan Buis, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory… The curtain has come down on a superstar of satellite oceanography that played the “Great Blue Way” of the world’s ocean for 11.5 years. The joint NASA and Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Jason-1 ocean altimetry satellite was decommissioned on […]
