Welcome to launch day for NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail Mission! This next-generation solar sail technology, which uses the pressure of sunlight for propulsion, waits for liftoff atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket at the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand. This launch will send the solar sail satellite to low Earth orbit, where …
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who are set to launch to the International Space Station on Monday, May 6, entered pre-flight quarantine in preparation for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission. Flight crew health stabilization is a standard process ahead of any human spaceflight mission to ensure the health and safety of …
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who are set to launch to the International Space Station on Monday, May 6, entered pre-flight quarantine in preparation for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission. Flight crew health stabilization is a standard process ahead of any human spaceflight mission to ensure the health and safety of …
Payloads: BioFabrication Facility (BFF)-Cardiac: A Media bag and a Bio-Reactor Bag were retrieved from the Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS-1 (MELFI-1). More information on this experiment can be found here. Human Brain Organoid Models for Neurodegenerative Disease & Drug Discovery (HBOND): Media was exchanged on two HBOND tissue habitats and the third habitat …
The Expedition 71 crew kicked off a busy schedule on Monday exploring ways to treat neurological diseases while gearing up for a spacewalk planned for Thursday. Cargo operations are also picking up as a U.S. cargo craft gets ready for its departure from the International Space Station. Researchers use the orbital outpost’s weightless environment to …
For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again.
Payloads: Boeing Environment Responding Antimicrobial Coatings-2 (AC-2): Routine periodic touching was performed for experiment placards deployed in various locations throughout the ISS. More information on this experiment can be found here. Cerebral Autoregulation: The Cardiolab Portable Doppler (CDL PDOP) and Laptop were powered up and data measurements were taken. More information on this experiment (Cerebral …
Biomedical duties to understand how space affects the human body and develop ways to treat microgravity-induced conditions were the prime research objectives for the Expedition 71 crew on Friday. The orbital residents also continued loading a U.S. cargo craft for its upcoming departure and preparing for a spacewalk at the International Space Station. Living long-term …
Still basking in that post-eclipse celestial glow? We’ve got great news – there is plenty of reasons to look up again and we are here to share in the skywatching excitement as meteor showers top the upcoming headlines. It’s been a quiet few months for meteors, but the Lyrid meteor shower peaks overnight April 21-22. Unfortunately, …
Payloads: AstroPi: The 5mm camera lens was installed on the AstroPi Vis unit and the unit was relocated to the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF) location for Earth observations. More information on this experiment (AstroPi) can be found here. Cerebral Autoregulation: The Cardiolab Portable Doppler (CDL PDOP) and European Physiology Modules Facility Continuous Blood Pressure …
