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  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/20/2024

    Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): The CFT crew completed a variety of systems activities to assist the ISS crew. They completed a PMM Endcone scavenge activity, a Chotherm Remove and Replace (R&R), a Crew Provisions Refresh, Waste and Hygiene Compartment (WHC) Wring Collector (COT) R&R, and CST-100 Stowage Audit and Seat Adjustments. Payloads: Astrobee: The …

  • NASA Completes Flight Readiness Review for GOES-U Mission 

    NASA, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), SpaceX, and GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U) mission managers met on June 20 to conduct a Flight Readiness Review at NASA’S Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the review, teams provided an update on the mission status and certified the readiness to proceed with final launch preparation activities.  Teams …

  • NASA Installs High Gain Antenna for Mission to Study Icy Moon of Jupiter

    When NASA’s Europa Clipper is in orbit around Jupiter, transmitting science data and receiving commands from Earth across hundreds of millions of miles, it will need a powerful antenna. Technicians installed the spacecraft’s high-gain antenna inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 17. Scheduled to launch later …

  • Astronauts Gear Up for Spacewalk Amidst Cardiac Research

    Astronauts Jeanette Epps and Mike Barratt assist astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, all three from NASA, during a spacesuit fit check inside the space station's Quest airlock.

    The two crews living and working aboard the International Space Station continued gearing up for next week’s science and maintenance spacewalk. The nine space lab inhabitants also focused on long-running heart research and continuous maintenance on orbital lab systems. NASA Flight Engineers Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt are getting ready for the first spacewalk …

  • NASA’s ELaNa 43 CubeSats to Launch on Firefly’s Alpha Rocket

    Image of Technicians from the University of Maine prepare CubeSat MESAT-1 for integration at Firefly’s Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on Monday, April 22, 2024. MESAT-1, along with seven other payloads, will be integrated into a Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket for NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 43 mission as part of the agency’s CubeSat Launch Initiative and Firefly’s Venture-Class Launch Services Demonstration 2 contract.

    NASA and Firefly Aerospace are targeting no earlier than Wednesday, June 26, for the launch of eight CubeSats as part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative’s (CSLI) ELaNa (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites) 43. The 30-minute launch window will open at 9 p.m. PDT on June 26 (12 a.m. EDT on June 27). Firefly Aerospace’s “Noise of …

  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/19/2024

    Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): The CFT crew completed a variety of systems activities to assist the ISS crew. They completed a Contingency Water Container – Iodine (CWC-I) reorganization, Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Cleaning, Cygnus Trash Gather, and a Life Science Glovebox (LSG) Sleeve Check. Payloads: Genes in Space Molecular Operations and Sequencing …

  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/18/2024

    Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew completed a variety of activities to assist the ISS crew and further operations on-orbit. They completed Gaucho Lung operations, Columbus Smoke Detector Cleanings, Genes in Space Molecular Operations and Sequencing (GiSMOS) operations, an International Docking Adapter (IDA) Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) Reseat, and Crew Departure Preparations. …

  • NASA, Boeing Update Starliner Crew Flight Test Return from Station

    Looking down at Boeing's Starliner spacecraft attached to the International Space Station.

    Teams from NASA and Boeing now are targeting no earlier than 10:10 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 25, for the undocking of the Starliner spacecraft from the International Space Station. For the primary undocking opportunity, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the first crew to fly aboard Starliner, would land about 4:51 a.m. on Wednesday, …

  • NASA, Boeing Update Starliner Crew Flight Test Return from Station

    Looking down at Boeing's Starliner spacecraft attached to the International Space Station.

    Teams from NASA and Boeing now are targeting no earlier than 10:10 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 25, for the undocking of the Starliner spacecraft from the International Space Station. For the primary undocking opportunity, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the first crew to fly aboard Starliner, would land about 4:51 a.m. on Wednesday, …

  • Spacewalks, Biotech Research are Tuesday’s Focus on Station

    Tracy C. Dyson assists Mike Barratt, both NASA astronauts, during a spacesuit fit check inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock.

    Spacewalk preparations and biotechnology research are keeping the Expedition 71 and NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test crews busy aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. The next spacewalk at the orbital outpost will be June 24 when NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt will remove faulty radio hardware and swab station surfaces for …