Crew-7 Splashdown: At 4:47 AM CDT, Crew Dragon Endurance splashed down near Pensacola, Florida, returning NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov safely. This concludes the Crew-7 mission. Payloads: Advanced Resistive Exercise Device-Kinematics (ARED-K): The supporting camera systems and other hardware was set up, and …
NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission Advances with Solar Array Deployment
Processing of the large solar arrays built for NASA’s Europa Clipper is now underway inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Planned to arrive at Jupiter in April 2030, the spacecraft will study Jupiter’s moon Europa, which shows strong evidence beneath its icy crust of a global ocean …
People of PACE: Inia Soto Ramos Studies Data from the Sea and Space
Inia M. Soto Ramos is an associate researcher and one of PACE’s data validation leads at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. What is your favorite atmospheric or ocean related book or movie? I will go with “The Silent World” (1953) by Jacques Cousteau and Frédéric Dumas. It’s a book but was later …
NASA Welcomes Crew-7’s Return to Earth After Safely Splashing Down
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov splashed down safely in the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, at 5:47 a.m. EDT, completing a six-month science mission spent aboard the …
Dragon Completes Deorbit Burn; Crew-7 Readies for Splashdown
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov on their return to Earth after 199 days in space, has completed its deorbit burn as expected ahead of splashdown just a little under an hour …
Carrying Crew-7, SpaceX’s Dragon Prepares for Deorbit Burn
NASA is providing live coverage as Crew-7 crew members NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov return to Earth inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft, named Endurance, is scheduled to splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/11/2024
Crew-7 Undock: SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance undocked from the ISS at 10:20 AM CDT today to return NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov following a successful 197 day docked mission. The vehicle is scheduled to splash down near Pensacola, Florida, tomorrow at 4:50 AM …
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Dragon Undocks From Station, Crew Headed Back to Earth
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov inside undocked from the forward-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 11:20 a.m. EDT to complete a nearly six-month science mission. NASA coverage …
Dragon Undocks From Station, Crew Headed Back to Earth
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov inside undocked from the forward-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 11:20 a.m. EDT to complete a nearly six-month science mission. NASA coverage …