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    Independent Review Board of GDC Architecture to Begin

    On April 10, 2022, NASA chartered an Independent Review Board to review the overall architecture and technical concept for NASA’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation, or GDC – a mission to study how the giant magnetic bubble around Earth, the magnetosphere, interacts with Earth’s upper atmosphere.

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    Launch Day Arrives for SpaceX’s 25th Resupply Services Mission

    SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and cargo Dragon spacecraft and Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A ahead of the company's 25th commercial resupply services launch.

    NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8:44 p.m. EDT today, July 14, for SpaceX’s 25th commercial resupply (CRS-25) launch to the International Space Station. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket and cargo Dragon spacecraft will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Weather officials with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th …

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    Astronauts Relax Before Busy Weekend of Cargo Dragon Preps

    Expedition 67 astronauts (clockwise from left) Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristofroetti pose for a portrait during dinner time aboard the space station.

    The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon cargo craft atop stands at the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. More than 5,800 pounds of new science experiments and crew supplies are packed inside Dragon awaiting a liftoff tonight at 8:44 p.m. EDT. The U.S. commercial resupply ship will orbit Earth for a …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/13/2022

    Payloads: ISS Ham Radio: Two ISS Ham contacts were made with Il Cielo Itinerante c/o Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Center for Space in Matera, Italy and Sayama group Saitama Council Scouts Association of Japan, Saitama, Japan. Since the earliest space station expeditions, ISS Ham Radio has allowed groups of students in schools, camps, museums, and …

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    Cargo Dragon is Go for Launch on Thursday

    The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship, attached to the Falcon 9 rocket, rolls out to the launch pad and is raised to its vertical position at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX

    The Expedition 67 crew members are training for this weekend’s arrival of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft to the International Space Station as it prepares for its launch on Thursday. Mission managers have given the go for the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship as it counts down to a liftoff toward the space station at 8:44 …

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    NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe

    Yesterday, NASA and its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), released the full set of the first full-color images and spectroscopic data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The images, which uncover a collection of cosmic features elusive until now, are available at: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages. Learn more.

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    NASA InSight’s Power Level as of July 9, 2022

    On July 9, 2022, InSight was generating an average of 399 watt-hours of energy per Martian day, or sol. The tau, or level of dust cover in the atmosphere, was estimated at 1.02 (typical tau levels outside of dust season range from 0.6-0.7).

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    NASA to Host Climate Conversation Ahead of Next SpaceX Resupply Launch

    SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and cargo Dragon spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A ahead of the company's 25th resupply services launch to the International Space Station.

    SpaceX’s cargo Dragon spacecraft is set to deliver more than 5,800 pounds of science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station as part of the company’s 25th commercial resupply services mission. Included in that delivery is a new climate research investigation: the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation, or EMIT. Developed by NASA’s …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/12/2022

    Payloads: Human Research Facility-1 (HRF-1): HRF Consumables Kit contents were transferred to the HRF-1 Supply Kit Purple and the HRF-1 Supply Kit Green. Crew photographed HRF Supply Kits and transferred photos to an SSC laptop for downlink. HRF-1 provides an on-orbit laboratory that enables scientists conducting human life science research to evaluate the physiological, behavioral, …

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