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    Sunday Splashdown Set for Crew-1 During Light Day on Station

    Pictured from left are Crew-1 members Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi.

    Four SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts are making final preparations ahead of their return to Earth this weekend. Some of the Expedition 65 crew members staying behind on the International Space Station are relaxing today while others are focusing on science and lab maintenance. Mission managers have decided to send Crew Dragon Resilience and its four astronauts …

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    Crew-1 Splashdown Waved Off as Station Teems With Science

    The 11-member crew aboard the station is actually a combination of three different crews. The four Space Crew-2 astronauts are in the back row. The three-person crew of the Soyuz MS-18 crew ship are in the middle row. In the front row is the SpaceX Crew-1 foursome.

    NASA and SpaceX have decided to move Crew-1’s undocking and splashdown from Friday, April 30, and Saturday, May 1, respectively, following a review of the forecast weather conditions in the splashdown zones off the coast of Florida, which continue to predict wind speeds above the return criteria. Mission teams from NASA and SpaceX will meet …

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    Crew-1 Splashdown Waved Off as Station Teems With Science

    The 11-member crew aboard the station is actually a combination of three different crews. The four Space Crew-2 astronauts are in the back row. The three-person crew of the Soyuz MS-18 crew ship are in the middle row. In the front row is the SpaceX Crew-1 foursome.

    NASA and SpaceX have decided to move Crew-1’s undocking and splashdown from Friday, April 30, and Saturday, May 1, respectively, following a review of the forecast weather conditions in the splashdown zones off the coast of Florida, which continue to predict wind speeds above the return criteria. Mission teams from NASA and SpaceX will meet …

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    Flights are Complete! Mission Success!

    parabolic flight on Flight Aware's live map

    After two days of experimenting in weightlessness, a team of researchers from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center have their feet firmly planted on the ground. The team spent April 28 and 29 on parabolic flights with ZERO-G in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The flight — which achieves various levels of microgravity by performing maneuvers known as …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/29/2021

    Payloads: Behavioral Core Measures:  Crew completed a ROBoT-r (simulated CanadArm manipulation task) research session.   The Standardized Behavioral Measures for Detecting Behavioral Health Risks during Exploration Missions (Behavioral Core Measures) experiment initially examined a suite of measurements to reliably assess the risk of adverse cognitive or behavioral conditions and psychiatric disorders during long-duration spaceflight, and evaluated …

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    Parabolic Pre-flight Checklist

    Marshall's parabolic flight crew

    How do you prepare for weightlessness? A team of researchers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center has been doing so in preparation of their April 28 and 29 parabolic flights with ZERO-G in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. So what is on their parabolic pre-flight checklist? An easily digestible breakfast The flight team is served a doctor-recommended …

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    Artemis I Core Stage Arrives at Kennedy

    Image shows a barge carrying the Space Launch System core stage for the Artemis I mission arriving at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on April 27, 2021.

    The final piece of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will send NASA’s Artemis I mission to the Moon has arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The SLS Program delivered the core stage rocket to the center’s Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf after completing a successful series of Green Run tests at Stennis Space Center in …

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    Ring-Sheared Drop Team Prepares for Zero-G Flight 

    The Ring-Sheared Drop team boards G Force One

    A team of researchers from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is preparing to take flight and evade gravity in pursuit of science. Team members are traveling to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to test an experiment known as the Ring-Sheared Drop. Developed by Marshall and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, the experiment will study the …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/28/2021

    Resilience Crew Undocking Delay: It has been decided, due to inclement weather at the landing zone, that the Resilience Crew Undocking that was scheduled today, Wednesday 4/28, will be postponed until no earlier than Friday 4/30. Payloads ACME (Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments):  Crew replaced an ACME controller. The crew opened the rack doors and …

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    Cargo Ship Departs as SpaceX Crew-1 Mission Nears End

    The 11-member crew aboard the station is actually a combination of three different crews: the Soyuz MS-18 crew in the back row, the SpaceX Crew-2 in the middle row, and the four SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts in the far left and right corners.

    A trash-packed Russian cargo craft departed the International Space Station on Tuesday night. Four astronauts are also nearing the end of their mission amidst a variety of human research taking place on the orbiting lab today. After being docked to the station for just over a year, Russia’s ISS Progress 75 (75P) resupply ship undocked …

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