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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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    NASA’s CAPSTONE Executes New Maneuver, Further Pinpoints Path to Moon

    Artemis Logo - red rocket trail, blue arch that represents earth, ARTEMIS text, gray half sphere on a white background

    NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) successfully completed its second trajectory correction maneuver starting at about 11:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday. CAPSTONE will perform several such maneuvers during its four-month-long journey to lunar orbit to refine its trajectory to the Moon, with the next one targeted for late July. CAPSTONE is …

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    Health Checks, Space Gardening as Spacewalk Preps Ramp Up

    Astronauts (from left) Jessica Watkins and Samantha Cristoforetti are pictured inside the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) during cargo stowage activities.

    The Expedition 67 crew members kicked off Tuesday with health checks before moving on to space agriculture and spacewalk preparations. The International Space Station’s residents also worked on a host of life support systems and cargo operations. NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins began her day setting up the Health Maintenance System in the U.S. Destiny laboratory …

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    Meet IXPE Scientist Abel Lawrence Peirson

    Artificial intelligence (AI) has led Abel Lawrence Peirson to all kinds of interesting places. He’s used AI techniques to examine brain activity in flies and other neuroscience applications. With the help of AI, he’s even trained a neural network to create internet memes, displaying phrases on images in a way that looks like a human …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/11/2022

    Payloads: Astrobee-Zero Robotics: The US LAB module was cleared of stowage and the Astrobee flyers were prepped for Zero-Robotics remote mapping operations which was controlled by the ground. For Astrobee-Zero Robotics, students write software to control one of the space station’s Astrobee free-flying robots. The first several rounds of the competition, co-led by the Massachusetts …

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    NASA’s Webb Telescope Is Now Fully Ready for Science

    The months-long process of preparing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for science is now complete. All of the seventeen ways or ‘modes’ to operate Webb’s scientific instruments have now been checked out, which means that Webb has completed its commissioning activities and is ready to begin full scientific operations. Each of Webb’s four scientific instruments …

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