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    Ax-4 Orbiting Toward Station as Expedition 73 Studies Pharma, Blood Pressure

    This long-duration photograph shows Axiom Mission 4 soaring into space aboard the SpaceX Dragon after launching at 2:31 a.m. EDT on Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

    The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying four Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew members is orbiting Earth and on its way to the International Space Station after launching from Kennedy Space Center at 2:31 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. Dragon is carrying Ax-4 Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, and Mission Specialists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski and Tibor Kapu and will dock to the Harmony module’s space-facing port at 7 a.m. on Thursday with NASA+ coverage beginning at 5 a.m.

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    NASA’s IMAP Instruments Join Spacecraft

    Technicians installed two instruments on NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft on at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The work took multiple days and finished on Monday, June 23.  Scheduled to launch this fall, IMAP’s 10 science instruments will monitor space weather and study and […]

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    Data from NASA’s ICESat-2 Goes Beyond the Surface

    Researchers have developed a new way to measure near-shore bathymetry using satellite observations alone. Soon after NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite launched into orbit in 2018 on a mission to measure the heights of Earth’s ice, forests, and land cover, scientists examined the data and found something unexpected. As the laser instrument aboard the Ice, Cloud, land, […]

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    NASA’s RockOn Student Mission to Launch June 26–29 From Virginia

    A series of circles show areas in the United States from where a sounding rocket launch may be viewed at different times during flight.

    A sounding rocket carrying dozens of student and faculty experiments will launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, as part of NASA’s RockOn and RockSat-C student flight programs. The annual student mission, “RockOn,” is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket. The launch window for the mission is 5:30–9:30 a.m. […]

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    Ax-4 “Go” For Wednesday Launch; Station Crew Keeps Up Research, Videography

    Axiom Space private astronaut and Axiom Mission-2 Commander Peggy Whitson enters the International Space Station shortly after the hatches were opened between the orbital outpost and the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft. Welcoming her inside the vestibule between the station's Harmony module and Dragon is NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio.

    Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) has been given the “go” to launch at 2:31 a.m. EDT on Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station. The four Ax-4 private astronauts will ride the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to low Earth orbit and dock to the orbital outpost’s space-facing port on the Harmony module at 7 a.m. on Thursday for a two-week research mission.

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