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    Weather 60% Percent Favorable for Saturday’s Launch

    Weather officials with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict a 60% chance of favorable weather conditions for Saturday’s launch from the Space Coast, with the cumulus cloud rule and flight through precipitation serving as the primary weather concerns. NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting Aug. 28, at 3:37 a.m. EDT, to launch …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/24/2021

    Payloads Food Acceptability:  Using the data collection tool on an available SSC, the crew completed their Food Acceptability surveys.  This investigation seeks to determine the impact of repetitive consumption of food currently available from the spacefligght food system.  Results will be used in developing strategies to improve food system composition to support crew health and …

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    Crew Gets Ready for Cargo Dragon and Russian Spacewalks

    The SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship is photographed departing the station on July 8, 2021.

    The Expedition 65 crew is turning its attention to this weekend’s arrival of a U.S. cargo craft and a pair of Russian spacewalks starting several days later. SpaceX is planning to launch its Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on Saturday at 3:37 a.m. EDT. It will arrive on Sunday and dock autonomously …

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    NASA Tests Ways to Reduce Stress in Plants Growing in Space

    When astronauts embark on long-duration missions in the future, crews will grow food to supplement what they can bring with them. More than 20 years of continuously living and working in space aboard the International Space Station has provided many opportunities for crews and researchers to observe the challenges of growing plants in the stressful conditions of …

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    Orion Spacecraft Goes ‘Shields Up’ for Artemis I

    The four ogive fairings for the Orion Artemis I mission are installed on the launch abort system assembly inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 20, 2021.

    Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are putting the final touches on the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission by connecting the ogive fairings for the launch abort system (LAS) assembly.  Pronounced oh-jive, the ogive fairings consist of four protective panels, and their installation will complete the LAS assembly. Technicians and engineers …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/23/2021

    Payloads Combustion Integrated Rack/Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments/Cool Flames Investigation with Gasses (CIR/ACME/CFI-G): A crewmember exchanged a used 100% propane bottle with a new bottle of the same composition.  Cool diffusion flames were discovered during droplet combustion experiments aboard the ISS in 2012, and this initiated a rapidly growing field of combustion research.  A cool …

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    Spacewalk is Postponed

    The International Space Station is orbits Earth in October 2018.

    The U.S. spacewalk outside the International Space Station originally planned for Tuesday, Aug. 24 with NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide has been postponed due to a minor medical issue involving Vande Hei. This issue is not a medical emergency. The spacewalk is not time-sensitive and crew …

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    August 2021 Brings Rare Seasonal ‘Blue Moon’

    One way to make a Blue Moon is by using a blue filter.

    This month we’ll get to see a Full Moon on Aug. 22, 2021, known by some early Native American tribes of the northeastern United States, as the Sturgeon Moon. The name was given to the Moon because the large sturgeon fish of the Great Lakes, and other major lakes, were more easily caught at this …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/20/2021

    Payloads Cardinal Muscle:  A crewmember captured images of Cardinal Muscle BioCell Wells.  Muscle mass diminishes with age on Earth via a condition called sarcopenia, and astronauts experience similar and accelerated loss of muscle mass during spaceflight.  Tissue Engineered Muscle in Microgravity as a Novel Platform to Study Sarcopenia (Cardinal Muscle) evaluates whether engineered human muscle …

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