Electro-static Levitation Furnace (ELF): Today the crew exchanged the sample holders to prepare for upcoming ground commanded operations in the ELF. ELF is an experimental facility designed to levitate, melt and solidify materials by containerless processing techniques using the electrostatic levitation method. With this facility thermophysical properties of high temperature melts can be measured and …
Rocket Ready to Blast Off New Crew Wednesday Morning
The Soyuz rocket that will launch three new Expedition 56-57 crew members to the International Space Station stands at its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Soyuz Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineers Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Alexander Gerst are in quarantine today preparing to blast off Wednesday at 7:12 a.m. EDT on a …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/04/2018
Atomization: The crew swapped sample syringes for the Atomization investigation today. The Atomization experiment investigates the disintegration processes of a low-speed water jet for various jet issue conditions in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) to validate the new atomization concept by observing the process using a high speed camera. The knowledge gained can be applied …
Crew Returns to Earth as Another Prepares for Launch
Three crew members who have been living and working aboard the International Space Station have landed safely in Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Scott Tingle, Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos landed at 8:39 a.m. EDT (6:39 p.m. in Kazakhstan) southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan. …
Expedition 55 Trio Undocks, Begins Ride to Earth
Expedition 55 Flight Engineers Scott Tingle of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos undocked from the International Space Station at 5:16 a.m. EDT to begin their trip home. Deorbit burn is scheduled for approximately 7:47 a.m., with landing in Kazakhstan targeted for 8:40 a.m. (6:40 p.m. Kazakhstan time). …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/01/2018
EXPRESS Rack-3 Improved Payload Ethernet Hub Gateway (iPEHG) and Veggie: The crew rotated EXPRESS Rack 3 down in the Columbus module today, installed an iPEHG and then rotated the rack back up. They then reinstalled the Veggie facilities into the rack and checked them out. Ground teams have activated EXPRESS Rack 3 and the iPEHG …
NASA Selects Mission to Study Solar Wind Boundary of Outer Solar System
NASA has selected a science mission planned for launch in 2024 that will sample, analyze, and map particles streaming to Earth from the edges of interstellar space.
Crew to Swap Command Before Return to Earth
Three Expedition 55 crew members are returning to Earth Sunday, but first the Commander will hand over control of the International Space Station in a ceremony Friday afternoon. In the meantime, the crew managed to continue ongoing space research and station maintenance. Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who has been leading the station crew since February, will …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/31/2018
EXPRESS Rack-3 Improved Payload Ethernet Hub Gateway (iPEHG) and Veggie: The crew rotated EXPRESS Rack 3 down in the Columbus module today, installed an iPEHG and then rotated the rack back up. They then reinstalled the Veggie facilities into the rack and checked them out. Ground teams have activated EXPRESS Rack 3 and the iPEHG …
Captain’s Log – The Last Week
Crew: Captain Scott ”Maker” Tingle, USN ISS Location: Low Earth Orbit Earth Date: 4 March 2018 Earth Time (GMT): 13:30 Wow, time has gone by extremely fast. The mid-deployment phase will be short-lived for me this time, as the new crew (Drew Feustel, Ricky Arnold, and Oleg Artemyev) will arrive on March 23rd, and then …