Members of the SAGE team attended the February Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Monthly Status Review at NASA Headquarters to present an overview and status of SAGE III/ISS and SAGE IV to the Science Mission Directorate. LaRC Center Director, Dr. Dave Bowles, was in attendance to introduce the SAGE team. The SAGE III/ISS portion of the talk […]
GOES-S Prelaunch Briefings Today
With only two days remaining until the scheduled launch of NOAA’s GOES-S satellite, launch and mission managers are gathering at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to provide briefings on launch status and the science aspects of the GOES-R series of advanced weather satellites. A prelaunch status briefing will be held at 1 p.m., followed by a …
Cosmonauts Swap Command Today Before Trio Comes Home
Expedition 54 Commander Alexander Misurkin handed over control of the orbital laboratory today to fellow cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov during a traditional Change of Command ceremony. Misurkin is returning to Earth tomorrow with NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei after 168 days in space. Landing day begins Tuesday when Misurkin, Acaba and Vande Hei …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/26/2018
52Soyuz Landing Preparations: Crew and ground teams continued to prepare for tomorrow’s planned 52S Undock and landing. 52S is scheduled to undock tomorrow at 5:09 PM CST with landing at 8:31 PM CST. Today’s activities included packing 52S with return cargo, Emergency Roles and Responsibilities Review, and Change of Command Ceremony. Lighting Effects: Upon wake …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/23/2018
Lighting Effects: Upon wakeup, the 53S subject provided a sleep log entry and conducted a series of three Cognition tests and provided urine samples over a 24-hour period. The samples will be stowed in the MELFI for freezing until their return and analysis. The Lighting Effects investigation studies the impact of the change from fluorescent …
Crew Goes into Weekend Preparing to Split Up on Tuesday
Three Expedition 54 crew members are going into the weekend packing up and preparing to return to Earth on Tuesday. Commander Alexander Misurkin will lead fellow crew members Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei back to Earth inside the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft Tuesday for a landing in south central Kazakhstan at 9:31 p.m. EST. NASA …
Astronauts Open BEAM and Prepare for Crew Departure
Three Expedition 54 crew members continued preparing for their return to Earth next week. A pair of astronauts also opened up BEAM today to stow a robotic hand and to check for contaminants. Commander Alexander Misurkin joined his Soyuz MS-06 crewmates Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei and reviewed their procedures for next week’s descent …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/22/2018
Lighting Effects: Upon wakeup, a 53S subject provided a daily sleep log entry to track his sleep patterns and wakefulness. The Lighting Effects experiment hopes to better quantify and qualify how lighting can effect habitability of spacecraft. The light bulbs on the ISS are being replaced with a new system designed for improved crew health …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/21/2018
Lighting Effects: Upon wakeup, a 53S subject provided a daily sleep log entry to track his sleep patterns and wakefulness. The Lighting Effects experiment hopes to better quantify and qualify how lighting can effect habitability of spacecraft. The light bulbs on the ISS are being replaced with a new system designed for improved crew health …
Forecasting Snow is a Difficult Task in Pyeongchang
Gangneung and Daewallyeong, the cities where the Winter Olympics are taking place, have a unique characteristic for precipitation. The cold and dry front from Siberia converges with the moist air of the Korean East Sea to produce stratiform clouds that occasionally precipitate over the PyeongChang province. This condition where the precipitation comes from the east […]