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  • Advanced Tech on Station Informing Space-Designed Health Treatments

    Expedition 74 flight engineers, from left, Jessica Meir of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency), show off a Cygnus mission sticker for Northrop Grumman's 24th cargo mission to the International Space Station. The sticker is affixed to the vestibule between the orbital outpost's Earth-facing port on the Unity module and the company’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft.

    The Expedition 74 crew explored how weightlessness affects cartilage growth and the digestive system on Thursday to protect crew health and improve patient care on Earth. The orbital residents are also gearing up for a robotics maintenance spacewalk at the end of the month on the International Space Station.

  • Dragon Undocks to Return Science Experiments to Earth

    The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is seen shortly after undocking from the International Space Station's forward port on the Harmony module.

    At 12:25 p.m. EDT, the unpiloted SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the forward‑facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module after a command from SpaceX ground controllers. Flight controllers delayed the undocking slightly to power‑cycle a navigation sensor and restore full redundancy before departure.

  • NASA Flights Map Tropical Ecosystems, Water, Ice

    Data from a NASA campaign in Panama and Peru will help communities prepare for tropical floods in cloud-covered areas, improve scientific understanding of forest health, and support planning for spaceborne missions. NASA’s C-20A aircraft from Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, flew the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) instrument, developed at NASA’s […]

  • Crew Packs Dragon for Tuesday Departure and Preps for Spacewalk

    NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, both Expedition 74 flight engineers, wear disposable gloves, dust masks, and safety goggles while unpacking temperature‑controlled scientific samples from a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft and stowing them inside research facilities located aboard the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module.

    The Expedition 74 crew members packed a U.S. cargo spacecraft on Monday with sensitive science experiments and lab hardware for return to Earth. The orbital residents also configured spacewalking tools and conducted cardiac research to kick off the week aboard the International Space Station.

  • NASA’s X-59 Reaches Speed, Altitude for Future Quiet Supersonic Flights

    The X-59 in flight on June 12, 2026 against a blue sky.

    NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft reached a major milestone Friday, June 12, flying Mach 1.4 (about 924 mph) and an altitude of 55,000 feet, the conditions required for the aircraft to make future flights critical to its mission.   The X-59 still has months of performance testing ahead, but after those are complete, NASA’s Quesst mission will fly the aircraft over several U.S. communities to collect data on public perception of the quiet sonic thump it will make at […]