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Lighting Effects: The 49S subject conducted three Lighting Effects tests as shown below.  This is the second week of Lighting Effects activities for this subject. Biochem Profile/Repository Test: Upon wakeup, subject provided a sleep log entry before conducting the second half of the 48-hour urine collection process that began yesterday. Each sample was stowed in …

The three Expedition 51 crew members aboard the International Space Station are waiting for a new cargo shipment and a new crew to arrive next week. The orbiting trio are also performing human research and working on U.S. spacesuits. A pair of spaceships are due next week at the space station. The Orbital ATK Cygnus …

Lighting Effects:  Upon wakeup, the 49S subject provided a sleep log entry and began the first half of a 48-hour urine collection to support the Sleep Shift and Biochem Profile/Repository portion of the Lighting Effects investigation.  Subject conducted four urine collections which are performed within a 24-hour period. Each sample was stowed in the Minus …

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is back in Houston just 24 hours after landing in Kazakhstan completing a 173-day mission in space. He arrived home aboard a NASA aircraft Tuesday morning while his two Expedition 50 crewmates, cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, have returned to Moscow. Three crew members are staying behind on the International …

Multiple areas of low pressure with associated precipitation and unfavorable winds have settled in over New Zealand preventing NASA from attempting a super pressure balloon launch from Wanaka over the next several days. "Conditions do not look favorable for the next four to five days given the winds, forecast rain, and uncertainties with Tropical Cyclone …

Four years ago today, one of the largest non-volcanic landslides in U.S. history began high on the northern wall of Utah's Bingham Canyon mine.

48 Soyuz (48S) Undock and Landing: Shane Kimbrough, Sergey Ryzhikov, and Andrei Borisenko undocked from the ISS at 3:00AM CDT and landed nominally at 6:21AM CDT today. Kimbrough and support personnel are aboard the G5 plane enroute to Houston. The ISS will be in 3-crew operations until the arrival of 50S scheduled to launch on …

Your challenge for the April puzzler is to tell us what part of the world we are looking at, what the image shows, and why the scene is interesting.

Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA is among three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) who returned to Earth Monday, after 173 days in space, landing in Kazakhstan at approximately 7:20 a.m. EDT (5:20 p.m. Kazakhstan time). Also returning were Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of the Russian space agency …