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A Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) H-IIB rocket at the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan is fueled and ready for a launch of the Kounotori H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5) at 7:50 a.m. EDT. NASA Television is providing live coverage of the launch, which can be seen at https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv. The HTV-5 is loaded with more …

Human Research Program (HRP) Operations: Kelly and Kornienko performed day two of their Flight Day (FD) 150 Ocular Health session.  Kelly completed his Video Walk Through #4 and Observation #11 for Habitability and his second of three weekly Journal activities. Lindgren completed his FD 27 Cognition and Yui completed FD 30 Sprint Ultrasound. Ocular Health: …

Preparations are under way for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)’s scheduled launch of an H-IIB rocket at 7:50 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 19 from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. Live coverage of the launch begins at 7 a.m. on NASA Television and https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv. The launch vehicle will send the Kounotori H-II …

After 18 long days of successful science and arctic adventures on the ice sheet, we were finally done and ready to head back to civilization. On the morning of August 13th, our expected pull out date, we received bad news from the pilots – they were not even in Kulusuk due to weather delays the […]

The six-member Expedition 44 crew participated in a wide array of science today as Japan counts down to Wednesday morning’s launch of its fifth resupply mission. Meanwhile, three new Soyuz taxi crew members flew to the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome to finalize their mission preparations. The majority of the station crew members had …

Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The August 2015 puzzler is above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us what part of the world we are looking at, when the image was acquired, what the image shows, and why the scene is interesting. How to answer. Your answer can be a few […]

HII Transfer Vehicle (HTV)5 Launch: Today’s scheduled launch of HTV5 from Tanegashima, Japan was scrubbed due to weather. The next launch attempt will be Wednesday, August 19 at 6:50 am CDT with capture on Monday, August 24 at 5:55 am CDT. Human Research Program (HRP) Operations: Kelly and Kornienko performed Day 1 of 3 for their …

Japan has set Wednesday at 7:50 a.m. (11:50 a.m. UTC) as the launch time for its fifth “Kounotori” cargo mission to the International Space Station. Meanwhile, the six orbiting crew members focused on advanced microgravity research today. Japan’s fifth H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5) will take a five day trip to the station after its launch. …

The Integration and Test team conducted a successful Test Readiness Review Thursday, August 13. Following the review the chamber door was closed and pump-down was started. Thermal Vacuum Testing started Friday, August 14. The team has successfully completed the initial ambient functional test, Hot Survival (test point 3), and Hot Operational 1/Hot Start 1 (test […]