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HRP Operations: Kelly completed his last Journals session for the week.  Yui completed his Flight Day 15 (FD15) VO2 Max Session, and with Kelly’s assistance, stowed the equipment. Journals obtains information on behavioral and human issues that are relevant to the design of equipment and procedures and sustained human performance during extended-duration missions. The Sprint …

Russia will undock its ISS Progress 58 spacecraft Friday morning for a fiery atmospheric entry over the Pacific Ocean. Japan will launch its fifth “Kounotori” HTV cargo ship (HTV-5) Sunday morning from the Tanegashima Space Center. New astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui trained for next week’s arrival of the HTV-5. They will be in …

This composite image shows the meteors detected by the NASA All Sky Fireball Network station here in Huntsville, Alabama this morning.   The majority of the meteors are Perseids, but a handful belong to the Northern Delta Aquariid, Southern Delta Aquariid, Alpha Capricornid, and Southern Iota Aquariid meteor showers that are also active. This Perseid meteor …

This Perseid fireball was observed by the NASA All Sky Fireball Network in the skies over New Mexico on the morning of August 12.

Dr. Bill Cooke, of NASA’s Meteroid Environment Office — located at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama — explains what the All-Sky Camera Network is and how it’s used to track meteors or fireballs.

Direct Current Switching Unit (DCSU) 4A Power On Reset (POR): Tuesday evening at 6:10 pm CDT DCSU-4A experienced a POR.  Power was lost to 3 downstream Direct Current-to-Direct Current Converter Units (DDCUs) plus the DDCU on the P4 Integrated Equipment Assembly (IEA). Service Module voltage and current stabilizers [CHT]s 23 and 24 also lost power …

Rhiannon Blaauw, of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office — located at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama — shares some tips and strategies to best view a meteor shower.

The International Space Station experienced a temporary power loss Tuesday night while backup systems maintained power to critical systems. Power was restored quickly and there were no impacts to station operations and the six-member crew was always safe. Astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui are training for the robotic capture next week of Japan’s fifth …

Human Research Program (HRP) Operations: Yui completed his Flight Day 15 (FD15) Biochemical Profile Urine collections.  Kelly completed his second of three Journals sessions and his third task observation video for Habitability. The Biochemical Profile experiment tests blood and urine samples obtained from astronauts before, during, and after spaceflight. Specific proteins and chemicals in the …