The uncrewed Roscosmos Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station at 5:57 a.m. EDT, heading for an automated, parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan at 7:45 a.m. (5:45 p.m. Kazakhstan time). Expedition 69 officially began aboard the station at the time of undocking. Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev is the station commander for the crew consisting …
NASA is providing live coverage on NASA TV, the agency’s website, and the NASA app of the undocking and departure of the uncrewed Roscosmos Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft from the International Space Station. The spacecraft is scheduled to undock at 5:57 a.m. EDT, heading for an automated, parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan at 7:45 a.m. (5:45 p.m. Kazakhstan time). There will be no televised coverage of the deorbit burn …
An uncrewed Soyuz crew ship will depart the International Space Station on Tuesday morning. In the meantime, the seven-member Expedition 68 crew focused on new science experiments and hardware recently delivered aboard the SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle. Three space station residents who arrived at the orbiting lab on Sept. 21 last year aboard the Soyuz …
Payloads: Engineered Heart Tissues-2: A media change, sampling and assigned treatment dosing was performed on each Tissue Chamber on Saturday. Engineered Heart Tissues-2 continues work with 3D cultured cardiac muscle tissue to assess human cardiac function in microgravity. Previous work with 3D cultures in space detected changes at the cellular and tissue level that could …
This week, we are recapping noteworthy OSIRIS-REx mission events each day so you can catch up on anything you may have missed so far in NASA's first mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. (Post #1 in a series of four) NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid, OSIRIS-REx, launched on Sept. 8, 2016, …
The Expedition 68 crew members conducted space health experiments and prepared for the final plant harvest aboard the International Space Station while inspiring the next generation of explorers in a virtual robotics competition. NASA Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg spent most of his day installing tissue cassettes for the BFF-Meniscus-2, an investigation to print and culture a meniscus using the BioFabrication facility …
Payloads: BioFabrication Facility (BFF): Tissue Cassettes were installed into BFF. Using 3D biological printers to produce usable human organs has long been a dream of scientists and doctors around the globe. However, printing the tiny, complex structures found inside human organs, such as capillary structures, has proven difficult to accomplish in Earth’s gravity environment. To …
After seven years in space, including a nail-biting touchdown on Bennu in 2020 to gather up dust and rocks, NASA's intrepid OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to face one of its biggest challenges yet: deliver an asteroid sample to Earth while protecting it from heat, vibrations, and earthly contaminants. "Once the sample capsule touches down, …
NASA's GLIMR instrument — short for Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer — is moving to its building phase. Originally selected in 2019, GLIMR recently underwent a review known as Key Decision Point C – which evaluated the instrument's preliminary design and project plan to deliver the instrument by January 2025. On March 21, GLIMR …
