Payloads: Cerebral Augmentation: The crew set up the appropriate hardware and participated in a Cerebral Autoregulation science session. As the body’s most important organ, the brain needs a strong and reliable blood supply, so the brain is capable of self-regulating blood flow even when the heart and blood vessels cannot maintain an ideal blood pressure. …
Crew Readies Free-Flying Robots, Prepares Sample Returns, and Transfers Cargo
The Expedition 67 crew kept busy aboard the International Space Station today readying free-flying robots, preparing sample returns, and transferring cargo. NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren set up Astrobee’s free-flying robots for a student robotics competition. For the competition, students write software to control one of the station’s Astrobee free-flying robots. Finalists have their code downloaded …
Student Scientists Flying High
by Deb Hernandez A handful of college students recently got to fly through the skies over the Mid-Atlantic as part of a NASA airborne science program. Freshman and sophomore students from minority-serving institutions joined NASA researchers on a P-3 aircraft based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, as part of the Students Airborne Science …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/03/2022
Payloads: Astrobee-Zero Robotics: The crew assisted with the performance of the competition finals. In this experiment session, student teams compete by using the Astrobee robots to spell out 3-6 letter passwords for the crew. The password is needed for a fictional situation in which two astronauts need to enter a password to restart power systems. …
PUNCH Announces Rideshare with SPHEREx and New Launch Date
NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/02/2022
Payloads: ESA Biofilms-2: Following the completion of the 14-day experiment session, the twenty-four Experiment Containers (ECs) were removed from the Kubik 5 and Kubik 6 facilities and packed for return to the ground. In the Kubik experiment Biofilms-2, three bacteria species (A. radioresistens, Staphylococcus sp. and C. metallidurans) are grown on metal surfaces in a …
Crew Focuses on Prepping Equipment and Samples for Science Experiments
The Expedition 67 crew focused a portion of their time aboard the International Space Station today prepping equipment and samples for various science experiments. NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren spent the latter part of the day changing the media for specific samples inside the Life Sciences Glovebox. He performed the task for an investigation studying …
August Puzzler
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
NASA InSight’s Power Level as of July 31, 2022
On July 31, 2022, InSight was generating an average of 400 watt-hours of energy per Martian day, or sol. The tau, or level of dust cover in the atmosphere, was estimated at .91 (typical tau levels outside of dust season range from 0.6-0.7).