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    Expedition 61 Ready for Saturday Spacewalk During Human Research Today

    The Expedition 61 astronauts are ready to finish repairing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) after wrapping up their spacewalk preparations today. The International Space Station residents today also had time to explore what microgravity is doing to their muscles and digestive system. Astronauts Andrew Morgan and Luca Parmitano have readied the U.S. spacesuits they will …

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    Mars 2020 Rover Lift Activities Performed at Kennedy Space Center

    Mars 2020 rover aeroshell lift activities

    Lift activities for the Mars 2020 rover aeroshell were conducted inside Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The activities included installing the inverted lift fixture and lifting the aeroshell assembly to the spin table for mass properties measurements. The Mars 2020 rover mission will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/23/2020

    ISS HAM pass:  On Wednesday, the crew participated in two ISS HAM passes.  The first was Morita Junior High School, Fukui, Japan and some of the questions included the effects of heating water in space, what happens if an astronaut has a toothache in space, and if the crew has ever had a serious disease …

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    Spacewalk Preps Underway as Station Orbits Higher Ahead of Crew Departure

    The International Space Station is orbiting higher today as three Expedition 61 crewmates get ready to return to Earth in two weeks. Meanwhile, two astronauts are finalizing preparations for a spacewalk early Saturday. Russia’s Progress 74 cargo craft fired its engines twice boosting the space station’s altitude Thursday morning. The orbital adjustment sets up the …

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    Spacewalking Team Relaxing as Cosmonauts Work Science, Crew Departure

    The Expedition 61 spacewalking team aboard the International Space Station is taking a light-duty day ahead of this weekend’s excursion. Meanwhile, the Russian space residents researched human biology and prepared for a crew departure early next month. Astronauts Andrew Morgan and Luca Parmitano took it easy on Tuesday, relaxing before they begin a six-hour spacewalk …

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    Waiting for Good Snow

    NASA's P-3 research aircraft will be flying through clouds during IMPACTS to study snow. Credit: Joe Finlan

    By Ellen Gray / NASA'S WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, VIRGINIA/ Nothing to be done. When your field campaign depends on chasing winter storms you have to wait for the weather to arrive in its own time. For the science team of the Investigation of Microphysics Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms, or IMPACTS, campaign that means carefully …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/21/2020

    Food Acceptability: The crew completed a Food Acceptability Survey using the Data Collection Tool on an SSC (Station Support Computer). This investigation seeks to determine the impact of repetitive consumption of food currently available from the spaceflight food system.  Results will be used in developing strategies to improve food system composition to support crew health …

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    Spacewalkers Switch Focus to Final Repairs on Cosmic Ray Detector

    The Expedition 61 astronauts have one more spacewalk planned this weekend and they will finish the repair of a cosmic ray detector. This will be the ninth spacewalk for the crew, more than in any other increment in the history of the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch have turned their …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/20/2020

    HERMES:  The crew performed the periodic vacuum valve opening for HERMES.  These operations maintain the desired vacuum levels for the granular/regolith experiments typically hosted by the HERMES facility.  Hermes is a reconfigurable on-orbit facility capable of accommodating up to four user-configurable experiment volumes at a time. The facility provides long duration exposure to microgravity, vacuum …

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