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NASA's Parker Solar Probe team released a second collection of science data to the public on April 14, 2020.

The six crewmembers aboard the International Space Station continued advanced space research today promoting health for humans on and off Earth. The crew will split up at the end of the week when the Expedition 62 trio undocks and returns to Earth. Scientists are looking at how human muscles adapt to microgravity for the Myotones …

Food Physiology: The crew performed saliva collections in support of the Food Physiology investigation.  The Integrated Impact of Diet on Human Immune Response, the Gut Microbiota, and Nutritional Status During Adaptation to Spaceflight (Food Physiology) experiment is designed to characterize the key effects of an enhanced spaceflight diet on immune function, the gut microbiome, and …

Standard Measures (SM):  The crew performed their saliva collection and insertion into MELFI.  The aim of the SM investigation is to ensure consistent capture of an optimized, minimal set of measures from crewmembers until the end of the ISS Program in order to characterize the adaptive responses to and risks of living in space.  Among …

Three new crewmembers are getting used to life aboard the International Space Station. Meanwhile, the Expedition 62 trio is getting ready for its return Earth on Friday. Three NASA astronauts and three Roscosmos cosmonauts have been working together on the orbiting lab since April 9 when the Expedition 63 crew docked to the station’s Poisk …

STP-H5 (Space Test Program) ICE (Innovative Coatings Experiment) photos: The crew took several still camera photos of the ICE strip from the Cupola and JEM Window locations.  These photos are used to document the current state of the ICE experiment once per quarter.  The harsh radiation and extreme temperatures of space can corrode the paint …

NASA's Mars Helicopter will make history in about 10 months when it becomes the first aircraft to fly on another world. Now it has its ride to the Red Planet. On April 6, 2020, the helicopter was attached to the belly of the agency's Mars Perseverance rover. The installation took place inside the Payload Hazardous …

Autonomous Medical Officer Support (AMOS): The crewmembers performed autonomous ultrasound imaging using only the AMOS software instead of remote (ground team) guidance as is typical of these scans. They were able to successfully use the ultrasound instrument to image the urinary bladder and left/right kidney areas and no issues were reported.  As missions venture farther …

When NASA launched the Nimbus-4 satellite 50 years ago, nobody knew the ozone layer over Antarctica was thinning.