Systems S6 Battery Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #4 Preparations: Today, the crew continued preparations for the final EVA in the S6 battery upgrade series by performing their equipment lock preps for Extravehicular Activity Mobility Units (EMU) 3004 and 3006. The crew also completed the EVA tool audit, pre-EVA periodic health status (PHS) exams and installed batteries …
Station Ready for Spacewalk and Cargo Mission This Week
The Expedition 63 crew is preparing for another spacewalk at the International Space Station on Tuesday and will welcome a Russian space delivery on Thursday. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine also announced the upcoming return to Earth of two SpaceX Crew Dragon crew members. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy are set to venture once …
NASA to Broadcast Mars 2020 Perseverance Launch, Prelaunch Activities
NASA is targeting 7:50 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 30, for the launch of its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch window is approximately two hours, with a launch opportunity every five minutes. Live launch …
NASA Teams Load Artemis I Rocket Hardware on Barge for Trip to Kennedy
Teams at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, moved the Artemis I launch vehicle stage adapter for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket onto the agency’s Pegasus barge July 17. The adapter is the cone shaped piece that connects the rocket’s core stage and interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS). Pegasus will transport the flight hardware to NASA’s Kennedy Space …
See Comet NEOWISE! A Once-in-a-Lifetime Event
For Comet Vocabulary, please read to the end of the post. For most, early July is when most people living in the United States look to the skies to watch dazzling firework shows. However, this month there is a different kind of show happening in the sky. Comet Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) …
NASA Announces Crew Dragon Splashdown Date
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine today announced August 2 as the target splashdown date for DM-2 crew members Behnken and Hurley, with additional details on the return of this historic mission to come.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/17/2020
Payloads Food Physiology: The crew performed the Food Physiology briefing. 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 nutritional status indicators. These …
Spacewalk Preps and 45 Years of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation Today
It was 45 years ago today when American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts shook hands for the first time in Earth orbit. The Apollo crew ship commanded by NASA astronaut Tom Stafford docked to the Soyuz crew ship led by Alexei Leonov on July 17, 1975, signifying the beginning of international cooperation in space. Expedition 63 …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/16/2020
Systems USOS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #67/S6 Battery EVA #3: Bob Behnken (EV1) and Chris Cassidy (EV2) performed a 6 hour EVA that completed the following tasks in support of the S6 Channel 3B battery transition from nickel hydrogen to lithium-ion batteries: S3 Boom Install NiH2 Battery 1 from S6 Integrated Equipment Assembly (IEA) to External Pallet …