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    Live Now on NASA TV: Launch Coverage of Russian Resupply Mission

    NASA Television is live for the launch of a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft carrying almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 60 crew aboard the International Space Station. Watch live on NASA TV and the agency’s website now! The Progress 73 spacecraft is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in …

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    NASA TV Broadcasts Russian Rocket Launching To Resupply Station

    NASA Television will provide live launch coverage of a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft carrying almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 60 crew aboard the International Space Station. Watch live on NASA TV and the agency’s website on Wednesday beginning at 7:45 a.m. EDT. The Progress 73 spacecraft is scheduled to launch …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/30/2019

    Biorock: The crew took photos of the biofilms in the Kubik 5 and Kubik 6 Biorock Experiment Containers.  The interaction between microbes and rocks in a liquid phase can be affected by reduced gravity in several ways. The reduction of thermal convection in low-gravity, and its absence in microgravity, minimizes the natural stirring in liquids …

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     New Space Research Kicks Off Ahead of Wednesday Cargo Launch

    Microgravity research is ramping up aboard the International Space Station with brand new science payloads and an expanded Expedition 60 crew. July will see one more mission going up to the orbiting lab as a Russian cargo craft counts down to a Wednesday launch and docking. The Cell Science-02 experiment is underway on the station …

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    Plumes Go the Distance

    True color satellite image of Canada and the northern United States on July 23, 2019. Fires in northern Alberta (red dots in top left) produced smoke that traveled to the Great Lakes (bottom right) over the course of a few days. Credit: NASA EOSDIS / Worldview

    by Ellen Gray / BOISE, IDAHO/ From Alberta, Canada, to Michigan, USA. That's how far the plumes of smoke traveled in a few short days, from July 21 to July 24. Smoke from wildfires has staying power. Laura Thapa, a graduate student at the University of California Los Angeles and member of the FIREX-AQ forecasting …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/29/2019

    72 Progress (72P) Undock: 72P undocked from the Docking Compartment (DC) 1 port today at 5:44 AM CT.  The deorbit burn occurred at 8:50 AM CT followed by atmospheric entry and destruction. Biofabrication Facility (BFF): The crew installed the test print cassette into the BFF in preparation for today’s test print.  Using 3D biological printers …

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    Fire Weather, Pyro Weather

    True color satellite image from MODIS on July 28, 2019. The red dots are fires detected by the MODIS and VIIRS instruments. In southwest Oregon, the smoke plume from the Milepost 97 fire is visible. Credit: NASA EOSDIS/ Worldview

    by Ellen Gray / BOISE, IDAHO/ Each morning Amber Soja gets up at 5:00 a.m. to check the fire weather. She's an associate scientist from the National Institute of Aerospace based at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, one of the lead forecasters for FIREX-AQ with one of the most important jobs: distilling the information …

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    Crew Unloads Dragon as Russian Cargo Ships Depart, Prep for Launch

    A new U.S. space freighter is open for business today after delivering its payload to the International Space Station on Saturday. Meanwhile, a Russian resupply rocket is processing for another space delivery mission on Wednesday that will take less than three and a half hours after launch. NASA Flight Engineer Nick Hague opened Dragon’s hatch …

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