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Retired SAGE III Project Scientist, Dr. Joseph Zawodny, received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal on August 2. He was awarded for his “Sustained, distinguished contributions to an increased scientific understanding of the Earth’s upper atmosphere.” The Distinguished Service Medal is the most prestigious honor award, approved by the NASA administrator, given to a government employee […]
Parker Solar Probe NASA EDGE Rollback Webcast Today
Watch the live webcast with NASA EDGE during the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Mobile Service Tower rollback at Space Launch Complex-37. The live show begins at 6:30 p.m. and can be viewed on NASA TV and social media.
Crew Ends Week With Spacesuit Checks, Sat Competition and Japan Cargo Mission Preps
A pair of cosmonauts are going into the weekend preparing for the seventh spacewalk this year from the International Space Station. The rest of the Expedition 56 crew set up a student satellite competition, made space for a cargo mission and checked combustion experiment gear. Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev are getting ready for …
Perseids Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend
A live broadcast of the meteor shower from a camera in Huntsville, AL (if our weather cooperates!) will be available on NASA TV and the NASA Meteor Watch Facebook starting around 9 p.m. Eastern time (8 p.m. CT) and continuing until the early hours of August 13. The Perseid meteor shower is here! Perseid meteors, …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/09/2018
HTV-7 Rack Relocation Prep: This week the crew has been executing a series of activities in order to prepare ISS for the installation of new racks arriving on HTV-7. After relocating and consolidating stowage earlier in the week, two crewmembers relocated five racks today within and between various modules in the US Segment. Prior to …
Parker Solar Probe Proceeds Toward Launch Aug. 11
The Parker Solar Probe mission and launch teams today concluded a successful Launch Readiness Review. There are no technical issues being worked at this time. Teams are proceeding for liftoff on Saturday, Aug. 11, at 3:33 a.m. EDT. On a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with NASA's Parker Solar Probe.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/08/2018
Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Moderate Temperature Loop (MTL) Leak Update: Express Rack (ER)5 was isolated yesterday as part of the on-going search for the JEM MTL leak. While Space Station Integration and Promotion Center (SSIPC) continues to monitor total JEM MTL fluid volume, the slow low leak rate takes approximately 24 hours to manifest in …
Health, Physics Research During Preps for Spacewalk and Japan Cargo Mission
The Expedition 56 crew members explored how human health and physical processes are affected off the Earth today. The orbital residents are also configuring the International Space Station for a Russian spacewalk next week and a Japanese cargo craft mission in September. A long-running human research study is helping doctors understand the impacts of microgravity …
NASA Invites Media to View Launch of ICESat-2 from West Coast
Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15, with a 40-minute window opening at 8:46 a.m. EDT (5:46 a.m. PDT). ICESat-2 will provide precise measurements of the changing height of Earth's glaciers, ice sheets and sea ice. The spacecraft will lift off …