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    Crew Goes into Weekend Preparing to Split Up on Tuesday

    Three Expedition 54 crew members are going into the weekend packing up and preparing to return to Earth on Tuesday. Commander Alexander Misurkin will lead fellow crew members Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei back to Earth inside the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft Tuesday for a landing in south central Kazakhstan at 9:31 p.m. EST. NASA …

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    Astronauts Open BEAM and Prepare for Crew Departure

    Three Expedition 54 crew members continued preparing for their return to Earth next week. A pair of astronauts also opened up BEAM today to stow a robotic hand and to check for contaminants. Commander Alexander Misurkin joined his Soyuz MS-06 crewmates Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei and reviewed their procedures for next week’s descent …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/22/2018

    Lighting Effects: Upon wakeup, a 53S subject provided a daily sleep log entry to track his sleep patterns and wakefulness. The Lighting Effects experiment hopes to better quantify and qualify how lighting can effect habitability of spacecraft. The light bulbs on the ISS are being replaced with a new system designed for improved crew health …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/21/2018

    Lighting Effects: Upon wakeup, a 53S subject provided a daily sleep log entry to track his sleep patterns and wakefulness. The Lighting Effects experiment hopes to better quantify and qualify how lighting can effect habitability of spacecraft. The light bulbs on the ISS are being replaced with a new system designed for improved crew health …

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    Forecasting Snow is a Difficult Task in Pyeongchang

    Gangneung and Daewallyeong, the cities where the Winter Olympics are taking place, have a unique characteristic for precipitation. The cold and dry front from Siberia converges with the moist air of the Korean East Sea to produce stratiform clouds that occasionally precipitate over the PyeongChang province. This condition where the precipitation comes from the east […]

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    Station Gets Ready for Crew Swap During Ongoing Human Research

    As one crew is packing up for its return back to Earth another crew is training for its launch to the International Space Station. During the month long crew swap activities, human research is still ongoing aboard the orbital laboratory today. Expedition 54 Commander Alexander Misurkin is getting the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft ready for its …

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    ULA Atlas V Rocket, NOAA’s GOES-S Satellite Together for Launch

    The payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is mated to the ULA Atlas V rocket

    With its March 1 launch date closing in, the next in a series of advanced geostationary weather satellites is in place for liftoff. NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-S) will be delivered to orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/20/2018

    Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) 52 Soyuz (52S) Survey:  Today, ground operators walked the SSRMS off to the Functional Cargo Block (FGB) and conducted a video survey of the exterior 52S prior to return.  52S will return CDR Alexander Misurkin, FE-3 Joe Acaba, FE-2 Mark Vande Hei to Earth early next week.  Carbon Dioxide …

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